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Occurrence of a furan fatty acid in marine bacteria
N Shirasaka1, K Nishi, S Shimizu
1Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|October 5, 1995
Abstract:
A fatty acid containing a furan ring was detected in the cellular lipids of marine bacteria, Shewanella putrefaciens, Marinomonas comunis, Enterobacter agglomerans, Pseudomonas fluorescens, etc., which were isolated from the intestinal liquor of fishes. Analytical data indicated that the fatty acid was 10,13-epoxy-11-methyloctadeca-10, 12-dienoic acid. Therefore, we propose that furan fatty acids detected in marine fish are derived not only from marine plants but also from intestinal bacteria of fishes.