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. 2020 Sep 14;6(9):e04943. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04943

Table 3.

Virus lipid representative molecules, their chemical formulas and abundances. The abundances are mole fractions of the total lipid content and were taken from (Cooper, 2000).

Class Representative name Formula Mole fraction
Phosphatidylcholine 1-Oleoyl-2-palmitoylphosphatidylcholine C42H82O8NP 17%
Phosphatidylserine Phosphatidylserine (18:0/18:1) (PubChem CID: 9547087) C42H79O10NP 6%
Phosphatidylethanolamine Phophatidylethanolamine(15:0/20:0) (ChemSpider ID: 394115) C40H80O8NP 16%
Sphingomyelin C18 Sphingomyelin C41H85O6N2P 17%
Glycolipids Stearoyl-glucose C24H46O7 2%
Cholesterol Cholesterol C27H46O 45%