Regulation of lipid synthesis in Bradyrhizobium japonicum: low oxygen concentrations trigger phosphatidylinositol biosynthesis.
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Lowering oxygen tension in free-living Bradyrhizobium japonicum resulted in a dramatic switch of membrane chemistry in which phosphatidylcholine, the predominant lipid in aerated cultures, was no longer synthesized and phosphatidylethanolamine became the major lipid. Besides this change, phosphatidylinositol, a typical plant lipid rarely found in bacteria, was also synthesized.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Applied and environmental microbiology
دوره 64 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998