The bidirectional relationship between metabolism and cell cycle control

FF Diehl, KM Sapp, MG Vander Heiden - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The relationship between metabolism and cell cycle progression is complex and
bidirectional. Cells must rewire metabolism to meet changing biosynthetic demands across …

Recent advances in the biosynthesis of fungal glucan structural diversity

JJ Liu, YK Hou, X Wang, XT Zhou, JY Yin, SP Nie - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2024 - Elsevier
Glucans are the most abundant class of macromolecule polymers in fungi, which are
commonly found in Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. Fungal glucans are not only essential …

Studying the Human Microbiota: Advances in Understanding the Fundamentals, Origin, and Evolution of Biological Timekeeping

A Siebieszuk, M Sejbuk, AM Witkowska - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The recently observed circadian oscillations of the intestinal microbiota underscore the
profound nature of the human–microbiome relationship and its importance for health …

Hypothesis: Bacteria live on the edge of phase transitions with a cell cycle regulated by a water-clock

V Norris - Theory in Biosciences, 2024 - Springer
A fundamental problem in biology is how cells obtain the reproducible, coherent phenotypes
needed for natural selection to act or, put differently, how cells manage to limit their …

Historic obstacles and emerging opportunities in the field of developmental metabolism–lessons from Heidelberg

AM Garfinkel, E Ilker, H Miyazawa… - …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
The field of developmental metabolism is experiencing a technological revolution that is
opening entirely new fields of inquiry. Advances in metabolomics, small-molecule sensors …

APC/C-regulated CPT1C promotes tumor progression by upregulating the energy supply and accelerating the G1/S transition

H Zhao, X Cheng, L Yan, F Mi, W Wang, Y Hu… - Cell Communication and …, 2024 - Springer
Background In addition to functioning as a precise monitoring mechanism in cell cycle, the
anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is reported to be involved in regulating …

Branched‐chain amino acid synthesis is coupled to TOR activation early in the cell cycle in yeast

HM Blank, C Reuse, K Schmidt‐Hohagen… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
How cells coordinate their metabolism with division determines the rate of cell proliferation.
Dynamic patterns of metabolite synthesis during the cell cycle are unexplored. We report the …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of protein synthesis in the budding yeast cell cycle: variable or constant?

EG No, HM Blank, M Polymenis - Microbial Cell, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Proteins are the principal macromolecular constituent of proliferating cells, and protein
synthesis is viewed as a primary metric of cell growth. While there are celebrated examples …

Targeting APEX2 to the mRNA encoding fatty acid synthase β in yeast identifies interacting proteins that control its abundance in the cell cycle

HM Blank, WP Griffith, M Polymenis - Molecular Biology of the …, 2023 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Profiling the repertoire of proteins associated with a given mRNA during the cell cycle is
unstudied. Furthermore, it is easier to ask and answer what mRNAs a specific protein might …

The “weaken-fill-repair” model for cell budding: Linking cell wall biosynthesis with mechanics

Y Liu, C Liu, S Tang, H Xiao, X Wu, Y Peng, X Wang… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
The interplay between cellular mechanics and biochemical processes in the cell cycle is not
well understood. We propose a quantitative model of cell budding in Saccharomyces …