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    <title>Hopanoid Biomarkers</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/concepts/hopanoid-biomarkers</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Hopanoid Biomarkers Hopanoids and their degradation products (hopanes) are among the most abundant molecular fossils in sedimentary rocks. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Hopanoid–Sterol Functional Analogy</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/concepts/hopanoid-sterol-analogy</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Hopanoid–Sterol Functional Analogy The hypothesis that Hopanoids serve as bacterial “sterol surrogates” dates to the late 1970s (Rohmer et al., 1979, PNAS; Ourisson et al., 1987, Annual Review of Microbiology), inspired by their shared pentacyclic/tetracyclic ring structures and common isoprenoidal ... ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lipidome Design Principles</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/concepts/lipidome-design-principles</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Lipidome Design Principles A central question of our research program: what are the minimal design rules for building an adaptive living membrane? Using [[methylobacterium-extorquens|Methylobacterium extorquens]] as a model with its simple ~27-species lipidome, we have identified several principles ... ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lipid Ordering</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/concepts/membrane-ordering</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Lipid Ordering Lipid ordering refers to the capacity of certain lipids — primarily polycyclic isoprenoids such as sterols and Hopanoids — to constrain the rotational freedom and lateral packing of lipids within a bilayer. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>RNA–Lipid Interactions</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/concepts/rna-lipid-interactions</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ RNA–Lipid Interactions RNA and lipids are two of the most ancient classes of biomolecules, yet their direct interactions have been largely overlooked. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Bacteriohopanepolyols (BHPs)</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/bacteriohopanepolyols</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Bacteriohopanepolyols (BHPs) Bacteriohopanepolyols are Hopanoids with extended polyhydroxylated or amino-functionalized C₅ side chains attached to the hopane ring system. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Crocosphaera watsonii</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/crocosphaera-watsonii</link>
    <guid>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/crocosphaera-watsonii</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Crocosphaera watsonii Crocosphaera watsonii (strain WH8501) is a unicellular marine cyanobacterium capable of nitrogen fixation (diazotrophy). ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Diplopterol</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/diplopterol</link>
    <guid>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/diplopterol</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Diplopterol Diplopterol is the simplest bacterial hopanoid, consisting of the pentacyclic hopane ring system with a single hydroxyl group at C-22. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Hopanoids</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/hopanoids</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Hopanoids Hopanoids are pentacyclic isoprenoidal membrane lipids produced by some bacteria. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>JCVI-Syn3A / JCVI-Syn3B (Minimal Cells)</title>
    <link>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/jcvi-syn3</link>
    <guid>https://saenz-lab.github.io/wiki/entities/jcvi-syn3</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ JCVI-Syn3A / JCVI-Syn3B JCVI-Syn3A and JCVI-Syn3B are genomically minimal cells derived from [[mycoplasma-mycoides|Mycoplasma mycoides]] subsp. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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