Hepatic stellate cells as key target in liver fibrosis

T Higashi, SL Friedman, Y Hoshida - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Progressive liver fibrosis, induced by chronic viral and metabolic disorders, leads to more
than one million deaths annually via development of cirrhosis, although no antifibrotic …

On the dependency of cellular protein levels on mRNA abundance

Y Liu, A Beyer, R Aebersold - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The question of how genomic information is expressed to determine phenotypes is of central
importance for basic and translational life science research and has been studied by …

Bacterial droplet-based single-cell RNA-seq reveals antibiotic-associated heterogeneous cellular states

P Ma, HM Amemiya, LL He, SJ Gandhi, R Nicol… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
We introduce BacDrop, a highly scalable technology for bacterial single-cell RNA
sequencing that has overcome many challenges hindering the development of scRNA-seq …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamental behaviors emerge from simulations of a living minimal cell

ZR Thornburg, DM Bianchi, TA Brier, BR Gilbert… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We present a whole-cell fully dynamical kinetic model (WCM) of JCVI-syn3A, a minimal cell
with a reduced genome of 493 genes that has retained few regulatory proteins or small …

Self-protected DNAzyme walker with a circular bulging DNA shield for amplified imaging of miRNAs in living cells and mice

Y Gao, S Zhang, C Wu, Q Li, Z Shen, Y Lu, ZS Wu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Abnormal expression of miRNAs is often detected in various human cancers. DNAzyme
machines combined with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) hold promise for detecting specific …

[HTML][HTML] “Structure”-function relationships in eukaryotic transcription factors: the role of intrinsically disordered regions in gene regulation

JJ Ferrie, JP Karr, R Tjian, X Darzacq - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Many principles of bacterial gene regulation have been foundational to understanding
mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription. However, stark structural and functional differences …

Droplet-based high-throughput single microbe RNA sequencing by smRandom-seq

Z Xu, Y Wang, K Sheng, R Rosenthal, N Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bacteria colonize almost all parts of the human body and can differ significantly. However,
the population level transcriptomics measurements can only describe the average bacteria …

Tissue-based map of the human proteome

M Uhlén, L Fagerberg, BM Hallström, C Lindskog… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Resolving the molecular details of proteome variation in the different
tissues and organs of the human body would greatly increase our knowledge of human …

Schrödinger's microbes: tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems

JB Emerson, RI Adams, CMB Román, B Brooks… - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
While often obvious for macroscopic organisms, determining whether a microbe is dead or
alive is fraught with complications. Fields such as microbial ecology, environmental health …

Revealing the vectors of cellular identity with single-cell genomics

A Wagner, A Regev, N Yosef - Nature biotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
Single-cell genomics has now made it possible to create a comprehensive atlas of human
cells. At the same time, it has reopened definitions of a cell's identity and of the ways in …