Tightly packed membranes composed of 36-membered macrocyclic diether phospholipid found in archaea growing under deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Chemistry Letters

Volumn , Issue 9, 1998, Pages 901-902

  Arakawa, Kenji ^a   Eguchi, Tadashi ^a   Kakinuma, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0032328405     PISSN: 03667022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1246/cl.1998.901     Document Type: Article

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