title: Stomatococcus mucilaginosus produces a mannose-containing lipoglycan rather than lipoteichoic acid.
abstract: Five strains of Stomatococcus mucilaginosus were investigated to determine whether the organism produces a lipoteichoic acid or a lipoglycan. Crude phenol extracts were purified by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and shown to contain lipoglycan. The major carbohydrate component present was mannose, indicating that the macroamphiphile is a lipomannan. The fatty acid composition of the lipoglycan was similar to that of stomatococcal whole cells. These data provide additional chemotaxonomic evidence supporting the suprageneric classification of the genus Stomatococcus within a group of actinomycete genera that also includes the genus Micrococcus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Biology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Dental School, UK.
authors.forename: I C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Sutcliffe
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Old
mesh_terms: D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008358:Mannose / Q000032:analysis*; D008835:Micrococcaceae / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D013682:Teichoic Acids / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D013682:Teichoic Acids; C009900:lipoteichoic acid; D008358:Mannose