title: Content and chemical compositions of cerebrosides in lactose-assimilating yeasts.
abstract: Cerebrosides were found in ten lactose-assimilating yeasts. Representative component ceramide moieties of cerebrosides from nine of these yeasts contained 9-methyl-4-trans, 8-trans-sphingadienine, and 2-hydroxy fatty acid with carbon chain lengths of 16 or 18. The major ceramide moieties in Brettanomyces anomalus, however, differed from those in other yeasts, and were predominately moieties containing 2-hydroxymyristic acid. Thus we found that various cerebroside molecular species are present in yeasts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioresource Science, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: Mikio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanji
authors.forename: Kanae
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Namimatsu
authors.forename: Mikio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
authors.forename: Hidemasa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Motoshima
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohnishi
mesh_terms: D002554:Cerebrosides / Q000737:chemistry*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D007785:Lactose / Q000737:chemistry*; D009227:Myristic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D015003:Yeasts / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002554:Cerebrosides; D005227:Fatty Acids; D009227:Myristic Acids; C017418:alpha-hydroxymyristic acid; D007785:Lactose