A yeast vacuolar pH 'heartbeat' coordinates amino acid metabolism and the cell cycle.

Nat Metab

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Published: October 2023

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