Table 4. Previous biochemical analyses of Enterococcus faecalis compared to the present study.

	Bao et al. (2012)	Mishra et al. (2012)	Tran et al. (2013)	Fozo et al. (2014)	This Study
Growth phase	Late stationary	Late stationary	Late stationary	Late stationary	Exponential, Late stationary
GPL
PG	+	+	+	-	+
CL	+	+	+	-	+
Lys-PG	-	+	+	-	+
Glycerolipids
DAG	-	-	-	-	+
TAG	-	-	-	-	+
DGDAG	+	-	-	-	+
GPDGDAG	-	+	+	-	+
Fatty acids	-	+	-	+	+ (acyl chains by MSMS)
Methodology	TLC & molybdenum, ninhydrin staining	TLC, GC-FAME & ESI-MSMS	TLC, ESI-MSMS	GC-FAME	TLC, ESI-MSMS
Resolution of molecular species	-	-	-	-	+
Quantification	-	-	-	-	+
Number of molecular species quantified by MRM	0	0	0	0	20