A metabolic switch for myelination
Shenghui Niu, Lin Zhao, Da Jia · 2025
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Shenghui Niu, Lin Zhao, and Da Jia wrote a 2025 comment on a fresh finding about how nerve fibers gain their fatty coat, called myelin. Young cells that make myelin must grow and change even when sugar runs low. A recent study found a small chemical tag on a sugar sensing protein in these cells.
The tag acts like a switch, the comment explains. It blocks the low sugar alarm that would halt growth in most cells. With the alarm off, the young cells keep growing and wrap nerves as they should. The piece shows why one cell type can answer hunger in its own way.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shenghui Niu, Lin Zhao, Da Jia |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 10 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |