The cell lipids of the zygomycete Absidia corymbifera F-965 extracted with isopropanol and CHCl3-MeOH mixtures at the exponential growth phase comprise 20+/-2% of mycelium dry wt. The lipids consist of: triacylglycerols (51% of the total lipids extracted), diacylglycerols (9%), monoacylglycerols (3%), ergosterol (5%), ergosterol peroxide (5alpha,8alpha-epidioxyergosta-6,22-diene-3beta-ol) (3%), fatty-acid esters of ergosterol (less than 0.5%), free fatty acids (4%), glucocerebroside (3%), and glycerophospholipids (22%). The main phospholipids are phosphatidylethanolamine (39% of the total phospholipids), phosphatidyl-myo-inositol (17%), diphosphatidylglycerol (12%), phosphatidic acid (7%), phosphatidylcholine (6%), phosphatidylglycerol (3%), and two unusual phospholipids reported earlier, N-acetylphosphatidylethanolamine (7%) and N-ethoxycarbonyl phosphatidylethanolamine (9%). In addition, two unknown acidic phospholipids are present in traces. Saturated fatty acids of the lipids are dominated by n-hexadecanoic acid and unsaturated ones by octadecenoic acid; octadecadienoic and octadecatrienoic acids are present in lesser amounts. Ergosterol peroxide as well as the above glucocerebroside which contains 9-methylsphinga-4(E),9(E)-dienine have first been revealed in zygomycetes.
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