Chemical Probing of Diacylglycerol Dynamics at Lipid Droplets
Christopher Gomez, Nicholas McInchak, Sarah Louis, Evan Heck, Haylee Mesa, Jonathan Meade, Qi Zhang, Maciej J. Stawikowski
This paper develops a DAG-mimetic fluorescent probe, DONDI-5, to visualize diacylglycerol dynamics at lipid droplets and shows DAGs can be stored there without converting to triacylglycerols.
bioRxiv · Mar 1, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry