The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Volume 21, Issue 8 , Pages 736-740 , August 2010

Plant sterol and stanol substrate specificity of pancreatic cholesterol esterase

  • Andrew W. Brown

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0806, USA
    • ,
  • Jiliang Hang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0304, NE, USA
    • ,
  • Patrick H. Dussault

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0304, NE, USA
    • ,
  • Timothy P. Carr

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0806, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 402 472 7940; fax: +1 402 472 1587.

Received 24 December 2008 ,Revised 17 March 2009 ,Accepted 21 April 2009.

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☆ Grants, sponsors and funding sources: A.W.B. and J.H. were supported by USDA-NRI competitive grant no. 2007-35200-18298. The research was also supported in part by the University of Nebraska Agricultural Research Division with funds provided through the Hatch Act. Portions of this work were conducted in facilities remodeled with support from NIH (RR016544-01). NMR spectra were acquired, in part, on spectrometers purchased with NSF support (MRI 0079750 and CHE 0091975).

PII: S0955-2863(09)00101-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2009.04.008

The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Volume 21, Issue 8 , Pages 736-740 , August 2010

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