Definition of "glycosphingolipid" [glycosphingolipid]

• A lipid that contains at least one monosaccharide unit and either a sphingoid or a ceramide (noun)

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• "Investigators reported that in healthy cells these regions, known as glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomains, or GEMs, include tiny amounts of GM1."
• "Chakrabandhu K, Huault S, Garmy N, Fantini J, Stebe E, et al. (2008) The extracellular glycosphingolipid-binding motif of Fas defines its internalization route, mode and outcome of signals upon activation by ligand."
• "We noticed differences in the response of given cells that we interpret to be due to the existence of cells that poorly bind Stx, probably because of differences in the expression level of the Stx glycosphingolipid receptor Gb3."