The Extraction and Identification of Respiratory Lipoquinones of Prokaryotes and Their Use in Taxonomy

Isoprenol quinone identification is used to complement fatty acid composition, polar lipid patterns and, in some cases, determination of the peptidoglycan type as part of the chemotaxonomic characterization of prokaryotes. Although the results are not usually discriminatory at the species level, the...

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Main Authors: Da Costa, MS, Albuquerque, L, Nobre, M, Wait, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011