The influence of bacterial lipid composition variation on transporter function and folding.

细菌种类的多样性是巨大的，而存在于其膜中的脂质的多样性和分布突出了这种多样性。脂类是疏水化学物质，可以在链长、饱和度、分支和头基电荷等方面发生变化；所有这些都会导致膜厚度、净电荷和流动性的变化。脂质变化也可以作为一种分类和区分细菌种类的方法。尽管有这些知识，我们对脂质如何影响细菌膜功能的理解仍然知之甚少。

Bacterial species diversity is vast and the wide variety and distribution of lipids that reside in their membranes highlights this diversity. Lipids are hydrophobic chemicals that can vary in chain length, saturation, branching and head group charge; all of which result in changes in membrane thickness, net charge and fluidity. Lipid variation has can also be used as a way to classify and distinguish bacterial species from one another. Despite this knowledge, our understanding of how lipids influence the function of bacterial membranes remains poorly understood.