Verticillium dahliae is a necrotrophic fungus that causes serious soil-borne vascular disease (Verticillium wilt) in cotton.Previous studies demonstrated that JA signaling plays an important role in c
Melatonin is a naturally-occurring small molecule, serving as important secondary messenger in animals.Melatonin has drawn the attention of plant biologists since its discovery in plants in 1995.The f
Endocytosis and postendocytic sorting of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is of obvious importance for regulation of their cell surface density and the signaling profile.
Heart failure is an end stage disease which can be caused by various pathological insults, such as systemic hypertension, ischemic heart injuries, virus infections, and exposures to reagents with card
Tubular organs support the uptake and exchange of nutrition, metabolites, and gases that are essential for the normal physiology of animals.The notochord of ascidian Ciona forms a tube consisting of o
The inhibitory role of p53 in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair seems contradictory to its tumor suppressing property.The p53 isoform Δ113p53/Δ133p53 is a p53 target gene that antagonizes p53 apopt
The zebrafish sensory posterior lateral line (pLL) has become an attractive model for studying collective cell migration and cell morphogenesis.Recent studies have indicated that chemokine, Wnt/β-cate
The serine/arginine-rich splicing actor 4 (SRSF4) is essential for pre-mRNA splicing and can influence alternative splice site choice, yet little is known about the specific function of this gene in r
The liver has high regenerative capacity, but it is not clear whether most biliary cells (particularly larger cholangiocytes) transdifferentiate into hepatocytes in regenerating liver.