THE EFFECT OF THE GROWTH-MEDIUM COMPOSITION ON THE FATTY-ACIDS OF RHODOTHERMUS-MARINUS AND THERMUS-THERMOPHILUS HB-8

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1993

Authors

CHUNG, AP (Author) Other; NUNES, OC (Author) Other; TINDALL, BJ (Author) Other; DACOSTA, MS (Author) Other

Journal

Title: FEMS Microbiology Letters

Vol. 112

Pages: 13-18

ISSN: 0378-1097

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Biological sciences

CORDIS: Natural sciences > Biological sciences > Biology > Microbiology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-001-MS2

DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1993.tb06416.x

Abstract (EN): Two strains of Rhodothermus marinus from Iceland, three strains of Rhodothermus sp. from the Azores, and 'Thermus thermophilus' HB-8 were grown in basal salt medium 162 with yeast extract plus tryptone (medium A); yeast extract plus sodium glutamate (medium B); yeast extract alone (medium C) and glutamate alone (medium D). In medium A and C, branched-chain iso-C15 and iso-C17 fatty acids were the major fatty acids, iso-C16 and normal-chain fatty acids were minor components. In medium B, the relative proportion of iso-C16 increased to high levels, and was the major component of the Azorean Rhodothermus strains. In medium D, with glutamate as sole source of carbon and energy, normal-chain C16 constitued the major component, and normal-chain fatty acids reached about 50% of the total fatty acids.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6