AMP‐activated protein kinase: a cellular energy sensor that comes in 12 flavours

FA Ross, C MacKintosh, DG Hardie - The FEBS journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The AMP‐activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a sensor of cellular energy status that is
expressed in essentially all eukaryotic cells, suggesting that it arose during early eukaryotic …

OHNOLOGS v2: a comprehensive resource for the genes retained from whole genome duplication in vertebrates

PP Singh, H Isambert - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
All vertebrates including human have evolved from an ancestor that underwent two rounds
of whole genome duplication (2R-WGD). In addition, teleost fish underwent an additional …

Identification of ohnolog genes originating from whole genome duplication in early vertebrates, based on synteny comparison across multiple genomes

PP Singh, J Arora, H Isambert - PLoS computational biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Whole genome duplications (WGD) have now been firmly established in all major eukaryotic
kingdoms. In particular, all vertebrates descend from two rounds of WGDs, that occurred in …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in understanding the roles of whole genome duplications in evolution

C MacKintosh, DEK Ferrier - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs)—paleopolyploidy events—are key to solving
Darwin's 'abominable mystery'of how flowering plants evolved and radiated into a rich …

Selective constraints on coding sequences of nervous system genes are a major determinant of duplicate gene retention in vertebrates

J Roux, J Liu… - Molecular biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The evolutionary history of vertebrates is marked by three ancient whole-genome
duplications: two successive rounds in the ancestor of vertebrates, and a third one specific to …

Systematic analysis of the Hippo pathway organization and oncogenic alteration in evolution

Y Chen, H Han, G Seo, RE Vargas, B Yang, K Chuc… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Hippo pathway is a central regulator of organ size and a key tumor suppressor via
coordinating cell proliferation and death. Initially discovered in Drosophila, the Hippo …

Novel genes associated with the development of carotid paragangliomas

AV Snezhkina, EN Lukyanova, MS Fedorova… - Molecular Biology, 2019 - Springer
Carotid paragangliomas (CPGLs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors of the head and
neck.“Germline” and somatic mutations in a number of genes were shown to be associated …

Molecular Evolution of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Signaling Pathway Genes

D Bhalla, V van Noort - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2023 - Springer
The Aryl hydrocarbon receptor is an ancient transcriptional factor originally discovered as a
sensor of dioxin. In addition to its function as a receptor of environmental toxicants, it plays …

Insights into biological complexity from simple foundations

L Albergante, D Liu, S Palmer, TJ Newman - Biophysics of Infection, 2016 - Springer
We discuss an overtly “simple approach” to complex biological systems borrowing
selectively from theoretical physics. The approach is framed by three maxims, and we show …

The Hippo pathway origin and its oncogenic alteration in evolution

Y Chen, H Han, G Seo, R Vargas, B Yang, K Chuc… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The Hippo pathway is a central regulator of organ size and a key tumor suppressor via
coordinating cell proliferation and death. Initially discovered in Drosophila, the Hippo …