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Using a specific antibody to rat liver cytochrome b5, ethanolamine plasmalogen (1-O-alk-1'-enyl-2-acyl-sn-glycerophosphorylethanolamine) synthesis by pork spleen microsomes is shown to require cytochrome b5. Either NADH or NADPH could serve as a source of reducing equivalents. These results provide direct evidence for the involvement of cytochrome b5 in plasmalogen biosynthesis from the corresponding 1-O-alkyl ether and suggest a pathway analogous to the fatty acid desaturase system.
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