• Anosmic flies: what Orco silencing does to olive fruit flies 

      Tsoumani K.T., Belavilas-Trovas A., Gregoriou M.-E., Mathiopoulos K.D. (2020)
      Background: The olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) is the most destructive pest of the olive cultivation worldwide causing significant production losses and olive fruit impoverishment, as its larvae feed exclusively on the ...
    • DNA methylation regulates miR-140-5p and miR-146a expression in osteoarthritis 

      Papathanasiou I., Trachana V., Mourmoura E., Tsezou A. (2019)
      Aims: Previous studies have demonstrated that transcriptional silencing of miRNAs due to DNA hypermethylation is associated with different pathologies. It has also been reported that abnormal expression of miR-140-5p and ...
    • Lotus SHAGGY-like kinase 1 is required to suppress nodulation in Lotus japonicus 

      Garagounis C., Tsikou D., Plitsi P.K., Psarrakou I.S., Avramidou M., Stedel C., Anagnostou M., Georgopoulou M.E., Papadopoulou K.K. (2019)
      Glycogen synthase kinase/SHAGGY-like kinases (SKs) are a highly conserved family of signaling proteins that participate in many developmental, cell-differentiation, and metabolic signaling pathways in plants and animals. ...
    • TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A 

      Brown A.-L., Wilkins O.G., Keuss M.J., Hill S.E., Zanovello M., Lee W.C., Bampton A., Lee F.C.Y., Masino L., Qi Y.A., Bryce-Smith S., Gatt A., Hallegger M., Fagegaltier D., Phatnani H., Phatnani H., Kwan J., Sareen D., Broach J.R., Simmons Z., Arcila-Londono X., Lee E.B., Van Deerlin V.M., Shneider N.A., Fraenkel E., Ostrow L.W., Baas F., Zaitlen N., Berry J.D., Malaspina A., Fratta P., Cox G.A., Thompson L.M., Finkbeiner S., Dardiotis E., Miller T.M., Chandran S., Pal S., Hornstein E., MacGowan D.J., Heiman-Patterson T., Hammell M.G., Patsopoulos N.A., Butovsky O., Dubnau J., Nath A., Bowser R., Harms M., Aronica E., Poss M., Phillips-Cremins J., Crary J., Atassi N., Lange D.J., Adams D.J., Stefanis L., Gotkine M., Baloh R.H., Babu S., Raj T., Paganoni S., Shalem O., Smith C., Zhang B., Harris B., Broce I., Drory V., Ravits J., McMillan C., Menon V., Wu L., Altschuler S., Lerner Y., Sattler R., Van Keuren-Jensen K., Rozenblatt-Rosen O., Lindblad-Toh K., Nicholson K., Gregersen P., Lee J.-H., Kokos S., Muljo S., Newcombe J., Gustavsson E.K., Seddighi S., Reyes J.F., Coon S.L., Ramos D., Schiavo G., Fisher E.M.C., Raj T., Secrier M., Lashley T., Ule J., Buratti E., Humphrey J., Ward M.E., Fratta P., NYGC ALS Consortium (2022)
      Variants of UNC13A, a critical gene for synapse function, increase the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia1–3, two related neurodegenerative diseases defined by mislocalization of the RNA-binding ...