TY - JOUR
T1 - Eicosapentaenoic Acid Productivity of the Bacteria Isolated from Fish Intestines
AU - Yazawa, Kazunaga
AU - Araki, Keiko
AU - Watanabe, Kazuo
AU - Ishikawa, Chikako
AU - Inoue, Akira
AU - Kondo, Kiyosi
AU - Watabe, Shugo
AU - Hashimoto, Kanehisa
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Attempts were made to find eicosapentaenoic acid(EPA)-producing microorganisms. Out of some 7,000 bacterial strains screened, 112 of them showed more or less this activity. Most of them were isolated from intestinal contents of marine fishes which were known to contain high levels of EPA in their body lipid. A bacterial strain isolated from the Pacific mackerel Pneumatophorus japonicus showed a high productivity of EPA (3.8 to 10.8 mg/g dry cells) and also a high ratio of EPA to total fatty acids (27.8 to 36.3%). The strain was Gram-negative, motile, obligate aerobic and short rod-shaped, which we judge it to be a new species close to genus Alteromonas.
AB - Attempts were made to find eicosapentaenoic acid(EPA)-producing microorganisms. Out of some 7,000 bacterial strains screened, 112 of them showed more or less this activity. Most of them were isolated from intestinal contents of marine fishes which were known to contain high levels of EPA in their body lipid. A bacterial strain isolated from the Pacific mackerel Pneumatophorus japonicus showed a high productivity of EPA (3.8 to 10.8 mg/g dry cells) and also a high ratio of EPA to total fatty acids (27.8 to 36.3%). The strain was Gram-negative, motile, obligate aerobic and short rod-shaped, which we judge it to be a new species close to genus Alteromonas.
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U2 - 10.2331/suisan.54.1835
DO - 10.2331/suisan.54.1835
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000470786
SN - 0021-5392
VL - 54
SP - 1835
EP - 1838
JO - Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi
JF - Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi
IS - 10
ER -
