Phospholipids are major components of the cellular membranes present in all living
organisms. They typically form a lipid bilayer that embroiders the cell or cellular organelles …

A vital function of the cell membrane in all living organism is to maintain the membrane
permeability barrier and fluidity. The composition of the phospholipid bilayer is distinct in …

Archaea produce unique membrane lipids in which isoprenoid alkyl chains are bound to
glycerol moieties via ether linkages. As cultured representatives of the Archaea have …

A great number of novel and unique chemical structures of archaeal polar lipids have been
reported. Since 1993, when those lipids were reviewed in several review articles, a variety of …

The essential general features required for lipid membranes of extremophilic archaea to
fulfill biological functions are that they are in the liquid crystalline phase and have extremely …

Archaea have idiosyncratic cell membranes usually based on phospholipids containing
glycerol‐1‐phosphate linked by ether bonds to isoprenoid lateral chains. Since these …

Cellular membrane lipids, of which phospholipids are the major constituents, form one of the
characteristic features that distinguish Archaea from other organisms. In this study, we …

All cell membranes are composed of glycerol phosphate phospholipids, and this
commonality argues for the presence of such phospholipids in the last common ancestor, or …

The structural and biosynthetic features of archaeal phospholipids provide clues to the
membrane lipid composition in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) membranes …

The lipid membrane is one of the most characteristic traits distinguishing the three domains
of life. Membrane lipids of Bacteria and Eukarya are composed of fatty acids linked to …