Affiliation:
1. Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc., Field Research Laboratory, Dallas, Texas
Abstract
Lipid fractions of propane- and
n
-butane-grown nocardial cells each contain a chloroform-soluble, ether-insoluble polymer not observed previously in liquid
n
-alkane-grown cells. The polymer in propane-grown cells is poly-β-hydroxybutyrate. The polymer in
n
-butane-grown cells apparently contains unsaturation in the molecule, and is identified tentatively as a co-polymer of β-hydroxybutyric and β-hydroxybutenoic (specifically 3-hydroxy 2-butenoic) acids. The other major component of the lipid fraction consists of triglycerides containing principally palmitic and stearic acids. There seems to be little qualitative distinction in the glycerides of propane- or
n
-butane-grown cells. Oxidative assimilation of
n
-butane is described.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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