sphingoid
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Sphingoid — Sphin|go|id [↑ Sphing u. ↑ oid], das; s, e: Gruppenbez. für Sphinganine u. Sphingenine mit beliebigen Kettenlängen, Substituenten u. Doppelbindungen … Universal-Lexikon
Lipid — Structures of some common lipids. At the top are oleic acid[1] and cholesterol.[2] The middle structure is a triglyceride composed of oleoyl, stearoyl, and palmitoyl chains at … Wikipedia
Ceramide — General chemical structure of sphingolipids. When the substituent (R) in this structure is H, the resulting molecule is a ceramide … Wikipedia
Ganglioside — is a molecule composed of a glycosphingolipid (ceramide and oligosaccharide) with one or more sialic acids (e.g. n acetylneuraminic acid, NANA) linked on the sugar chain. The 60+ known gangliosides differ mainly in the position and number of NANA … Wikipedia
Sphingosine kinase — protein Name= sphingosine kinase 1 caption= width= HGNCid=11240 Symbol=SPHK1 AltSymbols= EntrezGene=8877 OMIM=603730 RefSeq=NM 182965 UniProt=Q9NYA1 PDB= ECnumber= Chromosome=17 Arm=q Band=25.2 LocusSupplementaryData=protein Name=sphingosine… … Wikipedia
SPTLC1 — Serine palmitoyltransferase, long chain base subunit 1, also known as SPTLC1, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: SPTLC1 serine palmitoyltransferase, long chain base subunit 1| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene… … Wikipedia
SPTLC2 — Serine palmitoyltransferase, long chain base subunit 2, also known as SPTLC2, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: SPTLC2 serine palmitoyltransferase, long chain base subunit 2| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene… … Wikipedia
glycosphingolipid — noun a lipid that contains at least one monosaccharide unit and either a sphingoid or a ceramide See Also: glycosylsphingoid, glycosylceramide … Wiktionary
ceramide — Generic term for a class of sphingolipid, N acyl (fatty acid) derivatives of a long chain base or sphingoid such as sphinganine or sphingosine; e.g., CH3(CH2)12CH=CH CHOH CH(CH2OH) NH CO R … Medical dictionary
cerebroside — A class of glycosphingolipid; specifically, a monoglycosylceramide (ceramide monosaccharide), the sugar being attached to the CHOH moiety of the sphingoid. Cerebrosides are found in the myelin sheath of nerve tissue; e.g., kerasin, nervon,… … Medical dictionary
