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Effector Caspase Dcp-1 and IAP Protein Bruce Regulate Starvation-Induced Autophagy during Drosophila Melanogaster Oogenesis [PDF]

, 2008
A complex relationship exists between autophagy and apoptosis, but the regulatory mechanisms underlying their interactions are largely unknown. We conducted a systematic study of Drosophila melanogaster cell death–related genes to determine their ...
Barbosa, Sharon González, Chittaranjan, Suganthi, Gorski, Sharon M., Hou, Ying-Chen Claire, McCall, Kimberly   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

Plecstatin inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma tumorigenesis and invasion through cytolinker plectin

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The ruthenium‐based metallodrug plecstatin exerts its anticancer effect in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) primarily through selective targeting of plectin. By disrupting plectin‐mediated cytoskeletal organization, plecstatin inhibits anchorage‐dependent growth, cell polarization, and tumor cell dissemination.
Zuzana Outla, Jan Kosla, Magdalena Prechova, Lukas Frick, Patricia Bortel, Yasmin Borutzki, Andrea Bileck, Christopher Gerner, Samuel M. Meier‐Menches, Selma Osmanagic‐Myers, Martin Gregor   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sporulation: A response to starvation in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

MicrobiologyOpen, 2022
The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe employs two main strategies to adapt to the environment and survive when starved for nutrients. The strategies employ sporulation via sexual differentiation and extension of the chronological lifespan.
Hokuto Ohtsuka, Kazuki Imada, Takafumi Shimasaki, Hirofumi Aiba   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recurrent cancer‐associated ERBB4 mutations are transforming and confer resistance to targeted therapies

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We show that the majority of the 18 analyzed recurrent cancer‐associated ERBB4 mutations are transforming. The most potent mutations are activating, co‐operate with other ERBB receptors, and are sensitive to pan‐ERBB inhibitors. Activating ERBB4 mutations also promote therapy resistance in EGFR‐mutant lung cancer.
Veera K. Ojala, Sini Ahonen, Sara Peltola, Aura Tuohisto‐Kokko, Olaya Esparta, Peppi Suominen, Anne Jokilammi, Iman Farahani, Deepankar Chakroborty, Nikol Dibus, Steffen Boettcher, Tomi T. Airenne, Mark S. Johnson, Lisa D. Eli, Klaus Elenius, Kari J. Kurppa   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drosophila larvae lacking the bcl-2 gene, buffy, are sensitive to nutrient stress, maintain increased basal target of rapamycin (Tor) signaling and exhibit characteristics of altered basal energy metabolism

BMC Biology, 2012
Background B cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) proteins are the central regulators of apoptosis. The two bcl-2 genes in Drosophila modulate the response to stress-induced cell death, but not developmental cell death.
Monserrate Jessica P, Chen Michelle Y-Y, Brachmann Carrie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using population selection and sequencing to characterize natural variation of starvation resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans

eLife, 2022
Starvation resistance is important to disease and fitness, but the genetic basis of its natural variation is unknown. Uncovering the genetic basis of complex, quantitative traits such as starvation resistance is technically challenging.
Amy K Webster, Rojin Chitrakar, Maya Powell, Jingxian Chen, Kinsey Fisher, Robyn E Tanny, Lewis Stevens, Kathryn Evans, Angela Wei, Igor Antoshechkin, Erik C Andersen, L Ryan Baugh   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Upregulation of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthethase adapts human cancer cells to nutritional stress caused by tryptophan degradation

OncoImmunology, 2018
Tryptophan (Trp) metabolism is an important target in immuno-oncology as it represents a powerful immunosuppressive mechanism hijacked by tumors for protection against immune destruction.
Isabell Adam, Dyah L. Dewi, Joram Mooiweer, Ahmed Sadik, Soumya R. Mohapatra, Bianca Berdel, Melanie Keil, Jana K. Sonner, Kathrin Thedieck, Adam J. Rose, Michael Platten, Ines Heiland, Saskia Trump, Christiane A. Opitz   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulation of the development of flight muscles in long-winged adults of the flightless bug Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2008
We studied the development of the indirect flight muscles and reproductive organs in long-winged (macropterous) adults of the flightless bug Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.) and the factors involved in flight muscles histolysis by means of total protein analysis.
Radomír SOCHA, Jan ŠULA
doaj   +1 more source

Lactoferrin treatment activates acetylcholinesterase, decreasing acetylcholine levels in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell culture supernatants, inhibiting cell survival

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Representation of the suggested mode of action of lactoferrin (Lf) in nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) A549 cells. Lf induces activation of caspase‐3 by activating p53 and AChE leading to decreased ACh concentrations. In turn, ACh signaling leads to activation of VEGF and AKT and blocking of caspase‐3.
Stuti Goel, Caroline Wozniak, Aya Sabri, Ben Haddad, Brooke Lopo, Alvaro Cobos, Sarah Sarofim, Jeffrey Guthrie, Deborah Heyl, Hedeel Guy Evans   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source