Phytanic acid and other branched-chain fatty acid constituents of bovine rumen bacteria
- 1 October 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Dairy Research
- Vol. 33 (3) , 333-342
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022029900012024
Abstract
Summary: Phytanic acid, 3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanoic acid, which hitherto had been isolated and identified from several natural sources including butterfat, ox perinephric fat and cow plasma, has now been found present in small amounts (2·9%) in the total fatty acids extracted from the rumen bacteria of a fistulated dairy cow fed a diet of clover-grass hay. This C20 multibranched fatty acid was not detected in the dietary clover-grass hay, and it is considered to have been derived from phytol by enzymic activity of the rumen bacteria.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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