Metabolism and Regulation of Glycerolipids in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SA Henry, SD Kohlwein, GM Carman - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Due to its genetic tractability and increasing wealth of accessible data, the yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a model system of choice for the study of the genetics …

[HTML][HTML] The many faces of amphipathic helices

M Giménez-Andrés, A Čopič, B Antonny - Biomolecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Amphipathic helices (AHs), a secondary feature found in many proteins, are defined by their
structure and by the segregation of hydrophobic and polar residues between two faces of …

Global analysis of the yeast lipidome by quantitative shotgun mass spectrometry

CS Ejsing, JL Sampaio, V Surendranath… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - pnas.org
Although the transcriptome, proteome, and interactome of several eukaryotic model
organisms have been described in detail, lipidomes remain relatively uncharacterized …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms determining the morphology of the peripheral ER

Y Shibata, T Shemesh, WA Prinz, AF Palazzo… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) consists of the nuclear envelope and a peripheral network
of tubules and membrane sheets. The tubules are shaped by the curvature-stabilizing …

Phospholipid biosynthesis modulates nucleotide metabolism and reductive capacity

Y Zhu, X Tong, J Xue, H Qiu, D Zhang… - Nature Chemical …, 2025 - nature.com
Phospholipid and nucleotide syntheses are fundamental metabolic processes in eukaryotic
organisms, with their dysregulation implicated in various disease states. Despite their …

Membrane expansion alleviates endoplasmic reticulum stress independently of the unfolded protein response

S Schuck, WA Prinz, KS Thorn, C Voss… - Journal of Cell Biology, 2009 - rupress.org
Cells constantly adjust the sizes and shapes of their organelles according to need. In this
study, we examine endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane expansion during the unfolded …

A role for phosphatidic acid in the formation of “supersized” lipid droplets

W Fei, G Shui, Y Zhang, N Krahmer, C Ferguson… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are important cellular organelles that govern the storage and turnover of
lipids. Little is known about how the size of LDs is controlled, although LDs of diverse sizes …

Flexibility of a eukaryotic lipidome–insights from yeast lipidomics

C Klose, MA Surma, MJ Gerl, F Meyenhofer… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Mass spectrometry-based shotgun lipidomics has enabled the quantitative and
comprehensive assessment of cellular lipid compositions. The yeast Saccharomyces …

Lipid droplet–mediated ER homeostasis regulates autophagy and cell survival during starvation

AP Velázquez, T Tatsuta, R Ghillebert, I Drescher… - Journal of Cell …, 2016 - rupress.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are conserved organelles for intracellular neutral lipid storage. Recent
studies suggest that LDs function as direct lipid sources for autophagy, a central catabolic …

Regulation of Phospholipid Synthesis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

GM Carman, GS Han - Annual review of biochemistry, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with its full complement of organelles, synthesizes
membrane phospholipids by pathways that are generally common to those found in higher …