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William W. Christie is affiliated with the James Hutton Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Nursing, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Subfields of study relevant to their work include Nutrition and Dietetics, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Surgery, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientist's research topics focus primarily on fatty acid research and health, with additional attention given to eicosanoids and hypertension pharmacology, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, natural products and biological research, diet, metabolism, and disease, free radicals and antioxidants, as well as pharmacogenetics and drug metabolism.

Among their published papers are the following:

  • Oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids to produce lipid mediators (2020, Essays in Biochemistry)
  • Fatty acid composition and lipid profiles as chemotaxonomic markers of phytopathogenic fungi Puccinia malvacearum and P. glechomatis (2021, Fungal Biology)
  • Conformational control of bis-urea self-assembled supramolecular pH switchable low-molecular-weight hydrogelators (2021, ARKIVOC)
  • Frank Gunstone: Colleague, mentor, friend (2022, Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society)

William W. Christie's frequent publication venues include Essays in Biochemistry, Fungal Biology, ARKIVOC, and the Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society.

Co-authors commonly collaborating with this scientist include R. Adlof, J. L. Sébédio, Jean-Louis Sébédio, R. O. Adlof, and John L. Harwood.

In addition to articles, they have contributed to book publications, notably "Advances in Conjugated Linoleic Acid Research," published by AOCS Publishing eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Gas chromatography and lipids : a practical guide

    William W. Christie

  • Gas Chromatography and Lipids

    William W. Christie

  • Advances in Conjugated Linoleic Acid Research

    Jean-Louis Sebedio;William W. Christie;Richard Adlof

  • Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry methods for structural analysis of fatty acids.

    William W. Christie

  • Expression of a borage desaturase cDNA containing an N-terminal cytochrome b5 domain results in the accumulation of high levels of Δ6-desaturated fatty acids in transgenic tobacco

    O. V. Sayanova;M. A. Smith;P. Lapinskas;A. K. Stobart

  • The composition of milk.

    D. T. Davies;C. Holt;W. W. Christie;T. B. Mepham

  • Advances in Lipid Methodology - One

    William W Christie

  • Silver ion chromatography of lipids and fatty acids.

    Gary Dobson;William W. Christie;Boryana Nikolova-Damyanova

  • Advances in lipid methodology

    William W. Christie

  • Metabolites of conjugated isomers of linoleic acid (CLA) in the rat.

    J.L Sébédio;P Juanéda;G Dobson;I Ramilison

  • Equivalent chain-lengths of methyl ester derivatives of fatty acids on gas chromatography A reappraisal

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  • Lipid composition of Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) and Trichoplusia ni (Tn) insect cells used for baculovirus infection

    Kathrin Marheineke;Sylvia Grünewald;William Christie;Helmut Reiländer

  • Trans fatty acids in human nutrition.

    J.-L Sebedio;William W. Christie

  • Oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids to produce lipid mediators

    William W Christie;John L Harwood

  • Determination of lipid classes by a gas-chromatographic procedure

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  • A stable silver‐loaded column for the separation of lipids by high performance liquid chromatography

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  • Stereospecific analysis of triacyl‐sn‐glycerolsvia resolution of diastereomeric diacylglycerol derivatives by high‐performance liquid chromatography on silica

    William W. Christie;Boryana Nikolova-Damyanova;Päivi Laakso;Bengt Herslof

  • Separation of lipid classes by high-performance liquid chromatography with the "mass detector".

    William W. Christie

  • Mass spectra of the picolinyl esters of isomeric mono- and dienoic fatty acids.

    W. W. Christie;E. Y. Brechany;R. T. Holman

  • Separation of molecular species of triacylglycerols by high-performance liquid chromatography with a silver ion column

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  • Competitive adsorption of lecithin and .beta.-casein in oil-in-water emulsions

    Jean Luc Courthaudon;Eric Dickinson;William W. Christie

  • Selective Transfer of Cyclopropane Acids by Acyl Coenzyme A:Phospholipid Acyltransferases

    Harumi Okuyama;William E.M. Lands;William W. Christie;Frank D. Gunstone

  • A comparison of pyrrolidide and picolinyl ester derivatives for the identification of fatty acids in natural samples by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

    William W. Christie;Elizabeth Y. Brechany;Susan B. Johnson;Ralph T. Holman

  • Synthesis and characterization of the complete series of methylene-interrupted cis,cis-octadecadienoic acids

    William W. Christie;Ralph T. Holman

  • Mass spectrometry of fatty acid derivatives

    Gary Dobson;William W. Christie

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph T. Holman
Ralph T. Holman University of Minnesota
Antoni R. Slabas
Antoni R. Slabas Durham University
Xianlin Han
Xianlin Han The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Thierry Durand
Thierry Durand University of Montpellier
Han Zuilhof
Han Zuilhof Wageningen University & Research
John Shanklin
John Shanklin Brookhaven National Laboratory
David N. Brindley
David N. Brindley University of Alberta
Victor A. Zammit
Victor A. Zammit University of Warwick
Sten Stymne
Sten Stymne Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Frank D. Gunstone
Frank D. Gunstone University of St Andrews

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