De-novo sphingolipid synthesis pathway

De-novo sphingolipid synthesis pathway. De-novo ceramide synthesis involves several steps. Serine Palmitoyltransferase (SPT) catalyzes the initial conjugation of palmitoyl-CoA with L-serine to form 3-keto-sphinganine which is subsequently reduced to sphinganine (SA). SA is acetylated by ceramide synthase (CerS) and desaturated by ceramide desaturase (DES) to form ceramide. The degradation pathway starts with the deacetylation of ceramide by ceramidase. The sphingosine (SO) formed is then phosphorylated by SO-Kinase and finally degraded to hexadecenal and phosphoethanolamine by the action of the sphingosine-1-phospate lyase (SO1P-lyase).
De-novo sphingolipid synthesis pathway

Publication

Deoxysphingoid bases as plasma markers in Diabetes mellitus. (2010) Mariana Bertea, et al. Lipids Health Dis. 2010;9:84-84. Figure: F1.

Gene mentions


Organism Group Word Match Source NCBI Symbol NCBI ID
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates COA COA ncbigene_symbol Coa 248135
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates SPT SPT ncbigene_symbol Spt 35889
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates SPT SPT ncbigene_synonym lace 34910
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates SPT SPT ncbigene_synonym en 36240
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates SPT SPT ncbigene_synonym Spt-I 36448
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates SPT SPT ncbigene_synonym srp 41944
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates H,N HN ncbigene_symbol Hn 38871
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates Cers CERS ncbigene_synonym schlank 50392
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates DES DES ncbigene_synonym ifc 33836
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates (SM, SM ncbigene_symbol sm 37254
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates ATP ATP ncbigene_synonym ATPsynbeta 43829
Drosophila melanogaster Invertebrates ATP ATP ncbigene_synonym Atpalpha 48971

Chemical mentions

Word Match MeSH Name ChEBI
3-keto-Sphinganine NA mesh:C005682
Sphinganine NA mesh:C005682
Dihydro-Ceramide NA mesh:C109343
Acyl-CoA NA mesh:D000214
Ceramide Ceramides mesh:D002518 ceramide chebi:17761
Ethanolamine Ethanolamines mesh:D004983 ethanolamines chebi:23981
Serine Serine mesh:D012694 L-serine chebi:17115
Sphingosine Sphingosine mesh:D013110 sphingosine chebi:16393

Disease mentions

Word Match MeSH Name DOID