Lipid droplet nucleation

AR Thiam, E Ikonen - Trends in Cell Biology, 2021 - cell.com
All living organisms can make lipid droplets (LDs), intracellular oil-in-water droplets,
surrounded by a phospholipid and protein monolayer. LDs are at the nexus of cellular lipid …

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 …

The lipid flippase SLC47A1 blocks metabolic vulnerability to ferroptosis

Z Lin, J Liu, F Long, R Kang, G Kroemer, D Tang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is a type of regulated necrosis caused by unrestricted lipid peroxidation and
subsequent plasma membrane rupture. However, the lipid remodeling mechanism that …

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 …

Mechanisms and inhibition of Porcupine-mediated Wnt acylation

Y Liu, X Qi, L Donnelly, N Elghobashi-Meinhardt… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Wnt signalling is essential for regulation of embryonic development and adult tissue
homeostasis,–, and aberrant Wnt signalling is frequently associated with cancers. Wnt …

The structural basis for the phospholipid remodeling by lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase 3

Q Zhang, D Yao, B Rao, L Jian, Y Chen, K Hu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As the major component of cell membranes, phosphatidylcholine (PC) is synthesized de
novo in the Kennedy pathway and then undergoes extensive deacylation-reacylation …

Lipodistrophy: a paradigm for understanding the consequences of “overloading” adipose tissue

K Lim, A Haider, C Adams, A Sleigh… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Lipodystrophies have been recognized since at least the nineteenth century and, despite
their rarity, tended to attract considerable medical attention because of the severity and …

The uniqueness of clear cell renal cell carcinoma: summary of the process and abnormality of glucose metabolism and lipid metabolism in ccRCC

X Qi, Q Li, X Che, Q Wang, G Wu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Kidney cancer is a cancer with an increasing incidence in recent years. Clear cell renal cell
carcinoma (ccRCC) accounts for up to 80% of all kidney cancers. The understanding of the …

Non-contaminating cryogenic fluid access to high-temperature resources: Liquid nitrogen fracturing in a lab-scale Enhanced Geothermal System

R Yang, C Hong, W Liu, X Wu, T Wang, Z Huang - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal energy exploitation is essential to meet the energy demand
and achieve low-carbon solutions. Creation of complex fracture networks in HDR by …

Lipid metabolism in glioblastoma: from de novo synthesis to storage

Y Kou, F Geng, D Guo - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal primary brain tumor. With limited therapeutic options,
novel therapies are desperately needed. Recent studies have shown that GBM acquires …