Pablo Sanchez Bosch, Bomsoo Cho, Jeffrey D Axelrod
In Drosophila, the planar cell polarity protein Flamingo is required by winners to maintain their status during cell competition in multiple models as they compete to occupy excessive territory within wildtype tissues.
Genome dilution limits cell growth by modulating the activities, rather than the concentrations, of RNA polymerases and ribosomes, and is accompanied by changes in proteome composition.
Vera Vollenweider, Karoline Rehm ... Rolf Kümmerli
Iron-chelating pyoverdines from environmental Pseudomonas spp. show promising antibacterial activity against key human pathogens through the induction of iron starvation, while associated toxicity for host systems remains low.
Hungry flies shifting from cooler to warmer temperature preferences in response to non-nutritive food indicates a taste-triggered response, similar to the cephalic phase response observed in mammals.