Title of article
Reinforcing effect of bi- and tri-cyclopolyprenols on ‘primitive’ membranes made of polyprenyl phosphates
Author/Authors
Nigel Ribeiro، نويسنده , , Stéphane Streiff، نويسنده , , Denis Heissler، نويسنده , , Mourad Elhabiri، نويسنده , , Anne Marie Albrecht-Gary، نويسنده , , Michiko Atsumi، نويسنده , , Mari Gotoh، نويسنده , , Laurent Désaubry، نويسنده , , Yoichi Nakatani، نويسنده , , Guy Ourisson، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
هفته نامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
13
From page
3395
To page
3407
Abstract
Cholesterol plays the role of membrane reinforcer in eukaryotes, whereas hopanoids play the same role in bacteria. Which components could have reinforced ‘primitive’ membranes? We describe here an efficient biomimetic synthesis of bi- and tri-cyclopolyprenols and demonstrate that these compounds reinforce the membranes of polyprenyl phosphate, which we speculated as ‘primitive’ membranes.
Keywords
Lipids , Biomimetic synthesis , Terpenes , Membranes
Journal title
Tetrahedron
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
Tetrahedron
Record number
1090587
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