“…A second mechanism allowing mobilization of FFAs is the macroautophagy of LDs (lipophagy), a process identified both in vitro and in vivo in rat RALA255-10G hepatocytes exposed to oil-rich medium and in liver-specific conditional autophagy-related 7 (Atg7) knock-out mice, respectively (Demine et al, 2012;Singh, Kaushik et al, 2009). In these conditions, the recruitment of light chain 3 (LC3), an autophagosomal marker, to the LD is observed, initiating the formation of autophagosomal engulfment of the LD in an Atg7-dependent manner and allowing the fusion with lysosomes in which lipolytic enzymes digest the TAG contained in LDs (Demine et al, 2012;Singh, Kaushik et al, 2009). So far, the existence of lipophagy has been confirmed in hepatocytes (Singh, Kaushik et al, 2009) (Martinez-Lopez et al, 2016), white (Lettieri Barbato, Tatulli, Aquilano, & Ciriolo, 2013) and brown (Martinez-Lopez et al, 2016) adipocytes, pancreatic β cells (Pearson et al, 2014), T cells (Hubbard et al, 2010), or neurons (Kaushik et al, 2011).…”