Microtubules as a potential platform for energy transfer in biological systems: a target for implementing individualized, dynamic variability patterns to improve organ …

Y Ilan - Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2023 - Springer
Variability characterizes the complexity of biological systems and is essential for their
function. Microtubules (MTs) play a role in structural integrity, cell motility, material transport …

Are physiological oscillations physiological?

L Xiong, A Garfinkel - The Journal of Physiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite widespread and striking examples of physiological oscillations, their functional role
is often unclear. Even glycolysis, the paradigm example of oscillatory biochemistry, has seen …

[HTML][HTML] A digital health platform for assisting the diagnosis and monitoring of COVID-19 progression: An adjuvant approach for augmenting the antiviral response and …

Y Ishay, A Potruch, A Schwartz, M Berg, K Jamil… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is a respiratory illness associated
with high mortality, has been classified as a pandemic. The major obstacles for the clinicians …

Temporal control of the integrated stress response by a stochastic molecular switch

P Klein, SM Kallenberger, H Roth, K Roth… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Stress granules (SGs) are formed in the cytosol as an acute response to environmental cues
and activation of the integrated stress response (ISR), a central signaling pathway …

[HTML][HTML] Order through disorder: the characteristic variability of systems

Y Ilan - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Randomness characterizes many processes in nature, and therefore its importance cannot
be overstated. In the present study, we investigate examples of randomness found in various …

Quantitative single-cell live imaging links HES5 dynamics with cell-state and fate in murine neurogenesis

CS Manning, V Biga, J Boyd, J Kursawe… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
During embryogenesis cells make fate decisions within complex tissue environments. The
levels and dynamics of transcription factor expression regulate these decisions. Here, we …

Computationally enhanced quantitative phase microscopy reveals autonomous oscillations in mammalian cell growth

X Liu, S Oh, L Peshkin… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The fine balance of growth and division is a fundamental property of the physiology of cells,
and one of the least understood. Its study has been thwarted by difficulties in the accurate …

Dynamic properties of noise and Her6 levels are optimized by miR‐9, allowing the decoding of the Her6 oscillator

X Soto, V Biga, J Kursawe, R Lea, P Doostdar… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Noise is prevalent in biology and has been widely quantified using snapshot measurements.
This static view obscures our understanding of dynamic noise properties and how these …

HES1 protein oscillations are necessary for neural stem cells to exit from quiescence

E Marinopoulou, V Biga, N Sabherwal, A Miller, J Desai… - IScience, 2021 - cell.com
Quiescence is a dynamic process of reversible cell cycle arrest. High-level persistent
expression of the HES1 transcriptional repressor, which oscillates with an ultradian …

Differential phase register of Hes1 oscillations with mitoses underlies cell-cycle heterogeneity in ER+ breast cancer cells

N Sabherwal, A Rowntree… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Here, we study the dynamical expression of endogenously labeled Hes1, a transcriptional
repressor implicated in controlling cell proliferation, to understand how cell-cycle length …