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Lauren Albrecht

@albrechtlab.bsky.social
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Asst Prof UC Irvine

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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 13/07/2026
☀️Our July issue's out! Cover: #lysosome #metabolite 👉Editorial: #StemCell #embryo models 👉Perspective: #proteomics in #oocytes & embryo 👉Review: #ferroptosis in glial #tumors 🔬 #mitochondria #cytoskeleton #chromatin #BreastCancer #PhaseSeparation #lipids & more! www.nature.com/ncb/volumes/...
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Dr Dorota SK @drdorotask.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Amazing work from @albrechtlab.bsky.social ! To paraphrase recent title from one of the CNS journals: Subcellular Localization as a Driver of Cellular Metabolic State. Congratulations to the team! @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social
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Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 25/03/2026
RESEARCH | M Campos, @albrechtlab.bsky.social et al. (UC Irvine) Subcellular compartmentalization of glycolytic enzyme PFKM regulates cell fate during skeletal muscle differentiation 🧪
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PFKM governs metabolic shifts throughout skeletal muscle differentiation - Nature Metabolism
Subcellular compartmentalization of the glycolytic enzyme PFKM regulates cell fate and metabolic switch during skeletal muscle differentiation.
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Anupama @anupamahl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Join us this Thursday for two exciting talks on how the dynamic compartmentalisation of metabolism and metabolites can drive cell function and fate. @albrechtlab.bsky.social @dacolon.bsky.social
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Dr Dorota SK @drdorotask.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fascinating study showing how lysosomes impact cellular metabolism of lipids. It was our pleasure to collaborate with @albrechtlab.bsky.social . More to come soon! #lysosomes #lipids
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Dr Dorota SK @drdorotask.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fantastic collaboration with @albrechtlab.bsky.social ! Lysosomes as hubs to regulate cellular lipidome. #lysosomes #lipids
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Excited to highlight our newest work “Lysosome-derived methylarginine is a signaling metabolite of the lipidome” in Nature Cell Biology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 24/02/2026
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PFKM governs metabolic shifts throughout skeletal muscle differentiation
Nature Metabolism, Published online: 24 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s42255-026-01457-4Subcellular compartmentalization of the glycolytic enzyme PFKM regulates cell fate and metabolic switch during skeletal muscle differentiation.
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Excited to share our latest work out today in @naturemetabolism.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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PFKM governs metabolic shifts throughout skeletal muscle differentiation - Nature Metabolism
Subcellular compartmentalization of the glycolytic enzyme PFKM regulates cell fate and metabolic switch during skeletal muscle differentiation.
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Fantastic work!
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Perrimon Lab @perrimonlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Renal Coenzyme A (CoA) Production Fuels Stem Cell Proliferation and Tumor Growth Ting Miao, Ying Liu, Mujeeb Qadiri, John M. Asara, Yanhui Hu, Xiaomei Sun, Christian Dibble, Norbert Perrimon bioRxiv 2025.08.08.669325; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Renal Coenzyme A (CoA) Production Fuels Stem Cell Proliferation and Tumor Growth
Coenzyme A (CoA), derived from Vitamin B5 (VB5), is essential for lipid metabolism, energy production, and cell proliferation. While the intracellular functions of CoA are well characterized, its tiss...
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Albrecht Lab Hosted Lab Visit for Children with Cystinosis as Part of Cystinosis Research Foundation’s Day of Hope Family Conference – UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Stylianos Lefkopoulos (he/him) @slefkopoulos.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🥂Congratulations to Petropoulos & co for their new Open Access study in our journal (@naturecellbiology.bsky.social): single-cell #transcriptomics, spatial, functional and comparative analyses show that the guinea pig presents high similarity with early human #embryogenesis. bit.ly/3RaRwWY
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The guinea pig serves as an alternative model to study human preimplantation development - Nature Cell Biology
Petropoulos and colleagues perform single-cell transcriptomics, spatial, functional and comparative analyses, and show that the guinea pig presents high similarity with early human embryogenesis.
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Aakriti Jain @aakritijain.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
SO excited to share that a major part of the postdoctoral work in @robzonculab.bsky.social lab is now published: “Leucine aminopeptidase LyLAP enables lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Leucine aminopeptidase LyLAP enables lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins
Breakdown of every transmembrane protein trafficked to lysosomes requires proteolysis of their hydrophobic helical transmembrane domains. Combining lysosomal proteomics with functional genomic dataset...
