Partial purification and characterization of sphingosine N- acyltransferase (ceramide synthase) from bovine liver mitochondrion-rich fraction

Lipids

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 601-605

  Shimeno, Hiroshi ^a   Soeda, Shinji ^a   Sakamoto, Masahiko ^a   Kouchi, Takeshi ^a   Kowakame, Takashi ^a   Kihara, Taro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; SPHINGANINE; SPHINGOSINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; LIVER HOMOGENATE; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACYL COENZYME A; ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CERAMIDES; ENZYME STABILITY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOLUBILITY; SPHINGOSINE; SPHINGOSINE N-ACYLTRANSFERASE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 0031800791     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-998-0246-2     Document Type: Article

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