Developmental Biology

Have researchers found a new genetic model for obesity?

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 13th, 2003

A gene involved in lipid metabolism, and consequently relevant for studies in obesity and diabetes, has been described in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) by a team of researchers.

Luis Teixeira and Nathalie F. Vanzo from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and their collaborators, described how this gene, named Lsd2, is involved in fat storage, in the Mechanisms of Development.

Two genes with similar function in lipid metabolism have been previously identified in mammals including man. Teixeira and Vanzo's work, describing a gene from the same family in Drosophila, suggest that these genes must...

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