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. 1969 May;98(2):528-31.
doi: 10.1128/jb.98.2.528-531.1969.

Fatty acids and polar lipids of extremely thermophilic filamentous bacterial masses from two Yellowstone hot springs

A J Bauman, P G Simmonds

Fatty acids and polar lipids of extremely thermophilic filamentous bacterial masses from two Yellowstone hot springs

A J Bauman et al. J Bacteriol. 1969 May.

Abstract

The fatty acid composition of filamentous bacterial masses from two very hot Yellowstone Park springs is not unusual despite the extreme environment. Both populations have a series of C(14) to C(20) straight-chain acids with a maximum at C(18), and a series of saturated iso acids with a maximum at C(17) in one case and C(19) in the other. The fatty acid pattern of this anomalous group of organisms is like that of bacteria but not of blue-green algae. Both populations have similar polar lipids and identical carotenoids. It is speculated that these organisms may be adapted to their high-temperature environment by means of stable lipoprotein membrane systems.

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