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ArticleNature communications2024

CLSTN3B promotes lipid droplet maturation and lipid storage in mouse adipocytes.

Chuanhai Zhang, Mengchen Ye, Kamran Melikov, Dengbao Yang, Goncalo Dias do Vale, Jeffrey McDonald, Kaitlyn Eckert, Mei-Jung Lin, Xing Zeng

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Porcine SCD1 Regulates Lipid Droplet Number via CLSTN3B in PK15 Cells.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  6. Essential Biology of Lipid Droplets.Annual review of biochemistry · 2025
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  8. PPARα regulates ER-lipid droplet protein Calsyntenin-3β to promote ketogenesis in hepatocytes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Chuanhai ZhangDepartment of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Mengchen YeDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Kamran MelikovSection on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Dengbao YangDepartment of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7475-0320
Goncalo Dias do ValeCenter for Human Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1104-0289
Jeffrey McDonaldCenter for Human Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1570-4142
Kaitlyn EckertCenter for Human Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Mei-Jung LinDepartment of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Xing ZengDepartment of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. xing.zeng@utsouthwestern.edu.

Funding

UT Southwestern NORCP30DK127984 · NIDDK · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Jeffrey M Zigman · 2022 to 2026
$7.4M
Mechanistic Connection between Interorganellar Communication and Obesity-associated DiseasesR01DK135556 · NIDDK · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Xing Zeng · 2023 to 2026
$1.7M
American Heart Association (American Heart Association, Inc.) 23CDA1050474Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas) RR200084NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK127984NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK135556U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) R01DK135556
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interorganelle contacts facilitate material exchanges and sustain the structural and functional integrity of organelles. Lipid droplets (LDs) of adipocytes are responsible for energy storage and mobilization responding to body needs. LD biogenesis defects compromise the lipid-storing capacity of adipocytes, resulting in ectopic lipid deposition and metabolic disorders, yet how the uniquely large LDs in adipocytes attain structural and functional maturation is incompletely understood. Here we show that the mammalian adipocyte-specific protein CLSTN3B is crucial for adipocyte LD maturation. CLSTN3B employs an arginine-rich segment to promote extensive contact and hemifusion-like structure formation between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and LD, allowing ER-to-LD phospholipid diffusion during LD expansion. CLSTN3B ablation results in reduced LD surface phospholipid density, increased turnover of LD-surface proteins, and impaired LD functions. Our results establish the central role of CLSTN3B in the adipocyte-specific LD maturation pathway that enhances lipid storage and maintenance of metabolic health under caloric overload in mice of both sexes.

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AdipocytesEndoplasmic ReticulumLipid DropletsLipid Metabolism3T3-L1 CellsAnimalsFemaleMaleMembrane ProteinsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutPhospholipidsMembrane ProteinsPhospholipids

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PMID39488519
PMCPMC11531554

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