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    Identification of an integrated stress and growth response signaling switch that directs vertebrate intestinal regeneration

    Snakes exhibit extreme intestinal regeneration following months-long fasts that involves unparalleled increases in metabolism, function, and tissue growth, but the specific molecular control of this process is...

    Aundrea K. Westfall, Blair W. Perry, Abu H. M. Kamal, Nicole R. Hales in BMC Genomics (2022)

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    Maintenance and propagation of a deleterious mitochondrial genome by the mitochondrial unfolded protein response

    In the context of mitochondrial genome heteroplasmy that causes defective oxidative phosphorylation in C. elegans, the ATFS-1-mediated mitochondrial unfolded protein response maintains the deleterious mitochondri...

    Yi-Fan Lin, Anna M. Schulz, Mark W. Pellegrino, Yun Lu, Shai Shaham in Nature (2016)

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    Mitophagy and the mitochondrial unfolded protein response in neurodegeneration and bacterial infection

    Mitochondria are highly dynamic and structurally complex organelles that provide multiple essential metabolic functions. Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkin...

    Mark W Pellegrino, Cole M Haynes in BMC Biology (2015)

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    Mitochondrial UPR-regulated innate immunity provides resistance to pathogen infection

    A link between an intracellular stress response, bacterial infection and triggering of the innate immune response is shown in Caenorhabditis elegans; exposure to the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa caused activat...

    Mark W. Pellegrino, Amrita M. Nargund, Natalia V. Kirienko, Reba Gillis in Nature (2014)