An overview of sphingolipid metabolism: from synthesis to breakdown

CR Gault, LM Obeid, YA Hannun - Sphingolipids as signaling and …, 2010 - Springer
S phingolipids constitute a class of lipids defined by their eighteen carbon amino-alcohol
backbones which are synthesized in the ER from nonsphingolipid precursors. Modification …

Sphingosine-1-phosphate: an enigmatic signalling lipid

S Spiegel, S Milstien - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2003 - nature.com
The evolutionarily conserved actions of the sphingolipid metabolite, sphingosine-1-
phosphate (S1P), in yeast, plants and mammals have shown that it has important functions …

Lysophospholipid receptors: signaling and biology

I Ishii, N Fukushima, X Ye, J Chun - Annual review of …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Lysophospholipids (LPs), such as lysophosphatidic acid and sphingosine 1-
phosphate, are membrane-derived bioactive lipid mediators. LPs can affect fundamental …

Evidence in the Legionella pneumophila genome for exploitation of host cell functions and high genome plasticity

C Cazalet, C Rusniok, H Brüggemann, N Zidane… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, replicates as an
intracellular parasite of amoebae and persists in the environment as a free-living microbe …

Sphingosine kinase, sphingosine-1-phosphate, and apoptosis

M Maceyka, SG Payne, S Milstien, S Spiegel - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2002 - Elsevier
The sphingolipid metabolites ceramide (Cer), sphingosine (Sph), and sphingosine-1-
phosphate (S1P) play an important role in the regulation of cell proliferation, survival, and …

[HTML][HTML] Sphingosine kinases, sphingosine 1-phosphate, apoptosis and diseases

NC Hait, CA Oskeritzian, SW Paugh, S Milstien… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2006 - Elsevier
Sphingolipids are ubiquitous components of cell membranes and their metabolites ceramide
(Cer), sphingosine (Sph), and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) have important physiological …

Sphingosine 1-phosphate, a key cell signaling molecule

S Spiegel, S Milstien - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2002 - ASBMB
The bioactive sphingolipid metabolite sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), 1 formed by
phosphorylation of sphingosine catalyzed by sphingosine kinase (Fig. 1), is an important …

Mice deficient in sphingosine kinase 1 are rendered lymphopenic by FTY720

ML Allende, T Sasaki, H Kawai, A Olivera, Y Mi… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), a lipid signaling molecule that regulates many cellular
functions, is synthesized from sphingosine and ATP by the action of sphingosine kinase …

Lysophospholipids--receptor revelations

T Hla, MJ Lee, N Ancellin, JH Paik, MJ Kluk - Science, 2001 - science.org
Upon cell activation, membrane phospholipids are metabolized into potent lysophospholipid
(LP) mediators, such as sphingosine 1-phosphate and lysophosphatidic acid. LPs fulfill …

The control of the balance between ceramide and sphingosine-1-phosphate by sphingosine kinase: oxidative stress and the seesaw of cell survival and death

JR Van Brocklyn, JB Williams - … and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Sphingolipids are components of all eukaryotic cells that play important roles in a wide
variety of biological processes. Ceramides and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) are …