Number of lipid species for a tissue or organism

Range 10,000 to 100,000 lipid species
Organism Unspecified
Reference Carvalho M, Sampaio JL, Palm W, Brankatschk M, Eaton S, Shevchenko A. Effects of diet and development on the Drosophila lipidome. Mol Syst Biol. 2012 8: 600. doi: 10.1038/msb.2012.29. p.1 left columnPubMed ID22864382
Primary Source Yetukuri L, Ekroos K, Vidal-Puig A, Oresic M. Informatics and computational strategies for the study of lipids. Mol Biosyst. 2008 Feb4(2):121-7PubMed ID18213405
Comments The lipidome, a full lipid complement of the cell, tissue or organism, may comprise over 1000 lipid species for a single cell (van Meer, 2005 Wenk, 2010) and 10,000–100,000 species for tissues or organisms (primary source).
Entered by Uri M
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