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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New work from Coon Lab (Wisconsin), @harperlabhms.bsky.social & Gygi Lab @harvardcellbio.bsky.social reports global proteomics/lipidomics of > 2 dozen Lysosomal Storage Disease mutant cells & reveals iron defects associated with mitochondrial defects in NPC2 mutants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Global cellular proteo-lipidomic profiling of diverse lysosomal storage disease mutants using nMOST
A nanoflow multiomic workflow reveals how lysosomal dysfunction disrupts autophagy and mitochondrial homeostasis in LSD mutants.
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Lipidome, proteome, LSD. What’s not to love??
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Rajat Singh Lab @lipophagy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Thank you Drs. Dan Klionsky and Dimitra Dialynaki for your commentary on our work: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Identification of the mammalian VPS4A as a selective lipophagy receptor
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
So much fun sharing MrTAC with Keystone and seeing old friends and making new ones @fleurmferguson.bsky.social @stevenbanik.bsky.social @dannomura.bsky.social @danetteldaniels.bsky.social #lysosome #tpd
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you Brian !!
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Honored to be a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow! #sloanfellow
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Brian Paegel @briandna.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Pondering a purge of pesky pathological proteins?
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 04/02/2025
Oh no, they said “bias” in the title: AI-mediated desk rejection at NSF www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The role of ionic blockades in controlling the efficiency of energy recovery in forward bias bipolar membranes - Nature Energy
Bipolar membranes are increasingly being applied in a variety of electrochemical devices, yet understanding of how they operate in complex electrolyte environments is still limited. Here the authors o...
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Honored to be giving a talk at Dana-Farber’s TPD seminar this Thursday 2/6 at 9am PST. dfci.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Come check out MrTAC 💊 @danafarber.bsky.social
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Brian Kleiboeker @bkleiboeker.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
CRISPR screening in epithelial cells suggests that peroxisome-derived ether lipids alter cellular viability in response to lipotoxic stress. Fas-associated factor family member 2 (FAF2) appears to be a key regulator of this process. This is an interesting preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Protein Kinase C positively regulates peroxisome biogenesis by promoting peroxisome-endoplasmic reticulum interaction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Protein Kinase C positively regulates peroxisome biogenesis by promoting peroxisome-endoplasmic reticulum interaction
Peroxisomes carry out a diverse set of metabolic functions, including oxidation of very long-chained fatty acids, degradation of D-amino acids and hydrogen peroxide, and bile acid production. Many of ...
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Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
"An early-life microbiota metabolite [peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ, or PPAR-γ] protects against obesity by regulating intestinal lipid metabolism [in mice]" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com · 19/12/2024
... And if you want to know more, here's the featured Article: Methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins ($) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins - Nature Chemical Biology
Development of a targeted protein degradation platform, methylarginine targeting chimera (MrTAC), enables arginine methylation-driven degradation of intracellular proteins in lysosomes.
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Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com · 19/12/2024
Our December issue has been out for a new weeks but it has quite a striking confocal microscopy image on the cover. www.nature.com/nchembio/vol...
Image shows a confocal microscopy image of methylated proteins in gold in HeLa cells organizing into cytosolic puncta with a nuclear costain shown in blue.
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Thomas Arnesen @natmachinery.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins. The MrTAC chimera recruits PRMT1 to a target protein for induced degradation in lysosomes. @albrechtlab.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Craig M. Crews @craigmcrews.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
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PROTAC protein degraders to drug the undruggable enter phase 3 trials
Pharmaceutical companies are investing in therapies that target proteins for degradation, with trials ongoing for cancer, autoimmune diseases and neurological disorders.
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Loving #CellBio2024 and excited to present in micro session MONDAY 10:30 AM 28C microsession #MrTAC #lysosome #degrader #TPD #methylation
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Excited to attend ASCB #CellBio2024! The Albrecht lab will present on lysosomes, quality control, lipid / carbohydrate metabolism, and MrTAC TPD targeted degrader. Please check out our lab's talks and posters:
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/12/2024
A new #ScienceAdvances study demonstrates a vaccine for cancer immunotherapy that would speed up the efficiency of messenger RNA translation in cytoplasm—and effectively inhibited tumor growth. scim.ag/49qY0sY
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mRNA compartmentalization via multimodule DNA nanostructure assembly augments the immunogenicity and efficacy of cancer mRNA vaccine
Intracellular DNA assembly for mRNA vaccine compartmentalization facilitates antigen expression and enhances adjuvant efficacy.
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Dream come true to be featured on the cover!
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Lauren Albrecht @albrechtlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thank you @haoyin.bsky.social !!
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Lorena Benedetti @lorenabenedetti.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Kicking off here with some old but gold movies showing ER-lysosome interactions triggered by blue-light excitation of the light-sensitive protein eMags. A shining example of how light can control cellular dynamics! 💡🧫✨
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