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<i>Toxoplasma</i> ceramide synthases: a curious case of gene duplication, divergence and key functionality

2022-01-06

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Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate, intracellular eukaryotic apicomplexan protozoan parasite that can cause foetal damage and abortion in both animals and humans. Sphingolipids have indispensable functions as signaling molecules and are essential and ubiquitous components of eukaryotic membranes that are both synthesized and scavenged by the Apicomplexa. Ceramide is the precursor for all sphingolipids, and here we r...

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Literature Corpus work: e87467eb-bf21-5766-9c41-af410706a630
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.05.475179

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