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SUBMITTER: Gallo C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7060231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gallo Carmela C Landi Simone S d'Ippolito Giuliana G Nuzzo Genoveffa G Manzo Emiliano E Sardo Angela A Fontana Angelo A
Scientific reports 20200306 1
Diatoms are ubiquitous microalgae that have developed remarkable metabolic plasticity and gene diversification. Here we report the first elucidation of the complete biosynthesis of sterols in the lineage. The study has been carried out on the bloom-forming species Skeletonema marinoi and Cyclotella cryptica that synthesise an ensemble of sterols with chemotypes of animals (cholesterol and desmosterol), plants (dihydrobrassicasterol and 24-methylene cholesterol), algae (fucosterol) and marine inv ...[more]