Cellular Lipid in Health and Disease

Dr. James M. Ntambi is a Professor of Biochemistry and the Steenbock Professor of Nutritional Sciences, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The focus of Dr. Ntambi’s research is to understand the genetic regulation of metabolism, adipocyte biology, and differentiation. He is specifically interested in the genetic basis of obesity, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, and diabetes and how dietary factors, hormones, and environmental factors influence these disease states. Recently, his team has genetically engineered mice that are born without the stearoyl-CoA desaturase gene-1, and found that these mice resist obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease. Most recent work has focused on the role monounsaturated fatty acids in diet induced de novo lipogenesis, obesity, and insulin resistance. Dr. Ntambi also conducts research on obesity and diabetes and other noncommunicable metabolic diseases in developing countries. Dr. Ntambi has published more than 230 scientific articles in such journals including Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Lipid Research, PNAS, Science, Cell Metabolism, Hepatology journal, BBRC, JCI, BBA, PLoS, Journal of Nutrition, and American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, among others.

1 Structure and function of mammalian sphingolipids in health and disease
Mariona Rabionet, Robert Engel and Roger Sandhoff
2 Intracellular lipid storage and utilization in adipocytes
Vishva M. Sharma, James M. Ntambi and Vishwajeet Puri
3 Metabolic control by lipid droplet proteins
Dilip Menon, Rakesh Mohan Jha, Arpita Nahak and Sheetal Gandotra
4 From endoplasmic reticulum to nucleus: the fate of cellular fatty acids
Antoine Jutras-Carignan, Tania Guillemette and Catherine Mounier
5 Lipid trafficking and signaling in adipocytes
Yan Tang and Qi-Qun Tang
6 Cell and molecular basis for maintenance of cholesterol homeostasis
Townsend A. Smith and Russell A. DeBose-Boyd
7 Interplay between phospholipid signaling and autophagy
Meenu Maan and Mainak Dutta
8 The role of cellular lipid metabolism in aging
Xiaoli Chen and Jun Liu
9 Plasma lipid trafficking in type 2 diabetes
Isabella James, Gina Wade, Helaina Von Bank, Ayren McGahee, Autumn Chevalier, Paula Gonzalez, Kayla Bote, James M. Ntambi and Judith Simcox
10 Lipotoxicity in the pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease complications
Masashi Masuda, Yuji Shiozaki and Makoto Miyazaki
11 Cellular lipids in the molecular pathogenesis of obesity
Mashudu G. Matumba, Ademola O. Ayeleso, James M. Ntambi and Emmanuel Mukwevho
12 Effects of cellular lipids on heart in pathology and physiology
Volodymyr V. Balatskyi, Marcin Wolosiewicz, Aneta M. Dobosz, Zuzanna Tracz-Gaszewska, Adrian Sowka, Maria Kendziorek, Ewelina Krogulec, Viktor O. Navrulin and Pawel Dobrzyn
13 Uncoupling of fat deposition and inflammation during nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Honggui Li, Xinlei Guo, Eduardo Aquino and Chaodong Wu
14 Cellular lipids and colorectal cancer
Seong-Ho Lee and Joseph LoBianco
15 Lipid metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases
Jeroen F.J. Bogie, Jeroen Guns and Sam Vanherle
16 Cellular lipids in B cell immunity, inflammation, and cancer
Yana Zhang, James M. Ntambi and Deyu Fang
17 Role of cellular fatty acids in combating the corona virus
Abhishek Saxena and Archana Tiwari
18 Cellular lipids and viral infection
Z. Zhang, C. Baguley, X. Wang and B. Kopek
19 Acetyl-CoA and acetylation in biology and disease
Luigi Puglielli, Michael J. Rigby and Gonzalo Fernandez-Fuente
20 Role of omega-3 and -6 fatty acids in the inflammatory processes of obesity, hypertension, and autoimmunity
F. Enrique Go´mez, Martha Kaufer-Horwitz, He´ctor Bourges and Gabriela E. Mancera-Chavez