First Isolation and Structure Elucidation of GDNT‐β‐Glu – Tetraether Lipid Fragment from Archaeal Sulfolobus Strains [PDF]
ChemistryOpen, 2021 Due to their special chemical structure, tetraether lipids (TEL) represent essential elements of archaeal membranes, providing these organisms with extraordinary properties.
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Biological Membranes in Extreme Conditions: Simulations of Anionic Archaeal Tetraether Lipid Membranes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 In contrast to the majority of organisms that have cells bound by di-ester phospholipids, archaeal membranes consist of di- and tetraether phospholipids.
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Molecular dynamics study of bipolar tetraether lipid membranes. [PDF]
Biophys J, 2005 Membranes composed of bipolar tetraether lipids have been studied by a series of 25-ns molecular dynamics simulations to understand the microscopic structure and dynamics as well as membrane area elasticity. By comparing macrocyclic and acyclic tetraether and diether archaeal lipids, the effect of tail linkage of the two phytanyl-chained lipids on the ...
Shinoda W, Shinoda K, Baba T, Mikami M.
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The Role of Tetraether Lipid Composition in the Adaptation of Thermophilic Archaea to Acidity [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013 Diether and tetraether lipids are fundamental components of the archaeal cell membrane. Archaea adjust the degree of tetraether lipid cyclization in order to maintain functional membranes and cellular homeostasis when confronted with pH and/or thermal ...
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Thermoplasmatales and Methanogens: Potential Association with the Crenarchaeol Production in Chinese Soils [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 Crenarchaeol is a unique isoprenoid glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether (iGDGT) lipid, which is only identified in cultures of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota. However, the taxonomic origins of crenarchaeol have been debated recently. The archaeal
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Provenance of tetraether membrane lipids in a large temperate lake (Loch Lomond, UK): implications for glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT)-based palaeothermometry [PDF]
, 2014 The application of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT)-based palaeoenvironmental proxies, such as the branched vs. isoprenoidal tetratether (BIT) index, TEX86 and the MBT–CBT palaeothermometer, has lately been expanded to lacustrine sediments ...
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Engineering archaeal membrane‐spanning lipid GDGT biosynthesis in bacteria: Implications for early life membrane transformations [PDF]
mLifeEukaryotes are hypothesized to be archaeal–bacterial chimeras. Given the different chemical structures of membrane phospholipids in archaea and bacteria, transformations of membranes during eukaryogenesis that led to the bacterial‐type membranes of ...
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Changes in the ratio of tetraether to diether lipids in cattle feces in response to altered dietary ratio of grass silage and concentrates [PDF]
, 2014 The distinctive membrane lipids of the archaea can contain a wide range of chemical structures. The membrane lipid composition of ruminal methanogenic archaea has not yet been characterized.
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Constraints on the sources of branched tetraether membrane lipids in distal marine sediments [PDF]
, 2014 Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are membrane lipids produced by soil bacteria and occur in near coastal marine sediments as a result of soil organic matter input.
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Lipid hydrogen isotope compositions primarily reflect growth water in the model archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyThe stable hydrogen isotope composition (δ2H) of lipid biomarkers can track environmental processes and remain stable over geologically relevant time scales, enabling studies of past climate, hydrology, and ecology.
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