Université de Fribourg

Seipin and Nem1 establish discrete ER subdomains to initiate yeast lipid droplet biogenesis

Choudhary, Vineet ; El Atab, Ola ; Mizzon, Giulia ; Prinz, William A. ; Schneiter, Roger

In: Journal of Cell Biology, 2020, vol. 219, no. 7, p. -

Lipid droplets (LDs) are fat storage organelles that originate from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Relatively little is known about how sites of LD formation are selected and which proteins/lipids are necessary for the process. Here, we show that LDs induced by the yeast triacylglycerol (TAG)-synthases Lro1 and Dga1 are formed at discrete ER subdomains defined by seipin (Fld1), and a...