ICYMI: Last week in Weird Molecules of the Dark Metabolome, researchers at Tohoku U reported that this wild, crown-shaped sulfur allotrope is abundant in mammalian lipid droplets. They think perhaps it's made when glutathione dimer GSSG becomes GSSSSSSSG and loops up.
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Scientists spy a crown-shaped sulfur ring in mammalian cells
The allotrope cyclo-octasulfur may help buffer lipid oxidation