Sphingosine-1-phosphate: An enigmatic signalling lipid

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-407

  Spiegel, Sarah ^a   Milstien, Sheldon ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LIPID; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; SPHINGOSINE KINASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL FATE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNITY; LIPID METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM; CELL MOVEMENT; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; LIPID METABOLISM; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, LYSOPHOSPHOLIPID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHINGOLIPIDS; SPHINGOSINE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038218405     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1103     Document Type: Review

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