MBOAT7 in liver and extrahepatic diseases

A Caddeo, R Spagnuolo, S Maurotti - Liver International, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
MBOAT7 is a protein anchored to endomembranes by several transmembrane domains. It
has a catalytic dyad involved in remodelling of phosphatidylinositol with polyunsaturated …

Precision medicine and nucleotide-based therapeutics to treat MASH

A Caddeo, S Romeo - Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2024 - e-cmh.org
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a complex multifactorial
disease and becoming the leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. MASLD …

MMD collaborates with ACSL4 and MBOAT7 to promote polyunsaturated phosphatidylinositol remodeling and susceptibility to ferroptosis

VV Phadnis, J Snider, V Varadharajan… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death with roles in degenerative diseases and cancer.
Excessive iron-catalyzed peroxidation of membrane phospholipids, especially those …

Genetics of MASLD: The State of Art Update.

S Sookoian, Y Rotman, L Valenti - Clinical Gastroenterology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent advances in the genetics of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
(MASLD) are gradually revealing the mechanisms underlying the heterogeneity of the …

Mechanisms coupling lipid droplets to MASLD pathophysiology

MV Reid, G Fredickson, DG Mashek - Hepatology, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Hepatic steatosis, the buildup of neutral lipids in lipid droplets (LDs), is commonly referred to
as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) when alcohol or viral …

The pivotal role of the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain containing 7 in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

P Chandrasekaran, R Weiskirchen - Livers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common and prevalent disorder affecting 25
percent of the adults in the United States and 32 percent of adults globally. It is one of the …

Backmapping with Mapping and Isomeric Information

S Kim - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
I present a powerful and flexible backmapping tool named Multiscale Simulation Tool
(mstool) that converts a coarse-grained (CG) system into all-atom (AA) resolution and only …

[HTML][HTML] Liver Involvement in Patients with Rare MBOAT7 Variants and Intellectual Disability: A Case Report and Literature Review

L Ronzoni, M Mureddu, F Malvestiti, V Moretti… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain-containing 7 (MBOAT7) protein is an
acyltransferase catalyzing arachidonic acid incorporation into lysophosphatidylinositol …

Phospholipid Acyltransferases: Characterization and Involvement of the Enzymes in Metabolic and Cancer Diseases

J Korbecki, M Bosiacki, M Pilarczyk… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review discusses the enzymatic processes governing the initial
stages of the synthesis of glycerophospholipids (phosphatidylcholine …

Mapping structural and dynamic divergence across the MBOAT family

TB Ansell, M Healy, CE Coupland, MSP Sansom… - Structure, 2024 - cell.com
Membrane-bound O-acyltransferases (MBOATs) are membrane-embedded enzymes that
catalyze acyl chain transfer to a diverse group of substrates, including lipids, small …