Current progress and future trends in mass spectrometry-based archaeal lipidomics

KP Law, CL Zhang - Organic geochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Archaea play pivotal roles in geochemical cycles in global ecosystems, but little is known
about the membrane functions of these organisms under different environmental conditions …

Characteristics and origin of intact polar lipids in soil organic matter

S Ding, M Lange, J Lipp, VF Schwab… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane lipids and their related acyl and/or alkyl moieties are important biomarkers of the
microbial community in environmental samples. Intact polar lipids, which are described by …

Giant sulfur bacteria (Beggiatoaceae) from sediments underlying the Benguela upwelling system host diverse microbiomes

BE Flood, DC Louw, AK Van der Plas, JV Bailey - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Due to their lithotrophic metabolisms, morphological complexity and conspicuous
appearance, members of the Beggiatoaceae have been extensively studied for more than …

Carbon oxidation state in microbial polar lipids suggests adaptation to hot spring temperature and redox gradients

GM Boyer, F Schubotz, RE Summons… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The influence of oxidation-reduction (redox) potential on the expression of biomolecules is a
topic of ongoing exploration in geobiology. In this study, we investigate the novel possibility …

Metabolic and ecological controls on the stable carbon isotopic composition of archaeal (isoGDGT and BDGT) and bacterial (brGDGT) lipids in wetlands and lignites

J Blewett, FJ Elling, BDA Naafs, L Kattein… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
The glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids of archaea and bacteria have been
extensively studied in both modern and ancient wetlands, but their specific biological …

Lipid biosynthesis of Nitrosopumilus maritimus dissected by lipid specific radioisotope probing (lipid-RIP) under contrasting ammonium supply

TW Evans, M Könneke, JS Lipp, RR Adhikari… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are among the most abundant microbes in the oceans
and are one of the major sources of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in the …

Intact polar lipidome and membrane adaptations of microbial communities inhabiting serpentinite-hosted fluids

KR Rempfert, EA Kraus, DB Nothaft, N Dildar… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The generation of hydrogen and reduced carbon compounds during serpentinization
provides sustained energy for microorganisms on Earth, and possibly on other …

A new and improved protocol for extraction of intact polar membrane lipids from archaea

TW Evans, FJ Elling, Y Li, A Pearson… - Organic Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of intact polar membrane lipids (IPLs) is central to investigations of the
physiology of archaea in cultures and their prevalence in environmental samples. IPLs are …

Intact ether lipids in trench sediments related to archaeal community and environmental conditions in the deepest ocean

Y Xu, W Wu, W Xiao, H Ge, Y Wei, X Yin… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Archaea play an important role in marine biogeochemical cycle; however, their phylogenetic
distribution and lipid composition in the hadal zone (6–11 km water depth) are poorly …

Assessing the carbon assimilation and production of benthic archaeal lipid biomarkers using lipid-RIP

TW Evans, S Coffinet, M Könneke, JS Lipp… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Distributional patterns of intact polar lipids (IPLs) suggest that archaea are abundant in
marine subsurface sediments. However, the production of archaeal lipids remains largely …