title: Long-chain diols: a new class of membrane lipids from a thermophilic bacterium.
abstract: Glycerol-derived membrane lipids are essentially absent in the thermophilic bacterium Thermomicrobium roseum. A series of straight chain and internally methyl-branched 1,2-diols of carbon numbers C(18) to C(23) were found to replace glycerolipids in this bacterium. Fatty acids were present but were ester-linked to the diols or amide-linked to polar heads groups and not to glycerol. This thermophile has evolved the integration of diols as a novel approach for the construction of its cytoplasmic membrane.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Pond
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Langworthy
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Holzer