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. 1970 Jan;101(1):145–151. doi: 10.1128/jb.101.1.145-151.1970

Fatty Acid Composition of Lipid Extracts of a Thermophilic Bacillus Species

Harlow H Daron 1
PMCID: PMC250463  PMID: 5411749

Abstract

Fatty acids having 16 or 17 carbon atoms accounted for over 80% of the fatty acids produced by a thermophilic Bacillus species. Under most conditions, branched-chain fatty acids were more abundant than normal fatty acids. The proportion of unsaturated fatty acids varied inversely with the growth temperature and was never greater than 14%. When acetate was used as a carbon source, the percentage of fatty acids having 15 or 17 carbon atoms was about twice that found when glucose was used as a carbon source. Increasing the growth temperature from 40 to 60 C resulted in a three-to fourfold increase in the ratio of the normal to branched-chain hexadecanoic acids. Two normal hexadecenoic acids were found and their relative abundance was influenced by the growth temperature.

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