THE FATTY ACID AND STEROL COMPOSITION OF FIVE MARINE DINOFLAGELLATES

• Maged P. Mansour

• John K. Volkman

• Anne E. Jackson

• Susan I. Blackburn

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The fatty acid and sterol compositions of five species of marine dinoflagellates ( Scrippsiella sp. Symbiodinium microadriaticum Freud, Gymnodinium sp., Gymnodinium sanguineum Hirasaki, and Fragilidium sp.) are reported. All contained the major fatty acids that are considered common in dinoflagellates, but the proportions were quite variable, and some species contained low contents of some polyunsaturated fatty acids. Concentration ranges for the major fatty acids were: 16:0 (9.0%–24.8%), 18:4(n‐3) (2.5%–11.5%), 18:5(n‐3) (7.0%–43.1%), 20:5(n‐3) (EPA) (1.8%–20.9%), and 22:6(n‐3) (DHA) (9.9%– 26.3%). Small amounts of novel very‐long‐chain highly unsaturated C 28 fatty acids occurred in all species. Each dinoflagellate contained a complex mixture of 4‐methyl sterols and 4‐desmethyl sterols. Four species contained cholesterol, although the amounts were highly variable (from 0.2% of total sterols in Scrippsiella sp. to 45.6% in Fragilidium sp.). All but G. sanguineum contained the 4‐methyl sterol dinosterol, and all species contained sterols lacking a double bond in the ring system (i.e. stanols); in Scrippsiella sp. cholestanol composed 24.3% of the total sterols. Other common features of the 4‐methylsterol profiles were the presence of 23,24‐dimethyl alkylation and unsaturation at Δ 22 in the side chain. In Scrippsiella sp., four steroidal ketones were identified: cholestanone, dinosterone, 4α,23,24‐trimethyl‐5α‐cholest‐8(14)‐en‐3‐one, and dinostanone. The structures of these corresponded to the major sterols in this species, suggesting that the sterols and steroidal ketones are biosynthetically linked. Steroidal ketones were not detected in the other species. Although fatty acid profiles can be used to distinguish among algal classes, they were not useful for differentiating among dinoflagellate species. In contrast, whereas some taxonomic groupings of dinoflagellates display similar sterol patterns, others, such as the gymnodinoids studied here, clearly do not. The combination of fatty acid, sterol, and steroidal ketone profiles may be useful complementary chemotaxonomic tools for distinguishing morphologically similar species. The identification of steroidal ketones supports earlier suggestions that certain dinoflagellates might be a significant source of such components in marine environments.

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• Journal of Phycology

  Journal of Phycology 35 (4), 710-720, 1999-08

  Wiley

キーワード

• Plant Science
• Aquatic Science

詳細情報

• CRID: 1360011145942746112
• NII論文ID: 30014849836
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.3540710.x
• ISSN: 15298817
• ISSN: 00223646
• Web Site: https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1529-8817.1999.3540710.x
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