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Reduced Gut Acidity Induces an Obese-Like Phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster and in Mice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Lin Wei-Sheng, Huang Cheng-Wen, Song You-Sheng, Yen Jui-Hung, Kuo Ping-Chang, Yeh Sheng-Rong, Lin Hung-Yu, Fu Tsai-Feng, Wu Ming-Shiang, Wang Horng-Dar, Wang Pei-Yu
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In order to identify genes involved in stress and metabolic regulation, we carried out a Drosophila P-element-mediated mutagenesis screen for starvation resistance. We isolated a mutant, m2, that showed a 23% increase in survival time under starvation conditions. The P-element insertion was mapped to the region upstream of the vha16-1 gene, which encodes the c subunit of the vacuolar-type H+-ATPase. We found that...
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