Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Eliciting the impacts of cellular noise on metabolic trade-offs by quantitative mass imaging

  • A. E. Vasdekis,
  • H. Alanazi,
  • A. M. Silverman,
  • C. J. Williams,
  • A. J. Canul,
  • J. B. Cliff,
  • A. C. Dohnalkova,
  • G. Stephanopoulos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08717-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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How cellular noise impacts metabolic trade-offs remains unknown. Here, the authors use a quantitative single-cell mass imaging strategy to reveal that cellular noise impacts cellular biomass and triacylglycerol accumulation, as well as protein and fatty-acid recycling under starvation, differently.