Ceramides are a family of waxy lipid molecules. A ceramide is composed of sphingosine and a fatty acid joined by an amide bond. Ceramides are found in...

solution but, rather, exist bound to special carrier proteins in serum. Ceramide (Cer) can be generated by the breakdown of sphingomyelin (SM) by sphingomyelinases...

Ceramide-activated protein phosphatases (CAPPs) are a group of enzymes that are activated by the lipid second messenger ceramide. Known CAPPs include members...

impact on neural tissue. A sphingolipid with a terminal hydroxyl group is a ceramide. Other common groups bonded to the terminal oxygen atom include phosphocholine...

In enzymology, a ceramide phosphoethanolamine synthase (EC 2.7.8.-) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction a ceramide + a phosphoethanolamine...

Krabbe disease (KD) (also known as globoid cell leukodystrophy or galactosylceramide lipidosis) is a rare and often fatal lysosomal storage disease that...

Ceramide glucosyltransferase (or glucosylceramide synthase) is a glucosyltransferase enzyme involved in the production of glucocerebroside. It is classified...

\rightleftharpoons } ADP + ceramide 1-phosphate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and ceramide, whereas its two products are ADP and ceramide-1-phosphate...

sphingomyelin ceramide-phosphohydrolase. These enzymes catalyse the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin, resulting in the formation of ceramide 1-phosphate and...

See Sphingolipid Ceramide phosphorylcholine (Sphingomyelin) (SPH) Ceramide phosphorylethanolamine (Sphingomyelin) (Cer-PE) Ceramide phosphoryllipid Phospholipids...