Cover illustration for the Salk Institute's Saghatelian lab on the discovery of diverse microproteins and their roles in metabolism. An array of small, structurally varied microproteins merges into metabolic pathways, symbolizing how newly identified molecules influence metabolic regulation. Published in Cell Metabolism Jan 03, 2023, Volume 35, Issue 1.

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Martinez, T. F., Lyons-Abbott, S., Bookout, A. L. et al. (2023). Profiling mouse brown and white adipocytes to identify metabolically relevant small ORFs and functional microproteins. Cell Metabolism, 35(1), 166–183.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2022.12.004