RESEARCH ARTICLE A conserved role of the insulin-like signaling pathway in diet-dependent uric acid pathologies in Drosophila melanogaster 1¤ 1,2 1,2 1 Sven Lang *, Tyler A. Hilsabeck , Kenneth A. WilsonID , Amit SharmaID , 1 3 1 4 Neelanjan Bose , Deanna J. Brackman , Jennifer N. BeckID , Ling Chen , Mark 1 5 4 1 3 A. WatsonID , David W. KillileaID , Sunita Ho , Arnold Kahn , Kathleen GiacominiID , Marshall L. Stoller6, Thomas Chi6, Pankaj Kapahi1* a1111111111 1 The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America, 2 Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, a1111111111 3 Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San a1111111111 Francisco, California, United States of America, 4 Division of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, University of a1111111111 California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 5 Nutrition & Metabolism a1111111111 Center, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, 6 Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America ¤ Current address: Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany. OPEN ACCESS *
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[email protected] (PK) Citation: Lang S, Hilsabeck TA, Wilson KA, Sharma A, Bose N, Brackman DJ, et al. (2019) A conserved role of the insulin-like signaling pathway in diet- Abstract dependent uric acid pathologies in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genet 15(8): e1008318. Elevated uric acid (UA) is a key risk factor for many disorders, including metabolic syn- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008318 drome, gout and kidney stones.