Glycerol 1-phosphate

sn-Glycerol 1-phosphate

Names
Preferred IUPAC name

(2S)-2,3-Dihydroxypropyl dihydrogen phosphate

Other names

(S)-2,3-dihydroxypropyl dihydrogen phosphate
1,2,3-propanetriol, 1-(dihydrogen phosphate), (2S)-
L-glycerol 1-phosphate
D-glycerol 3-phosphate
D-α-glycerophosphate
D-α-phosphoglycerol
glycero-1-phosphate
O-phosphonoglycerol
1-phosphoglycerol[1]
L-glycerol 1-phosphate
D-glycerol 3-phosphate
D-α-glycerophosphoric acid[1]

Identifiers

CAS Number

* 5746-57-6 Y

3D model (JSmol)

* Interactive image

MeSH | Alpha-glycerophosphoric+acid

PubChem CID

* 439276

UNII |

* 196623779E Y

SMILES

* C([C@@H](COP(=O)(O)O)O)O

Properties

Chemical formula

| C3H7O6P
Molar mass | 170.057 g·mol−1
Appearance  | colorless
Related compounds

Related organophosphates

| Glycerol 2-phosphate
Glycerol 3-phosphate

Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

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sn-Glycerol 1-phosphate[lower-alpha 1] is the conjugate base of a phosphoric ester of glycerol. It is a component of ether lipids, which are common for archaea.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Biosynthesis and metabolism
* 2 Lipid divide
* 3 See also
* 4 Notes

## Biosynthesis and metabolism

Glycerol 1-phosphate is synthesized by reducing dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP), a glycolysis intermediate, with sn-glycerol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase.[3] DHAP and thus glycerol 1-phosphate is also possible to be synthesized from amino acids and citric acid cycle intermediates via gluconeogenesis pathway.

\+ NAD(P)H + H+ →  \+ NAD(P)+

Glycerol 1-phosphate is a starting material for de novo synthesis of ether lipids, such as those derived from archaeol and caldarchaeol. It is first geranylgeranylated on its sn-3 position by a cytosolic enzyme, phosphoglycerol geranylgeranyltransferase. A second geranylgeranyl group is then added on the sn-2 position making unsaturated archaetidic acid.[4]

## Lipid divide

Organisms other than archaea, i.e. bacteria and eukaryotes, use the enantiomer, glycerol 3-phosphate for producing their cell membranes. The fact that archaea use the flipped chirality compared to these two groups is termed a lipid divide.[2] As of 2021, biologists still do not know how the lipid divide happened.[5]

## See also

* List of unsolved problems in biology

## Notes

1. ↑ This article uses stereospecific numbering where stereoconfiguration is not explicitly specified.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 G. P. Moss, ed. "Nomenclature of Phosphorus-Containing Compounds of Biochemical Importance". http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/misc/phospho.html. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Caforio, Antonella; Driessen, Arnold J.M. (2017). "Archaeal phospholipids: Structural properties and biosynthesis". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids 1862 (11): 1325–1339. doi:10.1016/j.bbalip.2016.12.006. PMID 28007654. https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/49238927/1_s2.0_S1388198116303432_main.pdf.
3. ↑ Nishihara & Koga (1995). "sn-Glycerol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum: key enzyme in biosynthesis of the enantiomeric glycerophosphate backbone of ether phospholipids of archaebacteria". J. Biochem. 117 (5): 933–935. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a124822. PMID 8586635.
4. ↑ Koga & Morii (2007). "Biosynthesis of ether-type polar lipids in archaea and evolutionary considerations". Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 71 (1): 97–120. doi:10.1128/mmbr.00033-06. PMID 17347520.
5. ↑ Sohlenkamp, C (July 2021). "Crossing the lipid divide.". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 297 (1): 100859. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100859. PMID 34097872.

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