Diverse Natural Fatty Acids Follow 'Golden Mean'
Bioinformatics scientists at the University of Jena calculate the number of theoretically possible fatty acids with help from the Fibonacci sequence.Mild in flavour and of great nutritional value: the light-yellow vegetable oil pressed from sunflower seeds has a wide range of uses and is extremely healthy, as it contains a large proportion of unsaturated fatty acids. These are fatty acids with hydrocarbon chains that contain one or more double bonds.
The efforts of the Jena University researchers recently led to an interesting discovery. They were able to prove not only that the number of naturally occurring fatty acids with increasing chain length can be predicted in an elegant fashion, but in the respected journal ‘Scientific Reports’, they also show that this number is in line with the well-known Fibonacci sequence (DOI: 10.1038/srep39821).
The factor 1.618… describes a ratio that is known as the ‘Golden Mean’ (also called Golden Ratio or Golden Section) and can be observed in nature, but also in art. It can be found, for example, in architectural masterpieces, such as the old town hall in Leipzig, but also in flowers, snail shells, and even in the human body. If the proportions of parts of buildings, plants or bodies are in a ratio of 1.618 to one another, the human eye experiences this as particularly balanced and ‘harmonious’.
“The leaves of many plants or the seeds of the sunflower are also arranged according to this rule,” says Prof. Severin Sasso of the Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology of the University of Jena. The Assistant Professor for Molecular Botany is one of the authors of the recent publication, alongside doctoral candidate Maximilian Fichtner.
The findings relating to the Fibonacci sequence in fatty acids can be applied above all in the field of lipidomics – the comprehensive analysis of all fats in a cell or an organism. “An exact knowledge of the substances that can theoretically occur is essential for this work,” notes Prof. Schuster. Lipidomics is used to study the metabolic processes and interactions with other cellular substances in which fats and their constituent elements are involved.
Contacts and sources::
Prof. Stefan Schuster
Chair of Bioinformatics of Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/01/diverse-natural-fatty-acids-follow.html
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