Diverse roles of phosphatidate phosphatases in insect development and metabolism

M Lehmann - Insect biochemistry and molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
… The de novo synthesis of PA in the glycerol-3-phosphate pathway by acylation of LPA is …
Triacylglycerol biosynthesis occurs via the glycerol-3-phosphate pathway in the insect Rhodnius

[HTML][HTML] Trypanosoma cruzi Affects Rhodnius prolixus Lipid Metabolism During Acute Infection

G Sousa, SS de Carvalho, GC Atella - Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 2021 - frontiersin.org
appears to be reached by cell signaling molecules that communicate the parasite retained
in the closed gut environment with other insect … In this study, the Rhodnius prolixus adult …

Insulin receptor deficiency reduces lipid synthesis and reproductive function in the insect Rhodnius prolixus

G Silva-Oliveira, IF De Paula, JM Medina… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
triacylglycerol content in the fat body of Rhodnius prolixus. … The synthesis of complex lipids
in the fat body may occur via … in the glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) pathway for the synthesis of …

Silencing of mitochondrial trifunctional protein A subunit (HADHA) increases lipid stores, and reduces oviposition and flight capacity in the vector insect Rhodnius …

DS Arêdes, IF De Paula, S Santos-Araujo… - Frontiers in Insect …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… /or by lipophagy, as we have shown to occur in R. prolixus (24). … Bmm is the insect orthologue
of ATGL (adipose triglyceride … in the glycerol-3-phosphate pathway for the synthesis of TAG …

… of ATG6 and ATG8 promotes increased levels of triacylglycerol (TAG) in the fat body during prolonged starvation periods in the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius …

S Santos-Araujo, L Bomfim, LO Araripe, R Bruno… - Insect Biochemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rhodnius prolixus is an obligatorily hematophagous insect known … triacylglycerol (TAG)
generating free fatty acids for β-oxidation. Here, two essential genes of the autophagic pathway, …

A journey into the world of insect lipid metabolism

U Toprak, D Hegedus, C Doğan… - Archives of insect …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… This pathway is initiated by glycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase (GPAT), which …
into Lps can occur through passive diffusion at the cell surface or alternatively via receptor-mediated …

Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of the underlying mechanisms of digestion of triacylglycerols and phosphatides and absorption and fate of fatty acids along the …

IG Barroso, C Cardoso, C Ferreira, WR Terra - … and Physiology Part D …, 2021 - Elsevier
… routes were investigated: triacylglycerol synthesis through glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) …
Triacylglycerol biosynthesis occurs via the glycerol-3-phosphate pathway in the insect Rhodnius

Knockdown of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT1) reduces fat body lipid mobilization and resistance to starvation in the insect vector Rhodnius prolixus

IF De Paula, S Santos-Araujo, D Majerowicz… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… slowly occurs, lipids are synthesized and accumulate in the fat body, mainly as triacylglycerol
On the other hand, the knockdown of RhoprGPAT1, a glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase …

… of Brummer lipase disturbs lipid mobilization and locomotion, and impairs reproduction due to defects in the eggshell ultrastructure in the insect vector Rhodnius …

DS Arêdes, T Rios, LF Carvalho-Kelly, V Braz… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2024 - Elsevier
… in mammals is the adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL). Here, … knockdown occurred before the
blood meal and the insects … ; Gpat1 and Gpat4: glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 1 and 4…

Insect Lipids: Structure, Classification, and Function

A Kaczmarek, AK Wrońska, J Sobich, MI Boguś - 2024 - Springer
insects is the fat body. Lipid metabolism, ie, the breakdown and storage of fats and the synthesis
of structural and functional lipids, takes place via … The sn-glycerol-3-phosphate molecule…