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Fifteen Acholeplasma strains, including some belonging to A. laidlawii, A. axanthum, A. granularum, or A. modicum, incorporated radioactivity into their lipids when grown in a medium containing [1-14C] acetate. The majority of the radioactivity was found in the glycolipid (43%) and the polar lipid (55%) fractions. The amount of radioactivity incorporated into the lipids (disintegrations per minute per milligram of lipid) of strains of 6 Mycoplasma species was less than 1% of the amount found in the 15 Acholeplasma strains. The ability to synthesize lipids from acetate is a useful criterion for differentiating the genus Acholeplasma from Mycoplasma.
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