phosphorylceramide

English

Etymology

From phosphoryl +‎ ceramide.

Noun

phosphorylceramide (countable and uncountable, plural phosphorylceramides)

1. (biochemistry) Synonym of sphingomyelin
   • 2015 September 5, Raúl García et al., “Genomic profiling of fungal cell wall-interfering compounds: identification of a common gene signature”, in BMC Genomics‎^[1], volume 16, →DOI:

     However, mutants csg2 Δ (Csg2 is required for mannosylation of inositol phosphorylceramide (IPC)), sur1 Δ (Sur1 encodes the Mannosylinositol phosphorylceramide (MIPC) synthase catalytic subunit) and cka2 Δ (Cka2 is involved in phosphorylation of ceramide synthase), although also involved in the synthesis of complex sphingolipids, did show levels of GS activity similar to that of the wild-type strain (Fig. 6 ).