A fluorescent assay for ceramide synthase activity

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1701-1707

  Kim, Hyun Joon ^a   Qiao, Qiao ^a   Toop, Hamish D ^b   Morris, Jonathan C ^b   Don, Anthony S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ceramides; Enzymology enzyme mechanisms; Fatty acid transferase; Mass spectrometry; Sphingolipids

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 18 [(7 NITROBENZO[C][1,2,5]OXADIAZOL 4 YL)AMINO]OCTADECANE 1,3 DIOL; FINGOLIMOD; FLUORESCENT DYE; SPHINGANINE; SPHINGOSINE ACYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 84863809760     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.D025627     Document Type: Article

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