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Increased Precipitation Shapes Relationship between Biochemical and Functional Traits of Stipa glareosa in Grass-Dominated Rather than Shrub-Dominated Community in a Desert Steppe

Plants, 2020
Understanding the effects of precipitation variations on plant biochemical and functional traits is crucial to predict plant adaptation to future climate changes.
Ya Hu, Xiaoan Zuo, Ping Yue, Shenglong Zhao, Xinxin Guo, Xiangyun Li, Eduardo Medina-Roldán   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metastasis on pause: How dormant tumor cells stay hidden within the tumor microenvironment and evade immune surveillance

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Dormant cancer cells can hide in distant organs for years, evading treatment and the immune system. This review highlights how signals from the surrounding tissue and immune environment keep these cells inactive or trigger their reawakening. Understanding these mechanisms may help develop therapies to eliminate or control dormant cells and prevent ...
Kanishka Tiwary, Jose Javier Bravo‐Cordero   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing associations of plant functional diversity with carbon and nitrogen storage along a restoration gradient of sandy grassland

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016
The trait-based approach shows that ecosystem function is strongly affected by plant functional diversity as reflected by the traits of the most abundant species (community-weighted mean, CWM) and functional dispersion (FDis).
Xiaoan eZuo, Xin eZhou, Peng eLv, Xueyong eZhao, Jing eZhang, Shaokun eWang, Xiyuan eYue   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plant trait networks reveal adaptation strategies in the drylands of China

BMC Plant Biology, 2023
Background Plants accomplish multiple functions by the interrelationships between functional traits. Clarifying the complex relationships between plant traits would enable us to better understand how plants employ different strategies to adapt to the ...
Xiaoting Wang, Mingfei Ji, Yahui Zhang, Liang Zhang, Muhammad Adnan Akram, Longwei Dong, Weigang Hu, Junlan Xiong, Ying Sun, Hailin Li, Abraham Allan Degen, Jinzhi Ran, Jianming Deng   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oncogenic DMTF1β promotes cancer cell motility by regulating autophagy through ULK1 stabilization

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In the current study, we demonstrate that the oncogene DMTF1β regulates ULK1 stability by reducing its proteasomal degradation in cancer cells. This stabilization enables ULK1 to induce autophagy, which in turn facilitates cancer cell migration. Consequently, reduced DMTF1β levels lead to decreased autophagy and impaired cancer cell migration.
Jun Xu, Nicolas J. Niklaus, Anna M. Schläfli, Igor Tokarchuk, Magali Humbert, Federico La Manna, Bich Vu, David Maul, Ramin Radpour, Marianna Kruithof‐de Julio, Inti Zlobec, Jörn Dengjel, Bruce E. Torbett, Mario P. Tschan   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the identification of the most suitable traits for plant functional trait analyses

Oikos, 2008
Within the past few years plant functional trait analyses have been widely applied to learn more about the processes and patterns of ecosystem development in response to environmental changes. These approaches are based on the assumption that plants with similar ecologically relevant trait attributes respond to environmental changes in comparable ways.
Bernhardt-Roemermann, Markus, Roemermann, Christine, Nuske, Robert, Parth, Andreas, Klotz, Stefan, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Stadler, Jutta   +6 more
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The promise of genomics in the study of plant-pollinator interactions [PDF]

, 2013
Flowers exist in exceedingly complex fitness landscapes, in which subtle variation in each trait can affect the pollinators, herbivores and pleiotropically linked traits in other plant tissues.
Clare, EL, Clare, Elizabeth L, Schiestl, Florian P, Chittka, Lars, Leitch, AR, Schiestl, FP, Chittka, L, Leitch, Andrew R   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Epigenetic heterogeneity and plasticity in therapy‐induced tumor states through single‐cell multi‐omics

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Single‐cell multi‐omics reveals epigenetic heterogeneity across therapy‐adaptive tumor states, including quiescent/dormant, drug‐tolerant persister, and EMT‐like phenotypes. By linking regulatory features with state‐associated biomarkers, these approaches inform biomarker‐guided therapeutic strategies for evolving tumors.
Hee Jung Kim, Hwiyeong Lee, Jin Hong, Daechan Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands [PDF]

, 2014
Plant-plant interactions are driven by environmental conditions, evolutionary relationships (ER) and the functional traits of the plants involved. However, studies addressing the relative importance of these drivers are rare, but crucial to improve our ...
Torices, Ruben, Tighe, Matthew, Derak, Mchich, Monerris, Jorge J., Ghiloufi, Wahida, Espinosa, Carlos I, Garcia-Palacios, Pablo, Monerris, Jorge J, Cea, Alex P, Eldridge, David J, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Noumi, Zouhaier, Quero Pérez, José Luis, Monerris, Jorge, Ochoa, Victoria, Hernandezn, Rosa M, Hemmings, Frank, Maestre, Fernando T, Browker, Matthew A., Soliveres, Santiago, Quero, Jose L, Cea, Alex, Eldridge, David J., Escolar, Cristina, Gozalo, Beatriz, Coaguila, Daniel, Maestre, Fernando T., Garcia-Gomez, Miguel, Espinosa, Carlos I., Quero, Jose L., Cea, Alex P., Cabrera, Omar, Gutierrezg, Julio R, Blones, Julio, Bowker, Matthew A., Gutierrez, Julio R., Bowker, Matthew A, Hernandez, Rosa M.   +37 more
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Rapid screening of staphylokinase protein variants using an unpurified cell‐free expression system

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
An unpurified cell‐free protein synthesis (CFPS) platform enables rapid functional screening of staphylokinase variants. Direct plasminogen‐activation assays performed in microplate format provide real‐time activity readouts, allowing rapid identification and ranking of variants with improved or reduced fibrinolytic activity without protein ...
Maria Tomková, Veronika Hovanová, Jiri Damborsky, Erik Sedlák   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source