Abstract
The concentration and composition of gangliosides from the brain of eight species of Antarctic Notothenioid fishes belonging to the class of perciformes and two species of boreal fishes (tropic cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus; Codfish Gadus morhua) were investigated. The concentration of whole brain gangliosides in Notothenioid fishes (between 1622 and 2183 μg NeuAc/g dry wt.) was slightly lower than that in the brains of fish species, which live in warm, temperate habitats (2483 μg NeuAc/g dry wt.). The composition of brain gangliosides was completely different from that of warm adapted fish species (e.g. the tropic cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus). The relative concentration of polysialogangliosides (GT1b-GH) is strongly increased in all the investigated Antarctic species. They were found to have the most complex and most polar brain ganglioside pattern (high degree of sialylation and alkali-lability) within the teleosts. This may be one of the mechanisms, beside antifreeze proteins, to keep the neuronal membranes functional even below the freezing point.
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