%0 Journal Article %A Minnikin, D. E. %A Minnikin, S. M. %A Hutchinson, I. G. %A Goodfellow, M. %A Grange, J. M. %T Mycolic Acid Patterns of Representative Strains of Mycobacterium fortuitum, ‘Mycobacterium peregrinum’ and Mycobacterium smegmatis %D 1984 %J Microbiology, %V 130 %N 2 %P 363-367 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-130-2-363 %I Microbiology Society, %X Representative strains of Mycobacterium fortuitum, “Mycobacterium peregrinum” and Mycobacterium smegmatis were degraded by acid methanolysis and patterns of long-chain compounds were determined by two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography. The same general pattern of mycolic acid methyl esters was found in all 39 strains examined, the major components being so-called α-mycolates and characteristic pairs of polar mycolates. Analysis of alkaline methanolysates of selected strains confirmed that these polar mycolates were derived from epoxymycolic acids, as found previously. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-130-2-363