High Performance Chromatographic and Spectroscopic Analyses of Mycobacterial Waxes and Glycolipids

摘要: The cell envelopes of mycobacteria are composed a wide range unusual lipids which probably importance in the integrity and virulence important pathogens such as Mycobacterium leprae M. tuberculosis. covalently-bound mycolic acids long-chain 2-alkylbranched, 3-hydroxy fatty considered to provide basal lipid monolayer providing an anchorage for very special free lipids.1, 2 Mycobacterial polarity from apolar waxes highly polar glycolipids, many latter being surface antigens.3–7 Analyses these characteristic is value several respects, most classification, identification, function.