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Science 25 March 1966:
Vol. 151. no. 3717, pp. 1543 - 1544
DOI: 10.1126/science.151.3717.1543
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Phospholipids of Bacteria with Extensive Intracytoplasmic Membranes

P O. Hagen 1, Howard Goldfine 1, and P. J. le B. Williams 2

1 Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Examination of the lipids of three species of nonphotosynthetic bacteria with extensive internal membranes revealed phosphatidyl choline (lecithin) in two species. In one of these there was an unusual accumulation of phosphatidyl N-dimethylethanolamine. (The relation between lecithin and membrane elaboration in microorganisms is discussed.)


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