The Lipid Content of Bacillus stearothermophilus at 37 and at 55
Author(s) -
K. C. Oo,
K. L. Lee
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of general microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2059-9323
pISSN - 0022-1287
DOI - 10.1099/00221287-69-2-287
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , profit (economics) , quality (philosophy) , business , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , public relations , computer science , political science , economics , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , microeconomics
The membrane composition of an obligate thermophile, Bucillus stearothermophilus NCA 1503-4~ was studied by Bodman & Welker (1969). We have examined the membrane composition of a facultatively thermophilic strain of B. stearothermophilus strain ~ 6 5 , grown at a mesophilic (37") and a thermophilic (55") temperature. Isolated walls of this organism grown at 55" were reported to have an unusually high (8 %) lipid content (Forrester & Wicken, 1966). Sutow & Welker (1967), however, claimed that this lipid was due to contaminating membrane lipoprotein.
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