Hina Kosakamoto
kosakamotohina.bsky.social
Hina Kosakamoto
@kosakamotohina.bsky.social
PhD at UTokyo (Miura lab)→ 1st Postdoc at RIKEN (Obata lab) → 2nd Postdoc at Champalimaud Foundation (Ribeiro lab). Interested in mechanisms of amino acid sensing and adaptive behavior.
Reposted by Hina Kosakamoto
The #Drosophila community can donate to the European side to save FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social at the following link:
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Hina Kosakamoto
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thank you Carlos! Fingers crossed for the paper’s journey 🤞
Great work by @kosakamotohina.bsky.social in @obataf-lab.bsky.social lab, reveals how larval protein intake shapes adult lifespan by dialing down storage-driven translation. Elegant nutritional memory in action! Proud that Hina has now joined our lab as a postdoc. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Storage Protein-Mediated Translation Control Links Juvenile Diet to Longevity in Drosophila
Dietary restriction (DR), whether applied during adulthood or juvenile stages, extends lifespan across diverse species. However, the mechanisms by which early-life dietary interventions influence adult physiology and longevity remain poorly understood. Here, using Drosophila as a model, we demonstrate that protein restriction during the larval stage (early-life protein restriction, ePR) promotes adult lifespan by reducing storage protein levels. Stable isotope tracing reveals that dietary amino acids obtained in the larval stage are retained into adulthood, especially incorporated into ribosomal proteins. This is mediated by larval serum protein 2 (Lsp2), a major storage protein, whose expression is durably downregulated by ePR. Both dietary (ePR) and genetic (Lsp2-RNAi) reduction of the protein storage lead to decreased ribosomal protein levels and translation activity in early adulthood. Notably, these storage proteins are enriched in aromatic amino acids such as tyrosine, and larval dietary tyrosine restriction alone is sufficient to suppress translation and promote longevity. These findings show that storage proteins mediate the effect of larval nutrition on adult longevity via controlling translation. Our study uncovers a previously unrecognized mechanism of nutritional memory that links early-life nutrition to adult physiology and lifespan. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, https://ror.org/004rtk039, 20gm6310011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, https://ror.org/00hhkn466, 19H03367, 22H02769, 22K20731, 23H04924 Japan Science and Technology Agency, JPMJFR2337, JPMJAX2226, JPMJFR214L
www.biorxiv.org
May 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM