Understanding plant stress memory response for abiotic stress resilience: Molecular insights and prospects

M Sharma, P Kumar, V Verma, R Sharma… - Plant Physiology and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
As sessile species and without the possibility of escape, plants constantly face numerous
environmental stresses. To adapt in the external environmental cues, plants adjust …

Epigenetic and chromatin-based mechanisms in environmental stress adaptation and stress memory in plants

J Lämke, I Bäurle - Genome biology, 2017‏ - Springer
Plants frequently have to weather both biotic and abiotic stressors, and have evolved
sophisticated adaptation and defense mechanisms. In recent years, chromatin modifications …

FUS and TDP-43 phases in health and disease

B Portz, BL Lee, J Shorter - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2021‏ - cell.com
The distinct prion-like domains (PrLDs) of FUS and TDP-43, modulate phase transitions that
result in condensates with a range of material states. These assemblies are implicated in …

The causes of evolvability and their evolution

JL Payne, A Wagner - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Evolvability is the ability of a biological system to produce phenotypic variation that is both
heritable and adaptive. It has long been the subject of anecdotal observations and …

Generic nature of the condensed states of proteins

M Fuxreiter, M Vendruscolo - Nature cell biology, 2021‏ - nature.com
Proteins undergoing liquid–liquid phase separation are being discovered at an increasing
rate. Since at the high concentrations present in the cell most proteins would be expected to …

Protein-based inheritance: epigenetics beyond the chromosome

ZH Harvey, Y Chen, DF Jarosz - Molecular cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Epigenetics refers to changes in phenotype that are not rooted in DNA sequence. This
phenomenon has largely been studied in the context of chromatin modification. Yet many …

Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species

MÀ Schikora-Tamarit, T Gabaldón - Nature Microbiology, 2024‏ - nature.com
Understanding how microbial pathogens adapt to treatments, humans and clinical
environments is key to infer mechanisms of virulence, transmission and drug resistance …

Prion-like low-complexity sequences: Key regulators of protein solubility and phase behavior

TM Franzmann, S Alberti - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019‏ - jbc.org
Many proteins, such as RNA-binding proteins, have complex folding landscapes. How cells
maintain the solubility and folding state of such proteins, particularly under stress conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence determinants of the aggregation of proteins within condensates generated by liquid-liquid phase separation

M Vendruscolo, M Fuxreiter - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The transition between the native and amyloid states of proteins can proceed via a
deposition pathway via oligomeric intermediates or via a condensation pathway involving …

Protein phase separation as a stress survival strategy

TM Franzmann, S Alberti - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Cells under stress must adjust their physiology, metabolism, and architecture to adapt to the
new conditions. Most importantly, they must down-regulate general gene expression, but at …