Kachholz, T. published the artcileDegradation of long chain alkanes by bacillus. I. Development and product formation by bacilli degrading alkanes in the presence of other carbon sources, SDS of cas: 58783-82-7, the main research area is Bacillus alkane oxidation; alc formation Bacillus alkane.
No Bacillus among 14 type strains and 100 soil isolates could assimilate C14-C18 alkanes as sole C source, although 5 type strains could oxidize alkanes in the presence of glucose. When grown with pure n-C13H28, or n-C14H30, the 5 strains gave mainly mixtures of the corresponding secondary alcs., with some ketone and small amounts of primary alcs. B. lentus oxidized C13H28 poorly compared to C14H30. B. stearothermophilus and B. macerans gave ∼10-fold more alcs. than the other species. The extracellular fatty acid composition of B. macerans changed when alkane was added to a glucose-based medium.
European Journal of Applied Microbiology published new progress about Fatty acids. 58783-82-7 belongs to class alcohols-buliding-blocks, name is 5-Tridecanol, and the molecular formula is C13H28O, SDS of cas: 58783-82-7.
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