Table 2.
Fatty acid profile (major fatty acids) of wild type N. Salina and FACs sorted clonal EMS mutated strains during late exponential growth phase. Data expressed as means ± standard deviation (n = 4).
| Fatty acids (% total FAME) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C16:0 | C16:1 | C18:0 | C18:1 | C18:2 | C18:3 | C20:4 | C20:5 | |
| NBF7-3 | 14.4 ± 2.4 | 10.0 ± 17 | 3.9 ± 2.2 | 29.6 ± 16 | 3.1 ± 1.7 | 1.6 ± 0.9 | 12.1 ± 6.8 | 9.5 ± 5.3 |
| NBF7-10 | 41.5 ± 0.4 | 30.3 ± 0.4 | 1.6 ± 0.0 | 9.8 ± 0.1 | 1.3 ± 0.0 | 0.6 ± 0.0 | 4.9 ± 0.0 | 4.2 ± 0.1 |
| NBF8-3 | 40.3 ± 0.7 | 29.7 ± 1.0 | 2.0 ± 0.0 | 8.6 ± 1.6 | 1.8 ± 0.0 | 0.7 ± 0.0 | 4.8 ± 1.7 | 6.5 ± 0.2 |
| NBF6-7 | 43.4 ± 1.6 | 33.0 ± 2.1 | 1.6 ± 0.0 | 11.8 ± 0.9 | 1.6 ± 0.4 | 0.6 ± 0.1 | 2.6 ± 0.0 | 0.0 ± 0.0 |
| NBF2-5 | 42.1 ± 0.7 | 34.9 ± 0.3 | 1.5 ± 0.1 | 12.3 ± 0.7 | 1.3 ± 0.3 | 0.5 ± 0.0 | 2.5 ± 0.2 | 0.0 ± 0.0 |
| WT | 42.5 ± 0.7 | 34.5 ± 0.5 | 1.5 ± 0.1 | 11.9 ± 0.4 | 1.6 ± 0.3 | 0.6 ± 01 | 2.5 ± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.0 |