The Ins and Outs of Endoplasmic Reticulum-controlled Lipid Biosynthesis

Overview

Journal EMBO Rep

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2017 Oct 28

PMID 29074503

Citations 121

Authors

Julie Jacquemyn

Ana Cascalho

Rose E Goodchild

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Abstract

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized enzymes synthesize the vast majority of cellular lipids. The ER therefore has a major influence on cellular lipid biomass and balances the production of different lipid categories, classes, and species. Signals from outside and inside the cell are directed to ER-localized enzymes, and lipid enzyme activities are defined by the integration of internal, homeostatic, and external information. This allows ER-localized lipid synthesis to provide the cell with membrane lipids for growth, proliferation, and differentiation-based changes in morphology and structure, and to maintain membrane homeostasis across the cell. ER enzymes also respond to physiological signals to drive carbohydrates and nutritionally derived lipids into energy-storing triglycerides. In this review, we highlight some key regulatory mechanisms that control ER-localized enzyme activities in animal cells. We also discuss how they act in concert to maintain cellular lipid homeostasis, as well as how their dysregulation contributes to human disease.

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