Linearly concatenated cyclobutane lipids form a dense bacterial membrane

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6908, 2002, Pages 708-712

  Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a   Strous, Marc ^b   Rijpstra, W Irene C ^a   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Geenevasen, Jan A J ^c   Van Duin, Adri C T ^d   Van Niftrik, Laura A ^b   Jetten, Mike S M ^e  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

CATABOLISM;

LIPIDS;

CYCLOBUTANE; LIPID;

BACTERIUM; LIPID; MEMBRANE; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CATABOLISM; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRONICS; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYCLOBUTANES; DIFFUSION; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037126314     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01128     Document Type: Article

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