enzymology, a ceramide kinase, also abbreviated as CERK, (EC 2.7.1.138) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction: ATP + ceramide ⇌ {\displaystyle...

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...

be attached to ceramide (phosphorylation) by the enzyme, ceramide kinase. It is also possible to regenerate sphingomyelin from ceramide by accepting a...

subsequently has several fates. It may be phosphorylated by ceramide kinase to form ceramide-1-phosphate. Alternatively, it may be glycosylated by glucosylceramide...

OSH1 and YHR073w. Ceramide kinase, a lipid kinase that phosphorylates ceramides to ceramide-1-phosphate. G protein receptor kinases (GRK) of GRK2 subfamily...

"Cannabinoids protect astrocytes from ceramide-induced apoptosis through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/protein kinase B pathway". The Journal of Biological...

energy sensor" AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), the O-GlcNAc transferase enzyme (OGT), and the pro-apoptotic kinase ROCK1. RNA phase transitions driven...

(sphinganine), acylated to dihydroceramide and finally oxidized by FAD to ceramide. Sphingosine is then solely formed via degradation of sphingolipid in the...

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

Van Veldhoven PP (Feb 2006). "Further characterization of mammalian ceramide kinase: substrate delivery and (stereo)specificity, tissue distribution, and...