...John McLauchlan There is now increasing evidence that LDs (lipid droplets) play a central role in the production of infectious HCV (hepatitis C virus) and participate in virus assembly. Two viral proteins, namely core, which forms the capsid, and NS5A (non-structural 5A protein), a component...

...Alexander A. Goldberg; Simon D. Bourque; Pavlo Kyryakov; Tatiana Boukh-Viner; Christopher Gregg; Adam Beach; Michelle T. Burstein; Gayane Machkalyan; Vincent Richard; Sonia Rampersad; Vladimir I. Titorenko Growing evidence supports the view that LDs (lipid droplets) are dynamic organelles that can...

...Michael A. Welte Lipid droplets are intracellular organelles that play central roles in lipid metabolism. In many cells, lipid droplets undergo active motion, typically along microtubules. This motion has been proposed to aid growth and breakdown of droplets, to allow net transfer of nutrients from...

...S. Le Lay; P. Ferré; I. Dugail Adipose tissue is specialized in the storage of energy in the form of triacylglycerol. Within the fat cell, triacylglycerols are found in a well-defined structural compartment called the lipid droplet, which occupies the vast majority of the fat cell volume. However...