Sphingolipids are a class of lipids containing a backbone of sphingoid bases, which are a set of aliphatic amino alcohols that includes sphingosine. They...
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Prosaposin (redirect from Sphingolipid activator proteins)
cleavage products: saposins A, B, C, and D. Saposin is an acronym for Sphingolipid Activator PrO[S]teINs. Each domain of the precursor protein is approximately...
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with an unsaturated hydrocarbon chain, which forms a primary part of sphingolipids, a class of cell membrane lipids that include sphingomyelin, an important...
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bilayer. Contrary to previous assumptions that ceramides and other sphingolipids found in cell membrane were purely supporting structural elements, ceramide...
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ORMDL1 (redirect from Ormdl sphingolipid biosynthesis regulator 1)
ORMDL sphingolipid biosynthesis regulator 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ORMDL1 gene. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000128699 – Ensembl...
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Delta8-fatty-acid desaturase (redirect from Delta8-sphingolipid desaturase)
Delta8-fatty-acid desaturase (EC 1.14.19.4, Delta8-sphingolipid desaturase, EFD1, BoDES8, SLD, Delta8 fatty acid desaturase, Delta8-desaturase) is an enzyme...
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sphingosine backbone. Alternatively, this sphingosine-derived lipid (sphingolipid) can be synthesized from scratch (de novo) by the enzymes serine palmitoyl...
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Sphinganine C4-monooxygenase (redirect from Sphingolipid C4-hydroxylase)
Sphinganine C4-monooxygenase (EC 1.14.13.169, sphingolipid C4-hydroxylase, SUR2 (gene), SBH1 (gene), SBH2 (gene)) is an enzyme with systematic name sphinganine...
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Palmitoyl-CoA (section Sphingolipid biosynthesis)
Palmitoyl-CoA is also the starting substrate, along with serine, for sphingolipid biosynthesis. Palmitoyl CoA and serine participate in a condensation...
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biologist, biochemist, and clinician. He is known for the discovery that sphingolipids have signaling functions. Yusuf Awni Hannun was born in Saudi Arabia...
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