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Diversity and distribution of a key sulpholipid biosynthetic gene in marine microbial assemblages.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2014
Villanueva Laura, Bale Nicole, Hopmans Ellen C, Schouten Stefan, Damsté Jaap S Sinninghe
Abstract excerpt
Sulphoquinovosyldiacylglycerols (SQDG) are polar sulphur-containing membrane lipids, whose presence has been related to a microbial strategy to adapt to phosphate deprivation. In this study, we have targeted the sqdB gene coding the uridine 5'-diphosphate-sulphoquinovose (UDP-SQ) synthase involved in the SQDG biosynthetic pathway to assess potential microbial sources of SQDGs in the marine environment. The...
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