Thank you 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Thanks Fikadu!!

Thanks Éric!

ATG2A = the one who grabs the “wonky grease” off the stove (ER) and dumps it into the butter ball (LD) so everything stays chill.

No ATG2A?
Stove’s a greasy mess and instead of one big happy butter ball you get 1,000 furious mini-butter pellets rolling around like they own the place.

Thanks Claudia!

Thank you André.

Work led by the talented PhD student Helin Elhan, and we are incredibly grateful to all our collaborators who made this possible.

* ATG2A functions as a DAG/neutral lipid-transfer bridge at ER–LD contact sites
* This mechanism helps the ER avoid non-bilayer lipid buildup
* Its DAG-transfer activity is essential for DGAT2 targeting and TAG synthesis on LDs
* Loss of ATG2A causes many small LDs; restoring ATG2A rescues LD growth