THE PHOSPHOLIPIDS OF PROPIONIBACTERIUM-FREUDENREICHII - ABSENCE OF PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL MANNOSIDES

Authors
SUTCLIFFE IC SHAW N
Citation
Ic. Sutcliffe et N. Shaw, THE PHOSPHOLIPIDS OF PROPIONIBACTERIUM-FREUDENREICHII - ABSENCE OF PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL MANNOSIDES, Systematic and applied microbiology, 16(1), 1993, pp. 9-12
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Systematic and applied microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
07232020
Volume
16
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
9 - 12
Database
ISI
SICI code
0723-2020(1993)16:1<9:TPOP-A>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
The phospholipids of Propionibacterium freudenreichii were purified an d examined for the presence of phosphatidylinositol mannosides. None c ould be detected. The major phospholipids were bis(phosphatidyl)glycer ol, phosphatidylglycerol, and phosphatidylinositol. This lipid composi tion is consistent with the relatedness of propionibacteria to the act inomycetes. The previously reported ability of P. freudenreichii to sy nthesise phosphatidylinositol monomannoside in vitro may relate to the biosynthesis of the inositol-containing lipomannan which replaces lip oteichoic acid in this bacterium.