“…At first, this peculiar lipid is found in the mitochondrial inner membrane, the chloroplast, the hydrogenosomes or the cytoplasmic membrane of prokaryotes (Depalo et al, 2004;de Andrade Rosa et al, 2006;Ventrella et al, 2007;Corcelli, 2009;. CL has also the ability to interact with a wide variety of membrane proteins in eukaryotes, most of them being related to oxidative phosphorylation or photophosphorylation, thereby modulating their catalytic activities and/or providing stability (Fry and Green, 1980;Yu and Yu, 1980;Poore and Ragan, 1982;Eble et al, 1990;Robinson et al, 1990;Schagger et al, 1990;Hayer-Hartl et al, 1992;Robinson, 1993;Beyer and Nuscher, 1996;Gomez and Robinson, 1999;Sedlak and Robinson, 1999;Depalo et al, 2004;Ventrella et al, 2007). In prokaryotes, CL has also been shown to restore the activity of a number of purified respiratory complexes such as the NADH dehydrogenase (Dancey and Shapiro, 1977;Esfahani et al, 1977;Thomson and Shapiro, 1981), the lactate dehydrogenase (Tanaka et al, 1976;Esfahani et al, 1977;Kimura and Futai, 1978), the succinate dehydrogenase (Esfahani et al, 1977;Reddy and Weber, 1986), the cytochrome bo 3 ubiquinol oxidase (Kita et al, 1984) or the nitrate reductase A (Arias-Cartin et al, 2011).…”