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Quantitative analysis of the phospholipids of some marine bioluminescent bacteria
Author(s) -
Eberhard Anatol,
Rouser George
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
lipids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1558-9307
pISSN - 0024-4201
DOI - 10.1007/bf02531378
Subject(s) - cardiolipin , bioluminescence , phospholipid , bacteria , biochemistry , marine bacteriophage , chemistry , fatty acid , glycerol , phosphatidylcholine , photobacterium , chromatography , biology , lecithin , membrane , vibrio , genetics
Quantitative analyses of the phospholipids of three strains of marine bioluminescent bacteria were carried out after separation by two‐dimensional thin layer chromatography. The phospholipids of all three species consisted of about 75% phosphatidyl ethanolamine, 13% phosphatidyl glycerol and 7% cardiolipin. The composition was only slightly affected by drastic changes in the growth conditions. One of the species contained poly‐β‐hydroxybutyrate. The fatty acids of another species contained principally straight and branched‐chain 16 and 18 carbon fatty acids. No clue as to the nature of the elusive “aldehyde factor” of bacterial bioluminescence was found by analysis of aldehyde deficient mutants, indicating that possibly the factor is not a major phospholipid of these bacteria.