Metabolomics and lipidomics in NAFLD: biomarkers and non-invasive diagnostic tests

M Masoodi, A Gastaldelli, T Hyötyläinen… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common liver diseases
worldwide and is often associated with aspects of metabolic syndrome. Despite its …

Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans

JL Watts, M Ristow - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Lipid and carbohydrate metabolism are highly conserved processes that affect nearly all
aspects of organismal biology. Caenorhabditis elegans eat bacteria, which consist of lipids …

An atlas of genetic influences on human blood metabolites

SY Shin, EB Fauman, AK Petersen, J Krumsiek… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Genome-wide association scans with high-throughput metabolic profiling provide
unprecedented insights into how genetic variation influences metabolism and complex …

LPCAT3 inhibitors remodel the polyunsaturated phospholipid content of human cells and protect from ferroptosis

A Reed, TA Ichu, N Milosevich, B Melillo… - ACS chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
LPCAT3 is an integral membrane acyltransferase in the Lands cycle responsible for
generating C20: 4 phospholipids and has been implicated in key biological processes such …

MMD collaborates with ACSL4 and MBOAT7 to promote polyunsaturated phosphatidylinositol remodeling and susceptibility to ferroptosis

VV Phadnis, J Snider, V Varadharajan… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death with roles in degenerative diseases and cancer.
Excessive iron-catalyzed peroxidation of membrane phospholipids, especially those …

Diversity and function of membrane glycerophospholipids generated by the remodeling pathway in mammalian cells

D Hishikawa, T Hashidate, T Shimizu, H Shindou - Journal of lipid research, 2014 - ASBMB
Cellular membranes are composed of numerous kinds of glycerophospholipids with different
combinations of polar heads at the sn-3 position and acyl moieties at the sn-1 and sn-2 …

Update and nomenclature proposal for mammalian lysophospholipid acyltransferases, which create membrane phospholipid diversity

WJ Valentine, K Yanagida, H Kawana, N Kono… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
The diversity of glycerophospholipid species in cellular membranes is immense and affects
various biological functions. Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferases (GPATs) and …

Acyl-CoA: lysophospholipid acyltransferases

H Shindou, T Shimizu - Journal of biological chemistry, 2009 - ASBMB
Cell membranes contain several classes of glycerophospholipids, which have numerous
structural and functional roles in the cells. Polyunsaturated fatty acids, including arachidonic …

New appreciation for an old pathway: the Lands Cycle moves into new arenas in health and disease

VB O'Donnell - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2022 - portlandpress.com
The Lands Pathway is a fundamental biochemical process named for its discovery by
William EM Lands and revealed in a series of seminal papers published in the Journal of …

Phosphoinositide acyl chain saturation drives CD8+ effector T cell signaling and function

J Edwards-Hicks, P Apostolova, JM Buescher… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How lipidome changes support CD8+ effector T (Teff) cell differentiation is not well
understood. Here we show that, although naive T cells are rich in polyunsaturated …