Analysis and Comparison of the Carotenoids of Sarcinu flava and S. lutea
- 1 October 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Microbiology
- Vol. 49 (1), 53-57
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-49-1-53
Abstract
The carotenoid pigments of S. flava (Staphylococcus afermentans) and S. lutea were extracted, purified and separated by thin-layer chromatography into 7 fractions. These fractions were hydrocarbon or polar materials. The 2 bacteria appeared to synthesize identical pigments which could be complexed in vivo to different proteins or to different amounts of a protein, which would explain the apparent differences in the color of colonies of the 2 bacteria when grown on nutrient agar.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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