The origins and roles of methylthiolated cytokinins: Evidence from among life kingdoms

M Gibb, AB Kisiala, EN Morrison… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cytokinins (CKs) are a group of adenine-derived, small signaling molecules of crucial
importance for growth and multiple developmental processes in plants. Biological roles of …

Cytokinin and ethylene cell signaling pathways from prokaryotes to eukaryotes

B Bidon, S Kabbara, V Courdavault, G Glévarec… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cytokinins (CKs) and ethylene (ET) are among the most ancient organic chemicals on Earth.
A wide range of organisms including plants, algae, fungi, amoebae, and bacteria use these …

Yellow polyketide pigment suppresses premature hatching in social amoeba

M Günther, C Reimer, R Herbst… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Low-molecular-weight natural products from microbes are indispensable in the development
of potent drugs. However, their biological roles within an ecological context often remain …

Convergent pairs of highly transcribed genes restrict chromatin looping in Dictyostelium discoideum

IV Zhegalova, SV Ulianov, AA Galitsyna… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Dictyostelium discoideum is a unicellular slime mold, developing into a multicellular fruiting
body upon starvation. Development is accompanied by large-scale shifts in gene expression …

Profiling of adenine‐derived signaling molecules, cytokinins, in myotubes reveals fluctuations in response to lipopolysaccharide‐induced cell stress

SW Tobin, D Seneviratne, L Phan… - Physiological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cytokinins (CTKs) are a diverse collection of evolutionarily conserved adenine‐derived
signaling molecules classically studied as phytohormones; however, their roles and …

[HTML][HTML] Biochemical characterization of a unique cytokinin and nucleotide phosphoribohydrolase Lonely Guy protein from Dictyostelium discoideum

MM Aoki, AB Kisiala, SC Farrow, CR Brunetti… - … and Biophysics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Lonely guy (LOG) proteins are phosphoribohydrolases (PRHs) that are key cytokinin (CK)-
activating enzymes in plant and non-plant CK-producing organisms. During CK …

A sequential, RNA-derived, modified adenosine pathway safeguards cellular metabolism

A Ogawa, S Watanabe, T Kawakami, AYL Tsai, J Fuse… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
RNA contains diverse post-transcriptional modifications and its catabolic breakdown yields
numerous modified nucleosides that must be properly processed, but the molecular …

Convergent gene pairs restrict chromatin looping in Dictyostelium discoideum, acting as directional barriers for extrusion

IV Zhegalova, SV Ulianov, AA Galitsyna, IA Pletenev… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Dictyostelium discoideum is a unicellular slime mold, developing into a multicellular fruiting
body upon starvation. Development is accompanied by large-scale shifts in gene expression …

Extracellular adenosine deamination primes tip organizer development in Dictyostelium

P Hathi, B Ramamurthy - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Ammonia is a morphogen in Dictyostelium and is known to arise from the catabolism of
proteins and RNA. However, we show that extracellular adenosine deamination catalyzed …

The First Confirmation That Insects Synthesize Cytokinins: Cytokinin Metabolite and Gene Expression Profiling Following Functional Manipulations of tRNA IPT Genes …

P Andreas - 2025 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Using Drosophila deficiency (Df) and Over Expression (OE)(GAL4/UAS> dCas9-
VPR; sgRNA) gene systems, it was demonstrated that Dmel_CG31381 and Dmel_CG11089 …