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Why the Lipid Divide? Membrane Proteins as Drivers of the Split between the Lipids of the Three Domains of Life

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ConvertingEscherichia coliinto an archaebacterium with a hybrid heterochiral membrane

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Vesicle Self-Assembly of Monoalkyl Amphiphiles under the Effects of High Ionic Strength, Extreme pH, and High Temperature Environments

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The origin of heredity in protocells

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Phylogenomic analysis of lipid biosynthetic genes of Archaea shed light on the ‘lipid divide’

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Membrane Proteins Are Dramatically Less Conserved than Water-Soluble Proteins across the Tree of Life

(2016) Victor Sojo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolypeptoids – Micelles, Worms and Polymersomes

(2016) Corinna Fetsch et al.   Scientific Reports

The Archean Nickel Famine Revisited

(2015) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Prebiotic Vesicle Formation and the Necessity of Salts

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A Bioenergetic Basis for Membrane Divergence in Archaea and Bacteria

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Biosynthesis of archaeal membrane ether lipids

(2014) Samta Jain   Frontiers in Microbiology

Miller-Urey and Beyond: What Have We Learned About Prebiotic Organic Synthesis Reactions in the Past 60 Years?

(2013) Thomas M. McCollom   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Geranylgeranyl Reductase and Ferredoxin from Methanosarcina acetivorans Are Required for the Synthesis of Fully Reduced Archaeal Membrane Lipid in Escherichia coli Cells

(2013) K. Isobe et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Energy conservation via electron bifurcating ferredoxin reduction and proton/Na+ translocating ferredoxin oxidation

(2012) Wolfgang Buckel et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

Archaeal Phospholipid Biosynthetic Pathway Reconstructed inEscherichia coli

(2012) Takeru Yokoi et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Thermal Adaptation of the Archaeal and Bacterial Lipid Membranes

(2012) Yosuke Koga   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Stability of Heterochiral Hybrid Membrane Made of Bacterialsn-G3P Lipids and Archaealsn-G1P Lipids

(2011) Haruo Shimada et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Early Evolution of Membrane Lipids: How did the Lipid Divide Occur?

(2011) Yosuke Koga   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Coupling of ferredoxin and heterodisulfide reduction via electron bifurcation in hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea

(2011) A.-K. Kaster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polymersomes: nature inspired nanometer sized compartments

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Reconstruction of the archaeal isoprenoid ether lipid biosynthesis pathway in Escherichia coli through digeranylgeranylglyceryl phosphate

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Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

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