J. Biochem, 1987, Vol. 101, No. 4 997-1005
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Extraction and Composition of Polar Lipids from the Archaebacterium, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum: Effective Extraction of Tetraether Lipids by an Acidified Solvent1
Department of Chemistry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 807
The usual Bligh and Dyer method could extract only a small part of the lipids of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. When the water in the solvent was replaced by 5% trichloroacetic acid, the lipid recovery reached the maximum level, which was 6 times higher than that by the former method. The use of HCl (2 M) or disruption of cells was also effective but prolonged extraction with the HCl-containing solvent caused degradation of some phosphoglycolipids. Twenty-three spots of polar lipids were detected on a thin-layer chromatogram of the total lipid. These were 10 phospholipids (18%), 6 aminophospholipids (17%), 3 aminophos-phoglycolipids (15%), 2 phosphoglycolipids (31%), and 2 glycolipids (19%). The predominant polar lipids were a highly polar phosphoglycolipid (PGL1, 30%) and a glycolipid (GL1a, 16%). The other major lipids included an aminophospholipid (PNL1a, 9%), and an aminophosphoglycolipid (PNGL1, 7%). The complete structure determination of PNL1a, GL1a, and PNGL1 is described in the accompanying paper. Acetolysis of the total lipids followed by acid methanolysis was required for the complete cleavage of polar head groups, releasing core residues of diphytanyl glycerol diether (C20 diether) and dibiphytanyl diglycerol tetraether (C40 tetraether). A densitometric assay of a thin-layer chromatogram showed that the ratio of C20 diether and C40 tetraether was 1: 14. GLC analysis of alkyl chlorides prepared from the total lipid by BCl3 treatment showed that phytanyl (C20), bi-phytanyl (C40), and unidentified alkyl chains accounted for 10, 83, and 7 mol% of the total alkyl chains, respectively. Strong acid hydrolysis of the macromolecular residue obtained after lipid extraction gave a significant amount of C40 tetraether, which had probably been bound covalently to other substances in the cells.
1This study was supported in part by Grants-in-Aids for Scienctific Research (Nos. 59560094 and 61760088) from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, and a grant from the Agricultural Chemistry Foundation.
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