Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

TDP-43 facilitates milk lipid secretion by post-transcriptional regulation of Btn1a1 and Xdh

  • Limin Zhao,
  • Hao Ke,
  • Haibo Xu,
  • Guo-Dong Wang,
  • Honglei Zhang,
  • Li Zou,
  • Shu Xiang,
  • Mengyuan Li,
  • Li Peng,
  • Mingfang Zhou,
  • Lingling Li,
  • Lei Ao,
  • Qin Yang,
  • Che-Kun James Shen,
  • Ping Yi,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Baowei Jiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14183-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Milk lipid secretion is a critical process for the delivery of nutrition and energy from parent to offspring. Here the authors found that TDP-43, a RNA-binding protein, is required for milk lipid secretion by post-transcriptional regulation of Btn1a1 and Xdh mRNA stability.