Sentences with phrase «cellular fuel gauge»
In the new work, the Salk team found that when cells are exposed to mitochondria damage, a central cellular fuel gauge, the enzyme AMPK, sends an emergency alert to mitochondria instructing them to break apart into many tiny mitochondrial fragments.
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AMPK senses the ADP / ATP ratio, thus knowing the cellular energy levels — sort of like a fuel gauge but in reverse.
Low cellular energy = high AMPK so this is sort of a reverse fuel gauge of cellular energy status.