STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE MEMBRANE CORE LIPIDS OF EXTREME HALOPHILES

Authors
MORITA M YAMAUCHI N EGUCHI T KAKINUMA K
Citation
M. Morita et al., STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE MEMBRANE CORE LIPIDS OF EXTREME HALOPHILES, Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 62(3), 1998, pp. 596-598
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Biology,Agriculture,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology","Food Science & Tenology
Journal title
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
09168451
Volume
62
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
596 - 598
Database
ISI
SICI code
0916-8451(1998)62:3<596:SDOTMC>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The structural diversity of the core lipids of extreme halophiles Halo arcula japonica and Halobacterium halobium was investigated. The most significant difference is that Ha. japonica contains sn-2,3-di-O-phyta nlglycerol exclusively as the core lipid, whereas Hb. halobium contain s both sn-2,3-di-O-phytanylglycerol and sn-2-O-sestertepanyl 1,15,19-p entamethyleicosanyl)3-O-phytanylglycerol.