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Daily magnesium fluxes regulate cellular timekeeping and energy balance

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, April 2016
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Title
Daily magnesium fluxes regulate cellular timekeeping and energy balance
Published in
Nature, April 2016
DOI 10.1038/nature17407
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Authors

Kevin A. Feeney, Louise L. Hansen, Marrit Putker, Consuelo Olivares-Yañez, Jason Day, Lorna J. Eades, Luis F. Larrondo, Nathaniel P. Hoyle, John S. O’Neill, Gerben van Ooijen

Abstract

Circadian clocks are fundamental to the biology of most eukaryotes, coordinating behaviour and physiology to resonate with the environmental cycle of day and night through complex networks of clock-controlled genes. A fundamental knowledge gap exists, however, between circadian gene expression cycles and the biochemical mechanisms that ultimately facilitate circadian regulation of cell biology. Here we report circadian rhythms in the intracellular concentration of magnesium ions, [Mg(2+)]i, which act as a cell-autonomous timekeeping component to determine key clock properties both in a human cell line and in a unicellular alga that diverged from each other more than 1 billion years ago. Given the essential role of Mg(2+) as a cofactor for ATP, a functional consequence of [Mg(2+)]i oscillations is dynamic regulation of cellular energy expenditure over the daily cycle. Mechanistically, we find that these rhythms provide bilateral feedback linking rhythmic metabolism to clock-controlled gene expression. The global regulation of nucleotide triphosphate turnover by intracellular Mg(2+) availability has potential to impact upon many of the cell's more than 600 MgATP-dependent enzymes and every cellular system where MgNTP hydrolysis becomes rate limiting. Indeed, we find that circadian control of translation by mTOR is regulated through [Mg(2+)]i oscillations. It will now be important to identify which additional biological processes are subject to this form of regulation in tissues of multicellular organisms such as plants and humans, in the context of health and disease.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 311 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 63 20%
Researcher 49 15%
Student > Master 34 11%
Student > Bachelor 34 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 5%
Other 63 20%
Unknown 60 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 89 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 71 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 5%
Neuroscience 15 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 4%
Other 43 13%
Unknown 72 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 370. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 May 2023.
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