Coccomyxa, Schmidle, 1901

Řezanka, Tomáš, Nedbalová, Linda, Barcytė, Dovilė, Vítová, Milada & Sigler, Karel, 2019, Arsenolipids in the green alga Coccomyxa (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), Phytochemistry 164, pp. 243-251 : 244

2.1. Fatty acids and lipids from Coccomyxa

The fatty acids (FA) in the algal biomass of the genus Coccomyxa identified in the literature were in particular, C16 and C18 FA including eight FA ranging from saturated to triunsaturated ones, i.e. 16:0, 16:1, 16:2, 16:3, 18:0, 18:1, 18:2, 18:3, but not C20 or C22 FA such as arachidonic, eicosapentaenoic or docosahexaenoic FA. The taxonomic classification of the genus Coccomyxa to the class Trebouxiophyceae indicates the possible content of fatty acids ( Lang et al., 2011), and other authors dealing with this genus ( Abe et al., 2014; Bogen et al., 2013; Guschina et al., 2003; Guschina and Harwood, 2006; Msanne et al., 2012) have also presented similar data on FA identified in Coccomyxa algal biomass.

Furthermore, common classes of individual lipids were also identified in the biomass of Coccomyxa strains by different authors (see below), Similarly to other representatives of the genus, these included neutral lipids (triacylglycerols (TAG), diacylglycerols (DAG), and sterol esters (SE)) ( Guschina et al., 2003) or polar lipids, i.e. phosphatidylcholines (PC), phosphatidylethanolamines (PE), phosphatidylglycerols (PG), phosphatidylserines (PS) ( Kiseleva and Kotlova, 2007), phosphatidylinositols (PI) ( Guschina et al., 2003), glycolipids - monogalactosyldiacylglycerols (DGGG), diacylglyceryltrimethylhomoserine DGTS) ( Kiseleva and Kotlova, 2007), and also sulphoquinovosyl diacylglycerols (SQDG) ( Guschina et al., 2003) or trigalactosyldiacylglycerols (TGDG) ( Allen et al., 2017).