Fatty acid-related phylogeny of myxobacteria as an approach to discover polyunsaturated omega-3/6 fatty acids

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1930-1942

  Garcia, Ronald ^a,b   Pistorius, Dominik ^a,b   Stadler, Marc ^c   Müller, Rolf ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c InterMed Discovery GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN FATTY ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; RNA 16S; STRAIGHT CHAIN FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOBACTERINEAE; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FLEXIBACTER; HERPETOSIPHON; MYXOCOCCALES; NANNOCYSTINEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASELICYSTIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORANGIINEAE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STIGMATELLA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOCOCCALES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CYSTOBACTERINEAE; FLEXIBACTER; HERPETOSIPHON; MYXOCOCCALES; STIGMATELLA;

EID: 79955376789     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01091-10     Document Type: Article

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