Role of endosomal membrane lipids and NPC2 in cholesterol transfer and membrane fusion

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1747-1760

  Abdul Hammed, Misbaudeen ^a,b   Breiden, Bernadette ^a   Adebayo, Matthew A ^a,b   Babalola, Jonathan O ^b   Schwarzmann, Günter ^a   Sandhoff, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Ceramide; Late endosomes; Niemann Pick disease type 2 protein; Sphingolipid activator proteins; Sphingomyelin

Indexed keywords

BIS(MONOACYLGLYCERO)PHOSPHATE; CERAMIDE; CHOLESTEROL; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; GANGLIOSIDE GM3; LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE PROTEIN 2; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN NPC2; SPHINGOLIPID ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN; STREPTAVIDIN; SULFATIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIS(MONOACYLGLYCERYL)PHOSPHATE; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPID; MONOACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENDOSOME; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID VESICLE; LIPOGENESIS; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CERAMIDES; CHOLESTEROL; ENDOSOMES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIPOSOMES; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MONOGLYCERIDES; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES; SAPOSINS; SPHINGOMYELINS;

EID: 77953493778     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M003822     Document Type: Article

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