Article
Intracellular trafficking of ceramide by ceramide transfer protein.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences - 1 Jan 2010
Hanada Kentaro
Abstract excerpt
The transport and sorting of lipids are fundamental to membrane biogenesis. In the synthesis of sphingolipids in mammalian cells, ceramide is newly produced at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and transported from the ER to the trans Golgi regions, where it is converted to sphingomyelin. Ceramide transfer protein (CERT) mediates the ER-to-Golgi trafficking of ceramide. It has been suggested that CERT extracts...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Transport
- Ceramides
- Humans
- Intracellular Space
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
