Intracellular trehalase activity is required for development, germination and heat-stress resistance of Aspergillus niger conidia

2013 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Svanström ◽  
Petter Melin
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1781
Author(s):  
Samuel Slowinski ◽  
Isabella Ramirez ◽  
Vivek Narayan ◽  
Medha Somayaji ◽  
Maya Para ◽  
...  

Animals and plants host diverse communities of microorganisms, and these microbiotas have been shown to influence host life history traits. Much has been said about the benefits that host-associated microbiotas bestow on the host. However, life history traits often demonstrate tradeoffs among one another. Raising Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes in compost microcosms emulating their natural environment, we examined how complex microbiotas affect host life history traits. We show that soil microbes usually increase the host development rate but decrease host resistance to heat stress, suggesting that interactions with complex microbiotas may mediate a tradeoff between host development and stress resistance. What element in these interactions is responsible for these effects is yet unknown, but experiments with live versus dead bacteria suggest that such effects may depend on bacterially provided signals.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Xu ◽  
Yinghui Yuan ◽  
Nanshan Du ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Sheng Shu ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Szilvia Bencze ◽  
Eszter Keresztényi ◽  
Ottó Veisz

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 20200916
Author(s):  
Jessica Dysarz ◽  
Georg Fuellen ◽  
Steffen Möller ◽  
Walter Luyten ◽  
Christian Schmitz-Linneweber ◽  
...  

Recently, nine Caenorhabditis elegans genes, grouped into two pathways/clusters, were found to be implicated in healthspan in C. elegans and their homologues in humans, based on literature curation, WormBase data mining and bioinformatics analyses. Here, we further validated these genes experimentally in C. elegans . We downregulated the nine genes via RNA interference (RNAi), and their effects on physical function (locomotion in a swim assay) and on physiological function (survival after heat stress) were analysed in aged nematodes. Swim performance was negatively affected by the downregulation of acox-1.1 , pept-1 , pak-2 , gsk-3 and C25G6.3 in worms with advanced age (twelfth day of adulthood) and heat stress resistance was decreased by RNAi targeting of acox-1.1 , daf-22 , cat-4 , pig-1 , pak-2 , gsk-3 and C25G6.3 in moderately (seventh day of adulthood) or advanced aged nematodes. Only one gene, sad-1 , could not be linked to a health-related function in C. elegans with the bioassays we selected. Thus, most of the healthspan genes could be re-confirmed by health measurements in old worms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 513 (3) ◽  
pp. 582-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiyan Guan ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Chen Xie ◽  
Changai Wu ◽  
Guodong Yang ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Saqlain Haider ◽  
Javed Iqbal ◽  
Sana Naseer ◽  
Muzzafar Shaukat ◽  
Banzeer Ahsan Abbasi ◽  
...  

Evolution ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Rego ◽  
Joan Balanyà ◽  
Inês Fragata ◽  
Margarida Matos ◽  
Enrico L. Rezende ◽  
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