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Cladosporium resinae growing on alkane mixtures removed n-alkanes sequentially in order of increasing molecular weight, each at about the same rate as during growth on it as single alkane. This sequence is not in order of the ability of each alkane to support growth. No alkane-specific extracellular solubilizing agent able to affect the order o metabolism could be detected during the growth of C. resinae on mixed n-alkanes, but supplementing the medium with phospholipids like those produced during growth on specific alkanes increased the rate or removal of the respective alkanes. Kinetic analysis indicated that the uptake of dodecane, hexadecane and octadecane from a mixture could be by a common mechanism, the order being determined, through competition, by the affinity of the system for each alkane.
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Lindley, N.D., Heydeman, M.T. The uptake of n-alkanes from alkane mixtures during growth of the hydrocarbon-utilizing fungus Cladosporium resinae . Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 23, 384–388 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00257038
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