- ABC transporters in lipid homeostasis, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
ABC transporters in lipid homeostasis, organism-specific biosystemA defined subset of the ABC transporter superfamily, the ABCA transporters, are highly expressed in monocytes and macrophages and are regulated by cholesterol flux which may indicate their role in in...
- ABC-family proteins mediated transport, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
ABC-family proteins mediated transport, organism-specific biosystemThe ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of active transporters involves a large number of functionally diverse transmembrane proteins. They transport a variety of compounds through membranes agai...
- African trypanosomiasis, organism-specific biosystem (from KEGG)
African trypanosomiasis, organism-specific biosystemTrypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), are spread by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. The parasites are able to pass through the blood-brai...
- African trypanosomiasis, conserved biosystem (from KEGG)
African trypanosomiasis, conserved biosystemTrypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), are spread by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. The parasites are able to pass through the blood-brai...
- Amyloid fiber formation, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Amyloid fiber formation, organism-specific biosystemAmyloid is a term used to describe deposits of fibrillar proteins, typically extracellular. The abnormal accumulation of amyloid, amyloidosis, is a term associated with tissue damage caused by amyloi...
- Binding and Uptake of Ligands by Scavenger Receptors, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Binding and Uptake of Ligands by Scavenger Receptors, organism-specific biosystemScavenger receptors bind free extracellular ligands as the initial step in clearance of the ligands from the body (reviewed in Ascenzi et al. 2005, Areschoug and Gordon 2009, Nielsen et al. 2010). So...
- Chylomicron-mediated lipid transport, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Chylomicron-mediated lipid transport, organism-specific biosystemChylomicrons transport triacylglycerol, phospholipid, and cholesterol derived from dietary lipid from the small intestine to other tissues of the body. Each chylomicron assembles around a single mole...
- Composition of Lipid Particles, organism-specific biosystem (from WikiPathways)
Composition of Lipid Particles, organism-specific biosystemThis particle describes the chemical composition of various lipid particles. See also WP430 and other pathways. Additional sources - A. Goldberg, Overview of Lipid Metabolism, 2015. http://www.msdma...
- FOXA2 and FOXA3 transcription factor networks, organism-specific biosystem (from Pathway Interaction Database)
FOXA2 and FOXA3 transcription factor networks, organism-specific biosystem
FOXA2 and FOXA3 transcription factor networks
- Fat digestion and absorption, organism-specific biosystem (from KEGG)
Fat digestion and absorption, organism-specific biosystemFat is an important energy source from food. More than 95% of dietary fat is long-chain triacylglycerols (TAG), the remaining being phospholipids (4.5%) and sterols. In the small intestine lumen, die...
- Fat digestion and absorption, conserved biosystem (from KEGG)
Fat digestion and absorption, conserved biosystemFat is an important energy source from food. More than 95% of dietary fat is long-chain triacylglycerols (TAG), the remaining being phospholipids (4.5%) and sterols. In the small intestine lumen, die...
- Fatty acid, triacylglycerol, and ketone body metabolism, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Fatty acid, triacylglycerol, and ketone body metabolism, organism-specific biosystemThe reactions involved in the metabolism of fatty acids and of the triacylglycerols and ketone bodies derived from them form a closely interrelated, coordinately regulated module that plays a central...
- Folate Metabolism, organism-specific biosystem (from WikiPathways)
Folate Metabolism, organism-specific biosystem
Folate Metabolism
- HDL-mediated lipid transport, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
HDL-mediated lipid transport, organism-specific biosystemHDL particles play a central role in the reverse transport of cholesterol, the process by which cholesterol in tissues other than the liver is returned to the liver for conversion to bile salts and e...
- Hemostasis, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Hemostasis, organism-specific biosystemHemostasis is a physiological response that culminates in the arrest of bleeding from an injured vessel. Under normal conditions the vascular endothelium supports vasodilation, inhibits platelet adhe...
- Lipid digestion, mobilization, and transport, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Lipid digestion, mobilization, and transport, organism-specific biosystemProcesses annotated here include the digestion of dietary lipids, sterol uptake, the formation and turnover of lipoproteins (chylomicrons, VLDL, LDL, and HDL), and the mobilization of fatty acids thr...
- Lipoprotein metabolism, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Lipoprotein metabolism, organism-specific biosystemBecause of their hydrophobicity, lipids are found in the extracellular spaces of the human body primarily in the form of lipoprotein complexes. Chylomicrons form in the small intestine and transport ...
- Metabolism, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Metabolism, organism-specific biosystemMetabolic processes in human cells generate energy through the oxidation of molecules consumed in the diet and mediate the synthesis of diverse essential molecules not taken in the diet as well as th...
- Metabolism of fat-soluble vitamins, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Metabolism of fat-soluble vitamins, organism-specific biosystemVitamins A, D, E, and K are classified as fat-soluble. Metabolic pathways by which dietary precursors of vitamins A (Harrison 2005) and K(Shearer et al. 2012) are converted to active forms, and by wh...
- Metabolism of lipids and lipoproteins, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Metabolism of lipids and lipoproteins, organism-specific biosystemLipids are hydrophobic but otherwise chemically diverse molecules that play a wide variety of roles in human biology. They include ketone bodies, fatty acids, triacylglycerols, phospholipids and sphi...
- Metabolism of proteins, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Metabolism of proteins, organism-specific biosystemProtein metabolism comprises the pathways of translation, post-translational modification and protein folding.
