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The lipid composition of Roseiflexus castenholzii, a thermophilic filamentous phototrophic bacterium related to uncultivated filamentous phototrophic bacteria that predominate in hot spring microbial mats, is reported. R. castenholzii lipid extracts were dominated by components characterized by alkane-1-ol-2-alkanoate moieties glycosidically bonded to a C6 sugar. Similar fatty glycosides, with an additional fatty acid esterified, were detected by HPLC-MS. R. castenholzii also produces a suite of wax esters ranging from 37 to 40 carbon atoms in length. In lipid extracts from two nonsulfidic hot spring microbial mats, similar alkane-1,2-diol-based lipids were detected in minor amounts. R. castenholzii lipids are compared to lipids of mats and other thermophilic mat isolates.
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van der Meer, M.T., Schouten, S., Hanada, S. et al. Alkane-1,2-diol-based glycosides and fatty glycosides and wax esters in Roseiflexus castenholzii and hot spring microbial mats. Arch Microbiol 178, 229–237 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-002-0449-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-002-0449-8