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Iso- and anteiso-fatty acids in bacteria: biosynthesis, function, and taxonomic significance.

T Kaneda
- 01 Jun 1991 - 
- Vol. 55, Iss: 2, pp 288-302
TLDR
Branched-chain fatty acids of the iso and anteiso series occur in many bacteria as the major acyl constituents of membrane lipids and are an important criterion used to aid identification and classification of bacteria.
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This article is published in Microbiological Research.The article was published on 1991-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1303 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fatty acid & Polyunsaturated fatty acid.

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Fatty acid composition of mixed-rumen bacteria: effect of concentration and type of forage.

TL;DR: The results suggest that, for diets not supplemented with fat, mixed rumen bacteria accumulated energy reserves by increasing synthesis of either even-chain saturated FA, or saturated odd-chain FA and saturated branched-chainFA.
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Photosynthetic symbionts of Aeschynomene spp. form a cluster with bradyrhizobia on the basis of fatty acid and rRNA analyses.

TL;DR: Although the results of the FAME and 16S rRNA analyses were in excellent agreement, the placement of the photosynthetic rhizobia is in apparent conflict with phenotypic data, as determined by numerical taxonomy (Ladha and So, Int. Syst. Bacteriol., in press).
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Branching Out: Alterations in Bacterial Physiology and Virulence Due to Branched-Chain Amino Acid Deprivation

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The Bacillus subtilis Acyl Lipid Desaturase Is a Δ5 Desaturase

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The biology and enzymology of eukaryotic protein acylation

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