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Antioxidant Response during the Kinetics of Anhydrobiosis in Two Eutardigrade Species
Life, 2022 Anhydrobiosis, a peculiar adaptive strategy existing in nature, is a reversible capability of organisms to tolerate a severe loss of their body water when their surrounding habitat is drying out.
Ilaria Giovannini +2 more
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Fibril Structure of Desiccation-Protective Tardigrade Protein CAHS-8. [PDF]
Angew Chem Int Ed EnglWe present the atomic structure of the fibril formed by an intrinsically disordered protein that has been shown to be responsible for remarkable environmental stress in tardigrades. X‐ray crystallography reveals a unique mechanism of fibril assembly whereby a single helix forms a stable, antiparallel coiled‐coil dimer, which then assembles into a ...
Malki A +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Anhydrobiosis is considered to be an adaptation of important applicative implications because it enables resistance to the lack of water. The phenomenon is still not well understood at molecular level.
Izabela Poprawa +8 more
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Search for putative gene regulatory motifs in CAHS3, linked to anhydrobiosis in a tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus, in vivo and in silico. [PDF]
Genes CellsTardigrades can survive in an almost completely dehydrated state, known as anhydrobiosis, aided by proteins like CAHS3. Research using a newly developed tardigrade‐specific vector revealed that CAHS3 expression is most pronounced in the epidermis, suggesting tissue‐specific regulation rather than uniform expression.
Ishikawa S, Tanaka S, Arakawa K.
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Mitochondrial alternative oxidase contributes to successful tardigrade anhydrobiosis
Frontiers in Zoology, 2021 Anhydrobiosis can be described as an adaptation to lack of water that enables some organisms, including tardigrades, to survive extreme conditions, even some that do not exist on Earth.
Daria Wojciechowska +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Pv11 is an insect cell line established from the midge Polypedilum vanderplanki, whose larval form exhibits an extreme desiccation tolerance known as anhydrobiosis.
Yugo Miyata +11 more
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Metabolite phosphatase from anhydrobiotic tardigrades. [PDF]
FEBS JIn this study, we determined the crystal structure of a Ferritin‐like protein widely distributed among intriguing organisms such as tardigrades, which show tolerance to extreme environmental conditions. We identified a dinuclear metal‐binding site, which we found harbors phosphatase activity toward several metabolites, including compounds related to ...
Kato S +5 more
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A phase transition modulates the protective function of a tardigrade disordered protein during desiccation. [PDF]
Protein SciAbstract Water is essential for active life, yet some organisms, such as tardigrades, can survive prolonged periods of drying‐induced dormancy. Cytoplasmic abundant heat‐soluble (CAHS) proteins are disordered proteins that undergo a phase transition from the solution to gel state.
Nguyen K +10 more
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Anhydrobiosis-associated nuclear DNA damage and repair in the sleeping chironomid: linkage with radioresistance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Anhydrobiotic chironomid larvae can withstand prolonged complete desiccation as well as other external stresses including ionizing radiation. To understand the cross-tolerance mechanism, we have analyzed the structural changes in the nuclear DNA using ...
Oleg Gusev +9 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Upon desiccation, some tardigrades enter an ametabolic dehydrated state called anhydrobiosis and can survive a desiccated environment in this state. For successful transition to anhydrobiosis, some anhydrobiotic tardigrades require pre-incubation under ...
Koyuki Kondo +2 more
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