Phospholipids play multiple roles in bacterial cells. These are the establishment of the permeability barrier, provision of the environment for many enzyme and transporter proteins, and they influence membrane-related processes such as protein export and DNA replication. The lipid synthetic pathway also provides precursors for protein modification and for the synthesis of other molecules. This review concentrates on the phospholipid synthetic pathway and discusses recent data on the synthesis and function of phospholipids mainly in the bacterium Escherichia coli.

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细菌膜脂：我们站在哪里？

磷脂在细菌细胞中起多种作用。这些是通透性屏障的建立，为许多酶和转运蛋白提供了环境，并且它们影响与膜相关的过程，例如蛋白质输出和DNA复制。脂质合成途径还提供了用于蛋白质修饰和其他分子合成的前体。这篇综述集中于磷脂的合成途径，并讨论了主要在细菌大肠杆菌中有关磷脂的合成和功能的最新数据。