TY - JOUR
T1 - Screening of marine cyanobacteria for high palmitoleic acid production
AU - Matsunaga, Tadashi
AU - Takeyama, Haruko
AU - Miura, Yuki
AU - Yamazaki, Takeshi
AU - Furuya, hiroyuki
AU - Sode, Koji
PY - 1995/11/1
Y1 - 1995/11/1
N2 - Screening of fatty acid composition in 150 strains of marine microalgae, cyanobacteria and green algae was carried out, and 20 strains showed relatively high contents of palmitoleic acid. Among them, two cyanobacteria, Phormidium sp. NKBG 041105 and Oscillatoria sp. NKBG 091600, showed an unusually high cis-palmitoleic acid content (54.5% and 54.4% of total fatty acid, respectively). Phormidium sp. NKBG 041105 had the highest cis-palmitoleic acid content per biomass (46.3 mg (g dry cell weight)-1), and cis-palrnitoleic acid composition was found to be constant with varying temperature. These results indicate that this cyanobacterium could be considered as a new source for palmitoleic acid.
AB - Screening of fatty acid composition in 150 strains of marine microalgae, cyanobacteria and green algae was carried out, and 20 strains showed relatively high contents of palmitoleic acid. Among them, two cyanobacteria, Phormidium sp. NKBG 041105 and Oscillatoria sp. NKBG 091600, showed an unusually high cis-palmitoleic acid content (54.5% and 54.4% of total fatty acid, respectively). Phormidium sp. NKBG 041105 had the highest cis-palmitoleic acid content per biomass (46.3 mg (g dry cell weight)-1), and cis-palrnitoleic acid composition was found to be constant with varying temperature. These results indicate that this cyanobacterium could be considered as a new source for palmitoleic acid.
KW - Fatty acid
KW - Marine cyanobacteria
KW - Palmitoleic acid
KW - Phormidium sp
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U2 - 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00350-E
DO - 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00350-E
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028880412
SN - 0378-1097
VL - 133
SP - 137
EP - 141
JO - FEMS Microbiology Letters
JF - FEMS Microbiology Letters
IS - 1-2
ER -
