To better understand how this master regulator works, Taatjes teamed up with Robin Dowell, a professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Taylor Jones, then a graduate student in biochemistry; and colleagues at CU Boulder's BioFrontiers Institute.
Led by Associate Professor Nguyen Nam Long, from the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology Translational Research Programme (TRP) at NUS Medicine, the team found that Spns1 is like a cellular gatekeeper which can help to move a type of fat molecule called lysophospholipids to the lysosome, the cell's "recycling centre."
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their colleagues have developed the first comprehensive map of the dramatic changes that take place in the blood system over the course of the human lifetime.
