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ArticleJournal of lipid research2021

ATP-binding cassette transporters mediate differential biosynthesis of glycosphingolipid species.

Monique Budani, Christiane Auray-Blais, Clifford Lingwood

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Article in Journal of lipid research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Central Roles of Glucosylceramide in Driving Cancer Pathogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  11. Role of Globotriaosylceramide in Physiology and Pathology.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Monique BudaniDivision of Molecular Medicine, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Christiane Auray-BlaisDivision of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Clifford LingwoodDivision of Molecular Medicine, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: cling@sickkids.on.ca.
Hospital for Sick Children · CAUniversité de Sherbrooke · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cytosolic-oriented glucosylceramide (GlcCer) synthase is enigmatic, requiring nascent GlcCer translocation to the luminal Golgi membrane to access glycosphingolipid (GSL) anabolic glycosyltransferases. The mechanism by which GlcCer is flipped remains unclear. To investigate the role of GlcCer-binding partners in this process, we previously made cleavable, biotinylated, photoreactive GlcCer analogs in which the reactive nitrene was closely apposed to the GlcCer head group, while maintaining a C16-acyl chain. GlcCer-binding protein specificity was validated for both photoprobes. Using one probe, XLB, here we identified ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters ABCA3, ABCB4, and ABCB10 as unfractionated microsomal GlcCer-binding proteins in DU-145 prostate tumor cells. siRNA knockdown (KD) of these transporters differentially blocked GSL synthesis assessed in toto and via metabolic labeling. KD of ABCA3 reduced acid/neutral GSL levels, but increased those of LacCer, while KD of ABCB4 preferentially reduced neutral GSL levels, and KD of ABCB10 reduced levels of both neutral and acidic GSLs. Depletion of ABCA12, implicated in GlcCer transport, preferentially decreased neutral GSL levels, while ABCB1 KD preferentially reduced gangliosides, but increased neutral GSL Gb

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ATP-Binding Cassette TransportersGlycosphingolipidsHumansTumor Cells, CulturedATP-Binding Cassette TransportersGlycosphingolipidsABC transporterGlcCer poolsGlcCer synthaseglucosylceramide flippaseglycosphingolipidGSL anabolismLacCermetabolic channelingmetabolic labelingphotoprobes

Identifiers

PMID34597626
PMCPMC8569594
OpenAlexW3202054026

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