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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 50, S9-S14, April 2009
Copyright © 2009 by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

History of the Journal of Lipid Research and Lipid Classification

Update of the LIPID MAPS comprehensive classification system for lipids¹

Eoin Fahy^*, Shankar Subramaniam, Robert C. Murphy, Masahiro Nishijima^**, Christian R. H. Raetz, Takao Shimizu, Friedrich Spener^***, Gerrit van Meer, Michael J. O. Wakelam and Edward A. Dennis^2,****

^* San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
^**** Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Department of Pharmacology of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045-0598
^** National Institute of Health Sciences, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
^*** Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria
Bijvoet Center and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, United Kingdom

¹ Guest editor for this article was Trudy M. Forte, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute.

This work was supported by the LIPID MAPS Large Scale Collaborative Grant number GM-069338 from the National Institutes of Health.

Published, JLR Papers in Press, December 19, 2008.

³ The ILCNC currently consists of Dr. Edward A. Dennis, Chair, (US), Dr. Robert C. Murphy (US), Dr. Masahiro Nishijima (Japan), Dr. Christian R. H. Raetz (US), Dr. Takao Shimizu (Japan), Dr. Friedrich Spener (Austria), Dr. Gerrit van Meer (The Netherlands), and Dr. Michael Wakelam (UK). Dr. Shankar Subramaniam serves as Informatics Advisor, and Dr. Eoin Fahy serves as Director. Meetings were held May 7, 2006 and May 4, 2008 in La Jolla, CA.

⁴ Supplementary tables that provide the complete list of the classes, subclasses, and fourth class level (where applicable) of each of the eight categories of lipids are available on the LIPID MAPS website at http://www.lipidmaps.org.

² To whom correspondence should be addressed. e-mail: edennis{at}ucsd.edu

ABSTRACT

In 2005, the International Lipid Classification and Nomenclature Committee under the sponsorship of the LIPID MAPS Consortium developed and established a "Comprehensive Classification System for Lipids" based on well-defined chemical and biochemical principles and using an ontology that is extensible, flexible, and scalable. This classification system, which is compatible with contemporary databasing and informatics needs, has now been accepted internationally and widely adopted. In response to considerable attention and requests from lipid researchers from around the globe and in a variety of fields, the comprehensive classification system has undergone significant revisions over the last few years to more fully represent lipid structures from a wider variety of sources and to provide additional levels of detail as necessary. The details of this classification system are reviewed and updated and are presented here, along with revisions to its suggested nomenclature and structure-drawing recommendations for lipids.

Supplementary key words lipidomics • nomenclature • structure • databases

Abbreviations: ILCNC, International Lipid Classification and Nomenclature Committee; IUPAC-IUBMB, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; KEGG, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes; NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information

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