Understanding the diversity of membrane lipid composition

T Harayama, H Riezman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Cellular membranes are formed from a chemically diverse set of lipids present in various
amounts and proportions. A high lipid diversity is universal in eukaryotes and is seen from …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging roles of lysophospholipids in health and disease

ST Tan, T Ramesh, XR Toh, LN Nguyen - Progress in Lipid Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Lipids are abundant and play essential roles in human health and disease. The main
functions of lipids are building blocks for membrane biogenesis. However, lipids are also …

Plasma membranes are asymmetric in lipid unsaturation, packing and protein shape

JH Lorent, KR Levental, L Ganesan… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental feature of cellular plasma membranes (PMs) is an asymmetric lipid
distribution between the bilayer leaflets. However, neither the detailed, comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] The critical role of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine metabolism in health and disease

JN van der Veen, JP Kennelly, S Wan, JE Vance… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2017 - Elsevier
Phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) are the most abundant
phospholipids in all mammalian cell membranes. In the 1950s, Eugene Kennedy and co …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Homeoviscous adaptation and the regulation of membrane lipids

R Ernst, CS Ejsing, B Antonny - Journal of molecular biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Biological membranes are complex and dynamic assemblies of lipids and proteins.
Poikilothermic organisms including bacteria, fungi, reptiles, and fish do not control their body …

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 …

Regulation of lipid saturation without sensing membrane fluidity

S Ballweg, E Sezgin, M Doktorova, R Covino… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cells maintain membrane fluidity by regulating lipid saturation, but the molecular
mechanisms of this homeoviscous adaptation remain poorly understood. We have …

Oncogene amplification in growth factor signaling pathways renders cancers dependent on membrane lipid remodeling

J Bi, TA Ichu, C Zanca, H Yang, W Zhang, Y Gu… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Advances in DNA sequencing technologies have reshaped our understanding of the
molecular basis of cancer, providing a precise genomic view of tumors. Complementary …

An ER phospholipid hydrolase drives ER-associated mitochondrial constriction for fission and fusion

TT Nguyen, GK Voeltz - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that undergo cycles of fission and fusion at a unified
platform defined by endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria membrane contact sites …