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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2015

Sphingolipid metabolism and its role in the skeletal tissues.

Zohreh Khavandgar, Monzur Murshed

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Spatial Lipidomic Profiling of Mouse Joint Tissue Demonstrates the Essential Role of PHOSPHO1 in Growth Plate Homeostasis.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zohreh KhavandgarFaculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Monzur Murshed
McGill University · CAMontreal Children's Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The regulators affecting skeletal tissue formation and its maintenance include a wide array of molecules with very diverse functions. More recently, sphingolipids have been added to this growing list of regulatory molecules in the skeletal tissues. Sphingolipids are integral parts of various lipid membranes present in the cells and organelles. For a long time, these macromolecules were considered as inert structural elements. This view, however, has radically changed in recent years as sphingolipids are now recognized as important second messengers for signal-transduction pathways that affect cell growth, differentiation, stress responses and programmed death. In the current review, we discuss the available data showing the roles of various sphingolipids in three different skeletal cell types-chondrocytes in cartilage and osteoblasts and osteoclasts in bone. We provide an overview of the biology of sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 3 (SMPD3), an important regulator of sphingolipid metabolism in the skeleton. SMPD3 is localized in the plasma membrane and has been shown to cleave sphingomyelin to generate ceramide, a bioactive lipid second messenger, and phosphocholine, an essential nutrient. SMPD3 deficiency in mice impairs the mineralization in both cartilage and bone extracellular matrices leading to severe skeletal deformities. A detailed understanding of SMPD3 function may provide a novel insight on the role of sphingolipids in the skeletal tissues.

Indexed as

AnimalsCeramidesLysophospholipidsMuscle, SkeletalSignal TransductionSphingolipidsSphingomyelin PhosphodiesteraseSphingosineCeramidesLysophospholipidsSmpd3 protein, mouseSphingolipidsSphingomyelin PhosphodiesteraseSphingosinesphingosine 1-phosphate

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PMID25424644
PMCPMC11114007
OpenAlexW2011218913

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