This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/49243/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. The lipid sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is a key regulator of cell growth, survival, invasion, lymphocyte trafficking, vascular integrity and cytokine production, and plays a central role in inflammatory disease and cancer. S1P is formed by phosphorylation of sphingosine, catalysed by sphingosine kinases 1 and 2 (SK1 and SK2) that differ in their biochemical properties, sub-cellular localization, and function (Pyne and Pyne, 2011). S1P is cleaved by S1P lyase to produce trans-2-hexadecenal and phosphoethanolamine. S1P can also be dephosphorylated by S1P phosphatases to recycle into sphingolipids (Pyne and Pyne, 2011). S1P is an agonist of S1P-specific G-protein coupled receptors, termed S1P 1-5 , and also binds to intracellular protein targets, such as histone deacetylase 1 and 2 (HDAC1/2, which regulate gene expression) (for review see