Introduction: Lipids: Cellular Glue or are They More Than That?- Phospholipid Synthesis in Mammalian Cells --;Phospholipid Synthesis and Dynamics in Plant Cells --;Biogenesis and Cellular Dynamics of Glycerophospholipids in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae --;Defects in Cholesterol Biosynthesis --;Sterol Metabolism and Functions in Higher Plants --;Sterol Biochemistry and Regulation in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae --;Mammalian ACAT and DGAT2 Gene Families --;Biosynthesis and Compartmentation of Triacylglycerol in Higher Plants --;Mechanisms and Mediators of Neutral Lipid Biosynthesis in Eukaryotic Cells --;Sphingosine-1-phosphate Metabolism in Mammalian Cell Signalling --;Plant Sphingolipids.-Bakers Yeast: a Rising Foundation for Eukaryotic Sphingolipid-mediated Cell Signaling.
Biochemical, cell biological and biophysical aspects of the four major groups of lipids in eukaryotic cells, namely glycerophospholipids, sterols, sphingolipids and storage lipids, are reported and discussed.