Lipid metabolic enzymes: emerging drug targets for the treatment of obesity

Y Shi, P Burn - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2004 - nature.com
Obesity is a complex disease that is regulated by both central and peripheral mechanisms.
New medicines for the treatment and prevention of obesity will need to overcome the …

Hepatic lipid metabolism and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in aging

Z Gong, E Tas, S Yakar, R Muzumdar - Molecular and cellular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aging is associated with dysregulation of glucose and lipid metabolism. Various factors that
contribute to the dysregulation include both modifiable (eg obesity, insulin resistance) and …

Fatty acid oxidation organizes mitochondrial supercomplexes to sustain astrocytic ROS and cognition

B Morant-Ferrando, D Jimenez-Blasco… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Having direct access to brain vasculature, astrocytes can take up available blood nutrients
and metabolize them to fulfil their own energy needs and deliver metabolic intermediates to …

Personalized immunotherapy against several neuronal and brain tumors

S Kuttruff-coqui, T Weinschenk, J Fritsche… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
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The brain-specific carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1c regulates energy homeostasis

MJ Wolfgang, T Kurama, Y Dai… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Fatty acid synthesis in the central nervous system is implicated in the control of food intake
and energy expenditure. An intermediate in this pathway, malonyl-CoA, mediates these …

Acyltransferases in bacteria

A Röttig, A Steinbüchel - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Long-chain-length hydrophobic acyl residues play a vital role in a multitude of essential
biological structures and processes. They build the inner hydrophobic layers of biological …

Crystal structure of vinorine synthase, the first representative of the BAHD superfamily

X Ma, J Koepke, S Panjikar, G Fritzsch… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
Vinorine synthase is an acetyltransferase that occupies a central role in the biosynthesis of
the antiarrhythmic monoterpenoid indole alkaloid ajmaline in the plant Rauvolfia. Vinorine …

Transcriptomic variation of hepatopancreas reveals the energy metabolism and biological processes associated with molting in Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir …

S Huang, J Wang, W Yue, J Chen, S Gaughan, W Lu… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Molting is a critical developmental process for crustaceans, yet the underlying molecular
mechanism is unknown. In this study, we used RNA-Seq to investigate transcriptomic …

The genomic enzymology of antibiotic resistance

M Morar, GD Wright - Annual review of genetics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The need for new antibiotic therapies is acute and growing in large part because of the
emergence of drug-resistant pathogens. A vast number of resistance determinants are …

Structural insights into the inhibition mechanism of human sterol O-acyltransferase 1 by a competitive inhibitor

C Guan, Y Niu, SC Chen, Y Kang, JX Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Sterol O-acyltransferase 1 (SOAT1) is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) resident, multi-
transmembrane enzyme that belongs to the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase (MBOAT) …