Tomato mitogen-activated protein kinase: mechanisms of adaptation in response to biotic and abiotic stresses by Yumei Shi, Zhifang Zhang, Zhenghao Yan, Honglong Chu, Changxin Luo

“…Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in tomato plants have crucial functions of mediating responses to environmental cues, internal signals, defense mechanisms, cellular processes, and plant development and growth. …”
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Proline as a key player in heat stress tolerance: insights from maize by Yogesh Kumar Tiwari

“…These dual functions contribute significantly to cellular homeostasis under heat stress conditions. …”
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The role of long noncoding RNA SNHG29 in malignant tumors by Tingcheng Bu, Wendong Gu, Yingjie Shao

“…Furthermore, evidence indicates that SNHG29 functions as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA), modulating tumor progression via the miRNA‒mRNA axis and signaling pathways such as the ATR‒Chk1, PI3K‒AKT, and Wnt‒β-catenin pathways. …”
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Unravelling the link between circadian clock genes and brain tumors: From pathological disruptions to potential therapeutic interventions by Amirah Albaqami

“…The circadian clock is present in nearly all tissues (including glial cells), which play crucial roles in brain functions and development. Circadian clock genes (CCGs) are responsible for regulating numerous cancer-associated biological mechanisms, including the regulation of cell cycle genes, apoptosis, and cell proliferation. …”
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Peptidoglycan-Mediated Bone Marrow Autonomic Neuropathy Impairs Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells via a NOD1-Dependent Pathway in db/db Mice by Jing Wu, Binghan Zhang, Shengbing Li, Wenwen Chen, Jinning Mao, Ke Li, Dongfang Liu, Yaqian Duan

“…Inhibition of NOD1 ameliorated PGN-induced bone marrow autonomic neuropathy, which significantly rejuvenated the HSPC pools and functions in vivo. These data reveal for the first time that PGN, as a critical factor on the gut-bone marrow axis, promotes bone marrow denervation and HSPC modulation in the context of diabetes.…”
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Reconfigurable terahertz optoelectronic logic through charge-density-wave phase engineering by Xin Sun, Kening Xiao, Yingdong Wei, Wenqi Mo, Libo Zhang, Shijian Tian, Xiaokai Pan, Yage Yang, Shiqi Lan, Yichong Zhang, Zhen Hu, Kaixuan Zhang, Li Han, Fang Wang, Xiaoshuang Chen, Lin Wang, Weida Hu

“…Conventional approaches face limitations in integrating sensing and computing functions, particularly at terahertz frequencies where traditional semiconductors struggle. …”
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Long non-coding RNAs are involved in the crosstalk between cancer-associated fibroblasts and tumor cells by Chenbo Yang, Chenbo Yang, Jiao Shu, Jiao Shu, Yiwei Li, Yiwei Li, Yiwei Li, Na Zhao, Na Zhao, Xiaonan Liu, Xiaonan Liu, Xiangyu Tian, Xiangyu Tian, Zexin Sun, Zexin Sun, Zexin Sun, Muhammad Saud Tabish, Muhammad Saud Tabish, Yichen Hong, Yichen Hong, Yichen Hong, Kuisheng Chen, Kuisheng Chen, Miaomiao Sun, Miaomiao Sun

“…Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) emerge from cellular transcription as a class of functionally diverse RNA molecules. Recent studies have revealed that LncRNAs are integral to the crosstalk between CAFs and tumor cells, with the capacity to modify cellular transcriptional activity and secretion profiles, thus facilitating CAFs activation, tumor proliferation, metastasis, drug resistance, and other related functionalities. …”
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Electric polarization catheter for systemic cardiac output by Ignazio Condello, Giuseppe Speziale, Giuseppe Nasso

“…The electrical activity plays a vital role in the physiological functions of live organisms, electrical stimulation has been identified as a promising nonpharmacological technique that can modulate the behavior of cellular network, restore and monitoring critical functions and accelerate tissue healing in vitro and in vivo. …”
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Optical Wireless Communications with Metasurfaces: Current Status and Potential for Intelligent Communications by Ke Wang, Chengwei Fang, Md Osman Ali, Xiaojun Chen, Safa Alghadi, Shuo Li, Jiayuan He, Sithamparanathan Kandeepan

“…Such metasurfaces with sub‐wavelength features also enable other versatile functions like spatial‐ or optical‐angular‐momentum‐mode generation, conversion, and multiplexing, further improving the communication performance and capability of OWCs. …”
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The New Insight into the Role of Antimicrobial Proteins-Alarmins in the Immunopathogenesis of Psoriasis by A. Batycka-Baran, J. Maj, R. Wolf, J. C. Szepietowski

