Volume 28, No 11, Nov 2018

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 28 Issue 11, November 2018: 1048-1049

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

DH44 neurons: gut-brain amino acid sensors

Yu-Chieh David Chen ¹ and Anupama Dahanukar ^1,2

¹Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA and ²Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California,
Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Correspondence: Correspondence: Anupama Dahanukar (anupama.dahanukar@ucr.edu)

Maintaining protein homeostasis is essential for the survival of animals. A recent study in Cell Research identifies a group of DH44 + neuroendocrine cells in the Drosophila brain as a novel fast-acting amino acid sensor, which detects three specific dietary amino acids and promotes food intake.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-018-0101-z

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