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American Society for Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 4(88), 2022
DOI: 10.1128/aem.02154-21
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Evidence for Enzymatic Backbone Methylation of the Main Membrane Lipids in the Archaeon Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis
Journal article published in 2022 by
Sarah Coffinet 
,
Lukas Mühlena,
Julius S. Lipp ,
Micha Weil,
Cajetan Neubauer ,
Tim Urich ,
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
,
Lukas Mühlena,
Julius S. Lipp ,
Micha Weil,
Cajetan Neubauer ,
Tim Urich ,
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
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Abstract
Butanetriol and pentanetriol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers are membrane lipids recently discovered in anoxic environments. These lipids differ from typical membrane-spanning tetraether lipids because they possess a nonglycerol backbone.