[HTML][HTML] Piecing together the structural organisation of lipid exchange at membrane contact sites

R Khaddaj, W Kukulski - Current opinion in cell biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane contact sites (MCSs) are areas of close proximity between organelles, implicated
in transport of small molecules and in organelle biogenesis. Lipid transfer proteins at MCSs …

Lipid Droplets Big and Small: Basic Mechanisms That Make Them All

RW Klemm, P Carvalho - Annual Review of Cell and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are dynamic storage organelles with central roles in lipid and energy
metabolism. They consist of a core of neutral lipids, such as triacylglycerol, which is …

Zooming into lipid droplet biology through the lens of electron microscopy

W Dudka, VT Salo, J Mahamid - FEBS letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electron microscopy (EM), in its various flavors, has significantly contributed to our
understanding of lipid droplets (LD) as central organelles in cellular metabolism. For …

[HTML][HTML] In situ studies of membrane biology by cryo-electron tomography

J Keller, R Fernández-Busnadiego - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows high resolution 3D imaging of biological
samples in near-native environments. Thus, cryo-ET has become the method of choice to …

CIDE proteins and their regulatory mechanisms in lipid droplet fusion and growth

L Xu, L Li, L Wu, P Li, FJ Chen - FEBS letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The cell death‐inducing DFF45‐like effector (CIDE) proteins, including Cidea, Cideb, and
Cidec/Fsp27, regulate various aspects of lipid homeostasis, including lipid storage, lipolysis …

The role of lipid droplet associated proteins in inherited human disorders.

X Duan, DB Savage - 2023 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Proteins which associate with the surface of lipid droplets are intimately involved in the
regulation of the droplets. Several human inherited disorders have now been linked to loss …

Large transient assemblies of Apaf1 constitute the apoptosome in cells

AC Borgeaud, I Ganeva, C Klein, A Stooss… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Upon cell death signals, the apoptotic protease-activating factor Apaf1 and cytochrome c
interact to form the apoptosome complex. The apoptosome is crucial for mitochondrial …

The punctate localisation of the yeast sterol transporter Ysp2p is determined by three dimerisation interfaces in its C-terminus

GO Alli-Balogun, L Ivanović, W Kukulski, TP Levine - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Sterol lipids traffic between intracellular compartments by vesicular and non-vesicular
routes. Sterol traffic from the plasma membrane to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), so-called …

PI (4) P recruits CIDE proteins to promote the formation of unilocular lipid droplets during adipogenesis and hepatic steatosis

J Wu, M Gao, X Wu, Y Liu, X Du, Y Liang, C Ma, P Li… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are evolutionarily conserved organelles that play important roles in
metabolism. Each LD is enclosed by a monolayer of phospholipids, distinct from bilayer …