Lipid droplets and the management of cellular stress

E Jarc, T Petan - The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2019‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lipid droplets are cytosolic fat storage organelles present in most eukaryotic cells. Long
regarded merely as inert fat reservoirs, they are now emerging as major regulators of …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid droplets in cancer: guardians of fat in a stressful world

T Petan, E Jarc, M Jusović - Molecules, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Cancer cells possess remarkable abilities to adapt to adverse environmental conditions.
Their survival during severe nutrient and oxidative stress depends on their capacity to …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid signaling and lipotoxicity in metaflammation: indications for metabolic disease pathogenesis and treatment

ME Ertunc, GS Hotamisligil - Journal of lipid research, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Lipids encompass a wide variety of molecules such as fatty acids, sterols, phospholipids,
and triglycerides. These molecules represent a highly efficient energy resource and can act …

Triglyceride synthesis by DGAT1 protects adipocytes from lipid-induced ER stress during lipolysis

C Chitraju, N Mejhert, JT Haas, LG Diaz-Ramirez… - Cell metabolism, 2017‏ - cell.com
Triglyceride (TG) storage in adipose tissue provides the major reservoir for metabolic energy
in mammals. During lipolysis, fatty acids (FAs) are hydrolyzed from adipocyte TG stores and …

Lipid droplets and cellular lipid metabolism

TC Walther, RV Farese Jr - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
Among organelles, lipid droplets (LDs) uniquely constitute a hydrophobic phase in the
aqueous environment of the cytosol. Their hydrophobic core of neutral lipids stores …

The role of lipid droplets in metabolic disease in rodents and humans

AS Greenberg, RA Coleman, FB Kraemer… - The Journal of clinical …, 2011‏ - jci.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are intracellular organelles that store neutral lipids within cells. Over the
last two decades there has been a dramatic growth in our understanding of LD biology and …

High‐fat diets: modeling the metabolic disorders of human obesity in rodents

R Buettner, J Schölmerich, LC Bollheimer - Obesity, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Methods and Procedures: High‐fat (HF) diet feeding can induce obesity
and metabolic disorders in rodents that resemble the human metabolic syndrome. However …

[HTML][HTML] Thematic review series: glycerolipids. DGAT enzymes and triacylglycerol biosynthesis

CLE Yen, SJ Stone, S Koliwad, C Harris… - Journal of lipid …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Triacylglycerols (triglycerides)(TGs) are the major storage molecules of metabolic energy
and FAs in most living organisms. Excessive accumulation of TGs, however, is associated …

Enzymes of triacylglycerol synthesis and their regulation

RA Coleman, DP Lee - Progress in lipid research, 2004‏ - Elsevier
Since the pathways of glycerolipid biosynthesis were elucidated in the 1950's, considerable
knowledge has been gained about the enzymes that catalyze the lipid biosynthetic reactions …

[HTML][HTML] The triglyceride synthesis enzymes DGAT1 and DGAT2 have distinct and overlap** functions in adipocytes

C Chitraju, TC Walther, RV Farese Jr - Journal of lipid research, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Mammals store metabolic energy as triacylglycerols (TGs) in adipose tissue. TG synthesis is
catalyzed by the evolutionarily unrelated acyl-CoA: diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) …