Kinetic characterization of mammalian ceramide synthases: Determination of Km values towards sphinganine

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 5289-5294

  Lahiri, Sujoy ^a   Lee, Hyunmi ^b   Mesicek, Judith ^b   Fuks, Zvi ^b   Haimovitz Friedman, Adriana ^b   Kolesnick, Richard N ^b   Futerman, Anthony H ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyl CoA; Assay; Ceramide; Lipid; Sphinganine; Sphingolipid

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; CERAMIDE; CERAMIDE SYNTHASE; SPHINGANINE; SPHINGOLIPID; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPHINGOSINE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA; SPHINGOIDEA;

EID: 35548948815     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.10.018     Document Type: Article

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