Abstract
Cellular polyamine distribution catalogues
in the domain Bacteria have provided valuable
information for their chemotaxonomic classifications and
for polyamine profiles essential for extremophilic growth
environments. Acid-extracted polyamines from 339
additional bacterial strains belonging to the eight phyla
Actinobacteria (25 strains), Aquificae (21 strains),
Bacteroidetes (107 strains), Cyanobacteria (3 strains),
Firmicutes (132 strains), Desulfobacterota (38 strains),
Tenericutes (3 strains) and Thermotogae (10 strains),
including various extremophiles, were newly analyzed
by HPLC and HPGC. Cellular concentrations of
diaminopropane, putrescine, cadaverine, diaminohexane,
norspermidine, spermidine, homospermidine,
norspermine, spermine, thermospermine,
aminopropylhomospermidine, canavalmine,
homospermine, caldopentamine, homocaldopentamine,
thermopentamine, caldohexamine, homocaldohexamine,
thermohexamine, homothermohexamine,
N4
-aminopropylnorspermidine,
N4
-aminopropylspermidine, N4
-aminopropylspermine,
N4
-bis(aminopropyl)norspermidine,
N4
-bis(aminopropyl)spermidine, agamtine, and
2-phenylethylamine were analyzed. Occurrence of
covalently linked polyamines in 16 new members of the
class Negativicutes of the phylum Firmicutes was added
in this paper. By also referring to our previous
polyamine data of representative species in the taxa:
genus, family, order and class, we presented here our
final polyamine distribution catalogues of the eight major
bacterial phyla.
