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New lipid-producing, cold-tolerant yellow-green alga isolated from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
David R. Nelson,Sinafik Mengistu,Paul T. Ranum,Gail Celio,Mara T. Mashek,Douglas G. Mashek,Paul A. Lefebvre +6 more
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A new strain of yellow‐green algae (Xanthophyceae, Heterokonta), tentatively named Heterococcus sp.Abstract:
A new strain of yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae, Heterokonta), tentatively named Heterococcus sp. DN1 (UTEX accession number UTEX ZZ885), was discovered among snow fields in the Rocky Mountains. Axenic cultures of H. sp. DN1 were isolated and their cellular morphology, growth, and composition of lipids were characterized. H. sp. DN1 was found to grow at temperatures approaching freezing to accumulate large intracellular stores of lipids. H. sp. DN1 produces the highest quantity of lipids when grown undisturbed with high light in low temperatures. Of particular interest was the accumulation of eicosapentaenoic acid, known to be important for human nutrition, and palmitoleic acid, known to improve biodiesel feedstock properties.read more
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The lipid biochemistry of eukaryotic algae.
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Bioactive Compounds From Microalgae: Current Development and Prospects
Weiqi Fu,Weiqi Fu,David R. Nelson,Zhiqian Yi,Maonian Xu,Basel Khraiwesh,Kenan Jijakli,Amphun Chaiboonchoe,Amnah Alzahmi,D. Al-Khairy,Sigurður Brynjólfsson,Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani +11 more
TL;DR: It is emphasized that microalgae provide a rich source of compounds for therapeutic drug screening and examples of screening assays for detection of biological activities of algae-derived compounds are described.
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Assessing the potential of polyculture to accelerate algal biofuel production
Deborah T. Newby,Teresa J. Mathews,Ron Pate,Michael H. Huesemann,Todd W. Lane,Bradley D. Wahlen,Shovon Mandal,Robert K. Engler,Kevin P. Feris,Jon B. Shurin +9 more
TL;DR: Algal polycultures show promise for enhancing biomass productivity, enabling sustainable production and reducing overall production costs, and assemblages that include species with complementary traits are of particular promise.
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An integrative Raman microscopy-based workflow for rapid in situ analysis of microalgal lipid bodies
Seema Sharma,David R. Nelson,Rasha Abdrabu,Basel Khraiwesh,Kenan Jijakli,Marc Arnoux,Matthew J. O'Connor,Tayebeh Bahmani,Hong Cai,Sachin Khapli,Ramesh Jagannathan,Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani +11 more
TL;DR: The utility and effectiveness of confocal Raman microscopy for lipid analysis on novel aquatic and soil microalgal isolates and for characterization of lipid-expressing cells obtained in a mutagenesis screen are demonstrated.
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