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Keywords:
EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
MEMBRANE ADAPTATION
Des bicouches lipidiques stables au-delà du point d'ébullition de l'eau
Project Leader:
INSA LYON - MAP
INSA’s scientific leader:
Philippe OGER
Two major structural adaptations have been linked with the adaptation of the membrane to extreme pH and temperature environments: the synthesis of membrane-spanning, bipolar lipids and the binding of the glycerol moiety and the hydrocarbon chains by an ether bound. Bipolar lipids can form lipid monolayers, in which each polar headgroup points out on one side of the membrane. Monolayers are more rigid, less permeable and thermally more resistant than lipid bilayers.