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inositolphosphorylceramide

inositolphosphorylceramide noun: a fungal-specific membrane-embedded enzyme complex that catalyzes a key step in sphingolipid biosynthesis. Its absence in mammalian cells and essential role in fungal viability make it an attractive and selective target for antifungal development.

Noun

inositolphosphorylceramide (countable and uncountable, plural inositolphosphorylceramides)

  1. A fungal-specific membrane-embedded enzyme complex that catalyzes a key step in sphingolipid biosynthesis. Its absence in mammalian cells and essential role in fungal viability make it an attractive and selective target for antifungal development.

Forms of inositolphosphorylceramide

pluralinositolphosphorylceramides

Questions about inositolphosphorylceramide

What does inositolphosphorylceramide mean?
Inositolphosphorylceramide means a fungal-specific membrane-embedded enzyme complex that catalyzes a key step in sphingolipid biosynthesis. Its absence in mammalian cells and essential role in fungal viability make it an attractive and selective target for antifungal development.
What part of speech is inositolphosphorylceramide?
Inositolphosphorylceramide is a noun.
What is the plural of inositolphosphorylceramide?
The plural of inositolphosphorylceramide is inositolphosphorylceramides.

Words near inositolphosphorylceramide in the dictionary

  1. inositol
  2. inositolphosphoglycan
  3. inositolphosphoglycans
  4. inositolphospholipid
  5. inositolphospholipids
  6. inositolphosphorylceramide
  7. inositolphosphorylceramides
  8. inositols
  9. Inoslav
  10. Inosloban
  11. inosose

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