| Range |
>1,000 Lipid species
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| Organism |
Eukaryotes |
| Reference |
van Meer G, Voelker DR, Feigenson GW. Membrane lipids: where they are and how they behave. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2008 Feb9(2):112-24. p.114 right column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID18216768
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| Primary Source |
Sud et al., LMSD: LIPID MAPS structure database. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan35(Database issue):D527-32.PubMed ID17098933
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| Comments |
The variation in headgroups and aliphatic chains allows the existence of >1,000 different lipid species in any eukaryotic cell (primary source) |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
107243 |