{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["290(2)"],"submitter":["Watanabe T"],"pubmed_abstract":["Cryptococcosis is an infectious disease caused by pathogenic fungi, such as Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. The ceramide structure (methyl-d18:2/h18:0) of C. neoformans glucosylceramide (GlcCer) is characteristic and strongly related to its pathogenicity. We recently identified endoglycoceramidase-related protein 1 (EGCrP1) as a glucocerebrosidase in C. neoformans and showed that it was involved in the quality control of GlcCer by eliminating immature GlcCer during the synthesis of GlcCer (Ishibashi, Y., Ikeda, K., Sakaguchi, K., Okino, N., Taguchi, R., and Ito, M. (2012) Quality control of fungus-specific glucosylceramide in Cryptococcus neoformans by endoglycoceramidase-related protein 1 (EGCrP1). J. Biol. Chem. 287, 368-381). We herein identified and characterized EGCrP"],"journal":["The Journal of biological chemistry"],"pagination":["1005-19"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4294470"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Sterylglucoside catabolism in Cryptococcus neoformans with endoglycoceramidase-related protein 2 (EGCrP2), the first steryl-β-glucosidase identified in fungi."],"pmcid":["PMC4294470"],"pubmed_authors":["Ikeda K","Goda HM","Okino N","Watanabe T","Ito T","Miyamoto T","Ishibashi Y","Taguchi R","Ito M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Sterylglucoside catabolism in Cryptococcus neoformans with endoglycoceramidase-related protein 2 (EGCrP2), the first steryl-β-glucosidase identified in fungi.","description":"Cryptococcosis is an infectious disease caused by pathogenic fungi, such as Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. The ceramide structure (methyl-d18:2/h18:0) of C. neoformans glucosylceramide (GlcCer) is characteristic and strongly related to its pathogenicity. We recently identified endoglycoceramidase-related protein 1 (EGCrP1) as a glucocerebrosidase in C. neoformans and showed that it was involved in the quality control of GlcCer by eliminating immature GlcCer during the synthesis of GlcCer (Ishibashi, Y., Ikeda, K., Sakaguchi, K., Okino, N., Taguchi, R., and Ito, M. (2012) Quality control of fungus-specific glucosylceramide in Cryptococcus neoformans by endoglycoceramidase-related protein 1 (EGCrP1). J. Biol. Chem. 287, 368-381). We herein identified and characterized EGCrP","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015 Jan","modification":"2025-04-26T14:01:23.121Z","creation":"2019-06-06T13:43:36Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4294470","cross_references":{"pubmed":["25361768"],"doi":["10.1074/jbc.M114.616300","10.1074/jbc.m114.616300"]}}