Archaeal Lipids: Innovative Materials for Biotechnological Applications (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 28/2008)

✍ Scribed by Thierry Benvegnu; Loïc Lemiègre; Sandrine Cammas-Marion

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 915 KB
• Volume: 2008
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-193X
• DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200890075

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The cover picture shows the molecular structure of monopolar diether‐type and bipolar tetraether‐type lipids found in archaea membranes as well as a schematized representation of an archaeosome–DNA complex based on archaeal lipids. The background offers a view of archaeosomes (cross‐fractured vesicles made from synthetic archaeal bipolar lipids) observed by freeze‐fracture electron microscopy. Details of the structure and properties of these original natural or synthetic lipids and their potential biotechnological applications are presented in the Microreview by T. Benvegnu et al. on p. 4725 ff.