Hoag K B, Bradley W H, Tousimis A J, Price D L
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1969 Jul;63(3):748-52. doi: 10.1073/pnas.63.3.748.
A species of Flavobacterium that consistently attacks pure phytol and can use it as a sole source of carbon has been isolated from the blue-green algal sediment of Mud Lake, Florida. Biochemical tests demonstrate that this bacterium also readily uses various other organic compounds. This bacterium may account for the degradation products of chlorophyll and its side chain phytol, which have been found in the Mud Lake algal sediment. Phytol and its degradation products play a role in Refsum's disease, but phytol is also the most promising precursor of the isoprenoid hydrocarbons found in oil shale of the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The discovery of this species of Flavobacterium is a significant product of a protracted study of the bacteriology, phycology, zoology, and geochemistry of the algal sediment forming in Mud Lake, which is believed to be a modern analogue of the kind of algal sediment that, through geologic time, became oil shale.
从佛罗里达州泥湖的蓝藻沉积物中分离出了一种黄杆菌属细菌，它能持续攻击纯叶绿醇并将其用作唯一碳源。生化测试表明，这种细菌还能轻易利用各种其他有机化合物。这种细菌可能是泥湖藻类沉积物中发现的叶绿素及其侧链叶绿醇降解产物的成因。叶绿醇及其降解产物在雷夫叙姆病中起作用，但叶绿醇也是科罗拉多州、犹他州和怀俄明州绿河组（始新世）油页岩中发现的类异戊二烯烃最有前景的前体。这种黄杆菌的发现是对泥湖形成的藻类沉积物的细菌学、藻类学、动物学和地球化学进行长期研究的一项重要成果，泥湖被认为是那种经过地质时间变成油页岩的藻类沉积物的现代类似物。
