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Fatty Acid Composition of Hydrocarbon-Assimilating Yeast
- Source :
- Agricultural and Biological Chemistry. 30:506-510
- Publication Year :
- 1966
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1966.
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Abstract
- As a part of extensive program on microbial utilization of hydrocarbons, lipid components of Candida petrophillum SD-14 grown on n-alkanes and glucose as carbon sources were studied. In any carbon source, cellular fatty acids of the yeast contained palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic and linoleic acids as major components.When n-tridecane was fed to the yeast, fatty acids with odd- and even-number of carbon atoms were produced in almost identical quantity. Another yeast, Torulopsis petrophillum SD-77, also gave a very similar fatty acid pattern by n-tridecane substrate. These phenomena indicate the existence of C2 addition and β-oxidation of the fatty acid formed in the yeasts.In the cases of n-tridecane, n-hexadecane and glucose as substrate, about a half of SD-14’s lipid was phospholipid, which consisted of phosphatidyl ethanolamine and phosphatidyl choline principally. Free alcohol and wax were not detected in any case.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Wax
Phospholipid
Substrate (chemistry)
Fatty acid
Alcohol
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Yeast
chemistry.chemical_compound
Hydrocarbon
chemistry
Biochemistry
visual_art
visual_art.visual_art_medium
lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins)
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Polyunsaturated fatty acid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00021369
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Agricultural and Biological Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........72a6ccaef610f6c25c2bfc71a0fbd934