In their study, the authors found that sphingosine kinase 1 (a key enzyme that converts sphingosine into the bioactive lipid sphingosine-1-phosphate) acetylates neuronal COX-2 skewing the production of 15-epi-LXA4 and other SPM, resulting in an increase in phagocytosis of Aβ-amyloid by microglial cells and improvement of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-like pathology in mice (Lee et al., 2018). This evidence concerns the gene SPHK1 and Alzheimer disease.