Beck H, Hegeman G D, White D
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405.
FEMS Microbiol Lett. 1990 Jun 1;57(3):229-32. doi: 10.1016/0378-1097(90)90071-w.
The cellular fatty acids from Heliobacterium chlorum, Heliobacterium gestii, and Heliobacillus mobilis were analyzed. The fatty acid contents of the three organisms were essentially the same, consisting of large amounts of branched chain and some mono-unsaturated fatty acids. Neither a phenol-water nor a phenol-petroleum ether-chloroform extraction of whole cells yielded lipopolysaccharide.