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- Title
Unusual Shorter‐Chain C<sub>35</sub> and C<sub>36</sub> Alkenones from Commercially Grown Isochrysis sp. Microalgae.
- Authors
O'Neil, Gregory W.; Gale, Amanda C.; Nelson, Robert K.; Dhaliwal, Herman K.; Reddy, Christopher M.
- Abstract
Unusual shorter‐chain alkenones (C35 and C36) were the dominant alkenones (rather than C37 and C38) isolated from commercially grown Tisochrysis lutea microalgae. Structures of the alkenones were determined by analyzing the alkenones and their products following a butenolysis reaction by comprehensive two‐dimensional gas chromatography coupled to a high‐resolution time‐of‐flight mass spectrometer (GC × GC‐TOF HRMS). The major alkenones were identified as (15E,22E)‐heptatriaconta‐15,22‐dien‐2‐one and (16E,23E)‐octatriaconta‐16,23‐dien‐3‐one, similar to one previous finding of abundant shorter‐chain alkenones in a culture of Emiliania huxleyi CCMP2758, yet distinguishing them from C35 and C36 alkenones extracted from Black Sea sediments with different double bond positions. Our data suggest a possible shared trigger (e.g. nutrient stress) that may occur during cultivation resulting in shorter‐chain alkenones from both the aforementioned E. huxleyi and T. lutea. Moreover, for T. lutea, short‐chain alkenone biosynthesis can be accompanied by lower alkenone content but higher amounts of valuable docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). These results, therefore, extend beyond alkenones and are important to established and emerging algal oil‐based industries.
- Subjects
TIME-of-flight mass spectrometers; COCCOLITHUS huxleyi; MASS spectrometers; MICROALGAE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC acid; GAS chromatography
- Publication
Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (JAOCS), 2021, Vol 98, Issue 7, p757
- ISSN
0003-021X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/aocs.12481