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Literature summary for 3.5.1.23 extracted from

  • Elojeimy, S.; Holman, D.H.; Liu, X.; El-Zawahry, A.; Villani, M.; Cheng, J.C.; Mahdy, A.; Zeidan, Y.; Bielwaska, A.; Hannun, Y.A.; Norris, J.S.
    New insights on the use of desipramine as an inhibitor for acid ceramidase (2006), FEBS Lett., 580, 4751-4756.
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Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
additional information desipramine downregulates acid ceramidase in cancer cells, which is almost completely reversible by leupeptin and CA074ME, but not by pepstatin A, mechanism, overview Homo sapiens

Localization

Localization Comment Organism GeneOntology No. Textmining
lysosome
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Homo sapiens 5764
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Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Homo sapiens
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Source Tissue

Source Tissue Comment Organism Textmining
5637 cell bladder cancer cell line Homo sapiens
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DU-145 cell prostate cancer cell line Homo sapiens
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HeLa cell
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Homo sapiens
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SCC14A cell head and neck cancer cell line Homo sapiens
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Specific Activity [micromol/min/mg]

Specific Activity Minimum [µmol/min/mg] Specific Activity Maximum [µmol/min/mg] Comment Organism
additional information
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cell sphingolipid content analysis Homo sapiens

Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
acid ceramidase
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Homo sapiens