Abstract
Total fatty acid, total sterol, fatty acids of specific lipid classes, and unsaturated fatty acids produced inNitzschia closterium were compared qualitatively and quantitatively as a function of changes in light intensity. Increased levels of total fatty acids were observed in cells grown at high light intensity when compared to cells grown at low light intensity. However, the percentage of unsaturated fatty acid decreased under high light conditions. Fatty acid analysis of triglyceride and 1,3 diglyceride fractions indicated an increase in levels of fatty acid at high light intensity when compared to low light intensity, while levels of polar lipid fatty acids increased at low light intensity. These analyses can be taken to indicate an increase in triglyceride and diglyceride at high light and a decrease in polar lipid at high light. Levels of free fatty acids did not differ significantly with light intensity. The levels of total sterol also were unaffected by changes in light intensity. However, levels of sterol isolated as free sterol and sterol associated in a yet unknown manner in the polar lipid fraction varied with changes in light intensity. Levels of polar lipid sterol increased at high light intensity compared to low light intensity, while the opposite was true for free sterol. The greatest percentage of total sterol was found in the polar lipid class regardless of light intensity.
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Scientific article A2009, contribution 4956 of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Orcutt, D.M., Patterson, G.W. Effect of light intensity upon lipid composition ofNitzschia closterium (Cylindrotheca fusiformis) . Lipids 9, 1000–1003 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02533825
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02533825