[HTML][HTML] The still dark side of the moon: molecular mechanisms of lunar-controlled rhythms and clocks

G Andreatta, K Tessmar-Raible - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Starting with the beginning of the last century, a multitude of scientific studies has
documented that the lunar cycle times behaviors and physiology in many organisms. It is …

Autonomous clocks that regulate organelle biogenesis, cytoskeletal organization, and intracellular dynamics

M Mofatteh, F Echegaray-Iturra, A Alamban… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
How do cells perceive time? Do cells use temporal information to regulate the production/
degradation of their enzymes, membranes, and organelles? Does controlling biological time …

Rhythmicity of intestinal IgA responses confers oscillatory commensal microbiota mutualism

HA Penny, RG Domingues, MZ Krauss… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Interactions between the mammalian host and commensal microbiota are enforced through
a range of immune responses that confer metabolic benefits and promote tissue health and …

Meta-analysis of diurnal transcriptomics in mouse liver reveals low repeatability of rhythm analyses

TG Brooks, A Manjrekar, A Mrcˇela… - Journal of biological …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
To assess the consistency of biological rhythms across studies, 57 public mouse liver tissue
timeseries totaling 1096 RNA-seq samples were obtained and analyzed. Only the control …

Four-dimensional nuclear speckle phase separation dynamics regulate proteostasis

W Dion, H Ballance, J Lee, Y Pan, S Irfan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Phase separation and biorhythms control biological processes in the spatial and temporal
dimensions, respectively, but mechanisms of four-dimensional integration remain elusive …

Innate immune signaling in Drosophila shifts anabolic lipid metabolism from triglyceride storage to phospholipid synthesis to support immune function

BA Martínez, RG Hoyle, S Yeudall, ME Granade… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
During infection, cellular resources are allocated toward the metabolically-demanding
processes of synthesizing and secreting effector proteins that neutralize and kill invading …

Diurnal rhythms across the human dorsal and ventral striatum

KD Ketchesin, W Zong… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The human striatum can be subdivided into the caudate, putamen, and nucleus accumbens
(NAc). Each of these structures have some overlapping and some distinct functions related …

Revealing the hidden reality of the mammalian 12-h ultradian rhythms

H Ballance, B Zhu - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Biological oscillations often cycle at different harmonics of the 24-h circadian rhythms, a
phenomenon we coined “Musica Universalis” in 2017. Like the circadian rhythm, the 12-h …

Unconscious mind activates central cardiovascular network and promotes adaptation to microgravity possibly anti-aging during 1-year-long spaceflight

K Otsuka, G Cornelissen, S Furukawa, K Shibata… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The intrinsic cardiovascular regulatory system (β, 0.00013–0.02 Hz) did not adapt to
microgravity after a 6-month spaceflight. The infraslow oscillation (ISO, 0.01–0.10 Hz) …

Methods for assessing change in brain plasticity at night and psychological resilience during daytime between repeated long-duration space missions

K Otsuka, G Cornelissen, Y Kubo, K Shibata… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study was designed to examine the feasibility of analyzing heart rate variability (HRV)
data from repeat-flier astronauts at matching days on two separate missions to assess any …