Cardiolipins
"Cardiolipins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Acidic phospholipids composed of two molecules of phosphatidic acid covalently linked to a molecule of glycerol. They occur primarily in mitochondrial inner membranes and in bacterial plasma membranes. They are the main antigenic components of the Wassermann-type antigen that is used in nontreponemal SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D002308
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D10.570.755.375.760.400.885.185 D23.050.550.480.330
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