“…However, further investigations are required to establish the methods of downregulation of the aberrant proinflammatory functions of AMPs without increasing the risk of infections.…”
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Cold Shock Proteins Balance Biofilm-Associated Antibiotic Resistance and Oxidative Vulnerability in Mycobacteria by Jiachen Zheng, Linzhao He, Yizhang Wei, Jie Lu, Xiaolin Liu, Weihui Li

“…Here, we explored the functions of three Csps (CspA1, CspA2, and CspB) in <i>Mycobacterium smegmatis</i>. …”
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Regulatory mechanisms of m6A RNA methylation in esophageal cancer: a comprehensive review by Long Wen, Long Wen, Jiang Fu, Zixu Wang, Rangping Xie, Rangping Xie, Shengjie Tang, Li Yu, Haining Zhou, Haining Zhou, Haining Zhou, Haining Zhou

“…These components identify and bind to specific RNA methylation sites, thereby modulating essential biological functions such as RNA processing, nuclear export, stability, translation and degradation, which significantly influence tumorigenesis, invasion, and metastasis. …”
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An atlas of RNA-dependent proteins in cell division reveals the riboregulation of mitotic protein-protein interactions by Varshni Rajagopal, Jeanette Seiler, Isha Nasa, Simona Cantarella, Jana Theiss, Franziska Herget, Bianca Kaifer, Melina Klostermann, Rainer Will, Martin Schneider, Dominic Helm, Julian König, Kathi Zarnack, Sven Diederichs, Arminja N. Kettenbach, Maïwen Caudron-Herger

“…Abstract Ribonucleoprotein complexes are dynamic assemblies of RNA with RNA-binding proteins, which modulate the fate of RNA. Inversely, RNA riboregulates the interactions and functions of the associated proteins. …”
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The Role of MYC2 Transcription Factors in Plant Secondary Metabolism and Stress Response Mechanisms by Tuo Zeng, Han Su, Meiyang Wang, Jiefang He, Lei Gu, Hongcheng Wang, Xuye Du, Caiyun Wang, Bin Zhu

“…This review broadens that perspective by detailing the signaling mechanisms and primary functions of <i>MYC2</i> transcription factors. It specifically emphasizes their roles in regulating the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, terpenes, and flavonoids, and in modulating plant responses to environmental stresses. …”
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Dynamic categorization rules alter representations in human visual cortex by Margaret M. Henderson, John T. Serences, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana

“…Traditionally, sensory regions have been viewed as separate from such context-dependent processing, functioning primarily to process incoming inputs. However, an alternative view suggests sensory regions also integrate inputs with current task goals, facilitating more efficient information relay to higher-level areas. …”
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Transformer-Guided Serial Knowledge Distillation for High-Precision Anomaly Detection by Danyang Wang, Bingyan Wang

“…This three-stage architecture consists of a fixed pretrained teacher network serving as the upstream feature extractor, a dedicated multi-feature aggregation and filtering module integrated with Vision Transformer components as the intermediate processor, and a trainable student network functioning as the downstream reconstruction module. …”
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Role of neuronal fabp in autophagy and amyloid-β pathology in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer disease by Byoungyun Choi, Kyoung Sang Cho

“…Conversely, fabp overexpression had the opposite effect and improved memory. The modulation of Ecdysone-induced protein 75B (Eip75B) levels, the Drosophila homolog of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, a lipid-activated nuclear receptor that functions as a transcription factor, affected the expression of autophagy-related genes and the role of fabp in Aβ pathology. …”
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Human response times are governed by dual anticipatory processes with distinct neural signatures by Ashwin G. Ramayya, Vivek Buch, Andrew Richardson, Timothy Lucas, Joshua I. Gold

“…These results suggest that human anticipatory behavior emerges from a combination of motor-preparatory and attention-like modulations of neural activity, implemented by anatomically widespread and intermixed, but functionally identifiable, brain networks.…”
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Regulation of non-emotional memory through α1-adrenergic receptors activation: A short review by Eugénia Correia de Barros

“…This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the functions of α1-ARs and highlights their contributions to synaptic efficacy, long-term potentiation (LTP), and long-term depression (LTD) in the hippocampus and neocortex. …”
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Dietary peptides in aging: Evidence and prospects by Khushwant S. Bhullar, Jianping Wu

“…With improvements in healthcare and lifestyle, the proportion of the aging population is rising steadily across the world. Many physiological functions are altered during aging and resemble those occurring in disease conditions involving metabolic and mitochondrial disturbances. …”
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