title: Enzymic hydrolysis of sphingolipids: Hydrolysis of ceramide lactoside by an enzyme from rat brain.
abstract: Ceramide lactoside [1-O-(galactosido-4-beta-glucosido)-2-N-acyl-sphingosine] was hydrolysed to ceramide glucoside and galactose by beta-galactosidase of rat brain. The reaction was not reversible, required cholate or taurocholate, had optimum pH5.0 and K(m) 2.2x10(-5)m. It was inhibited by gamma-galactonolactone and galactose as well as by ceramide, sphingosine and fatty acid. Ceramide lactoside could be degraded to ceramide, galactose and glucose by mixtures of rat-brain beta-galactosidase and ox-brain beta-glucosidase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, and Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gatt
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Rapport