Mitochondria perform diverse metabolic and signaling functions, yet how these activities are spatially organized within the mitochondrial network of cells remains poorly understood. Organelle contact ...

Succinate acts as a competitive inhibitor of mammalian aspartate transcarbamylase (ATCase), leading to impaired pyrimidine biosynthesis and reduced proliferation under SDH inhibition.

SDH-null cancer cells decrease mitochondrial complex I to drive rewired aspartate synthesis through reductive carboxylation and pyruvate carboxylase, supporting cell proliferation and tumor growth.

Succinate acts as a competitive inhibitor of mammalian aspartate transcarbamylase (ATCase), leading to impaired pyrimidine biosynthesis and reduced proliferation under SDH inhibition.

l-2-Hydroxyglutarate is identified as a legitimate physiological signalling metabolite, and control of its levels is essential for postnatal growth and survival and correct renal development and funct...

Nature Metabolism, Published online: 08 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s42255-026-01532-wMetabolomic analysis of plasma from metformin-treated humans, together with mechanistic studies in mouse models, reveals that metformin selectively inhibits mitochondrial complex I in the intestinal epithelium. This mechanism unifies multiple clinical effects of metformin, including enhanced intestinal glucose use, improved postprandial glycaemic control and increased production of GDF15 and N-lactoyl-phenylalanine.

Cell metabolism is a dynamic network of highly interconnected biochemical reactions. In this issue of Nature Metabolism, time-lapse analysis of the amino acid aspartate revealed an unexpected regulati...

Succinate acts as a competitive inhibitor of mammalian aspartate transcarbamylase (ATCase), leading to impaired pyrimidine biosynthesis and reduced proliferation under SDH inhibition.

Cystine / Glutathione / NADPH SLC33A1 exports oxidized glutathione to maintain endoplasmic reticulum redox homeostasis Shanshan Liu  (刘珊珊), Mark Gad, Caifan Li  (李采蘩), Kevin Cho, Yuyang Liu  (刘雨洋),…

Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is an ancient metabolic process that is increasingly recognized as an important player in cancer onset, progression, and treatment resistance. In this ...

Nature Metabolism, Published online: 07 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s42255-026-01511-1In this issue of Nature Metabolism, Brain, Vigil et al. show that NRF2-induced cystine uptake drives the formation of several cysteine–sugar metabolites. This process acts as a ‘sink’ for free cysteine and can lead to metabolic vulnerabilities and toxicity in NRF2-activated tumours.

In this issue of Nature Metabolism, Brain, Vigil et al. show that NRF2-induced cystine uptake drives the formation of several cysteine–sugar metabolites. This process acts as a ‘sink’ for free cystein...

Brunner et al. report that malate-aspartate shuttle engagement is cell-state dependent and can be modulated by the availability of the amino acid aspartate. In differentiated cells, malate-aspartate s...

How the complex interplay between multiple nutrients within the microenvironment dictates potential sites of metastatic cancer growth is explored.

Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is an undefined additive that is ubiquitous to mammalian cell culture media and whose functional contributions to promoting c…

Mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling regulates branched-chain amino acid catabolism in an adolescent liver cancer.

Not all aspartate limitation is created equal: An aspartate biosensor reveals that inhibiting succinate dehydrogenase results in defects in pyrimidine synthesis and replication stress, unique from oth...