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F. Torta

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:proteomics· 2 Organism:Arabidopsis· 1 Approach:biophysical modeling· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1

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Life stage impact on the human skin ecosystem: lipids and the microbial community

M. P. Pagac, B. Davient, A. Ravikrishnan, E. Chua, A. Irudayaswamy, R. Srinivas, S. Wearne, S. Muralidharan, A. Sridharan, A. N. Mohamed Naim, E. Ho, A. Ng, J. Kwah, E. Png, A. Bendt, , T. Dawson

The paper investigates how life stages affect the human skin microbiome and lipid mediators, finding microbial correlations with lipid profiles and cytokine production.

bioRxiv · Jan 3, 2024Microbiology

The type 2 diabetes gene product STARD10 is a phosphoinositide binding protein that controls insulin secretory granule biogenesis

G. R. Carrat, E. Haythorne, A. Tomas, L. Haataja, A. Mueller, P. Arvan, A. Piunti, K. Cheng, M. Huang, T. Pullen, E. Georgiadou, T. Stylianides, N. S. Amirruddin, V. Salem, W. Distaso, , G. A. Rutter

This study identifies STARD10 as a phosphoinositide binding protein that regulates insulin granule biogenesis in beta-cells by affecting phosphatidylinositol levels and proinsulin processing.

bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2020Cell Biology

The bacterial quorum sensing signal DSF hijacks Arabidopsis thaliana sterol biosynthesis to suppress plant innate immunity

T. M. Tran, Z. Ma, A. Triebl, S. Nath, Y. Cheng, B.-Q. Gong, X. Han, J. Wang, J.-F. Li, M. R. Wenk, F. Torta, S. Mayor, L. Yang, Y. MIAO

This study shows that the bacterial QS molecule DSF suppresses Arabidopsis innate immunity by altering sterol biosynthesis and disrupting FLS2 receptor dynamics.

bioRxiv · Jan 30, 2020Plant Biology

Long acyl chain ceramides govern cholesterol and cytoskeleton dependence of membrane outer leaflet dynamics

A. Gupta, S. Muralidharan, F. Torta, M. R. Wenk, T. Wohland

The paper investigates how long acyl chain ceramides affect membrane outer leaflet dynamics in different cell types by analyzing cholesterol and cytoskeleton interactions.

bioRxiv · Jun 7, 2019Biophysics