TY - JOUR AU - Trauner, Dirk AU - Morstein, Johannes PY - 2021/12/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Optical Control of Glycerolipids and Sphingolipids JF - CHIMIA JA - Chimia VL - 75 IS - 12 SE - Scientific Articles DO - 10.2533/chimia.2021.1022 UR - https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/2021_1022 SP - 1022 AB - <p>Glycerolipids, Sphingolipids, and Sterols are the three major classes of membrane lipids. Both glycerolipids and sphingolipids are comprised of combinations of polar headgroups and fatty acid tails. The fatty acid tail can be chemically modified with an azobenzene photoswitch giving rise to photoswitchable lipids. This approach has yielded a number of photopharmacological tools that allow to control various aspects of lipid assembly, metabolism, and physiology with light.</p> ER -