title: Lysophospholipid acyltransferases:  1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferases. From discovery to disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Over the past several years, many more isoforms for the same enzymes, specifically for 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferases (AGPATs), have been cloned and studied. In this review, we summarize their biochemical features and discuss their functional role.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The most significant role of these AGPATs appeared from our observation of AGPAT2 in the biology of adipose tissue (adipocytes) in humans and mice. Other isoforms are shown to be implicated in lung, reproductive and cardiac muscle function and in the cause of cancer. In-vitro substrate specificities of these AGPATs also suggest the in-vivo role of these AGPATs in remodeling of several of the glycerophospholipids.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite significant progress in understanding the role of these AGPATs, much is still to be discovered in terms of how each of these AGPATs function in the presence or absence of other AGPATs and what their functional role might be.
authors: Division of Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA. Anil.Agarwal@UTSouthwestern.edu
authors: Anil K
authors: AK
authors: Agarwal
mesh_terms: D051103:1-Acylglycerol-3-Phosphate O-Acyltransferase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008243:1-Acylglycerophosphocholine O-Acyltransferase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D004194:Disease / Q000235:genetics; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D008243:1-Acylglycerophosphocholine O-Acyltransferase; D051103:1-Acylglycerol-3-Phosphate O-Acyltransferase