Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

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 …

Triglyceride lipolysis triggers liquid crystalline phases in lipid droplets and alters the LD proteome

S Rogers, L Gui, A Kovalenko, V Zoni… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - rupress.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are reservoirs for triglycerides (TGs) and sterol-esters (SEs), but how
these lipids are organized within LDs and influence their proteome remain unclear. Using in …

[HTML][HTML] Structural insights into perilipin 3 membrane association in response to diacylglycerol accumulation

YM Choi, D Ajjaji, KD Fleming, PP Borbat… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lipid droplets (LDs) are dynamic organelles that contain an oil core mainly composed of
triglycerides (TAG) that is surrounded by a phospholipid monolayer and LD-associated …

[HTML][HTML] Interplay between lipid metabolism, lipid droplets, and DNA virus infections

MA Farías, B Diethelm-Varela, AJ Navarro, AM Kalergis… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lipid droplets (LDs) are cellular organelles rich in neutral lipids such as triglycerides and
cholesterol esters that are coated by a phospholipid monolayer and associated proteins …

[HTML][HTML] Oral TNF-α siRNA delivery via milk-derived exosomes for effective treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

G Han, H Kim, H Jang, ES Kim, SH Kim, Y Yang - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Oral administration facilitates the direct delivery of drugs to lesions within the small intestine
and colon, making it an ideal approach for treating patients with inflammatory bowel …

Tld1 is a regulator of triglyceride lipolysis that demarcates a lipid droplet subpopulation

NO Speer, RJ Braun, EG Reynolds, A Brudnicka… - Journal of Cell …, 2023 - rupress.org
Cells store lipids in the form of triglyceride (TG) and sterol ester (SE) in lipid droplets (LDs).
Distinct pools of LDs exist, but a pervasive question is how proteins localize to and convey …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative lipidomic and transcriptomic study unravels the therapeutic effects of saikosaponins A and D on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

X Li, J Ge, Y Li, Y Cai, Q Zheng, N Huang, Y Gu… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become one of the most prominent causes of
chronic liver diseases and malignancies. However, few therapy has been approved. Radix …

Computational studies of lipid droplets

S Kim, JMJ Swanson, GA Voth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lipid droplets (LDs) are intracellular organelles whose primary function is energy storage.
Known to emerge from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) bilayer, LDs have a unique structure …

LC3B is lipidated to large lipid droplets during prolonged starvation for noncanonical autophagy

M Omrane, KB M'Barek, A Santinho, N Nguyen… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Lipid droplets (LDs) store lipids that can be utilized during times of scarcity via autophagic
and lysosomal pathways, but how LDs and autophagosomes interact remained unclear …