Isoprenoid fatty acids from marine sponges. Are sponges selective?
The burrowing sponges Anthosigmella varians and Spheciospongia vesparium were found to be rich in the isoprenoid phospholipid fatty acid 4,8,12-trimethyltridecanoic (5.2% and 23%, respectively, of the total fatty acid composition), while the burrowing sponge Chondrilla nucula and the demosponge Agelas dispar contained the acid 3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanoic (13.8% and 8.6%, respectively, of the total phospholipid fatty acid composition). No other isoprenoid fatty acid was found, and the two acids described in this work did not occur concomitantly in the same sponge.
Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras 00931.
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D000818:Animals; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000032:analysis; D011161:Porifera / Q000032:analysis*; D013045:Species Specificity
D005227:Fatty Acids; D010743:Phospholipids