Abstract
Five strains of Stomatococcus mucilaginosus were investigated to determine whether the organism produces a lipoteichoic acid or a lipoglycan. Crude phenol extracts were purified by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and shown to contain lipoglycan. The major carbohydrate component present was mannose, indicating that the macroamphiphile is a lipomannan. The fatty acid composition of the lipoglycan was similar to that of stomatococcal whole cells. These data provide additional chemotaxonomic evidence supporting the suprageneric classification of the genus Stomatococcus within a group of actinomycete genera that also includes the genus Micrococcus.
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Abbreviations
- LTA :
-
Lipoteichoic acid
- HIC :
-
Hydrophobic interaction chromatography
- FAMEs :
-
Fatty acid methyl esters
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Sutcliffe, I.C., Old, L.A. Stomatococcus mucilaginosus produces a mannose-containing lipoglycan rather than lipoteichoic acid. Arch. Microbiol. 163, 70–75 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262206
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