Starvation Responses Throughout the Caenorhabditis  elegans Life Cycle

LR Baugh, PJ Hu - Genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Caenorhabditis elegans survives on ephemeral food sources in the wild, and the species
has a variety of adaptive responses to starvation. These features of its life history make the …

MiT/TFE family of transcription factors: an evolutionary perspective

M La Spina, PS Contreras, A Rissone… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Response and adaptation to stress are critical for the survival of all living organisms. The
regulation of the transcriptional machinery is an important aspect of these complex …

Whole-body gene expression atlas of an adult metazoan

A Ghaddar, E Armingol, C Huynh, L Gevirtzman… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Gene activity defines cell identity, drives intercellular communication, and underlies the
functioning of multicellular organisms. We present the single-cell resolution atlas of gene …

Mechanisms for the stimulatory effects of a five-component mixture of antibiotics in Microcystis aeruginosa at transcriptomic and proteomic levels

Y Jiang, Y Liu, J Zhang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic contaminants could promote the formation of harmful cyanobacterial blooms
through hormetic stimulation, but the mechanisms underlying these stimulatory effects …

Defining characteristics and conservation of poorly annotated genes in Caenorhabditis elegans using WormCat 2.0

DP Higgins, CM Weisman, DS Lui, FA D'Agostino… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Omics tools provide broad datasets for biological discovery. However, the computational
tools for identifying important genes or pathways in RNA-seq, proteomics, or GWAS …

Diverse states and stimuli tune olfactory receptor expression levels to modulate food-seeking behavior

IG McLachlan, TS Kramer, M Dua, EM DiLoreto… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Animals must weigh competing needs and states to generate adaptive behavioral
responses to the environment. Sensorimotor circuits are thus tasked with integrating diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of dietary restriction on health span in Caenorhabditis elegans: A systematic review

J Loo, MAFS Bana, JK Tan, JA Goon - Experimental Gerontology, 2023 - Elsevier
Dietary restriction (DR) interventions have demonstrated their efficacy in extending lifespan;
however, the association between lifespan extension and health span remains unclear. This …

Fasting shapes chromatin architecture through an mTOR/RNA Pol I axis

N Al-Refaie, F Padovani, J Hornung, L Pudelko… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromatin architecture is a fundamental mediator of genome function. Fasting is a major
environmental cue across the animal kingdom, yet how it impacts three-dimensional (3D) …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging topics in C. elegans aging research: Transcriptional regulation, stress response and epigenetics

MS Denzel, LR Lapierre, HID Mack - Mechanisms of ageing and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Key discoveries in aging research have been made possible with the use of model
organisms. Caenorhabditis elegans is a short-lived nematode that has become a well …

Stress increases in exopher-mediated neuronal extrusion require lipid biosynthesis, FGF, and EGF RAS/MAPK signaling

JF Cooper, RJ Guasp, ML Arnold… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In human neurodegenerative diseases, neurons can transfer toxic protein aggregates to
surrounding cells, promoting pathology via poorly understood mechanisms. In …