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Seipin complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Required for resulating the size, morphology and content of lipid droplets. Acts to stabilize the contact points between the endoplasmic reticulum and lipid droplet, preventing the equilibration of the two membrane systems and establishing a diffusion barrier. The complex modulates the balance between neutral lipid and phospholipid synthesis and appears to affect the distribution of enzymes involved in phosphatidic acid to diacyl glycerol conversion. Mutations in human seipin cause lipodystrophy.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

cellular component assembly, organelle assembly, lipid droplet, membrane, organelle, intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle