Autophagy, meaning "self-eating" in Greek, is a general metabolic mechanism characteristic of nearly all eukaryotic species, from the single cell yeast to humans. It is a process by which cells degrade unnecessary components ...
Biochemistry
Jul 2, 2018
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Junior Associate Professor Kazuo Takayama and his research team used human airway organoids to screen autophagy-related compounds and found cycloheximide and thapsigargin to show strong antiviral effects against SARS-CoV-2. ...
Biochemistry
Apr 14, 2023
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Cells must utilize nutrient resources as efficiently as possible in order to ensure survival. This involves an intricate balance between the synthesis and degradation of cellular components, the latter of which can be used ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 10, 2020
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A team of researchers at the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have observed a normal physiological process, called "self-eating", that cells use to recycle their components. ...
Biochemistry
Feb 19, 2018
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Everyone would rather cook than take out the garbage. Perhaps that's why biochemists learned how cells make proteins 70 years ago, but are just now learning how they get rid of proteins that are no longer needed or no longer ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 1, 2016
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Autophagy is a self-eating process for recycling and rejuvenating cellular organelles and components. Intracellular calcium dynamics has been shown to be essential for the initiation of the autophagy process.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 6, 2024
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Autophagy, which declines with age, may hold more mysteries than researchers previously suspected. In the January 4th issue of Nature Aging, it was noted that scientists from the Buck Institute, Sanford Burnham Prebys and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 4, 2024
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The built-in process of maintaining the health of our cells by recycling dead or toxic material plays a key role in our overall health. Known as autophagy, it is being studied by researchers to discover if boosting the natural ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 18, 2022
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Nitrogen (N) deficiency first affects the N uptake and assimilation systems of plants. Nitrate, the main source of plant N, is absorbed and transported by nitrate transporters. Nitrate can be metabolized directly in the roots ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 18, 2022
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If you can't stop the beta-amyloid protein plaques from forming in Alzheimer's disease patients, then maybe you can help the body rid itself of them instead. At least that's what scientists from New York were hoping for when ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 7, 2011
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