TY  - JOUR
A1  - Freisleben, Hans-Joachim
T1  - The Main (Glyco) Phospholipid (MPL) of Thermoplasma acidophilum
T2  - International journal of molecular sciences
N2  - The main phospholipid (MPL) of Thermoplasma acidophilum DSM 1728 was isolated, purified and physico-chemically characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)/differential thermal analysis (DTA) for its thermotropic behavior, alone and in mixtures with other lipids, cholesterol, hydrophobic peptides and pore-forming ionophores. Model membranes from MPL were investigated; black lipid membrane, Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer, and liposomes. Laboratory results were compared to computer simulation. MPL forms stable and resistant liposomes with highly proton-impermeable membrane and mixes at certain degree with common bilayer-forming lipids. Monomeric bacteriorhodopsin and ATP synthase from Micrococcus luteus were co-reconstituted and light-driven ATP synthesis measured. This review reports about almost four decades of research on Thermoplasma membrane and its MPL as well as transfer of this research to Thermoplasma species recently isolated from Indonesian volcanoes.
KW  - Thermoplasma acidophilum
KW  - Thermoplasma volcanium
KW  - tetraether lipid
KW  - main phospholipid
KW  - black lipid membrane
KW  - Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer
KW  - liposomes
KW  - proton permeability
KW  - bacteriorhodopsin reconstitution
KW  - light-driven ATP synthesis
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54446
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-544460
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 20
IS  - 5217
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -