brief notes - senescent cell clearance, kidney type glutaminase, intracellular pH

New article on kidney type glutaminase and senescent cell clearance: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/265 

related:

 Simultaneously Targeting Tissue Transglutaminase and Kidney Type Glutaminase Sensitizes Cancer Cells to Acid Toxicity and Offers New Opportunities for Therapeutic Intervention https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4291776/ 

It's interesting that this all hinges on intracellular pH; there was a good talk on intracellular pH and neurodegeneration a while back: https://youtu.be/OUmFkfTFm_o

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