We used the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans infected with the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus to identify components of epithelial immunity. Transcriptional profiling and reverse genetic analysis revealed that mutation of the C.
AMPK is a universal cellular energy sensor involved in a multitude of physiological processes, including ventilation and the hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) in animal models.
Recently, a small population of cancer stem cells in adult and pediatric brain tumors has been identified. Some evidence has suggested that CD133 is a marker for a subset of leukemia and glioblastoma cancer stem cells.
The substrates used to modify nucleic acids and chromatin are affected by nutrient availability and the activity of metabolic pathways. Thus, cellular metabolism constitutes a fundamental component of chromatin status and thereby of genome…
Published in the journal: . PLoS Genet 9(1): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003239 Category: Research Article doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003239
The long noncoding Malat1 RNA is upregulated in cancer tissues and its elevated expression is associated with hyper-proliferation, but the underlying mechanism is poorly understood.
The alliterative expression "nature and nurture" in English has been in use since at least the Elizabethan period [1 ] and goes back to medieval French. [2 ] The complementary combination of the two concepts is an ancient concept (Ancient…
The most severe anaphylaxes involve angioedema of the airway and severe hypotension with cardiovascular collapse.2–5 The effects of released histamine are central to this, and produce falls in systolic blood pressure and venous return along…
All birds reproduce by internal fertilization, but only ∼3% of birds have retained a phallus capable of intromission. A number of hypotheses have been proposed for the evolutionary mechanisms that drove phallus reduction; however, the…
The significance of genome organization for cell identity, gene expression programmes, cancer, and cell division are some of the central topics of inquiry.