The production of diverse brGDGTs by an Acidobacterium providing a physiological basis for paleoclimate proxies

Y Chen, F Zheng, H Yang, W Yang, R Wu, X Liu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial lipid biomarkers preserved in geological archives can be used to explore past
climate changes. Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are unique …

Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O2 provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies …

TA Halamka, JH Raberg, JM McFarlin… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are bacterial membrane lipids that
are frequently employed as paleoenvironmental proxies because of the strong empirical …

Ubiquitous production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in global marine environments: a new source indicator for brGDGTs

W Xiao, Y Wang, S Zhou, L Hu, H Yang, Y Xu - Biogeosciences, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
Presumed source specificity of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) from
bacteria thriving in soil/peat and isoprenoid GDGTs (iGDGTs) from aquatic organisms led to …

Redox-dependent niche differentiation provides evidence for multiple bacterial sources of glycerol tetraether lipids in lakes

Y Weber, JS Sinninghe Damsté… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Terrestrial paleoclimate archives such as lake sediments are essential for our understanding
of the continental climate system and for the modeling of future climate scenarios. However …

Salinity-controlled isomerization of lacustrine brGDGTs impacts the associated MBT5ME'terrestrial temperature index

H Wang, W Liu, Y He, A Zhou, H Zhao, H Liu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are microbial molecular fossils
ubiquitous in natural environments. The correlation between the Methylation Index of …

Evidence of moisture control on the methylation of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in semi-arid and arid soils

X Dang, H Yang, BDA Naafs, RD Pancost… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The distribution of bacterial branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) is
influenced by growth temperature and pH. This results in the widespread application of the …

GDGT cyclization proteins identify the dominant archaeal sources of tetraether lipids in the ocean

Z Zeng, XL Liu, KR Farley, JH Wei… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are distinctive archaeal membrane-
spanning lipids with up to eight cyclopentane rings and/or one cyclohexane ring. The …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

BDA Naafs, GN Inglis, Y Zheng, MJ Amesbury… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are membrane-spanning lipids from Bacteria
and Archaea that are ubiquitous in a range of natural archives and especially abundant in …

Molecular dynamics simulations support the hypothesis that the brGDGT paleothermometer is based on homeoviscous adaptation

BDA Naafs, ASF Oliveira, AJ Mulholland - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are bacterial membrane lipids that
are ubiquitous in the environment. Although the exact source organism is unknown, the …

[HTML][HTML] Revised fractional abundances and warm-season temperatures substantially improve brGDGT calibrations in lake sediments

JH Raberg, DJ Harning, SE Crump, G de Wet… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Distributions of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are frequently
employed for reconstructing terrestrial paleotemperatures from lake sediment archives …