RESEARCH ARTICLES
- Perturbation of maternal PIASy abundance disrupts zygotic genome activation and embryonic development via SUMOylation pathway
Summary: Maternal protein degradation is one developmental event leading to acquiring totipotency. PIASy is identified as a maternal protein that is degraded for accomplishing zygotic transcription and development.
- Tests of the chromatographic theory of olfaction with highly soluble odors: a combined electro-olfactogram and computational fluid dynamics study in the mouse
Summary: This paper casts doubt on the classical chromatographic theory of olfaction, showing there is no correlation between olfactory receptor spatial layout and odor solubility patterns, a necessary condition of the theory.
- Immune response of hibernating European bats to a fungal challenge
Summary: Our experimental immunological study on European bats provides new information on the functionality of the immune system in hibernation. For this we challenged bats with a fungal antigen and measured different immunological parameters.
- Heterogeneity and plasticity of porcine alveolar macrophage and pulmonary interstitial macrophage isolated from healthy pigs in vitro
Summary: The heterogeneity and plasticity of macrophages will be helpful for the understanding of pathologic mechanisms and the prevention of swine infectious disease.
- CLASP promotes microtubule bundling in metaphase spindle independently of Ase1/PRC1 in fission yeast
Summary: The conserved microtubule-associated protein CLASP/Peg1/Cls1 bundles microtubules of the metaphase spindle in fission yeast. Unlike its conventional role in anaphase, this CLASP function does not depend upon Ase1/PRC1.
- Growth and toxicity of Halomicronema metazoicum (Cyanoprokaryota, Cyanophyta) at different conditions of light, salinity and temperature
Summary: This is a contribution to understand toxigenic relationships between cyanobacteria and invertebrates because such interactions, still largely unexplored, may dramatically influence the ecology of several species associated with seagrass ecosystems.
- Cellular response to bacterial infection in the grasshopper Oxya chinensis
Summary: We examined the cellular response of Oxya chinensis against bacterial challenges. We showed that two types of haemocytes shared the duty of phagocytosis.
- Heparan sulfate negatively regulates intestinal stem cell proliferation in Drosophila adult midgut
Summary: Heparan sulfate chains in Drosophila adult intestinal stem cells negatively regulate stem cell proliferation and differentiation to control tissue homeostasis under physiological conditions.
- Long non-coding RNA SNHG1 indicates poor prognosis and facilitates disease progression in acute myeloid leukemia
Summary: Long non-coding RNA SNHG1 can facilitate the progression of acute myeloid leukemia by targeting an anti-tumor miR-101, and the upregulation of SNHG1 can predict poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia.
- Acid sphingomyelinase regulates the localization and trafficking of palmitoylated proteins
Summary: Acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) regulates palmitoylated protein trafficking and localization.
- Heterogeneous beta-catenin activation is sufficient to cause hepatocellular carcinoma in zebrafish
Summary: Here we show that expression of activated β-catenin in a subset of early hepatocytes is sufficient to drive liver tumorigenesis. Heterogeneity in β-catenin activation continues during HCC progression.
- Endurance exercise resistance to lipotoxic cardiomyopathy is associated with cardiac NAD+/dSIR2/PGC-1α pathway activation in old Drosophila
Summary: Exercise training prevents lipotoxic cardiomyopathy induced by a high-fat diet or cardiac dSir2 knockdown in old Drosophila.
- Restriction of mitochondrial calcium overload by mcu inactivation renders a neuroprotective effect in zebrafish models of Parkinson's disease
Summary: Mitochondrial calcium overload causes mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. Inactivation of mitochondrial calcium uniporter reverses mitochondrial calcium overload and rescues dopaminergic neurons in our zebrafish models of Parkinson's disease.
- Targeting of copper-trafficking chaperones causes gene-specific systemic pathology in Drosophila melanogaster: prospective expansion of mutational landscapes that regulate tumor resistance to cisplatin
Summary: We demonstrate the essential roles of Atox1 and CCS copper-trafficking chaperones in Drosophila development and aging. We also provide insights for their therapeutic exploitation as cisplatin regulators during cancer chemotherapy.
- Luminal-contact-inhibition of epithelial basal stem cell multipotency in prostate organogenesis and homeostasis
Summary: Lineage tracing shows that ablation of prostate luminal cells reactivates adult basal cell multipotency, while luminal–basal cell contact inhibits basal stem cell activities in organoids.
METHODS & TECHNIQUES
- Computational analysis of size, shape and structure of insect wings
Summary: We provide a set of simple quantitative measures to compare morphological variation in size, shape, and structure of insect wings across species, families and orders.