The molecular chronology of mammary epithelial cell fate switching.

The adult mammary gland is maintained by lineage-restricted progenitor cells through pregnancy, lactation, involution, and menopause. Injury resolution, transplantation-associated mammary gland reconstitution, and tumorigenesis are unique exceptions, wherein mammary basal cells gain the ability to reprogram to a luminal state. Here, we leverage newly developed cell-identity reporter mouse strains, and time-resolved single-cell epigenetic and transcriptomic analyses to decipher the molecular programs underlying basal-to-luminal fate switching .

MetGENE: gene-centric metabolomics information retrieval tool.

Background: Biomedical research often involves contextual integration of multimodal and multiomic data in search of mechanisms for improved diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. Researchers need to access information from diverse sources, comprising data in various and sometimes incongruent formats. The downstream processing of the data to decipher mechanisms by reconstructing networks and developing quantitative models warrants considerable effort.

Global pleiotropic effects in adaptively evolved lacking CRP reveal molecular mechanisms that define the growth physiology.

Evolution facilitates emergence of fitter phenotypes by efficient allocation of cellular resources in conjunction with beneficial mutations. However, system-wide pleiotropic effects that redress the perturbations to the apex node of the transcriptional regulatory networks remain unclear. Here, we elucidate that absence of global transcriptional regulator CRP in results in alterations in key metabolic pathways under glucose respiratory conditions, favouring stress- or hedging-related functions over growth-enhancing functions.

FSHR antagonists can trigger a PCOS-like state.

Over the recent years, FSHR has become an important target for development of fertility regulating agents, as impairment of FSH-FSHR interaction can lead to subfertility or infertility. In our previous study, we identified a 9-mer peptide (FSHβ (89-97)) that exhibited FSHR antagonist activity. The histopathological and biochemical observations indicated, in addition to FSHR antagonism, a striking resemblance to a PCOS-like state.

Global Transcriptional Regulators Fine-Tune the Translational and Metabolic Efficiency for Optimal Growth of Escherichia coli.

Global transcriptional regulators coordinate complex genetic interactions that bestow better adaptability for an organism against external and internal perturbations. These transcriptional regulators are known to control an enormous array of genes with diverse functionalities. However, regulator-driven molecular mechanisms that underpin precisely tuned translational and metabolic processes conducive for rapid exponential growth remain obscure.

Multiomics Analysis and Systems Biology Integration Identifies the Roles of IL-9 in Keratinocyte Metabolic Reprogramming.

IL-9‒producing T cells are present in healthy skin as well as in the cutaneous lesions of inflammatory diseases and cancers. However, the roles of IL-9 in human skin during homeostasis and in the pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders remain obscure. In this study, we examined the roles of IL-9 in metabolic reprogramming of human primary keratinocytes (KCs).

A steady-state modeling approach for simulation of antimicrobial peptide-cell membrane interaction.

Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) are host defense molecules that initiate microbial death by binding to the membrane. On membrane binding, AMPs undergo changes in conformation and aggregation state to enable killing action. Depending on the AMP and cell membrane characteristics, the nature of binding can be aggregating or non-aggregating, with high/low cooperativity, at single or multiple sites with high/low affinity leading to a unique killing action that needs to be studied individually.

In-Silico Bioprospecting: Finding Better Enzymes.

Enzymes are essential biological macromolecules, which catalyse chemical reactions and have impacted the human civilization tremendously. The importance of enzymes as biocatalyst was realized more than a century ago by eminent scientists like Kuhne, Buchner, Payen, Sumner, and the last three decades has seen exponential growth in enzyme industry, mainly due to the revolution in tools and techniques in molecular biology, biochemistry and production. This has resulted in high demand of enzymes in various applications like food, agriculture, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, environment and research sector.

Role of phosphate limitation and pyruvate decarboxylase in rewiring of the metabolic network for increasing flux towards isoprenoid pathway in a TATA binding protein mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Background: Production of isoprenoids, a large and diverse class of commercially important chemicals, can be achieved through engineering metabolism in microorganisms. Several attempts have been made to reroute metabolic flux towards isoprenoid pathway in yeast. Most approaches have focused on the core isoprenoid pathway as well as on meeting the increased precursors and cofactor requirements.