Jacob R. Winnikoff

Jun 27, 2024 | science.org | Krishnan K Mahadevan |Dawid Zyla |Jacob R. Winnikoff |Daniel Milshteyn

Editor’s summaryExtreme pressures thousands of feet deep in the ocean are sufficient to compress the conformation of the molecules that form biological membranes. Winnikoff et al. explored how comb jellies have adapted to such pressures. Sampling revealed that jellies from deep environments have abundant phospholipids that show negative curvature at low pressure but allow the formation of functional membranes at high pressure.