Compartmentalized metabolism supports midgestation mammalian development

A Solmonson, B Faubert, W Gu, A Rao, MA Cowdin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian embryogenesis requires rapid growth and proper metabolic regulation.
Midgestation features increasing oxygen and nutrient availability concomitant with fetal …

An LKB1–mitochondria axis controls TH17 effector function

F Baixauli, K Piletic, DJ Puleston, M Villa, CS Field… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
CD4+ T cell differentiation requires metabolic reprogramming to fulfil the bioenergetic
demands of proliferation and effector function, and enforce specific transcriptional …

Evolution and functional implications of the tricarboxylic acid cycle as revealed by phylogenetic analysis

JHF Cavalcanti, AA Esteves-Ferreira… - Genome biology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, a crucial component of respiratory metabolism, is
composed of a set of eight enzymes present in the mitochondrial matrix. However, most of …

Intracellular α-ketoglutarate maintains the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells

BW Carey, LWS Finley, JR Cross, CD Allis… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The role of cellular metabolism in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation remains
poorly understood. For example, most mammalian cells cannot proliferate without …

mTORC1 in the Paneth cell niche couples intestinal stem-cell function to calorie intake

ÖH Yilmaz, P Katajisto, DW Lamming, Y Gültekin… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
How adult tissue stem and niche cells respond to the nutritional state of an organism is not
well understood. Here we find that Paneth cells, a key constituent of the mammalian …

Regulation of mitochondrial morphology and function by stearoylation of TFR1

D Senyilmaz, S Virtue, X Xu, CY Tan, JL Griffin… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Mitochondria are involved in a variety of cellular functions, including ATP production, amino
acid and lipid biogenesis and breakdown, signalling and apoptosis,,. Mitochondrial …

Reductive carboxylation supports growth in tumour cells with defective mitochondria

AR Mullen, WW Wheaton, ES Jin, PH Chen… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Mitochondrial metabolism provides precursors to build macromolecules in growing cancer
cells,. In normally functioning tumour cell mitochondria, oxidative metabolism of glucose-and …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell time-lapse of mouse prenatal development from gastrula to birth

C Qiu, BK Martin, IC Welsh, RM Daza, TM Le, X Huang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The house mouse (Mus musculus) is an exceptional model system, combining genetic
tractability with close evolutionary affinity to humans,. Mouse gestation lasts only 3 weeks …

Control of cell state transitions

OS Rukhlenko, M Halasz, N Rauch, V Zhernovkov… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding cell state transitions and purposefully controlling them is a longstanding
challenge in biology. Here we present cell state transition assessment and regulation …

Reprogramming of genome function through epigenetic inheritance

MA Surani - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Most cells contain the same set of genes and yet they are extremely diverse in appearance
and functions. It is the selective expression and repression of genes that determines the …