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Diacylglycerol--when is it an intracellular messenger?
1Institute for Cancer Studies, Birmingham University, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Clinical Research Block, Birmingham B15 2TA, UK. m.j.o.wakelam@bham.ac.uk
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|December 5, 1998
Abstract:
Distinct, structurally different forms of sn-1,2-diacylglycerol are found in cells, these are polyunsaturated, mono- or di-unsaturated and saturated. The pathways that generate or metabolise sn-1, 2-diacylglycerol are reviewed. The evidence that it is the polyunsaturated forms of sn-1,2-diacylglycerol, but the more saturated forms of phosphatidate which function as intracellular signals is considered.