An unexpected and potentially big finding:
A single mitochondrial protein has an outsized role, acting as a central node, coordinating our circadian clock, temperature, dietary cues, sleep/wake cycle to control brown fat metabolism @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/jBbmaSjkaQ
New research led by #LKCMedicine Assoc Prof Yasunori Saheki reveals how cholesterol protects cells' recycling centers during mitophagy and converts leftover fats into energy. Could offer new insights into neurodegenerative diseases! 🧬👇
https://t.co/gQILSZ0S7w
Excited to share this! Lysosomal membrane cholesterol is important for lysosomal function and lipid recycling during mitophagy. Thank you Koji, my co-first author, and all co-authors, @ysaheki for the mentorship, and Aik Yong & @Isaspore@NUSMedicine for the beautiful CLEM!
Our new paper revealing the link between cholesterol and the clearance and recycling of damaged mitochondria is now published in @NatureComms! Congrats to @YHaoning & Koji @NTUsg who led the study, and thanks to Aik Yong & @Isaspore@NUSMedicine for CLEM! https://t.co/RgD0DF1f4Z
An advanced toolset to manipulate and monitor subcellular phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate. From Joshua Pemberton, John E. Burke, Tamas Balla and colleagues: https://t.co/pMWwjQY6c5
📕 From our #Lipid and #Membrane collection: https://t.co/WUvZ6PLU8a
Lysosomal dysfunction drives a transcriptional and epigenetic signature found in disease-associated microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: Immunity https://t.co/GCXw7lnDlr
A long-standing mystery in cholesterol biology: why is ER cholesterol sensing so switch-like rather than gradual? Our answer: cholesteryl ester phase separation in the ER, which converts small lipid changes into a cooperative transcriptional response.
https://t.co/8npJgllxNx
🎓 Congratulations to our #LKCMedicine PhD by Research graduates from the #NTUsgClassof2026! Discover how Dr Konstanze Tan and Dr Sara Tasnim turned curiosity into research that advances healthcare. 🔬 Read more: https://t.co/BaWsqzVDkJ
Myeong and Klyachko demonstrate that astrocytic cholesterol release modulates synaptic transmission in an activity-dependent manner to fine-tune the balance and spatial organization of different forms of synaptic exo- and endocytosis. https://t.co/4hlledgxQl
#Neuroscience
🔬☀️smURFP is extremely photostable!☀️🔬
A comparison of mEGFP & smURFP photostability when fused to lifeact to image F-actin for 7 min on the Nikon SoRa.
https://t.co/HqdFRnlBmg
https://t.co/uzZgDeXO71
#FluorescenceFriday#Microscopy#SuperResolution
Lipid exchange at ER–trans-Golgi contact sites governs polarized cargo sorting. From Dávid Kovács, Bruno Antonny and colleagues: https://t.co/OBHH0JdIeA
📕 Part of “Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells”: https://t.co/Lc1mgKwmzT
Today @NatureCellBio, we present a current view of lysosomal biology in aging and evaluate emerging therapeutic strategies. It has been a remarkable group effort from @AgingPitt.
Free PDF here https://t.co/k4Q88A1uKq
How does the plasma #membrane preserve its #lipid identity under stress? The Baskin and Balla labs report a homeostatic circuit linking PI4P, phosphatidylserine, RhoB, and phospholipase D-driven phosphatidic acid. https://t.co/mTsss8ZZcX
@basktastic@weillinstitute@CornellChem