Bryan, Noelle C. Lebreton, Francois Gilmore, Michael Ruvkun, Gary Zuber, Maria T. Carr, Christopher E.
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Enterococcus faecalis is a multidrug resistant, opportunistic human pathogen and a leading cause of hospital acquired infections. Recently, isolates have been recovered from the air and surfaces onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Pangenomic and functional analyses were carried out to assess their potential impact on astronaut health. Ge...
Smolikova, Galina Leonova, Tatiana Vashurina, Natalia Frolov, Andrej Medvedev, Sergei
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Desiccation tolerance appeared as the key adaptation feature of photoautotrophic organisms for survival in terrestrial habitats. During the further evolution, vascular plants developed complex anatomy structures and molecular mechanisms to maintain the hydrated state of cell environment and sustain dehydration. However, the role of the genes encodi...
Botton, Mariana R Yang, Yao Scott, Erick R Desnick, Robert J Scott, Stuart A
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Genes
The SLC6A4 gene has been implicated in psychiatric disorder susceptibility and antidepressant response variability. The SLC6A4 promoter is defined by a variable number of homologous 20-24 bp repeats (5-HTTLPR), and long (L) and short (S) alleles are associated with higher and lower expression, respectively. However, this insertion/deletion variant ...
Tokumoto, Shoko Miyata, Yugo Usui, Kengo Deviatiiarov, Ruslan Ohkawa, Takahiro Kondratieva, Sabina Shagimardanova, Elena Gusev, Oleg Cornette, Richard Itoh, Masayoshi
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Insects
Simple Summary Anhydrobiosis is a unique ametabolic state that is characterized by extreme body water loss due to desiccation, generally over 95%. The sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki , is an anhydrobiotic insect inhabiting semi-arid regions in Africa. Pv11 is an anhydrobiotic insect cell line established from the P. vanderplanki larva...
Hibshman, Jonathan D. Clegg, James S. Goldstein, Bob
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Frontiers in Physiology
Water is critical for the survival of most cells and organisms. Remarkably, a small number of multicellular animals are able to survive nearly complete drying. The phenomenon of anhydrobiosis, or life without water, has been of interest to researchers for over 300 years. In this review we discuss advances in our understanding of protectants and mec...
Kallow, Simon Longin, Kevin Sleziak, Natalia Fanega Janssens, Steven B. Vandelook, Filip Dickie, John Swennen, Rony Paofa, Janet Carpentier, Sebastien Panis, Bart
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Plants
Ex situ seed conservation of banana crop wild relatives ( Musa spp. L.), is constrained by critical knowledge gaps in their storage and germination behaviour. Additionally, challenges in collecting seeds from wild populations impact the quality of seed collections. It is, therefore, crucial to evaluate the viability of seeds from such collecting mi...
Kondo, Koyuki Mori, Masaru Tomita, Masaru Arakawa, Kazuharu
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FEBS open bio
The tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris can undergo anhydrobiosis. Several chemicals that inhibit successful anhydrobiosis in H. exemplaris have been identified, and these chemicals inhibit the activity of signaling molecules. In the present study, we investigated whether upregulation of the activity of these signaling molecules could improve desiccati...
Haevermans, Thomas Mantuano, Dulce Zhou, Meng-Yuan Lamxay, Vichith Haevermans, Agathe Blanc, Patrick Li, De-Zhu
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PhytoKeys
Lush jungle flagship species, woody bamboos ( Poaceae – Bambusoideae ) are famed for their synchronous flowering as well as the extensive “bamboo forests” some species can form in tropical or temperate environments. In portions of their natural distribution, Bambusoideae members developed various adaptations to seasonality in environmental paramete...
Ryabova, Alina Cornette, Richard Cherkasov, Alexander Watanabe, Masahiko Okuda, Takashi Shagimardanova, Elena Kikawada, Takahiro Gusev, Oleg
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Some organisms have evolved a survival strategy to withstand severe dehydration in an ametabolic state, called anhydrobiosis. The only known example of anhydrobiosis among insects is observed in larvae of the chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki . Recent studies have led to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying anhydrobiosis ...
Farrant, Jill M. Moore, John P. Hilhorst, Henk W. M.
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Frontiers in Plant Science
