cérébroside - meaning and definition. What is cérébroside
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What (who) is cérébroside - definition

CLASS OF COMPOUNDS
Cerebrosides; Monoglycosylceramide; Monoglycoslyceramide
  • General structures of [[sphingolipid]]s

Cerebroside         
Cerebrosides is the common name for a group of glycosphingolipids called monoglycosylceramides which are important components in animal muscle and nerve cell membranes.
cerebroside         
['s?r?br?(?)s??d]
¦ noun Biochemistry any of a group of complex lipids present in the sheaths of nerve fibres.
Origin
C19: from L. cerebrum 'brain' + -ose2 + -ide.
Cerebroside-sulfatase         
Cerebroside-sulfatase (, arylsulfatase A, cerebroside sulfate sulfatase) is an enzyme with systematic name cerebroside-3-sulfate 3-sulfohydrolase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Wikipedia

Cerebroside

Cerebrosides is the common name for a group of glycosphingolipids called monoglycosylceramides which are important components in animal muscle and nerve cell membranes.

They consist of a ceramide with a single sugar residue at the 1-hydroxyl moiety. The sugar residue can be either glucose or galactose; the two major types are therefore called glucocerebrosides (a.k.a. glucosylceramides) and galactocerebrosides (a.k.a. galactosylceramides). Galactocerebrosides are typically found in neural tissue, while glucocerebrosides are found in other tissues.