Origins of human disease: the chrono-epigenetic perspective

ES Oh, A Petronis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenetics has enriched human disease studies by adding new interpretations to disease
features that cannot be explained by genetic and environmental factors. However …

Misuse of the Michaelis–Menten rate law for protein interaction networks and its remedy

JK Kim, JJ Tyson - PLOS Computational Biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
For over a century, the Michaelis–Menten (MM) rate law has been used to describe the rates
of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and gene expression. Despite the ubiquity of the MM rate …

An autonomously oscillating supramolecular self-replicator

MG Howlett, AHJ Engwerda, RJH Scanes… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
A key goal of chemistry is to develop synthetic systems that mimic biology, such as self-
assembling, self-replicating models of minimal life forms. Oscillations are often observed in …

Sterol transfer, PI 4P consumption, and control of membrane lipid order by endogenous OSBP

B Mesmin, J Bigay, J Polidori, D Jamecna… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
The network of proteins that orchestrate the distribution of cholesterol among cellular
organelles is not fully characterized. We previously proposed that oxysterol‐binding protein …

Arp2/3-dependent endocytosis ensures Cdc42 oscillations by removing Pak1-mediated negative feedback

MA Harrell, Z Liu, BF Campbell, O Chinsen… - Journal of Cell …, 2024 - rupress.org
The GTPase Cdc42 regulates polarized growth in most eukaryotes. In the bipolar yeast
Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Cdc42 activation cycles periodically at sites of polarized …

Temporal control of the integrated stress response by a stochastic molecular switch

P Klein, SM Kallenberger, H Roth, K Roth… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Stress granules (SGs) are formed in the cytosol as an acute response to environmental cues
and activation of the integrated stress response (ISR), a central signaling pathway …

Long-range temporal coordination of gene expression in synthetic microbial consortia

JK Kim, Y Chen, AJ Hirning, RN Alnahhas… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Synthetic microbial consortia have an advantage over isogenic synthetic microbes because
they can apportion biochemical and regulatory tasks among the strains. However, it is …

A chemically fueled non-enzymatic bistable network

I Maity, N Wagner, R Mukherjee, D Dev… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
One of the grand challenges in contemporary systems chemistry research is to mimic life-like
functions using simple synthetic molecular networks. This is particularly true for systems that …

CRISPR-based gene expression control for synthetic gene circuits

J Santos-Moreno, Y Schaerli - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Synthetic gene circuits allow us to govern cell behavior in a programmable manner, which is
central to almost any application aiming to harness engineered living cells for user-defined …

Metabolic Oscillation Phenomena in Clostridia Species—A Review

A Tyszak, L Rehmann - Fermentation, 2024 - mdpi.com
Clostridia are interesting candidates for biotechnological applications due to their diverse
and unique metabolic abilities. Particularly in continuous fermentation processes …