Ribosomes Need Straight A's to Sleep.

Sondalle, Samuel B; Baserga, Susan J · Cell · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Like falling asleep and waking up, many biological processes in mammals cycle in a diurnal fashion. Now, Sinturel et al. demonstrate that diurnal size changes in the liver require eating during a mouse's normal awake time and that these size changes are controlled by a nuclear mechanism that modulates ribosome production.

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