title: Oil is on the agenda: Lipid turnover in higher plants.
abstract: Lipases hydrolyze ester bonds within lipids. This process is called lipolysis. They are key players in lipid turnover and involved in numerous metabolic pathways, many of which are shared between organisms like the mobilization of neutral or storage lipids or lipase-mediated membrane lipid homeostasis. Some reactions though are predominantly present in certain organisms, such as the production of signaling molecules (endocannabinoids) by diacylglycerol (DAG) and monoacylglycerol (MAG) lipases in mammals and plants or the jasmonate production in flowering plants. This review aims at giving an overview of the different functional classes of lipases and respective well-known activities, with a focus on the most recent findings in plant biology for selected classes. Here we will put an emphasis on the physiological role and contribution of lipases to the turnover of neutral lipids found in seed oil and other vegetative tissue as candidates for increasing the economical values of crop plants. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Plant Lipid Biology edited by Kent D. Chapman and Ivo Feussner.
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-University, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Justus-von-Liebig Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Amélie A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-University, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Justus-von-Liebig Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Georg-August-University, Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Justus-von-Liebig Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Georg-August-University, International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion (ICASEC), Justus-von-Liebig Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Ivo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Feussner
mesh_terms: D018525:Germination / Q000235:genetics; D008049:Lipase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D050356:Lipid Metabolism / Q000235:genetics*; D008055:Lipids / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D008066:Lipolysis / Q000235:genetics; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways / Q000235:genetics; D008994:Monoacylglycerol Lipases; D050178:Monoglycerides / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D050178:Monoglycerides; D014280:Triglycerides; D008994:Monoacylglycerol Lipases; D008049:Lipase
keywords: Arabidopsis; Lipase; Triacylglycerol