{"id":25312,"date":"2025-10-02T03:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25312"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:58:51","slug":"a-pathway-that-controls-conversion-of-the-amino-acid-cysteine-into-a-cholesterol-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25312","title":{"rendered":"A pathway that controls conversion of the amino acid cysteine into a cholesterol regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"c-article-identifiers\" data-test=\"article-identifier\">\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\" data-test=\"article-category\"><span class=\"c-article-identifiers__type\">RESEARCH BRIEFINGS<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\">01 October 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n                    The amino acid cysteine is crucial for life but is toxic at high concentrations. Cells and tissues are exposed to high cysteine levels but maintain low intracellular concentrations through unknown mechanisms. A new technology platform has enabled the discovery of a protein that responds to cysteine fluctuations and regulates its breakdown.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 01 October 2025 The amino acid cysteine is crucial for life but is toxic at high concentrations. Cells and tissues are exposed to high cysteine levels but maintain low intracellular concentrations through unknown mechanisms. A new technology platform has enabled the discovery of a protein that responds to cysteine fluctuations and regulates its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[10035,15309,15311,1223,15308,15310,6733,4473],"class_list":{"0":"post-25312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-acid","9":"tag-amino","10":"tag-cholesterol","11":"tag-controls","12":"tag-conversion","13":"tag-cysteine","14":"tag-pathway","15":"tag-regulator"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}