Lipid droplet biogenesis and functions in health and disease

A Zadoorian, X Du, H Yang - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2023 - nature.com
Ubiquitous yet unique, lipid droplets are intracellular organelles that are increasingly being
recognized for their versatility beyond energy storage. Advances uncovering the intricacies …

Dynamics and functions of lipid droplets

JA Olzmann, P Carvalho - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Lipid droplets are storage organelles at the centre of lipid and energy homeostasis. They
have a unique architecture consisting of a hydrophobic core of neutral lipids, which is …

The ménage à trois of autophagy, lipid droplets and liver disease

Y Filali-Mouncef, C Hunter, F Roccio, S Zagkou… - Autophagy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Autophagic pathways cross with lipid homeostasis and thus provide energy and essential
building blocks that are indispensable for liver functions. Energy deficiencies are …

Here, there, and everywhere: The importance of ER membrane contact sites

H Wu, P Carvalho, GK Voeltz - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND The defining feature of eukaryotic cells is the presence of membrane-bound
organelles of diverse kinds, each with specialized functions. Most organelles have multiple …

Lipid droplets and liver disease: from basic biology to clinical implications

NL Gluchowski, M Becuwe, TC Walther… - Nature reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Lipid droplets are dynamic organelles that store neutral lipids during times of energy excess
and serve as an energy reservoir during deprivation. Many prevalent metabolic diseases …

Lipid droplet biogenesis

TC Walther, J Chung… - Annual review of cell and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are ubiquitous organelles that store neutral lipids for energy or
membrane synthesis and act as hubs for metabolic processes. Cells generate LDs de novo …

Lipid droplets in the nervous system

I Ralhan, CL Chang, J Lippincott-Schwartz… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
Lipid droplets are dynamic intracellular lipid storage organelles that respond to the
physiological state of cells. In addition to controlling cell metabolism, they play a protective …

TMEM41B and VMP1 are scramblases and regulate the distribution of cholesterol and phosphatidylserine

YE Li, Y Wang, X Du, T Zhang, HY Mak… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
TMEM41B and VMP1 are integral membrane proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
and regulate the formation of autophagosomes, lipid droplets (LDs), and lipoproteins …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid engineering combined with systematic metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for high-yield production of lycopene

T Ma, B Shi, Z Ye, X Li, M Liu, Y Chen, J **a… - Metabolic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an efficient host for natural-compound production and
preferentially employed in academic studies and bioindustries. However, S. cerevisiae …

Seipin is required for converting nascent to mature lipid droplets

H Wang, M Becuwe, BE Housden, C Chitraju… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
How proteins control the biogenesis of cellular lipid droplets (LDs) is poorly understood.
Using Drosophila and human cells, we show here that seipin, an ER protein implicated in …