Michal Eisenberg-Bord

Ms. Michal Eisenberg-Bord


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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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21 March 2019 in Cells
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ICInês Castro
Inês Castro
MEMichal Eisenberg-Bord
Michal Eisenberg-Bord
EPElisa Persiani
Elisa Persiani
Justin J. RochfordJustin J. Rochford
Justin J. Rochford
MSMaya Schuldiner
Maya Schuldiner
MBMaria Bohnert
Maria Bohnert
Seipin (BSCL2/SPG17) is a key factor in lipid droplet (LD) biology, and its dysfunction results in severe pathologies, including the fat storage disease Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy type 2, as well as several neurological seipinopathies. Despite its importance for human health, the molecular role of seipin is still enigmatic. Seipin is evolutionarily conserved from yeast to humans. In yeast, seipin was recently found to cooperate with the lipid droplet organization (LDO) proteins, Ldo16 and Ldo45, two structurally-related proteins involved in LD function and identity that display remote homology to the human protein promethin/TMEM159. In this study, we show that promethin is indeed an LD-associated protein that forms a complex with seipin, and its localization to the LD surface can be modulated by seipin expression levels. We thus identify promethin as a novel seipin partner protein.