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. 2007 Jul 13;73(17):5507–5515. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01013-07

TABLE 4.

Fatty acid composition of E. faecalis cell membranes

Fatty acid Fatty acid composition of cell membranes (%)
WTa WT, MLb DGRM2 DGRM2, ML
C12:0 0.3 11.7 0.2 9.2
C14:0 4.0 4.8 5.2 5.4
C16:0 37.0 37.9 38.0 37.1
C16:1 isomer 1.8 0.9 1.9 1.5
C16:1Δ9cis 5.0 4.2 6.8 5.6
C18:0 6.5 7.4 4.4 6.2
C18:1n9c 3.5 7.6 2.0 4.2
C18:1 41.6 25.0 41.0 30.4
C18:2 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.4
a

WT, wild type.

b

ML, grown in the presence of 50 μg/ml monolaurin.