An emerging role of mTOR in lipid biosynthesis

Lipid biosynthesis is essential for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. The lipids produced by cells (glycerolipids, fatty acids, phospholipids, cholesterol, and sphingolipids) are used as an energy source/reserve, as building blocks for membrane biosynthesis, as precursor molecules for the syn...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laplante, Mathieu (Contributor), Sabatini, David (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Sabatini, David M. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd., 2012-11-01T16:19:38Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext