mmBCFA C17iso ensures endoplasmic reticulum integrity for lipid droplet growth
Open Access
- 8 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 220 (11)
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202102122
Abstract
In eukaryote cells, lipid droplets (LDs) are key intracellular organelles that dynamically regulate cellular energy homeostasis. LDs originate from the ER and continuously contact the ER during their growth. How the ER affects LD growth is largely unknown. Here, we show that RNAi knockdown of acs-1, encoding an acyl-CoA synthetase required for the biosynthesis of monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids C15iso and C17iso, remarkably prevented LD growth in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dietary C17iso, or complex lipids with C17iso including phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, and triacylglycerol, could fully restore the LD growth in the acs-1RNAi worms. Mechanistically, C17iso may incorporate into phospholipids to ensure the membrane integrity of the ER so as to maintain the function of ER-resident enzymes such as SCD/stearoyl-CoA desaturase and DGAT2/diacylglycerol acyltransferase for appropriate lipid synthesis and LD growth. Collectively, our work uncovers a unique fatty acid, C17iso, as the side chain of phospholipids for determining the ER homeostasis for LD growth in an intact organism, C. elegans.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2018YFA0800700, 2018YFA0800703)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1702288, 91857113, 31801001, 31671230, 81700520, 31860323, 32071281, 32000818, 32160155, U1702287)
- Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects (2018FB117, 2019FB046, 2019FB048, 2019FY003021)
- West-light Foundation
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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