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Cellular stress

Cutting through stress

In nature, organisms constantly face a variety of stresses in the environment. An organism’s ability to resolve a stressful state is crucial in maintaining homeostasis. In this issue of Nature Metabolism, Wei et al. report that redox-dependent caspase cleavage of fatty acid synthase triggers a global cue for stress resolution in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Fig. 1: Redox-dependent caspase cleavage of fatty acid synthase regulates stress resolution.

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Jasper, L.A., Wang, M.C. Cutting through stress. Nat Metab 6, 6–7 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00946-0

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