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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Subunit composition of the mammalian serine-palmitoyltransferase defines the spectrum of straight and methyl-branched long-chain bases.

Museer A Lone, Andreas J Hülsmeier, Essa M Saied, Gergely Karsai, Christoph Arenz, Arnold von Eckardstein, Thorsten Hornemann

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Museer A LoneInstitute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich-8091, Switzerland; museerahmad.lone@usz.ch thorsten.hornemann@usz.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-9710-775X
Andreas J HülsmeierInstitute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich-8091, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6987-8979
Essa M SaiedInstitute for Chemistry, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-7342-6200
Gergely KarsaiInstitute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich-8091, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6840-682X
Christoph ArenzInstitute for Chemistry, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7613-9437
Arnold von EckardsteinInstitute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich-8091, Switzerland.
Thorsten HornemannInstitute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich-8091, Switzerland; museerahmad.lone@usz.ch thorsten.hornemann@usz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-4218-1087
University of Zurich · CHHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DESuez Canal University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sphingolipids (SLs) are chemically diverse lipids that have important structural and signaling functions within mammalian cells. SLs are commonly defined by the presence of a long-chain base (LCB) that is normally formed by the conjugation of l-serine and palmitoyl-CoA. This pyridoxal 5-phosphate (PLP)-dependent reaction is mediated by the enzyme serine-palmitoyltransferase (SPT). However, SPT can also metabolize other acyl-CoAs, in the range of C

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AnimalsCell LineGene Knockout TechniquesHumansMiceSerine C-PalmitoyltransferaseSphingolipidsSphingosineSubstrate SpecificitySerine C-PalmitoyltransferaseSphingolipidsSphingosinelong-chain baseomega-3-methyl-sphingosineserine-palmitoyltransferase

Identifiers

PMID32576697
PMCPMC7355037
OpenAlexW3036226672

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