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Jeongah Oh1, Sneha Muralidharan1, Qing Zhao2

  • 1Precision Medicine Translational Research Programme and Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; SLING, Singapore Lipidomics Incubator, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

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概括

在小鼠中删除胺合成酶2 (CerS2) 改变了成千上万的脂 (SL) 物种在整个组织中. 这项研究揭示了复杂的脂质组和代谢组变化,影响了多个代谢途径并突出了SL连接.

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