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    an angiosperm, hopanoids have been found in plasma membranes of bacteria, lichens, bryophytes, ferns, tropical trees and fungi. Hopanoids have stable polycyclic...
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    in the human body. It is also an intermediate in the biosynthesis of hopanoids in many bacteria. Squalene is an important ingredient in some vaccine...
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    precursor for the formation of many triterpenoids, including bacterial hopanoids and eukaryotic sterols. By definition triterpenoids are triterpenes that...
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  • species of bacteria produce hopanoids, more recent studies estimate around 4% of bacteria have the ability to produce hopanoids. Several studies have used...
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    The rest of the aliphatic chain is non-polar. Cholesterol Ergosterol Hopanoids Hydroxysteroid Phytosterol Steroids Zoosterol "sterol (CHEBI:15889)"....
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    a variety of other chemical compounds which are collectively known as hopanoids. The first compound of the hopane family to be isolated and characterised...
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    VAMP proteins. Phytosterols, such as sitosterol and stigmasterol, and hopanoids serve a similar function in plants and prokaryotes. Homeoviscous adaptation...
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  • Rhodoplanes is a phototrophic genus of bacteria. Rhodoplanes produces hopanoids like diplopterol, tetrahymanol, 2-methyldiplopterol, 2-methyltetrahymanol...
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    Retigeric acid B is a hopanoids chemical compound isolated from Lobaria. Zhang HJ, Ou Y, Lou HX (June 2007). "[Studies on chemical constituents of Lobaria...
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    eukaryotes is conjectured – and the more-common pentacyclic triterpinoid hopanoid framework. Fungal steroids include the ergosterols, which are involved...
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    the hopanoids. These compounds share a common pentacyclic core with title compound hopane, yet they demonstrate great structural diversity. Hopanoids are...
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  • signaling pathway is hypothesized to be a bacterial regulatory pathway of hopanoids that are common lipid components in bacteria and are structural analogs...
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  • archaea. Terpenoid lipids are a group of lipids containing cholesterol, hopanoids, carotenoid, phytane, and bisphytane. Although terpenoids are the main...
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    \rightleftharpoons } hopan-22-ol SHC is important because its products, hopanoids, are very much like sterols in eukaryotes in that they condense lipid...
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  • However, many microbes do contain structurally related compounds called hopanoids which likely fulfill the same function. Unlike eukaryotes, bacteria can...
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  • on primordial hydrocarbons and die in that environment. For example, hopanoids are just parts of the bacterial cell wall present in oil as a contaminant...
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  • substances familiar to all in the form of cholesterol in our cells. He studied hopanoids in particular, which are found in sedimentary rock materials. He then...
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    molecular fossils that are often lipid biomarkers. Molecules like sterols and hopanoids, membrane lipids found in eukaryotes and bacteria, respectively, can be...
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    to the PETM warming. Evidence for this comes from a δ13C decrease in hopanoids from mire sediments, likely reflecting increased wetland methanogenesis...
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  • reduction of xylose to xylitol. Z. mobilis's plasma membrane contains hopanoids, pentacyclic compounds similar to eukaryotic sterols. This allows it to...
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  • she examined the production of a group of chemical compounds known as hopanoids. Welander has examined lipids in acid-loving archaea and how changes in...
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  • deoxygenation, nitrogen removal, and phosphorus recycling was created. Bacterial hopanoids indicate populations of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria were high during...
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  • Glycobacterial revolution: outer membrane with insertion of lipopolysaccharides, hopanoids, diaminopimelic acid, ToIC and TonB. [D] Phycobilin chromophores. [E]...
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  • Martin; Oppermann, Birte I.; Guyoneaud, Rémy; Michaelis, Walter (2009). "Hopanoid production byDesulfovibrio bastiniiisolated from oilfield formation water"...
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    Glycobacterial revolution: outer membrane with insertion of lipopolysaccharides, hopanoids, diaminopimelic acid, ToIC and TonB. [D] Phycobilin chromophores. [E]...
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  • Glycobacterial revolution: outer membrane with insertion of lipopolysaccharides, hopanoids, diaminopimelic acid, ToIC and TonB. [D] Phycobilin chromophores. [E]...
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  • Hodgkin–Huxley model Homeoviscous adaptation Homologous desensitization Hopanoids Howard Berg Hugh Herr Human leg Human skeletal changes due to bipedalism...
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    22-hopanediol was identified. This compound, commonly known as zeorin, is a hopanoid with potent inhibitory activity against the enzyme protein tyrosine phosphatase...
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  • distribution of hopanoid C-2 methyltransferase in the bacterial domain, and interpret their findings as indicating that Alphaproteobacteria evolved hopanoid C-2 methyltransferase...
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  • cofactor biosynthesis protein HmdB (note unusual CX5CX2C motif) HpnR - hopanoid C-3 methylase (lipid biosynthesis - 3-methylhopanoid production) HydE -...
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