Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Role for formin-like 1-dependent acto-myosin assembly in lipid droplet dynamics and lipid storage

  • Simon G. Pfisterer,
  • Gergana Gateva,
  • Peter Horvath,
  • Juho Pirhonen,
  • Veijo T. Salo,
  • Leena Karhinen,
  • Markku Varjosalo,
  • Samppa J. Ryhänen,
  • Pekka Lappalainen,
  • Elina Ikonen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14858
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Lipid droplets (LDs) are cellular organelles dedicated to triacylglycerol storage that can undergo fusion and dissociation events. Here the authors show that formin-like 1-dependent acto-myosin assembly on LDs facilitates their dissociation and, as a consequence, affects hydrolysis and storage of triacylglycerols.