Many roads lead to the lipid droplet.
Neutral lipid is stored in intracellular lipid droplets, whose biology remains incompletely understood. Recent work by Farese and colleagues (Guo et al., 2008) takes a systematic genome-wide approach to comprehensively identify processes regulating formation and metabolism of lipid droplets. The findings may offer novel insights into diseases involving lipid storage.
Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA. andrew.greenberg@tufts.edu
Andrew S
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Greenberg
Martin S
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Obin
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