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phosphorylceramide

phosphorylceramide noun: synonym of sphingomyelin.

Noun

phosphorylceramide (countable and uncountable, plural phosphorylceramides)

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

Synonyms of phosphorylceramide

Forms of phosphorylceramide

pluralphosphorylceramides

Origin of phosphorylceramide

From phosphoryl + ceramide.

Questions about phosphorylceramide

What does phosphorylceramide mean?
Phosphorylceramide means synonym of sphingomyelin.
What part of speech is phosphorylceramide?
Phosphorylceramide is a noun.
What is the plural of phosphorylceramide?
The plural of phosphorylceramide is phosphorylceramides.

Words near phosphorylceramide in the dictionary

  1. phosphorylating
  2. phosphorylation
  3. phosphorylational
  4. phosphorylations
  5. phosphorylative
  6. phosphorylceramide
  7. phosphorylceramides
  8. phosphorylcholine
  9. phosphorylcholines
  10. phosphorylcreatine
  11. phosphorylethanolamine

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