Making Sense of the Yeast Sphingolipid Pathway

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 428, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 4765-4775

  Megyeri, Márton ^a   Riezman, Howard ^b   Schuldiner, Maya ^a   Futerman, Anthony H ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

classification; nomenclature; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; sphingolipids; yeast

Indexed keywords

PHYTOSPHINGOSINE; SPHINGOLIPID;

CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EUKARYOTE; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPIDOMICS; LIPOGENESIS; MAMMAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCIENTIST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHINGOLIPID METABOLISM; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPHINGOLIPIDS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84996525926     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.09.010     Document Type: Review

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