Publications by authors named "Youlian Goulev"

Here, a novel microfluidic test kit combining ultrahigh throughput hydrodynamic filtration and sandwich immunoassay is reported. Specifically, nano and microbeads coated with two different, noncompetitive antibodies, are used to capture the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleocapsid (N) proteins simultaneously, forming larger complexes. Microfluidic filtration discards free nanobeads but retains antigen-bridged complexes in the observation zone, where a display of red color indicates the presence of antigen in the sample.

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A large number of genetic studies in yeast rely on the use of expression vectors. To facilitate the experimental approach of these studies, several collections of expression vectors have been generated (YXplac, pRS series, etc.).

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The generation of complex temporal stress patterns may be instrumental to investigate the adaptive properties of individual cells submitted to environmental stress on physiological timescale. However, it is difficult to accurately control stress concentration over time in bulk experiments. Here, we describe a microfluidics-based protocol to induce tightly controllable HO stress in budding yeast while constantly monitoring cell growth with single cell resolution over multi-generation timescale.

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Homeostatic systems that rely on genetic regulatory networks are intrinsically limited by the transcriptional response time, which may restrict a cell's ability to adapt to unanticipated environmental challenges. To bypass this limitation, cells have evolved mechanisms whereby exposure to mild stress increases their resistance to subsequent threats. However, the mechanisms responsible for such remain largely unknown.

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In budding yeast, a mother cell can produce a finite number of daughter cells before it stops dividing and dies. Such entry into senescence is thought to result from a progressive decline in physiological function, including a loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨ). Here, we developed a microfluidic device to monitor the dynamics of cell division and ΔΨ in real time at single-cell resolution.

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In this issue, Trunnell et al. (2011) show that in mitotic entry the positive feedback that drives the activation of cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) involves a very ultrasensitive step of phosphorylation of Cdc25C by Cdk, thus strongly contributing to the switch-like behavior of this essential cell-cycle transition.

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In Drosophila, SCALLOPED (SD) belongs to a family of evolutionarily conserved proteins characterized by the presence of a TEA/ATTS DNA-binding domain [1, 2]. SD physically interacts with the product of the vestigial (vg) gene, where the dimer functions as a master gene controlling wing formation [3, 4]. The VG-SD dimer activates the transcription of several specific wing genes, including sd and vg themselves [5, 6].

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