Article
Packing on the Pounds in Response to Bacterial Growth Conditions.
Developmental cell - 22 May 2017
Rashid Sabih, MacNeil Lesley T
Abstract excerpt
Reporting in Nature Cell Biology, Lin and Wang (2017) show that bacterial methyl metabolism impacts host mitochondrial dynamics and lipid storage in C. elegans. The authors propose a model whereby bacterial metabolic products regulate a nuclear hormone receptor that promotes lipid accumulation through expression of a secreted Hedgehog-like protein.
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