Double-stranded precursors of siRNAs involved in RNA-directed DNA methylation have initiating sequences and overhangs imparted by the RNA polymerases that synthesize them, programming alternative dicing reactions that diversify the siRNA pool.
The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, a human pathogen, hijacks its host’s energy supplies by using the parasitophorous vacuole as a glycogen synthesis and storage compartment.
Kenneth Kin Lam Wong, Jenny Zhe Liao, Esther M Verheyen
Specific molecular links that orchestrate growth signals and metabolic reprogramming to achieve tumorigenesis are identified as potential metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer treatment.
Changes in pathways of lipid oxidation, glycolysis, and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation are common strategies to cope with high-altitude hypoxia, but some changes require longer evolutionary time to arise.
Maxime RF Gosselin, Virginie Mournetas ... Dariusz C Gorecki
Loss of full-length dystrophin expression causes significant molecular and functional defects in human and mouse myoblast, thus closing the vicious cycle of DMD pathology.
The first comprehensive study on the regulation mechanism of miR-252 and temperature receptor CcTRPM on insect seasonal polyphenism will also conducive to designing a new method for pest control.
James DB O'Sullivan, Thomas S Blacker ... Zoe F Mann
Distinct metabolic states coupled with differing morphogen levels regulate HC morphology along the tonotopic axis of the developing chick auditory organ.