Science news articles about 'lipid droplets'

... depots. Cells transport excess fats into lipid droplets (LDs), where they are kept until ... Paul Bieniasz points to precedents of defects in lipid turnover triggering neuronal disorders, such as mutations ...

... already know to be essential to lipid storage are the PAT proteins, which sit on the outside of the lipid droplet. Dr. Oliver and colleagues have identified another, somewhat surprising, key player – ...

... be separated into five distinct phenotypic classes, based on the number and appearance of the lipid droplets. The most interesting genes will be advanced into functional studies in flies and mice. ...

... to De Luca "Insects store fat like mammals do, as lipid droplets accumulated in the fat body, the functional equivalent of both mammalian liver and white adipose tissue". She adds that, ...

... of autophagy, whereby a cell breaks down its components as a fuel source, while female neurons created more lipid droplets to store fat reserves. As with other cell culture studies, the ...

... normal cell function. "In this study, we found that the amount of fat stored in these intracellular lipid droplets is controlled through autophagy, a process until now thought to help primarily in ...

... Heck, at the University's Centre for Cardiovascular Science, said: "The presence of this protein in lipid droplets may suggest that it has a role in obesity. What we would like to understand is ...