Glycolipids
The heads of glycolipids contain a sphingosine with one or several sugar units attached to it. The hydrophobic chains belong either to:
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- two fatty acids - in the case of the phosphoglycerides.
- one FA and the hydrocarbon tail of sphingosine - in the case of sphingomyelin and the glycolipids.
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