DISTRIBUTION OF MENAQUINONES IN ACTINOMYCETES AND CORYNEBACTERIA
DISTRIBUTION OF MENAQUINONES IN ACTINOMYCETES AND CORYNEBACTERIA
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DOI:
10.1099/00221287-100-2-221
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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MINNIKIN, DE
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作者:
COLLINS, MD;PIROUZ, T;MINNIKIN, DE
Menaquinones were the only isoprenoid quinones found in 48 corynebacteria and actinomycete strains examined. Dihydromenaquinones having 9 isoprene units were the main components isolated from Gordona, Mycobacterium, Corynebacterium bovis, C. glutamicum and a strain labeled Nocardia farcinica, but dihydromenaquinones having 8 isoprene units were characteristic of other Corynebacterium spp. and representatives of the rhodochrous complex. Tetrahydromenaquinones having 6 and 8 isoprene units were found in Nocardia strains and in a single strain of Micropolyspora brevicatena, which also contained mycolic acids similar in chain length to those of Nocardia. Menaquinones having 9 isoprene units with 1-5 double bonds hydrogenated were the main components in Actinomadura madurae, A. pelletieri, Micropolyspora faeni, Oerskovia turbata and Streptomyces strains. A. dassonvillei strains had a characteristic pattern of di-, tetra- and hexahydromenaquinones with 10 isoprene units which was slightly different from the pattern in mixtures of similar quinones from Actinomyces israelii and A. viscosus.