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SUBMITTER: Kropp C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9179154 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kropp Cosimo C Lipp Julius J Schmidt Anna Lena AL Seisenberger Christina C Linde Mona M Hinrichs Kai-Uwe KU Babinger Patrick P
MicrobiologyOpen 20220601 3
As a hallmark of Archaea, their cell membranes are comprised of ether lipids. However, Archaea-type ether lipids have recently been identified in Bacteria as well, with a somewhat different composition: In Bacillales, sn-glycerol 1-phosphate is etherified with one C35 isoprenoid chain, which is longer than the typical C20 chain in Archaea, and instead of a second isoprenoid chain, the product heptaprenylglyceryl phosphate becomes dephosphorylated and afterward diacetylated by the O-acetyltransfe ...[more]