Seipin is required for converting nascent to mature lipid droplets

Seipin is required for converting nascent to mature lipid droplets

How proteins control the biogenesis of cellular lipid droplets (LDs) is poorly understood. Using Drosophila and human cells, we show here that seipin, an ER protein implicated in LD biology, mediates a discrete step in LD formation—the conversion of small, nascent LDs to larger, mature LDs. Seipin f...

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Main Authors: Huajin Wang, Michel Becuwe, Benjamin E Housden, Chandramohan Chitraju, Ashley J Porras, Morven M Graham, Xinran N Liu, Abdou Rachid Thiam, David B Savage, Anil K Agarwal, Abhimanyu Garg, Maria-Jesus Olarte, Qingqing Lin, Florian Fröhlich, Hans Kristian Hannibal-Bach, Srigokul Upadhyayula, Norbert Perrimon, Tomas Kirchhausen, Christer S Ejsing, Tobias C Walther, Robert V Farese Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-08-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
lipid droplet
seipin
organelle biogenesis
LiveDrop
endoplasmic reticulum
lipid metabolism
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/16582

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