Burke will receive his award during the 2018 ASBMB Annual Meeting in San Diego, where he will deliver an award lecture on probing the structure, dynamics and regulation of
lipid signaling enzymes in disease.
Not exact matches
«The finding that certain cell
signaling lipids change the activity of an oncogenic Ras protein, suggests that we might be able to interfere with tumor progression by inhibiting the
enzymes which make the specific cell
signaling lipid in cells,» Buck said.
In lymph nodes, a particular type of stromal cells that forms a scaffold for lymphocytes to crawl around within the node normally secretes an
enzyme called autotaxin, which is responsible for the production of the
lipid signaling molecule, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA).
The symposium will cover this fascinating and often neglected field from
lipid biology and phosphoinositide
signaling to membrane transport and intramembrane
enzymes.