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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Calditol-linked membrane lipids are required for acid tolerance in

Zhirui Zeng, Xiao-Lei Liu, Jeremy H Wei, Roger E Summons, Paula V Welander

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Diversity of Archaea.Progress in molecular and subcellular biology · 2026
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  10. Bilayer-Forming Lipids Enhance Archaeal Monolayer Membrane Stability.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  19. Membrane Adaptations and Cellular Responses ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  20. Membrane lipid and expression responses ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zhirui ZengDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0001-9905-8955
Xiao-Lei LiuDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019.
Jeremy H WeiDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Roger E SummonsDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-7144-8537
Paula V WelanderDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305; welander@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USUniversity of Oklahoma · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Archaea have many unique physiological features of which the lipid composition of their cellular membranes is the most striking. Archaeal ether-linked isoprenoidal membranes can occur as bilayers or monolayers, possess diverse polar head groups, and a multiplicity of ring structures in the isoprenoidal cores. These lipid structures are proposed to provide protection from the extreme temperature, pH, salinity, and nutrient-starved conditions that many archaea inhabit. However, many questions remain regarding the synthesis and physiological role of some of the more complex archaeal lipids. In this study, we identify a radical

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Stress, PhysiologicalArchaeal ProteinsGenome, ArchaealHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMembrane LipidsSulfolobus acidocaldariusArchaeal ProteinsMembrane LipidscalditolGDGTglycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethersradical SAMSulfolobus

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PMID30518563
PMCPMC6305003
OpenAlexW2902318452

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