- Metabolism of vitamins and cofactors, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Metabolism of vitamins and cofactors, organism-specific biosystemVitamins are a diverse group of organic compounds, classified according to their solubility, either fat-soluble or water-soluble, that are either not synthesized or synthesized only in limited amount...
- PPAR Alpha Pathway, organism-specific biosystem (from WikiPathways)
PPAR Alpha Pathway, organism-specific biosystemPPAR alpha (also known as NR1C1) is a nuclear receptor that is involved with transcriptional regulation of genes involved in beta-oxidation, metabolism, fatty acid transport, etc.
- PPAR signaling pathway, organism-specific biosystem (from KEGG)
PPAR signaling pathway, organism-specific biosystemPeroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are nuclear hormone receptors that are activated by fatty acids and their derivatives. PPAR has three subtypes (PPARalpha, beta/delta, and gamma) s...
- PPAR signaling pathway, conserved biosystem (from KEGG)
PPAR signaling pathway, conserved biosystemPeroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are nuclear hormone receptors that are activated by fatty acids and their derivatives. PPAR has three subtypes (PPARalpha, beta/delta, and gamma) s...
- PPARA activates gene expression, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
PPARA activates gene expression, organism-specific biosystemThe set of genes regulated by PPAR-alpha is not fully known in humans, however many examples have been found in mice. Genes directly activated by PPAR-alpha contain peroxisome proliferator receptor e...
- Platelet activation, signaling and aggregation, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Platelet activation, signaling and aggregation, organism-specific biosystemPlatelet activation begins with the initial binding of adhesive ligands and of the excitatory platelet agonists (released or generated at the sites of vascular trauma) to cognate receptors on the pla...
- Platelet degranulation, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Platelet degranulation, organism-specific biosystemPlatelets function as exocytotic cells, secreting a plethora of effector molecules at sites of vascular injury. Platelets contain a number of distinguishable storage granules including alpha granules...
- Regulation of lipid metabolism by Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha), organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Regulation of lipid metabolism by Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha), organism-specific biosystemPeroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR-alpha) is the major regulator of fatty acid oxidation in the liver. PPARalpha is also the target of fibrate drugs used to treat abnormal plasma ...
- Response to elevated platelet cytosolic Ca2+, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Response to elevated platelet cytosolic Ca2+, organism-specific biosystemActivation of phospholipase C enzymes results in the generation of second messengers of the phosphatidylinositol pathway. The events resulting from this pathway are a rise in intracellular calcium an...
- Retinoid metabolism and transport, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Retinoid metabolism and transport, organism-specific biosystemVitamin A (all-trans-retinol) must be taken up, either as carotenes from plants, or as retinyl esters from animal food. The most prominent carotenes are alpha-carotene, lycopene, lutein, beta-cryptox...
- Scavenging by Class A Receptors, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Scavenging by Class A Receptors, organism-specific biosystemClass A scavenger receptors contain an intracellular domain, a transmembrane region, a coiled-coil domain, a collagenous domain, and the SR cysteine-rich domain (reviewed in Areschoug and Gordon 2009...
- Scavenging by Class B Receptors, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Scavenging by Class B Receptors, organism-specific biosystemClass B receptors have two transmembrane domains separated by an extracellular loop (reviewed in Adachi and Tsujimoto 2006, Areschoug and Gordon 2009).
- Scavenging of heme from plasma, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Scavenging of heme from plasma, organism-specific biosystemFree heme is damaging to tissues as it intercalates into biologic membranes, perturbing lipid bilayers and promoting the conversion of low-density lipoprotein to cytotoxic oxidized products. Moreover...
- Selenium Micronutrient Network, organism-specific biosystem (from WikiPathways)
Selenium Micronutrient Network, organism-specific biosystem
Selenium Micronutrient Network
- Signal Transduction, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Signal Transduction, organism-specific biosystemSignal transduction is a process in which extracellular signals elicit changes in cell state and activity. Transmembrane receptors sense changes in the cellular environment by binding ligands, such a...
- Statin Pathway, organism-specific biosystem (from WikiPathways)
Statin Pathway, organism-specific biosystemStatins inhibit endogenous cholesterol production by competitive inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCR), the enzyme that catalyzes conversion of HMG-CoA to mevalonate, an early rate-limiting step in...
- Transmembrane transport of small molecules, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Transmembrane transport of small molecules, organism-specific biosystem
Transmembrane transport of small molecules
- Vesicle-mediated transport, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Vesicle-mediated transport, organism-specific biosystemThe transit of proteins and other cargo through the cell requires a cellular transport process in which transported substances are moved in membrane-bounded vesicles. Transported substances are enclo...
- Visual phototransduction, organism-specific biosystem (from REACTOME)
Visual phototransduction, organism-specific biosystemVisual phototransduction is the process by which photon absorption by visual pigment molecules in photoreceptor cells is converted to an electrical cellular response. The events in this process are p...
- Vitamin B12 Metabolism, organism-specific biosystem (from WikiPathways)
Vitamin B12 Metabolism, organism-specific biosystem
Vitamin B12 Metabolism
- Vitamin digestion and absorption, organism-specific biosystem (from KEGG)
Vitamin digestion and absorption, organism-specific biosystemVitamins are a diverse and chemically unrelated group of organic substances that share a common feature of being essential for normal health and well-being. They catalyze numerous biochemical reactio...
- Vitamin digestion and absorption, conserved biosystem (from KEGG)
Vitamin digestion and absorption, conserved biosystemVitamins are a diverse and chemically unrelated group of organic substances that share a common feature of being essential for normal health and well-being. They catalyze numerous biochemical reactio...