C. elegans como modelo para la variación interindividual en el metabolismo

Bennett W Fox1, Olga Ponomarova2, Yong-Uk Lee2

  • 1Boyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Nature
|July 6, 2022
PubMed
Resumen

Las diferencias en el metabolismo surgen de la genética y el medio ambiente. Este estudio en C. elegans revela nuevos metabolitos y una nueva vía vinculada a la variación genética en HPHD-1, mejorando los modelos metabólicos.

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