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Polar lipid fatty acids, LPS-hydroxy fatty acids, and respiratory quinones of three Geobacter strains, and variation with electron acceptor

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The polar lipid fatty acids, lipopolysaccharide hydroxy-fatty acids, and respiratory quinones of Geobacter metallireducens str. GS-15, Geobacter sulfurreducens str. PCA, and Geobacter bemidjiensis str. Bem are reported. Also, the lipids of G. metallireducens were compared when grown with Fe3+ or nitrate as electron acceptors and G. sulfurreducens with Fe3+ or fumarate. In all experiments, the most abundant polar lipid fatty acids were 14:0, i15:0, 16:1ω7c, 16:1ω5c, and 16:0; lipopolysaccharide hydroxy-fatty acids were dominated by 3oh16:0, 3oh14:0, 9oh16:0, and 10oh16:0; and menaquinone-8 was the most abundant respiratory quinone. Some variation in lipid profiles with strain were observed, but not with electron acceptor.

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Abbreviations

LPS ohFA:

Lipopolysaccharide hydroxy-fatty acids

PLFA:

Polar lipid fatty acids

MK:

Menaquinone

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy, Biological and Environmental Research, grant DE-FG02-04ER63719.

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  1. Microbial Insights, Inc., 2340 Stock Creek Blvd., Rockford, TN, USA

    D. B. Hedrick

  2. Haley & Aldrich, 465 Medford St., Ste. 2200, Boston, MA, USA

    A. D. Peacock

  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, 159 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA, USA

    D. R. Lovley, T. L. Woodard & K. P. Nevin

  4. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    P. E. Long

  5. Center for Biomarker Analysis, University of Tennessee, 10515 Research Dr., Ste. 300, Knoxville, TN, USA

    D. C. White

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Hedrick, D.B., Peacock, A.D., Lovley, D.R. et al. Polar lipid fatty acids, LPS-hydroxy fatty acids, and respiratory quinones of three Geobacter strains, and variation with electron acceptor. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 36, 205–209 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-008-0486-7

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