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Phenolic lipids: Phenolic lipids are secondary or specialized metabolites with a phenolic head group and aliphatic side chain.

Structure and Occurrence

Phenolic lipids are secondary or specialized metabolites that are not essential for cell growth but can assist in the survival of abiotic and biotic stress to which the producing organisms may be exposed to. This term comprises rather diverse single-ring phenols with a hydrophobic aliphatic non-isoprenoid side chain, mostly C11–C17, often occurring in mixtures of homologues. In terms of chemistry, phenolic lipids can be regarded as derivatives of mono- and dihydroxy phenols, specifically catechol, resorcinol, and hydroquinone derivatives (Fig. 1).

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Structural diversity of phenolic lipids

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Coenzyme A

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  1. Department of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, D-37077, Goettingen, Germany

    Franz Hadacek

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Hadacek, F. (2017). Phenolic Lipids in Plants: Functional Diversity of. In: Wenk, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lipidomics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7864-1_136-1

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