The lipid droplet-a well-connected organelle

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Gao, Qiang ^a   Goodman, Joel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoplasmic reticulum; Lipid droplet; Mitochondria; Organelle junction; Protein trafficking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978680317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2015.00049     Document Type: Review

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