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. 2022 Feb 8;13(2):132. doi: 10.1038/s41419-022-04593-3

Fig. 3. Lipolysis and lipophagy may be sequential pathways.

Fig. 3

A Larger lipid droplets cannot be degraded by lipophagy and need to be degraded by ATGL-driven lipolysis. Lipolysis can reduce the size of lipid droplets. Some LDs escape β-oxidation in the endoplasmic reticulum and become esterified into small lipid droplets by DGAT1/2, at which point they are degraded via lipophagy. Lipolysis and lipophagy may be sequential pathways. B Synergistic degradation of the lipid droplet coat proteins PLIN2 and PLIN3 occurs via heat-shock protein (HSC70) and receptor lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein 2A (LAMP2A).