Cell membranes control how life interacts with its environment and adapts to its changes, and lipids play a key role in determining membrane properties.
Scientists used quantitative shotgun lipidomics to study how mycoplasma and minimal cells adapt to different temperatures. Their findings show that lipid levels follow a universal logarithmic distribution across both eukaryotes and bacteria, with similar levels of lipid adjustments for adaptation, regardless of the complexity of the lipidome of the organism.
Analyzing lipid features revealed that changes in the acyl chains of specific lipid head groups are a hallmark of lipidome adaptation.
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