Organic Chemical
cardiolipin
[ kahr-dee-oh-lip-in ]
Subclass of:
Phosphatidylglycerols; Haptens
Definitions related to cardiolipins:
  • 1,3-diphosphatidylglycerol; abundant in mitochondrial and bacterial membranes, and an important hapten for certain precipitation tests.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • 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.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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