Occurrence in soil of thermo-acidophilic bacilli possessing ω-cyclohexane fatty acids and hopanoids

✍ Scribed by Beate Hippchen; Alfred Röll; Karl Poralla

• Book ID: 104766643
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 289 KB
• Volume: 129
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0302-8933
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00417180

✦ Synopsis

Out of different soil samples from neutral environments 50 thermo-acidophilic bacilli were isolated. All 23 strains tested contain (o-cyclohexane fatty acids in the range of 1 5 -91% of the total fatty acids. In this group six strains possess hopane containing lipids (hopanoids). In contrast Bacillus coagulans, sometimes described as thermoacidophilic, contains no co-cyclohexane fatty acids as was shown in seven strains. The degree to which the described strains were related to Bacillus acidocaldarius could not definitely be determined.