Extended Data Fig. 3. Lipid comparison of the ΔBT_1524 strain compared to iSPT.
TLC of lipid standards and Folch (non-acidic) lipid extractions from iSPT and ΔBT_1524 strains of BT. Lanes 1–8, left to right: LPC = 16:0 lyso-phosphatidylcholine; PI-DAG = 16:0 phosphatidylinositol; PC = 16:0 phosphatidylcholine; CPE = ceramide phosphoethanolamine; PE = egg yolk phosphatidylethanolamine; CL = cardiolipin (from bovine heart); Sa = d18:0 sphinganine; Cer = d18:1/18:0 ceramide. Following the dashed white line, in lanes 9–10, are iSPT BT lipid extracts from cells grown with 0 or 100 ng/mL aTC induction of SPT. In the final two lanes (11–12) are lipid extracts from ΔBT_1524 BT. “A” and “B” refer to independently generated knockout strains, both confirmed by Sanger sequencing. The retention factors for inositol lipids (phosphatidylinositol “PI-DAG” and phosphoinositol dihydroceramide “PI-DHC”) are indicated by labels to the right of the figure.