Nutrient-Sensing Enzymes Key to Starvation Response and Survival in Newborn Mammals
Sunday, December 23, 2012 - 13:31
in Health & Medicine
One enzyme, RagA, has been found to regulate the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway in cells according to glucose and amino acid availability. When this regulation breaks down in fasting newborn mice, the animals suffer a nutritional crisis and die.