Open AccessSphingolipid imbalance can take out an eye
Author(s) -
Mitch Leslie
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb.1924iti1
Subject(s) - biology , sphingolipid , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology
![Figure][1] Normal eye receptor cells (left) contrast with degenerating cells (right) in a fly that overproduces an enzyme involved in sphingolipid synthesis.Yonamine et al. report that the relative amounts of two sphingolipids control the breakdown of light-sensing proteins and determine
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