title: A simple chromatographic procedure for the detection of cyclized archaebacterial glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol tetraether core lipids.
abstract: Archaebacterial glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol tetraether core lipids containing from one to eight cyclopentane rings could be resolved from each other and from the parent uncyclized C40, C40 lipid by TLC. The core lipids of examples from the genera Methanobacterium, Methanobrevibacter, Methanogenium and Methanoplanus did not contain cyclized forms of glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol tetraethers, whereas the core lipids of Methanosarcina barkeri contained glycerol-bisdiphytanyl-glycerol tetraethers with from one to three cyclopentane rings in each C40 isopranoid chain.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Chimica di Molecole di Interesse Biologico, del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Toiano, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trincone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Rosa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gambacorta
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lanzotti
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nicolaus
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Grant
mesh_terms: D001105:Archaea / Q000032:analysis*; D001419:Bacteria / Q000032:analysis*; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D003517:Cyclopentanes / Q000032:analysis*; D019605:Euryarchaeota / Q000032:analysis; D005990:Glycerol / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000032:analysis; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis*; D015394:Molecular Structure
chemical_list: D003517:Cyclopentanes; D008055:Lipids; D005990:Glycerol