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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
7-1-1980
Abstract
The selective incorporation of precursors specific for individual fatty acids in germinating and outgrowing spores of Bacillus thuringiensis is described. The specific precursors utilized were [14C]butyrate, -isobutyrate, -valerate, and -isovalerate, which were incorporated into even-numbered normal-chain isomers, even-numbered iso-isomers, odd-numbered normal-chain acids, and odd-numbered isohomologs, respectively. This preferential incorporation by B. thuringiensis allows the terminal carbons of specific normal and branched-chain fatty acids, contained within the cytoplasmic membrane, to be labeled with 14C and, potentially, 13C.
Comments
Published in APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, July 1980, p. 166-168. Copyright © 1980 by the American Society for Microbiology. Used by permission.