Plants are able to sense and remember heat stress.An initial priming heat stress enables plants to acclimate so that they are able to survive a subsequent higher temperature.The heat shock transcription factors(HSFs)p...
This work is supported by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sktodowska-Curie grant agreement No.897843.
The seed represents an essential stage in a plant life cycle.The ability to tolerate desiccation allows seeds to survive extreme conditions that are not optimal for seed germination.Water uptake is the first step duri...
funded by the Polish National Science Centre MINIATURA3,grant No.501/66 GR-6220(to TI)。
The baker's yeast Saccharomyces(S.)cerevisiae is a single-celled eukaryotic model organism widely used in research on life sciences.Being a unicellular organism,S.cerevisiae has some evident limitations in application...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31670741 and 81661138005);the National Key Research and Development Project of China(No.2016YFA0500600).
The pathogenesis of fatal neurodegenerative prion diseases is closely associated with the conversion of a-helix-rich cellular prion protein into p-sheet-rich scrapie form.Pathogenic point mutations of prion proteins u...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program A of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA12010309);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31670170 and 31270209);the National Key R&D program of China (2018YFA0507201);the National Basic Research Priorities Program of China (2013CB911102) from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China
Unfolded protein response(UPR) is an adaptive reaction for cells to reduce endoplasmic reticulum(ER) stress. In many types of cancers, such as lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, cancer cells may harness ER stress to f...