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Table 3 Carbon fractionation of major lipids in D. psychrophila calculated relative to the carbon source, lactate (-28.9‰).

From: A comparative genomics study of genetic products potentially encoding ladderane lipid biosynthesis

Lipid/Substrate

% abundance in total lipid extract

Δ δ13C‰ relative to lactate

C31:8 (PUHC)

4

-20.1

C31:9 (PUHC)

1

-20.4

C14:0

2

-8.0

C16:0

12

-11.0

C16:1

(39, 15a)

(-16.1, -20.8a)

C17:1

1

-13.5

C18:1

(2, 2a)

(-28.5, -22.8a)

  1. PUHC; polyunsaturated hydrocarbon. Mean values of duplicate measurements of one culture are given; replicate values deviated by a maximum of ± 1 ‰.
  2. a two isomers, separated by retention time.