Monomycoloylglycerol of Nocardia asteroides
✍ Scribed by Célio Lopes Silva; Thuioshi Ioneda
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-3084
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✦ Synopsis
Isolation of monoacylglycerol containing only hydroxy acids was achieved after fractionation of the diethyl ether-soluble lipids of Nocardia asteroides by column and thin layer chromatography. The isolated lipid, which was liquid, liberated only glycerol into the aqueous phase, and had (C50---C56) mycolic acids as the sole constituent fatty acids.
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