A novel pathway of photoinduced decomposition of sphingolipids.

Alexandra G Lisovskaya, Irina P Edimecheva, Oleg I Shadyro

Department of Chemistry, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.

Photochemistry and photobiology 2012 Jul-Aug

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A possibility of a novel photodestruction process has been shown for sphingolipids and their low-molecular analogues, including the stage of Norrish Type-I decomposition of excited molecules of the starting compounds followed by fragmentation of nitrogen-centered radicals via rupture of the C-C and O-H bonds. Realization of such transformation during photolysis of ceramide, sphingomyelin and galactocerebroside results in formation of 2-hexadecenal, which possess a wide spectrum of biological activity. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Photochemistry and Photobiology © 2012 The American Society of Photobiology.

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Alexandra G Lisovskaya, Irina P Edimecheva, Oleg I Shadyro. A novel pathway of photoinduced decomposition of sphingolipids. Photochemistry and photobiology. 2012 Jul-Aug;88(4):899-903