A Simple Chromatographic Procedure for the Detection of Cyclized Archaebacterial Glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol Tetraether Core Lipids

Overview

Journal J Gen Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1988 Dec 1

PMID 3151990

Citations 5

Authors

A Trincone

M de Rosa

A Gambacorta

V Lanzotti

B Nicolaus

J E Harris

W D Grant

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Abstract

Archaebacterial glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol tetraether core lipids containing from one to eight cyclopentane rings could be resolved from each other and from the parent uncyclized C40, C40 lipid by TLC. The core lipids of examples from the genera Methanobacterium, Methanobrevibacter, Methanogenium and Methanoplanus did not contain cyclized forms of glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol tetraethers, whereas the core lipids of Methanosarcina barkeri contained glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol tetraethers with from one to three cyclopentane rings in each C40 isopranoid chain.

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