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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Microbiol. 2007 Jun;56(Pt 6):788–797. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.47067-0

Table 2.

Fatty acid composition in lipid extracts from dimorphic fungi

Values are mean±SD for five experimental repeats.

Strain Fatty acid (percentage of total)

Myristic (14 : 0) Palmitic (16 : 0) Palmitoleic (16 : 1) Stearic (18 : 0) Oleic (18 : 1) Linoleic (18 : 2)
H. capsulatum:
Downs 0.5 ± 0.1 30.6 ± 0.4 1.0 ± 0.1 4.5 ± 0.1 27.9 ± 0.5 35.5 ± 0.8
UCLA 531S 0.5 ± 0.1 32.7 ± 0.9 3.2 ± 0.1 2.4 ± 0.5 43.5 ± 0.8 17.6 ± 0.6
UCLA 531E 0.6 ± 0.1 32.5 ± 0.4 2.4 ± 0.0 2.5 ± 0.2 41.5 ± 0.4 20.4 ± 0.5
UCLA 531R 0.6 ± 0.0 33.5 ± 0.6 2.8 ± 0.2 2.5 ± 0.2 41.7 ± 0.3 19.0 ± 0.9
G217A 0.4 ± 0.1 34.5 ± 0.1 1.6 ± 0.1 2.5 ± 0.1 23.1 ± 0.1 37.9 ± 0.2
G217B 0.3 ± 0.0 34.0 ± 0.9 2.1 ± 0.1 2.3 ± 0.3 23.3 ± 0.8 38.1 ± 0.7
G222B 0.3 ± 0.0 34.4 ± 0.7 1.7 ± 0.1 2.4 ± 0.3 22.4 ± 0.8 38.7 ± 0.4
G184AS 0.5 ± 0.0 36.0 ± 0.1 2.7 ± 0.1 2.5 ± 0.1 23.5 ± 0.1 34.7 ± 0.0
G184AE 0.5 ± 0.1 37.7 ± 0.5 1.8 ± 0.2 2.6 ± 0.3 23.4 ± 0.4 33.9 ± 0.3
G184AR 0.4 ± 0.0 36.4 ± 0.3 1.6 ± 0.0 2.5 ± 0.1 23.0 ± 0.5 34.0 ± 0.2
G186AS 0.5 ± 0.1 35.4 ± 0.2 2.3 ± 0.2 2.8 ± 0.4 24.2 ± 0.2 34.8 ± 0.4
G186AE 0.4 ± 0.0 36.8 ± 0.2 1.9 ± 0.2 2.6 ± 0.2 24.0 ± 0.7 34.3 ± 0.6
G186AR 0.5 ± 0.0 35.9 ± 0.7 2.1 ± 0.1 2.4 ± 0.2 24.8 ± 1.2 34.3 ± 0.5
G186B 0.5 ± 0.0 36.3 ± 1.1 1.9 ± 0.2 2.7 ± 0.2 24.1 ± 0.5 34.5 ± 1.2
UWclin01 0.6 ± 0.1 33.6 ± 0.3 2.6 ± 0.2 2.8 ± 0.4 33.6 ± 0.3 26.8 ± 0.8
UWclin02 0.7 ± 0.1 36.1 ± 0.8 1.5 ± 0.0 2.5 ± 0.4 24.1 ± 0.2 35.2 ± 0.9
UWclin03 0.6 ± 0.0 41.6 ± 0.8 1.2 ± 0.0 3.7 ± 0.2 10.9 + 0.5 42.0 ± 0.7
RV26821S 0.6 ± 0.1 40.2 ± 0.4 1.4 ± 0.1 3.4 ± 0.4 12.1 ± 0.3 42.3 ± 0.5
RV26821E 0.5 ± 0.1 40.2 ± 0.5 1.5 ± 0.0 3.3 ± 0.5 12.0 ± 1.0 42.5 ± 0.1
RV26821R 0.6 ± 0.1 42.1 ± 1.0 1.1 ± 0.1 3.7 ± 0.2 10.4 ± 0.6 42.1 ± 0.4
B. dermatitidis 0.3 ± 0.0 23.2 ± 0.4 1.4 ± 0.0 1.7 ± 0.1 7.6 ± 0.2 65.8 ± 0.5
P. brasiliensis 0.5 ± 0.1 37.9 ± 0.3 0.7 ± 0.0 7.4 ± 0.1 18.8 ± 0.2 34.8 ± 0.1
S. schenckii 1.5 ± 0.1 32.7 ± 0.6 1.8 ± 0.1 5.6 ± 0.4 11.1 ± 0.2 47.3 ± 0.9