Leveraging genetic and phenotypic variation to discover metabolite-protein interactions.

Ducker, Gregory S; Rutter, Jared · Cell Metab · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

How metabolites regulate protein function is still poorly understood. Leveraging the power of genetic variation, Xiao et al. built a global protein-metabolite covariation dataset to reveal novel protein-metabolite regulations in mouse that led to the discovery of cysteine catabolism as an unexpected regulator of cholesterol.

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