Trehalose: a key organic osmolyte effectively involved in plant abiotic stress tolerance

F Kosar, NA Akram, M Sadiq, F Al-Qurainy… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2019 - Springer
Trehalose is a natural non-reducing sugar that is found in the vast majority of organisms
such as bacteria, yeasts, invertebrates and even in plants. Regarding its features, it is …

Are aberrant phase transitions a driver of cellular aging?

S Alberti, AA Hyman - BioEssays, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Why do cells age? Recent advances show that the cytoplasm is organized into many
membrane‐less compartments via a process known as phase separation, which ensures …

[HTML][HTML] Tardigrades use intrinsically disordered proteins to survive desiccation

TC Boothby, H Tapia, AH Brozena, S Piszkiewicz… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Tardigrades are microscopic animals that survive a remarkable array of stresses, including
desiccation. How tardigrades survive desiccation has remained a mystery for more than 250 …

Trehalose-induced activation of autophagy improves cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction

S Sciarretta, D Yee, N Nagarajan, F Bianchi… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Background: Trehalose (TRE) is a natural, nonreducing disaccharide synthesized by lower
organisms. TRE exhibits an extraordinary ability to protect cells against different kinds of …

Intrinsically disordered proteins drive emergence and inheritance of biological traits

S Chakrabortee, JS Byers, S Jones, DM Garcia… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Prions are a paradigm-shifting mechanism of inheritance in which phenotypes are encoded
by self-templating protein conformations rather than nucleic acids. Here, we examine the …

Protein-based inheritance: epigenetics beyond the chromosome

ZH Harvey, Y Chen, DF Jarosz - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Epigenetics refers to changes in phenotype that are not rooted in DNA sequence. This
phenomenon has largely been studied in the context of chromatin modification. Yet many …

Relevance and regulation of cell density

GE Neurohr, A Amon - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
Cell density shows very little variation within a given cell type. For example, in humans
variability in cell density among cells of a given cell type is 100 times smaller than variation …

Trehalose and tardigrade CAHS proteins work synergistically to promote desiccation tolerance

K Nguyen, S Kc, T Gonzalez, H Tapia… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Tardigrades are microscopic animals renowned for their ability to survive extreme
desiccation. Unlike many desiccation-tolerant organisms that accumulate high levels of the …

Transcriptional response provides insights into the effect of chronic polystyrene nanoplastic exposure on Daphnia pulex

W Zhang, Z Liu, S Tang, D Li, Q Jiang, T Zhang - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanoplastic pollution is widespread and persistent across global water systems and can
cause a negative effect on aquatic organisms, especially the zooplankter which is the …

Protein phase separation as a stress survival strategy

TM Franzmann, S Alberti - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Cells under stress must adjust their physiology, metabolism, and architecture to adapt to the
new conditions. Most importantly, they must down-regulate general gene expression, but at …