An unknown lipid previously isolated in our laboratory from beef and human pituitaries was shown to have the same structure as dolichol from pig liver. Beef pituitaries contained ca. 130 mg/kg wet tissue, of which ca. 25% was esterified to fatty acids. Human pituitaries contained ca. 1.4 g/kg, mainly as the free alcohol.
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