ReviewNeurobiology of disease2020
Plasmalogens, platelet-activating factor and beyond - Ether lipids in signaling and neurodegeneration.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Deciphering the circulating lipidome signature associated with physical performance in gastric cancer patients: an exploratory study.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2026Article
- The acyl- and alkyl-glycerone phosphate reductase DHRS7 is involved in the production of distinct plasmalogen species from DHRS7B.Journal of cell science · 2026Article
- Lipidomics of prolonged labor duration in African American birthing people.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- The metabolic roots of memory loss: interlinking the Diabetes-Alzheimer's hypothesis.Metabolic brain disease · 2026Review
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- CRISPR knockout screens reveal genes and pathways essential for neuronal differentiation and implicate PEDS1 in neurodevelopment.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mechanism of auranofin toxicity: Inhibition of tetrahydrobiopterin metabolism.Toxicology and applied pharmacology · 2026Article
- From biosynthesis to function: the roles of ether lipids in cancer development and treatment.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Review
- The Yeast Parkinson's Disease Model Exhibits An Increase in Peroxisome Number Independent of the Division Proteins Vps1 and Dnm1.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Bifunctional Probes Reveal the Rules of Intracellular Ether Lipid Transport.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- SPNS1 variants cause multiorgan disease and implicate lysophospholipid transport as critical for mTOR-regulated lipid homeostasis.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025Article
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- Fibroblast lipid metabolism through ACSL4 regulates epithelial sensitivity to ferroptosis in IBD.Nature metabolism · 2025Article
- Alkylglycerol monooxygenase represses prostanoid biosynthesis in a sex-dependent manner.Cell & bioscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Glycerol-based ether lipids including ether phospholipids form a specialized branch of lipids that in mammals require peroxisomes for their biosynthesis. They are major components of biological membranes and one particular subgroup, the plasmalogens, is widely regarded as a cellular antioxidant. Their vast potential to influence signal transduction pathways is less well known. Here, we summarize the literature showing associations with essential signaling cascades for a wide variety of ether lipids, including platelet-activating factor, alkylglycerols, ether-linked lysophosphatidic acid and plasmalogen-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids. The available experimental evidence demonstrates links to several common players like protein kinase C, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors or mitogen-activated protein kinases. Furthermore, ether lipid levels have repeatedly been connected to some of the most abundant neurological diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease and more recently also neurodevelopmental disorders like autism. Thus, we critically discuss the potential role of these compounds in the etiology and pathophysiology of these diseases with an emphasis on signaling processes. Finally, we review the emerging interest in plasmalogens as treatment target in neurological diseases, assessing available data and highlighting future perspectives. Although many aspects of ether lipid involvement in cellular signaling identified in vitro still have to be confirmed in vivo, the compiled data show many intriguing properties and contributions of these lipids to health and disease that will trigger further research.
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