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. 2021 Feb 17;3:51–71. doi: 10.1016/j.crstbi.2021.02.001

Table 2.

Fatty acid composition of the E. coli inner membrane and the S. cerevisiae plasma membrane. CX:Y: fatty acid with X carbons and Y double bonds. Cyclo: fatty acids containing a cis-9, 10-methylene group. % of molar fractions (mol %) are shown. The table combined data from (Klose et al., 2012) and (Kanonenberg et al., 2019).

C12:0 C14:0 C15:0 C16:0 C16:1 C17:0cyclo C17:0 C18:0 C18:1 C19:0cyclo
E. coli (mol %) 0 9 5 32 16 19 7 5 5 6
S. cerevisiae (mol %) 15 50 5 25