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Lipid Droplet Isolation for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Analysis
Published on: April 17, 2017
The Vacuole Lipid Droplet Contact Site vCLIP
Duy Trong Vien Diep1,2, Maria Bohnert1,2
1Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Abstract:
Lipid droplets frequently form contact sites with the membrane of the vacuole, the lysosome-like organelle in yeast. These vacuole lipid droplet (vCLIP) contact sites respond strongly to metabolic cues: while only a subset of lipid droplets is bound to the vacuole when nutrients are abundant, other metabolic states induce stronger contact site formation. Physical lipid droplet-vacuole binding is related to the process of lipophagy, a lipid droplet-specific form of microautophagy. The molecular basis for the formation and function of vCLIP contact sites remained enigmatic for a long time. This knowledge gap was filled when it was found that vCLIP is formed by the structurally related lipid droplet tether proteins Ldo16 and Ldo45, and the vacuolar surface protein Vac8. Ldo45 additionally recruits the phosphatidylinositol transfer protein Pdr16 to vCLIP. Here, we review the literature on the lipid droplet-vacuole contact site in light of the progress in our understanding of its molecular basis and discuss future directions for the field.
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