Browsing by Author "Nudel, Berta Clara"

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Incomplete sterols and hopanoids pathways in ciliates: Gene loss and acquisition during evolution as a source of biosynthetic genes

Tomazic, Mariela Luján; Poklépovich Caride, Tomás Javier; Nudel, Berta Clara; Nusblat, Alejandro David (Elsevier, 2014-05)

Polycyclic triterpenoids, such as sterols and hopanoids, are essential components of plasmatic membrane in eukaryotic organisms. Although it is generally assumed that ciliates do not synthesize sterols, and many of them ...