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Rapid and dynamic evolution of a giant Y chromosome in Silene latifolia

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Science, Volume 387, Issue 6734, Page 637-643, February 2025.
Takashi Akagi, Naoko Fujita, Kenta Shirasawa, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kiyotaka Nagaki, Kanae Masuda, Ayano Horiuchi, Eriko Kuwada, Kanta Kawai, Riko Kunou, Koki Nakamura, Yoko Ikeda, Atsushi Toyoda, Takehiko Itoh, Koichiro Ushijima, Deborah Charlesworth







The Silene latifolia genome and its giant Y chromosome

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Science, Volume 387, Issue 6734, Page 630-636, February 2025.
Carol Moraga, Catarina Branco, Quentin Rougemont, Pavel Jedlička, Eddy Mendoza-Galindo, Paris Veltsos, Melissa Hanique, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega, Eric Tannier, Xiaodong Liu, Claire Lemaitre, Peter D. Fields, Corinne Cruaud, Karine Labadie,…

Sex-specific and cell-type-specific changes in chaperone-mediated autophagy across tissues during aging

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Aging leads to progressive decline in organ and tissue integrity and function, partly due to loss of proteostasis and autophagy malfunctioning. A decrease with age in chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), a selective type of lysosomal degradation, has been reported in various organs and cells from rodents and humans. Disruption of CMA recapitulates features of aging, whereas activating CMA in mice protects against age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's, retinal degeneration and/or...
Rabia R Khawaja

The emerging role of dysregulated propionate metabolism and methylmalonic acid in metabolic disease, aging, and cancer

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Propionate metabolism dysregulation has emerged as a source of metabolic health alterations linked to aging, cardiovascular and renal diseases, obesity and diabetes, and cancer. This is supported by several large cohort population studies and recent work revealing its role in cancer progression. Mutations in several enzymes of this metabolic pathway are associated with devastating inborn errors of metabolism, resulting in severe methylmalonic and propionic acidemias. Beyond these rare diseases,...
Moniquetta Shafer