Rapid adaptation of cellular metabolic rate to the MicroRNA complements of mammals and its relevance to the evolution of endothermy

Summary: The metabolic efficiency of mammalian cells depends on the attenuation of intrinsic translation noise by microRNAs. We devised a metric of cellular metabolic rate (cMR), rMR/Mexp optimally fit to the number of microRNA families (mirFam), that is robust to variation in mass and sensitive to...

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Main Authors: Bastian Fromm, Thomas Sorger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-02-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223028171