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ReviewAnnual review of biochemistry2025

Essential Biology of Lipid Droplets.

Robert V Farese, Tobias C Walther

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Review in Annual review of biochemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert V FareseCell Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; email: rfarese@mskcc.org, twalther@mskcc.org.
Tobias C WaltherCell Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; email: rfarese@mskcc.org, twalther@mskcc.org.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Michael Jason de la Cruz · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Mechanisms of Lipid Droplet Protein TargetingR01GM097194 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WALTHER, TOBIAS C · 2011 to 2024
$4.9M
Mechanisms of Lipid Droplet FormationR01GM124348 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI FARESE, ROBERT V · 2017 to 2024
$2.9M
Lipotoxic Protective Response of the Endoplasmic ReticulumR01GM141050 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI FARESE, ROBERT V · 2021 to 2024
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097194NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124348NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM141050
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid droplets (LDs), long overlooked as inert cellular storage organelles, are now recognized for their complex and rich biology as membraneless organelles integral to cell metabolism. Significant advances have revealed that LDs are crucial for cellular processes that include the storage and retrieval of lipids for metabolic energy and membrane synthesis and the detoxification of lipids by sequestering them in the organelle's core. Here, we review key aspects of LD biology, emphasizing insights into fundamental mechanisms of their formation, the mechanisms of protein targeting, new insights into LD turnover, and how LDs integrate into cellular metabolism. Where possible, we describe how these processes are important in physiology and how alterations in LD biology can lead to metabolic disease. We highlight unresolved questions and key challenges to be addressed for further advancing our understanding of LD biology and its implications for health and disease.

Indexed as

Lipid DropletsLipid MetabolismAnimalsEnergy MetabolismHumanscholesterollipophagymembrane contact sitesmetabolismprotein targetingtriglyceride

Identifiers

PMID40169008
PMCPMC13404299

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