Carbon isotope-labelling experiments indicate that ladderane lipids of anammox bacteria are synthesized by a previously undescribed, novel pathway

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-122

  Rattray, Jayne E ^a   Geenevasen, Jan A J ^b   Van Niftrik, Laura ^c   Rijpstra, W Irene C ^a   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Strous, Marc ^c   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Jetten, Mike S M ^c   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Anammox bacteria; Fatty acids; Ladderane ether lipids

Indexed keywords

ALKYL GROUP; ANAMMOX; CARBON 13; CYCLOBUTANE; CYCLOHEXANE; LADDERANE LIPID; MEMBRANE LIPID; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BROCADIA FULGIDA; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIA; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CARBON ISOTOPES; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 59349100405     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01483.x     Document Type: Article

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