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Lipid Composition of the Model Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

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Encyclopedia of Lipidomics

Synonyms

Lipid droplet; Lipid bodies; Oil bodies; Triacylglycerols; Triacylglycerides; Triglycerides

Definitions

Oleaginous algae:

algae with a potential to produce more than 20 % of oil per dry weight

Diatoms:

unicellular photosynthetic microalgae which arose from a secondary endosymbiosis and whose cell walls contain silica

Pleomorphism:

cells occur in different sizes and different shapes

Phaeodactylum tricornutum is a marine diatom of the class Bacillariophyceae (Table 1). Diatoms are the main constituents of phytoplankton and thought to be responsible for one fifth of the global carbon fixation (Hildebrand et al. 2012). They are special because they harbor a combination of plant- and animal-like characteristics (Hildebrand et al. 2012; Liu and Benning 2013). This might be the case because they originate from a secondary endosymbiosis between a heterotrophic eukaryote and a red alga (Hildebrand et al. 2012; Falkowski et al. 2004; Hockin et al. 2012). Phaeodactylumis described as a...

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Abbreviations

ASQ:

20:5-acyl-sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol

DAG:

diacylglycerol

DGDG:

digalactosyldiacylglycerol

DGTA:

diacylglyceryl-hydroxy-methyl-N,N,N-trimethyl-β-alanine

DGTS:

diacylglycerol-N,N,N-trimethylhomoserine

MGDG:

monogalactosyldiacylglycerol

PA:

phosphatidic acid

PC:

phosphatidylcholine

PE:

phosphatidylethanolamine

PG:

phosphatidylglycerol

PI:

phosphatidylinositol

PS:

phosphatidylserine

SQDG:

sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol

TAG:

triacylglycerol

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Popko, J. (2016). Lipid Composition of the Model Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum . In: Wenk, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lipidomics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7864-1_127-1

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