Identification of a glycosphingolipid transfer protein GLTP1 in Arabidopsis thaliana

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3421-3437

  West, Gun ^b   Viitanen, Lenita ^b   Alm, Christina ^c   Mattjus, Peter ^b   Salminen, Tiina A ^b   Edqvist, Johan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ceramide; GLTP; Glycolipids; Lipid transfer; Sphingolipids

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; CERAMIDE DERIVATIVE; CERAMIDE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 1; LACTOSYLCERAMIDE; LEUCINE; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN VARIANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, CD; ARABIDOPSIS; BORON COMPOUNDS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; HUMANS; LACTOSYLCERAMIDES; LIPIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 44949195796     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06498.x     Document Type: Article

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