Mechanism of ethanol-induced changes in lipid composition of Escherichia coli: inhibition of saturated fatty acid synthesis in vivo
- 21 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 17 (4), 637-644
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00597a012
Abstract
The in vivo effects of ethanol on lipid synthesis in E. coli were examined. Under conditions which uncoupled fatty acid synthesis from phospholipid synthesis, ethanol decreased the amount of saturated fatty acids synthesized but had little effect on the selectivity of their incorporation into phospholipids. In the absence of fatty acid degradation and unsaturated fatty acid synthesis, E. coli was still able to adapt its membrane lipids to ethanol, while the inhibition of total fatty acid synthesis eliminated this response. During growth in the presence of ethanol, strain K1060 (an unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph) incorporated an increased amount of exogenous heptadecanoic acid (17:0) to compensate for the reduction in palmitic acid (16:0) available from biosynthesis. The reduced levels of saturated fatty acids observed in the phospholipids of E. coli following growth in the presence of ethanol result primarily from a decrease in the amounts of saturated fatty acids available for phospholipid synthesis.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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