Does This Schlank Make Me Look Fat?

Bhagirath Chaurasia; William L Holland; Scott A Summers

doi:10.1016/j.tem.2018.04.003

Does This Schlank Make Me Look Fat?

Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Sep;29(9):597-599. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.04.003. Epub 2018 Apr 21.

Authors

Bhagirath Chaurasia¹, William L Holland¹, Scott A Summers²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
² Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. Electronic address: scott.a.summers@health.utah.edu.

Abstract

Chaurasia and colleagues discuss the provocative new finding that some enzymes in the de novo sphingolipid synthesis pathway have dual roles as transcriptional regulators.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Gene Expression
Lipogenesis
Oxidoreductases / genetics*
Sphingolipids*

Substances

Sphingolipids
Oxidoreductases
dihydroceramide desaturase

Grants and funding

R01 DK115824/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States