Circadian clock gates diurnal glucose utilization
The circadian clock and cellular metabolism are tightly coupled to maintain homeostasis. A new study in PLOS Biology leverages metabolic tracing to reveal time-of-day-dependent activities of glucose metabolic pathways in Drosophila that are disrupted in clock and sleep mutants.
Authors
- Joanna C. Chiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7613-8127)
- Yao D. Cai
Institutions
- University of California, Davis (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS Biology
- Published
- 2026-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003743
- Primary Topic
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases