Stress-dependent cell stiffening by tardigrade tolerance proteins that reversibly form a filamentous network and gel

Description of a model tardigrade Paramacrobiotus metropolitanus sp. nov. (Eutardigrada) from Japan with a summary of its life history, reproduction and genomics

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Reconsidering the “glass transition” hypothesis of intrinsically unstructured CAHS proteins in desiccation tolerance of tardigrades

(2021) Kazuharu Arakawa et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

(2021) John Jumper et al.   NATURE

Parallel evolution of trehalose production machinery in anhydrobiotic animals via recurrent gene loss and horizontal transfer

(2021) Yuichiro Hara et al.   Open Biology

Multiomics study of a heterotardigrade, Echinisicus testudo, suggests the possibility of convergent evolution of abundant heat-soluble proteins in Tardigrada

(2021) Yumi Murai et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A widespread family of heat-resistant obscure (Hero) proteins protect against protein instability and aggregation

(2020) Kotaro Tsuboyama et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Liquid-liquid phase separation promotes animal desiccation tolerance

(2020) Clinton Belott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

UCSF ChimeraX : Structure visualization for researchers, educators, and developers

(2020) Eric F. Pettersen et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

PANTHER version 16: a revised family classification, tree-based classification tool, enhancer regions and extensive API

(2020) Huaiyu Mi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Protein Phase Separation as a Stress Survival Strategy

(2019) Titus M. Franzmann et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

About TFE: Old and New Findings

(2019) Marian Vincenzi et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Metascape provides a biologist-oriented resource for the analysis of systems-level datasets

(2019) Yingyao Zhou et al.   Nature Communications

Comparative transcriptomics suggest unique molecular adaptations within tardigrade lineages

(2019) Maria Kamilari et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype

(2019) Daehwan Kim et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

IUPred2A: context-dependent prediction of protein disorder as a function of redox state and protein binding

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Increasing Elasticity through Changes in the Secondary Structure of Gelatin by Gelation in a Microsized Lipid Space

(2018) Atsushi Sakai et al.   ACS Central Science

Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation

(2017) Thomas C. Boothby et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Mechanical Properties of the Cytoskeleton and Cells

(2017) Adrian F. Pegoraro et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Comparative genomics of the tardigrades Hypsibius dujardini and Ramazzottius varieornatus

(2017) Yuki Yoshida et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Intrinsically disordered linkers determine the interplay between phase separation and gelation in multivalent proteins

(2017) Tyler S Harmon et al.   eLife

mScarlet: a bright monomeric red fluorescent protein for cellular imaging

(2016) Daphne S Bindels et al.   NATURE METHODS

Principles and Properties of Stress Granules

(2016) David S.W. Protter et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Intermediate Filaments: Structure and Assembly

(2016) Harald Herrmann et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein

(2016) Takuma Hashimoto et al.   Nature Communications

Novel origin of lamin-derived cytoplasmic intermediate filaments in tardigrades

(2016) Lars Hering et al.   eLife

Evolutionary aspects in intermediate filament proteins

(2015) Annette Peter et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

JPred4: a protein secondary structure prediction server

(2015) Alexey Drozdetskiy et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Novel Mitochondria-Targeted Heat-Soluble Proteins Identified in the Anhydrobiotic Tardigrade Improve Osmotic Tolerance of Human Cells

(2015) Sae Tanaka et al.   PLoS One

featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features

(2013) Y. Liao et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

FUS/TLS assembles into stress granules and is a prosurvival factor during hyperosmolar stress

(2013) Reddy Ranjith K. Sama et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Cell-free Formation of RNA Granules: Low Complexity Sequence Domains Form Dynamic Fibers within Hydrogels

(2012) Masato Kato et al.   CELL

Two Novel Heat-Soluble Protein Families Abundantly Expressed in an Anhydrobiotic Tardigrade

(2012) Ayami Yamaguchi et al.   PLoS One

Survival in extreme environments - on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades

(2011) N. Møbjerg et al.   Acta Physiologica

LEA Proteins During Water Stress: Not Just for Plants Anymore

(2011) Steven C. Hand et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Trehalose Renders the Dauer Larva of Caenorhabditis elegans Resistant to Extreme Desiccation

(2011) Cihan Erkut et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Extreme stress tolerance in tardigrades: surviving space conditions in low earth orbit

(2011) Dennis Persson et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Generation of stable Drosophila cell lines using multicistronic vectors

(2011) Monika González et al.   Scientific Reports

Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton

(2010) Daniel A. Fletcher et al.   NATURE

Establishment of a Rearing System of the Extremotolerant Tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus: A New Model Animal for Astrobiology

(2008) Daiki D. Horikawa et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit

(2008) K. Ingemar Jönsson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Vitrification is essential for anhydrobiosis in an African chironomid,Polypedilum vanderplanki

(2008) Minoru Sakurai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA