BACKGROUND: Reptiles exhibit a wide variety of skin colors, which serve essential roles in survival and reproduction. However, the molecular basis of these conspicuous colors remains unresolved.
RESULTS: We investigate color morph-enriched Asian vine snakes...
Individuals vary widely in their drug responses, which can be dangerous and expensive due to treatment delays and adverse effects. Growing evidence implicates the gut microbiome in this variability, however the molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown. We measured the ability of 76 diverse hum...
Solute carrier (SLC) transporters govern most of the chemical exchange across cellular membranes and are integral to metabolic regulation, which in turn is linked to cellular function and identity. Despite their key role, individual functions of the SLC superfamily members were not evaluated syst...
Barth syndrome (BTHS) is a rare X-linked recessively inherited disorder caused by variants in the TAFAZZIN gene. The pathogenic variants lead to impaired conversion of monolysocardiolipin (MLCL) into mature phospholipid cardiolipin (CL). The accumulation of MLCL and mature CL deficiency is a diag...