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Straight-chain fatty alcohols in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus
M Nishihara1, S Nagahama, M Ohga
1Department of Chemistry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Extremophiles : Life Under Extreme Conditions
|November 1, 2000
Abstract:
Two straight-chain fatty alcohols (n-hexadecanol and n-octadecanol) were found in the neutral lipid fraction extracted from Pyrococcus furiosus cells. They were identified by thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatography, mass and infrared spectra, and chemical modification. The fatty alcohols accounted for 54% of the neutral lipid of the cell.