Triacylglycerols are an energy source produced in humans by DGAT1 and DGAT2, but disrupting these enzymes reveals a noncanonical pathway involving the protein DIESL (formerly TMEM68) and its regulator TMX1, which is important during lipid scarcity.
- Gian-Luca McLelland
- Marta Lopez-Osias
- Thijn R. Brummelkamp