Inositol derivatives: Evolution and functions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-161

  Michell, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAETIDYLINOSITOL; CERAMIDE PHOSPHORYL 1 INOSITOL; GENTOBIOSYLCALDARCHAETIDYLINOSITOL; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; INOSITOL DERIVATIVE; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; LIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; PYROPHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL MEMBRANE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INOSITOL; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHOSPHORYLATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 38549132277     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2334     Document Type: Review

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