Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Mus musculus | Q5MPP0 | - |
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General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | fatty acid 2-hydroxylase Fa2h/UDP-galactose:ceramide galactosyltransferase Cgt double-deficient mice lack sulfatide, GalCer, and in addition 2-hydroxylated fatty acid-galactosylceramide and sphingomyelin. Compared to Cgt-/- mice the amount of GlcCer in central nervous system myelin is strongly reduced in Fa2h-/-/Cgt-/- mice by more than 80%. This is accompanied by a significant increase in sphingomyelin, which is the predominant sphingolipid in Fa2h-/-/Cgt-/- mice. Compact myelin is formed in Fa2h-/-/Cgt-/- mice, and g-ratios of myelinated axons in the spinal cord of 4-week-old Fa2h-/-/Cgt-/- mice do not differ significantly from that of Cgt-/- mice, and there is no obvious phenotypic difference between Fa2h-/-/Cgt-/- and Cgt-/- mice | Mus musculus |