Abstract
The detailed composition of cellular lipid of more than 23 species of yeast has been determined quantitatively by thinchrography on quartz rods, a method previously used for estimating cellular lipids of seven species of yeast. That data was fortified by neutral and phospholipid quantitations on 30 species of yeast cells. Most of the test organisms contained 7–15% total lipid and 3–6% total phospholipid per dry cell weight, except for the extremely high accumulation of triglycerides in two species ofLipomyces. Qualitatively, 30 species of yeast cells contained similar neutral lipid constituents (triglyceride, sterol ester, free fatty acid, and free sterol) and polar lipid components (phosphatidyl choline, phosphatidyl ethanolamine, phosphatidyl serine, phosphatidyl inositol, cardiolipin, and ceramide monohexoside) without minor constituents. Based on the quantitative composition of neutral lipids, the 30 species of yeast were divided into two groups, the triglyceride predominant group and the sterol derivative group. These groupings were fairly well overlapped from the standpoint of the distribution characteristics of fatty acid. The relative polar lipid compositions also grossly resembled each other. Only one exception of polar lipid composition in yeast cells was found inRhodotorula rubra species which contained phosphatidyl ethanolamine as the most abundant phospholipid. Fatty acid distribution patterns in yeast cells consistently coincided with other reports concerning fatty acid composition of yeast cells. Correlation of lipid composition and classification of yeasts are suggested and discussed.
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A part of this investigation has been reported at the 14th conference of the Japan Oil Chemists' Society, Nagoya, Japan, October 1975.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02533649.
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Kaneko, H., Hosohara, M., Tanaka, M. et al. Lipid composition of 30 species of yeast. Lipids 11, 837–844 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02532989
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