Universal stress proteins: from gene to function

D Luo, Z Wu, Q Bai, Y Zhang, M Huang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Universal stress proteins (USPs) exist across a wide range of species and are vital for
survival under stressful conditions. Due to the increasingly harsh global environmental …

Metabolic behavior for a mutant Oenococcus oeni strain with high resistance to ethanol to survive under oenological multi-stress conditions

Á Contreras, G Díaz, SN Mendoza, M Canto… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Malolactic fermentation (MLF) positively influences the quality of the wine, and it occurs as a
result of a lactic acid bacteria's metabolism, mainly of the Oenococcus oeni species …

Fasciola hepatica Extracellular Vesicles isolated from excretory-secretory products using a gravity flow method modulate dendritic cell phenotype and activity

A Murphy, K Cwiklinski, R Lalor… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Parasite-released extracellular vesicles (EVs) deliver signals to the host immune system that
are critical to maintaining the long-term relationship between parasite and host. In the …

Twenty-five years of investigating the universal stress protein: function, structure, and applications

AC Vollmer, SJ Bark - Advances in applied microbiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Since the initial discovery of universal stress protein A (UspA) 25 years ago, remarkable
advances in molecular and biochemical technologies have revolutionized our …

Universal Stress Protein Exhibits a Redox-Dependent Chaperone Function in Arabidopsis and Enhances Plant Tolerance to Heat Shock and Oxidative Stress

YJ Jung, SMB Melencion, ES Lee, JH Park… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Although a wide range of physiological information on Universal Stress Proteins (USPs) is
available from many organisms, their biochemical, and molecular functions remain …

RNA Chaperone Function of a Universal Stress Protein in Arabidopsis Confers Enhanced Cold Stress Tolerance in Plants

SMB Melencion, YH Chi, TT Pham, SK Paeng… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
The physiological function of Arabidopsis thaliana universal stress protein (AtUSP) in plant
has remained unclear. Thus, we report here the functional role of the Arabidopsis universal …

The Promoter of AtUSP Is Co-regulated by Phytohormones and Abiotic Stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana

M Bhuria, P Goel, S Kumar, AK Singh - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Universal stress proteins (USPs) are known to be expressed in response to various abiotic
stresses in a wide variety of organisms, such as bacteria, archaebacteria, protists, algae …

AtUSP17 negatively regulates salt stress tolerance through modulation of multiple signaling pathways in Arabidopsis

M Bhuria, P Goel, S Kumar, AK Singh - Physiologia Plantarum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
AtUSP17 is a multiple stress‐inducible gene that encodes a universal stress protein (USP)
in Arabidopsis thaliana. In the present study, we functionally characterized AtUSP17 using …

Genetic modification of Gossypium arboreum universal stress protein (GUSP1) improves drought tolerance in transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

S Hassan, A Ahmad, F Batool, B Rashid… - … and Molecular Biology of …, 2021 - Springer
Cotton crop suffers shortage of irrigation water at reproductive stage which reduces the yield
and fibre quality. Universal stress proteins belong to Pfam00582 which enables several …

Biological and proteomic studies of Schistosoma mansoni with decreased sensitivity to praziquantel

IF Abou-El-Naga, EI Amer, LM Boulos… - … and Infectious Diseases, 2019 - Elsevier
The impact of the laboratory induced Schistosoma mansoni with decreased PZQ sensitivity
on the biological performance of its different developmental stages and the concomitant …