Toxic metals and metalloids are emerging as major environmental pollutants, having ecological consequences as well as being linked to a broad range of degenerative conditions in animals, plants and humans. While the toxicity ...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae Snf1 and its mammalian homolog, AMPK, are members of a protein kinase family present throughout the Eukaryotic kingdom. AMPK plays an essential role in different cellular processes and is involved ...

All biological systems have to cope with a wide range of metals that are present in the environment. Metals can be essential or beneficial for life, inert or non-essential and toxic, often depending on their chemical form ...

Cells are constantly subjected to perturbations. Whether these are extracellular or intracellular, they can be detrimental to cellular fitness. The cell has evolved elaborate systems and mechanisms that allow it to remain ...

Experiments on single cells have the potential to uncover information that would not be possible to obtain with traditional biological techniques, which only reflect the average behavior of a population of cells. In the ...

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae AMP-activated protein kinase/SNF1 is a member of a highly conserved protein family present in all eukaryotes. Snf1 regulates energy homeostasis; in yeast, it is best-known for its ...

The SNF1/AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) belongs to a family of energy sensors that is conserved in all eukaryotes. Activated by ATP depletion, AMPK plays a vital role in restoring the energy balance by enhancing ...

Oscillations in the concentration of yeast glycolytic intermediates have been intensively studied since the 1950s, but these studies have so far been limited to observations of average oscillatory behavior in synchronized ...

All living cells contain ribosomes, complex macromolecular assemblies of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and proteins, responsible for synthesizing polypeptides in a process called translation. High-resolution three-dimensional ...

Cadmium and arsenite are common environmental pollutants; considered highly toxic and pose a substantial threat to human health with millions of people worldwide being at risk of exposure. Cadmium and arsenite are carcinogenic ...