Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
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an ultra-long-chain fatty acyl-CoA + a sphingoid base | Mus musculus | - |
an ultra-long-chain ceramide + CoA | - |
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Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Mus musculus | - |
- |
- |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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spermatid | - |
Mus musculus | - |
spermatocyte | - |
Mus musculus | - |
testis | - |
Mus musculus | - |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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an ultra-long-chain fatty acyl-CoA + a sphingoid base | - |
Mus musculus | an ultra-long-chain ceramide + CoA | - |
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additional information | the enzyme also accepts long or very long fatty acyl-CoAs as substrate | Mus musculus | ? | - |
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Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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ceramide synthase 3 | - |
Mus musculus |
CerS3 | - |
Mus musculus |
Organism | Comment | Expression |
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Mus musculus | the enzyme is upregulated first during meiosis and later on in mid-late spermiogenesis, in spermatocytes and in elongated spermatids | up |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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malfunction | enzyme loss leads to tubular atrophy and apoptosis of predominantly primary spermatocytes | Mus musculus |
physiological function | the enzyme is quintessential for male fertility | Mus musculus |