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Microfluidic Production of Lysolipid-Containing Temperature-Sensitive Liposomes
Published on: March 3, 2020
[The effect of temperature on the lipid composition of Botryococcus]
G S Kalacheva1, N O Zhila, T G Volova
1Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, 660036 Russia. kalach@ibp.krasnoyarsk.su
Abstract:
The lipid composition of the green alga Botryococcus was studied at three different cultivation temperatures: suboptimal, optimal, and supraoptimal. Cultivation at the supraoptimal temperature was found to considerably inhibit the synthesis of nearly all intracellular lipids, except for triacylglycerides, and to influence their fatty acid composition. In particular, the content of trienoic fatty acids was significantly lower at the supraoptimal than at the optimal cultivation temperature. At the same time, the fatty acid composition of the extracellular lipids of the alga virtually did not depend on cultivation temperature.
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