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The filamentous fungusmortierella alpina, high in arachidonic acid

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Arachidonic acid is not available readily, although it is widely distributed in animal tissue. We found that in some strains ofMortierella alpina, arachidonic acid accounted for 68.5–78.8% of the total fatty acids. This is more than twice the arachidonic acid content of any organism previously reported. The content of arachidonic acid per dry cell weight was about 25%. Our findings offer a method for the efficient isolation of arachidonic acid in large amounts.

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Abbreviations

DEGS:

diethyleneglycol succinate

TLC:

thin layer chromatography

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  1. Biological Science Laboratory, Lion Corporation, 202 Tajima, Odawara, 256, Kanagawa, Japan

    Nagao Totani & Kenkichi Oba

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  1. Nagao Totani
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Totani, N., Oba, K. The filamentous fungusmortierella alpina, high in arachidonic acid. Lipids 22, 1060–1062 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02536452

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