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Crucial role of alkaline sphingomyelinase in sphingomyelin digestion: a study on enzyme knockout mice.
Journal of lipid research - 1 Apr 2011
Zhang Yao, Cheng Yajun, Hansen Gert H, Niels-Christiansen Lise-Lotte, Koentgen Frank, Ohlsson Lena, Nilsson Ake, Duan Rui-Dong
Abstract excerpt
Alkaline sphingomyelinase (alk-SMase) hydrolyses sphingomyelin (SM) to ceramide in the gut. To evaluate the physiological importance of the enzyme, we generated alk-SMase knockout (KO) mice by the Cre-recombinase-Locus of X-over P1(Cre-LoxP) system and studied SM digestion. Both wild-type (WT) an...
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