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. 2021 Mar 20;22(6):3180. doi: 10.3390/ijms22063180

Table 1.

Lipid classification based on Lipid Maps Structure Database.

Lipid Categories
01. Fatty Acyls (FA) 04. Sphingolipids (SP)
(FA01) Fatty Acids and Conjugates (SP01) Sphingoid bases
(FA02) Octadecanoids (SP02) Ceramides
(FA03) Eicosanoids (SP03) Phosphosphingolipids
(FA04) Docosanoids (SP04) Phosphonosphingolipids
(FA05) Fatty alcohols (SP05) Neutral glycosphingolipids
(FA06) Fatty aldehydes (SP06) Acidic glycosphingolipids
(FA07) Fatty esters (SP07) Basic glycosphingolipids
(FA08) Fatty amides (SP08) Amphoteric glycosphingolipids
(FA09) Fatty nitriles (SP09) Arsenosphingolipids
(FA10) Fatty ethers (SP00) Other Sphingolipids
(FA11) Hydrocarbons 05. Sterol Lipids (ST)
(FA12) Oxygenated hydrocarbons (ST01) Sterols
(FA13) Fatty acyl glycosides (ST02) Steroids
(FA00) Other Fatty Acyls (ST03) Secosteroids
02. Glycerolipids (GL) (ST04) Bile acids and derivatives
(GL01) Monoradylglycerols (ST05) Steroid conjugates
(GL02) Diradylglycerols (ST00) Other Sterol lipids
(GL03) Triradylglycerols 06. Prenol Lipids (PR)
(GL04) Glycosylmonoradylglycerols (PR01) Isoprenoids
(GL05) Glycosyldiradylglycerols (PR02) Quinones and hydroquinones
(GL00) Other Glycerolipids (PR03) Polyprenols
03. Glycerophospholipids (GP) (PR04) Hopanoids
(GP01) Glycerophosphocholines (PR00) Other Prenol lipids
(GP02) Glycerophosphoethanolamines 07. Saccharolipids (SL)
(GP03) Glycerophosphoserines (SL01) Acylaminosugars
(GP04) Glycerophosphoglycerols (SL02) Acylaminosugar glycans
(GP05) Glycerophosphoglycerophosphates (SL03) Acyltrehaloses
(GP06) Glycerophosphoinositols (SL04) Acyltrehalose glycans
(GP07) Glycerophosphoinositol monophosphates (SL05) Other acyl sugars
(GP08) Glycerophosphoinositol bisphosphates (SL00) Other Saccharolipids
(GP09) Glycerophosphoinositol trisphosphates 08. Polyketides (PK)
(GP10) Glycerophosphates (PK01) Linear polyketides
(GP11) Glyceropyrophosphates (PK02) Halogenated acetogenins
(GP12) Glycerophosphoglycerophosphoglycerols (PK03) Annonaceae acetogenins
(GP13) CDP-Glycerols (PK04) Macrolides and lactone polyketides
(GP14) Glycosylglycerophospholipids (PK05) Ansamycins and related polyketides
(GP15) Glycerophosphoinositolglycans (PK06) Polyenes
(GP16) Glycerophosphonocholines (PK07) Linear tetracyclines
(GP17) Glycerophosphonoethanolamines (PK08) Angucyclines
(GP18) Di-glycerol tetraether phospholipids (PK09) Polyether antibiotics
(GP19) Glycerol-nonitol tetraether phospholipids (PK10) Aflatoxins and related substances
(GP20) Oxidized glycerophospholipids (PK11) Cytochalasins
(GP00) Other Glycerophospholipids (PK12) Flavonoids
(PK13) Aromatic polyketides
(PK14) Non-ribosomal peptide/polyketide hybrids
(PK15) Phenolic lipids
(PK00) Other Polyketides