Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 975-984.e5

  Boothby, Thomas C ^a,b   Tapia, Hugo ^c   Brozena, Alexandra H ^d   Piszkiewicz, Samantha ^a   Smith, Austin E ^a   Giovannini, Ilaria ^e   Rebecchi, Lorena ^e   Pielak, Gary J ^a   Koshland, Doug ^c   Goldstein, Bob ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d North Carolina State University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

anhydrobiosis; CAHS proteins; cryptobiosis; desiccation tolerance; freeze tolerance; intrinsically disordered proteins; tardigrades; trehalose; vitrification; water bear

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TREHALOSE; ENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS TOLERANCE; DESICCATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; STRESS; TARDIGRADA; UPREGULATION; VITRIFICATION; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DEHYDRATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TARDIGRADA; UP-REGULATION; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 85015326326     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.018     Document Type: Article

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