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Phytochemistry

Volume 20, Issue 8, 1981, Pages 1935-1937
Phytochemistry

Sterols and fatty acids of an antarctic sea ice diatom, Stauroneis amphioxys

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Abstract

Unialgal clonal cultures of the diatom Stauroneis amphioxys Gregory, isolated from sea ice of the Indian Ocean sector ofthe Southern Ocean, were grown at 3° and 20°. The relative abundances offatty acids, sterols and phytol for the two cultures are comparable. The two sterols observed [24-methylcholesta-5,22E-dien-3β-ol (79%) and cholesterol (21%)] did not vary with culture temperature. The-major fatty acid composition is typical ofmost diatoms. A pronounced change of ratio with temperature occurred with the pair 16:4 Δ6, 9, 12, 15 and 16:3 Δ6, 9, 12 followed by 18:4 Δ6, 9, 12, 15:18:3 Δ9,12,15 and 20:5 Δ5,8,11,14,17:20:4 Δ8,11,14,17; thus the relative abundances of 16:4, 18:4, 20:5 and 22:6 increase at the lower growth temperature. The total amounts of unsaturated acids do not change with temperature suggesting an effect on the final desaturase step. No cryoprotective role for such changes in lipid composition was inferred.

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