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Cholesterol (plant)

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Synonym(s):

cholest-5-en-3β-ol; 110797

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C27H46O
CAS Number:
57-88-5
Molecular Weight:
386.65
UNSPSC Code:
12352211
NACRES:
NA.25

description

cholesterol (plant derived)

Assay

>99% (TLC)

form

powder

packaging

pkg of 1 × 1 g (700100P-1g)
pkg of 1 × 100 mg (700100P-100mg)
pkg of 1 × 200 mg (700100P-200mg)
pkg of 1 × 500 mg (700100P-500mg)

manufacturer/tradename

Avanti Research™ - A Croda Brand

application(s)

advanced drug delivery

shipped in

dry ice

storage temp.

−20°C

InChI

1S/C27H46O/c1-18(2)7-6-8-19(3)23-11-12-24-22-10-9-20-17-21(28)13-15-26(20,4)25(22)14-16-27(23,24)5/h9,18-19,21-25,28H,6-8,10-17H2,1-5H3/t19-,21+,22+,23-,24+,25+,26+,27-/m1/s1

InChI key

HVYWMOMLDIMFJA-DPAQBDIFSA-N

General description

Cholesterol is a minor sterol present in plants. It is majorly associated with the plant membranes and is a constituent of leaf surface lipids.

Application

Cholesterol has been used:
  • in the preparation of small unilamellar vesicles
  • in the generation of thymoquinone (TQ) loaded liposomes for administering into murine model with Candida albicans infection
  • in the preparation of small unilamellar vesicles for structured illumination microscopy studies

Packaging

20 mL Clear Glass Screw Cap Vial (700100P-1g)
20 mL Clear Glass Screw Cap Vial (700100P-500mg)
5 mL Amber Glass Screw Cap Vial (700100P-100mg)
5 mL Amber Glass Screw Cap Vial (700100P-200mg)

Legal Information

Avanti Research is a trademark of Avanti Polar Lipids, LLC

Storage Class Code

13 - Non Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Cholesterol and plants
Behrman EJ and Gopalan V
Journal of Chemical Education, 82(12), 1791-1791 (2005)
Preferential interactions of primary amine-terminated quantum dots with membrane domain boundaries and lipid rafts revealed with nanometer resolution
Mensch AC, et al.
Environmental science. Nano (2020)
Imad Younus Hasan et al.
Analytical chemistry, 88(10), 5037-5041 (2016-05-04)
Understanding the distribution of cholesterol in phospholipid membranes is of key importance in membrane biophysics, primarily since cholesterol enriched regions, rafts, are known to play a special role in protein function. In this work, quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM)-based
Peter J N Kett et al.
The journal of physical chemistry. B, 117(21), 6455-6465 (2013-05-21)
The assignment of the vibrational spectrum of cholesterol is surprisingly incomplete for such a fundamental molecule. To improve our understanding, a new investigation of the spectra of cholesterol in the C-H stretching region has been undertaken using the surface specific
Maheshinie Rajapaksha et al.
Biochemistry, 52(41), 7242-7253 (2013-09-24)
Although the mechanism by which the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) promotes steroidogenesis has been studied extensively, it remains incompletely characterized. Because structural analysis has revealed a hydrophobic sterol-binding pocket (SBP) within StAR, this study sought to examine the regulatory
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