NAFLD: mechanisms, treatments, and biomarkers

F Nassir - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), recently renamed metabolic-associated fatty liver
disease (MAFLD), is one of the most common causes of liver diseases worldwide. NAFLD is …

Acylcarnitines—old actors auditioning for new roles in metabolic physiology

CS McCoin, TA Knotts, SH Adams - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2015 - nature.com
Perturbations in metabolic pathways can cause substantial increases in plasma and tissue
concentrations of long-chain acylcarnitines (LCACs). For example, the levels of LCACs and …

Deficient endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondrial phosphatidylserine transfer causes liver disease

MI Hernández-Alvarez, D Sebastián, S Vives… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver is the most common liver disease worldwide. Here, we show that the
mitochondrial protein mitofusin 2 (Mfn2) protects against liver disease. Reduced Mfn2 …

Fatty acid oxidation protects cancer cells from apoptosis by increasing mitochondrial membrane lipids

YJ Li, JF Fahrmann, M Aftabizadeh, Q Zhao… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Overcoming resistance to chemotherapies remains a major unmet need for cancers, such as
triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Therefore, mechanistic studies to provide insight for …

Mic19 depletion impairs endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondrial contacts and mitochondrial lipid metabolism and triggers liver disease

J Dong, L Chen, F Ye, J Tang, B Liu, J Lin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria contacts are critical for the regulation of lipid
transport, synthesis, and metabolism. However, the molecular mechanism and physiological …

Traumatic brain injury and mitochondrial dysfunction

JB Hiebert, Q Shen, AR Thimmesch… - The American journal of the …, 2015 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability in the United States and
causes mitochondrial damage leading to impaired brain function. The purpose of this review …

Endoplasmic reticulum proteostasis in hepatic steatosis

A Baiceanu, P Mesdom, M Lagouge… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Hepatic steatosis, the first step in the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, is
characterized by triglyceride accumulation in hepatocytes and is highly prevalent in people …

Phosphatidylserine and the human brain

MJ Glade, K Smith - Nutrition, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this study was to assess the roles and importance of
phosphatidylserine (PS), an endogenous phospholipid and dietary nutrient, in human brain …

Organelle-Mediated Dissipative Self-Assembly of Peptides in Living Cells

H Wang, Y Song, W Wang, N Chen, B Hu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Implementing dissipative assembly in living systems is meaningful for creation of living
materials or even artificial life. However, intracellular dissipative assembly remains scarce …

[HTML][HTML] Regulatory T cell differentiation is controlled by αKG-induced alterations in mitochondrial metabolism and lipid homeostasis

MI Matias, CS Yong, A Foroushani, C Goldsmith… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Suppressive regulatory T cell (Treg) differentiation is controlled by diverse immunometabolic
signaling pathways and intracellular metabolites. Here we show that cell-permeable α …