Search Results - "Savage, David B"
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What lipodystrophies teach us about the metabolic syndrome
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-10-2019)“…Lipodystrophies are the result of a range of inherited and acquired causes, but all are characterized by perturbations in white adipose tissue function and, in…”
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Disordered Lipid Metabolism and the Pathogenesis of Insulin Resistance
Published in Physiological reviews (01-04-2007)“…Departments of Internal Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven,…”
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The genetics of lipid storage and human lipodystrophies
Published in Trends in molecular medicine (01-07-2015)“…Highlights • In vertebrates, adipocytes store surplus energy within a large unilocular lipid droplet. • Lipid accumulation in non-adipose tissue is seen when…”
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Prospective functional classification of all possible missense variants in PPARG
Published in Nature genetics (01-12-2016)“…Amit Majithia and colleagues employ a pooled assay in human macrophages to assess the functional effects of all possible missense variants in PPARG . Their…”
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Conserved Amphipathic Helices Mediate Lipid Droplet Targeting of Perilipins 1–3
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (25-03-2016)“…Perilipins (PLINs) play a key role in energy storage by orchestrating the activity of lipases on the surface of lipid droplets. Failure of this activity…”
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Compartmentalized Synthesis of Triacylglycerol at the Inner Nuclear Membrane Regulates Nuclear Organization
Published in Developmental cell (23-09-2019)“…Cells dynamically adjust organelle organization in response to growth and environmental cues. This requires regulation of synthesis of phospholipids, the…”
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PCYT1A Regulates Phosphatidylcholine Homeostasis from the Inner Nuclear Membrane in Response to Membrane Stored Curvature Elastic Stress
Published in Developmental cell (21-05-2018)“…Cell and organelle membranes consist of a complex mixture of phospholipids (PLs) that determine their size, shape, and function. Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is…”
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Perilipins 2 and 3 lack a carboxy-terminal domain present in perilipin 1 involved in sequestering ABHD5 and suppressing basal lipolysis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-06-2014)“…Lipid droplets (LDs) are a conserved feature of most organisms. Vertebrate adipocytes have evolved to efficiently store and release lipids for the whole…”
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Lipodystrophy: metabolic insights from a rare disorder
Published in Journal of endocrinology (01-12-2010)“…Obesity, insulin resistance and their attendant complications are among the leading causes of morbidity and premature mortality today, yet we are only in the…”
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role of skeletal muscle insulin resistance in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-07-2007)“…We examined the hypothesis that insulin resistance in skeletal muscle promotes the development of atherogenic dyslipidemia, associated with the metabolic…”
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Accumulation of saturated intramyocellular lipid is associated with insulin resistance[S]
Published in Journal of lipid research (01-07-2019)“…Intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) accumulation has been linked to both insulin-resistant and insulin-sensitive (athletes) states. Biochemical analysis of…”
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Mutations disrupting the Kennedy phosphatidylcholine pathway in humans with congenital lipodystrophy and fatty liver disease
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-06-2014)“…Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the major glycerophospholipid in eukaryotic cells and is an essential component in all cellular membranes. The biochemistry of de…”
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Mouse models of inherited lipodystrophy
Published in Disease models & mechanisms (01-11-2009)“…Insulin resistance is a major factor in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and underpins the strong association between obesity and diabetes. Paradoxically,…”
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Perilipin Deficiency and Autosomal Dominant Partial Lipodystrophy
Published in The New England journal of medicine (24-02-2011)“…Perilipin, the most abundant adipocyte-specific lipid-droplet coat protein, is required for optimal lipid incorporation and release from the droplet. The…”
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Evidence of a Causal Association Between Insulinemia and Endometrial Cancer: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Published in JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute (01-09-2015)“…Insulinemia and type 2 diabetes (T2D) have been associated with endometrial cancer risk in numerous observational studies. However, the causality of these…”
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Insulin resistance and white adipose tissue inflammation are uncoupled in energetically challenged Fsp27-deficient mice
Published in Nature communications (07-01-2015)“…Fsp27 is a lipid droplet-associated protein almost exclusively expressed in adipocytes where it facilitates unilocular lipid droplet formation. In mice, Fsp27…”
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The architecture of Cidec-mediated interfaces between lipid droplets
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (28-02-2023)“…Lipid droplets (LDs) are intracellular organelles responsible for storing surplus energy as neutral lipids. Their size and number vary enormously. In white…”
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Postreceptor insulin resistance contributes to human dyslipidemia and hepatic steatosis
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-02-2009)“…Metabolic dyslipidemia is characterized by high circulating triglyceride (TG) and low HDL cholesterol levels and is frequently accompanied by hepatic…”
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Human Frame Shift Mutations Affecting the Carboxyl Terminus of Perilipin Increase Lipolysis by Failing to Sequester the Adipose Triglyceride Lipase (ATGL) Coactivator AB-hydrolase-containing 5 (ABHD5)
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-10-2011)“…Perilipin (PLIN1) is a constitutive adipocyte lipid droplet coat protein. N-terminal amphipathic helices and central hydrophobic stretches are thought to…”
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Continuous fat oxidation in acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2 knockout mice increases total energy expenditure, reduces fat mass, and improves insulin sensitivity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-10-2007)“…Acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2 (ACC)2 is a key regulator of mitochondrial fat oxidation. To examine the impact of ACC2 deletion on whole-body energy metabolism, we…”
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