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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 Spirochaeta stenostrepta

TL;DR: The fatty acid composition of Spirochaeta stenostrepta consists of saturated, branch-chained fatty acids, which represent 66% of the total fatty acids.
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Characterization of the fatty acid synthetase system of Curtobacterium pusillum.

TL;DR: The results imply that the specificity of the initial acyl-CoA:acyl carrier protein acyltransferase dictates the structure of fatty acids synthesized and that the enzymes catalyzing the subsequent chain-elongation reactions do not have the same specificity restriction.
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Identification of Legionella by gas phase chromatography of fatty acids and high performance liquid chromatography of ubiquinones

TL;DR: The analysis of fatty acids composition combined with ubiquinones content has allowed us to identify the antigenically similar strains which cannot be differentiated by direct immunofluorescence, before DNA-ADN hybridization of strains of new species.
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Effect of growth substrates on fatty acid composition of Corynebacterium cyclohexanicum

TL;DR: In Corynebacterium cyclohexanicum, the fat acids occurring in lipids of CCL are 12-mefhyltridecanic, myristic, 13-methyltetradecanoic, n-pentadecaneic, 14-methylpentadecanic and palmitic as mentioned in this paper.
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