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Re-examination of Dietary Amino Acid Sensing Reveals a GCN2-Independent Mechanism

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© 2015 The Authors.Animals cannot synthesize nine essential amino acids (EAAs) and must therefore obtain them from food. Mice reportedly reject food lacking a single EAA within the first hour of feeding. This remarkable phenomenon is proposed to involve po

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