Membrane vs Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol - What's the difference?
membrane | sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol |
A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).
A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
(biochemistry) A glycerophospholipid that, along with galactosyldiacylglycerol, is an important component of membranes of chloroplasts and related organelles and one of the most abundant lipids in photosynthetic tissues.
* 2001 , Bertram Fraser-Reid (ed.), Glycoscience , p. 2085:
* 2009 , Hajime Wada & Norio Murata (eds.), Lipids in Photosynthesis , p. 2:
As nouns the difference between membrane and sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol
is that membrane is a flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal) while sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol is a glycerophospholipid that, along with galactosyldiacylglycerol, is an important component of membranes of chloroplasts and related organelles and one of the most abundant lipids in photosynthetic tissues.membrane
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(wikipedia membrane)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* neomembranesulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol
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Alternative forms
* sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerolNoun
(en noun)- Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol lipids have also been identified in phototrophic and a few other bacterial species.
- There are four major glyceroplipid components in the thylakoid membranes, namely, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG), digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG), sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol (SQDG) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG).
