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ArticleThe FEBS journal2026

Fast & fuelious: the malate-aspartate shuttle in brown adipocyte lipid metabolism.

Lukas Blaas, Alexander Bartelt

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Article in The FEBS journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Lukas BlaasChair of Translational Nutritional Medicine, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Alexander BarteltChair of Translational Nutritional Medicine, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7840-3991

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft TRR333Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) produces heat in response to cold exposure, for which it relies on the coordination of aerobic and anaerobic metabolism. However, how reaction intermediates connect these two essential pathways is unclear. In this issue of The FEBS Journal, Veliova et al., report that the malate-aspartate shuttle (MAS) supports norepinephrine-induced lipolysis in brown adipocytes. Disruption of MAS during adrenergic activation impairs lipolysis without reducing respiration. These findings indicate that cytosolic redox balance influences thermogenic metabolism. By linking NAD+ regeneration to lipid metabolism, the study highlights the MAS as an important node coordinating metabolism, redox balance, and thermogenesis.

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Adipocytes, BrownAspartic AcidLipid MetabolismMalatesAdipose Tissue, BrownAnimalsHumansLipolysisOxidation-ReductionThermogenesisAspartic Acidmalic acidbrown adipose tissuelipid mobilizationmalate–aspartate shuttlemetabolic redox balancethermogenesis

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PMID42027077
PMCPMC13440572

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