The interaction of human CGI-58 and perilipin on the lipid particle surface has not been studied in detail, so the human reaction is inferred from the well-studied mouse one. The observation that humans homozygous for CGI-58 mutations suffer from Chanarin-Dorfman Syndrome, characterized by the abnormal accumulation of triacylglycerol droplets in most tissues (Lefevre et al. 2001), provides indirect evidence that human and mouse CGI-58 proteins have similar functions.
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