Analyzing and Understanding Lipids of Yeast: A Challenging Endeavor.
Cold Spring Harb Protoc
; 2017(5)2017 05 01.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28461680
ABSTRACT
Lipids are essential biomolecules with diverse biological functions, ranging from building blocks for all biological membranes to energy substrates, signaling molecules, and protein modifiers. Despite advances in lipid analytics by mass spectrometry, the extraction and quantitative analysis of the diverse classes of lipids are still an experimental challenge. Yeast is a model organism that provides several advantages for studying lipid metabolism, because most biosynthetic pathways are well described and a great deal of information is available on the regulatory mechanisms that control lipid homeostasis. In addition, the composition of yeast lipids is much less complex than that of mammalian lipids, making yeast an excellent reference system for studying lipid-associated cell functions.
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MEDLINE
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Yeasts
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Lipids
Language:
En
Journal:
Cold Spring Harb Protoc
Year:
2017
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Article
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