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Role of Sirt2 in Stress-induced Muscle Atrophy
Skeletal muscle is one of the essential organs in our body, responsible for various functions such as locomotion, transport, protein storage, and thermoregulation. Under certain pathological conditions, there is a reduction ...
Unraveling the multifaceted interactions between the tumor cell hierarchy and the stroma: Implications on tumor growth
In this study, we have functionally characterized the roles of SEZ6, a GSC-specific protein, and FMOD, a DGC-specific protein, in inducing tumor angiogenesis. Angiogenesis being a crucial requirement for both tumor initiation ...
Understanding the mechanisms of polarity establishment and nuclear envelope breakdown in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos
Polarity establishment is critical for the development and stem cell lineages. The one-cell stage of the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo polarizes soon after fertilization. As a result, the first division of the embryo ...
Deciphering the role of host protein HuR in RNA virus life cycle and pathogenesis: Hepatitis C Virus and SARS-CoV-2 as exemplars.
Viruses pose a major threat to human health and the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic proves as the best evidence for that. Historically, RNA viruses have a major potential to cause such pandemics. They utilise RNA binding ...
Rice transcription factors OsMADS2 and OsMADS4 regulate floret organ development: Deciphering their gene targets, traits and functions related to their unequal genetic redundancy
Organs in modern dicot flowers are positioned in concentric rings (whorls). The outermost whorl has green protective sepals, internal to which are showy petals, and the reproductive stamen and carpel whorls. Florets of ...
Dissecting the function of NuMA in cleavage furrow formation and chromatin decondensation at the mitotic exit in animal cells
In animal cells, the duplicated genetic material is aligned on a microtubule-based structure known as the mitotic spindle during mitosis. At the mitotic exit, the mitotic spindle elongates, and the sister chromatids get ...
Probing the Splicing and Enzymatic Function of Fission Yeast Prp16 – A DEAD Box RNA Helicase
Nuclear pre-mRNA splicing occurs at precisely conserved sequence elements at and around the splice sites which result in ligation of exons and release of intron as lariat. The Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome is an apt ...
Elucidating the role of SNARE Syntaxin 1A in regulating lysosome and melanosome function
SNAREs are transmembrane proteins that localize to specific membranes and facilitate the process of membrane/vesicle fusion. SNAREs mediate the fusion by binding with their respective cognate SNAREs. SNAREs mediate the ...
Investigating the role of an atypical dual-specificity phosphatase DUSP28 in mammalian cells
Dual-specificity phosphatases (DUSPs) belong to the protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTP)
subfamily and dephosphorylate, both serine/threonine and tyrosine residues of proteins and
non-protein substrates. A subgroup of ...
Understanding the role of Cysteine desulfurases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and pathogenesis
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) persistence inside the human host relies on successful adaptation to host-induced stresses such as reactive oxygen species (ROS), reactive nitrogen species (RNS), iron starvation, low ...