The N-degron pathway mediates lipophagy: The chemical modulation of lipophagy in obesity and NAFLD

Central to the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the accumulation of lipids in the liver and various fat tissues. We aimed to elucidate the mechanisms by which lipid droplets (LDs) in the liver and adipocytes are degraded by the autophagy-lysosome system and develop therapeutic means to modulate lipophagy, i.e., autophagic degradation of LDs.
Source: Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research