The December issue is online:
https://embopress.org/toc/14693178/25/12
The cover features work by Stacey Gilk identifying a novel #bacterial effector protein that mediates ER-LD #membrane contacts to regulate host #lipiddroplets.
-> https://embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00266-8
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease induced by a high-fat diet increases the association of mitochondria with lipid droplets, which can be reversed by a treadmill running routine. 🏃
preLight from Hellen Costa & Marcus Oliveira who cover work from Juan Carlos Bórquez & team.
#preLight 👉https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/effects-of-aerobic-exercise-in-hepatic-lipid-droplet-mitochondria-interaction-in-non-alcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-v2/
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease induced by a high-fat diet increases the association of mitochondria with lipid droplets, which can be reversed by a treadmill running routine.
Ivanovska et al. Small lipid droplets are rigid enough to indent a nucleus, dilute the lamina, and cause rupture. @JCellBiol
One of those findings that sounds really surprising (almost contradictory) but then makes you realise that you had no idea how rigid a lipid droplet was anyway!
Are you also fascinated by #InterorganellarCommunication via #MembraneContactSites?
Check out my weekly report, summarizing the latest work on membrane contact sites.
http://biomed.news/bims-mecosi/2022-12-18
This week’s issue entails 8 publications, addressing MCS aspects in #Autophagy, #LipidDroplets, #SuperResolutionMicroscopy and more!
This is in close collaboration with #BioMedNews, a #MachineLearning platform that pre-selects potentially interesting work for me to curate and do the final assortment.
Active #lipids enable intelligent swimming of #microplankton under nutrient limitation https://phys.org/news/2022-11-microplankton-lipids-enable-intelligent-nutrient.html #protists #plankton #biophysics
Active reconfiguration of cytoplasmic #LipidDroplets governs migration of nutrient-limited #phytoplankton https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn6005
#Algae adopt a thrifty lifestyle when nutrients turn limiting. They strategically harness internal lipids to regulate swimming properties to maximize their fitness.
Biophysicists from the University of Luxembourg have uncovered how microplankton—key photosynthetic organisms which produce nearly 50% of the oxygen we breathe—adopt a thrifty lifestyle when nutrients turn limiting. They strategically harness internal lipids to regulate swimming properties to maximize their fitness.
That awkward moment when you automate your embryo image acquisition and end up creating modern art with stitching artifacts and also the egg isn’t fertilized so it’s not really an embryo 🫠
#lipiddroplets #microscopy #fluorescencemicroscopy #embryos #developmentalbiology #devbio #annelids
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