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Lipid droplets: proteins floating on a pool of fat
1Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, Stony Brook 11794-5215, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|August 23, 2001
Abstract:
Proteins on the surface of lipid storage droplets are crucial to droplet structure and function, but are poorly understood. Recent reports reveal a function for perilipins, major lipid droplet proteins in adipocytes, and show that caveolin proteins can accumulate on lipid droplets.