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Utilizing transcriptomic profiling, lineage tracing, and assessments of chromatin accessibility, we find that targeted deficiency anywhere in the mitochondrial quality control pathway ( e.g. , genome integrity, dynamics, or turnover) activate the mitochondrial integrated stress response and promote cellular immaturity in β cells, hepatocytes, and brown adipocytes. Intriguingly, pharmacologic blockade of mitochondrial retrograde signaling in vivo restores β cell mass and identity to ameliorate hyperglycemia following mitochondrial damage. Thus, we observe that a shared mitochondrial retrograde response controls cellular identity across metabolic tissues and may be a promising target to treat or prevent metabolic disorders.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2022,"id":299395,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9511,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":320873,"name":"Emily M. 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