2024

Gabriela Krejčová, Gabriela Ruphuy, Petra Šalamúnová, Erik Sonntag, František Štěpánek, Adam Bajgar Inhibition of mevalonate pathway by macrophage-specific delivery of atorvastatin prevents their pro-inflammatory polarisation Insect Molecular Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/imb.12900

Fessl T., Majellaro M., Bondar A. Microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to study GPCR structure and function British Journal of Pharmacology https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.16297

Majellaro M., Bondar A. Editorial: Advanced biophysical and biochemical technologies to study GPCR signal transduction. Frontiers in Endocrinology https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1354689

Monika Fluks, Rebecca Collier, Agnieszka Walewska, Alexander W. Bruce, Anna Ajduk How great thou ART: biomechanical properties of oocytes and embryos as indicators of quality in assisted reproductive technologies Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1342905

Svobodová K., Krištůfek V., Kubásek J., Krejčí A. Alcohol extract of the gypsy mushroom (Cortinarius caperatus) inhibits the development of Deformed wing virus infection in western honey bee (Apis mellifera) Journal of Insect Physiology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2023.104583

Butenko A., Lukeš J., Speijer D., Weideman J.G. Mitochondrial genomes revisited: Why dodifferent lineages retain different genes? BMC Biology https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01824-1

Opperdoes F.R., Záhonová K., Škodová-Sveráková I., Bučková B., Chmelová L., Lukeš J., Yurchenko V. In silico prediction of the metabolism of Blastocrithidia nonstop, a trypanosomatid with non-canonical genetic code BMC Genomics https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10094-8

Lukeš J., Čepička I., Kolísko M. Evolution: No end in sight for novel incredible (heterotrophic) protists Current Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.065

Pablo Mora, Monika Hospodářská, Anna Chung Voleníková, Petr Koutecký, Jana Štundlová, Martina Dalíková, James R. Walters, Petr Nguyen Sex-biased gene content is associated with sex chromosome turnover in Danaini butterflies Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17256

Skotnicová P., Srivastava A., Aggarwal D., Talbot J., Karlínová I., Moos M., Mareš J., Bučinská L., Koník P., Šimek P., Tichý M., Sobotka R. A thylakoid biogenesis BtpA protein is required for the initial step of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in cyanobacteria New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19397

Cadena L.R., Edgcomb V., Lukeš J. Gazing into the abyss: A glimpse into the diversity, distribution, and behaviour of heterotrophic protists from the deep-sea floor Environmental Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16598

del Campo J., Carlos-Oliveira M., Čepička I., Hehenberger E., Horák A., Karnkowska A., Kolísko M., Lara E., Lukeš J., Pánek T., Piwosz K., Richter D.J., Škaloud P., Šuťák R., Tachezy J., Hampl V. The protist cultural renaissance Trends in Microbiology https://doi.org.10.1016/j.tim.2023.11.010

Kostygov A., Albanaz A.T.S., Butenko A., Gerasimov E.S., Lukeš J., Yurchenko V. Phylogenetic framework to explore trait evolution in Trypanosomatidae Trends in Parasitology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2023.11.009

Volf M., Fontanilla A., Vanhakylä S., Abe T., Libra M., Kogo R., Lilip R., Kamata N., Murakami M., Novotný V., Salminen J.-P., Segar S.T. High intraspecific variability and previous experience affect polyphenol metabolism in polyphagous Lymantria mathura caterpillars Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10973

Andresen E., Morina F., Bokhari S. N. H., Koník P., Küpper H. Disturbed electron transport beyond PSI changes metabolome and transcriptome in Zn-deficient soybean Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149018

Colussi A., Bokhari S. N. H., Mijovilovich A. E., Koník P., Küpper H. Acclimation to medium-level non-lethal iron limitation: Adjustment of electron flow around the PSII and metalloprotein expression in Trichodesmium erythraeum IMS101 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics research DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149015
Oborník M., Füssy Z. Complex Endosymbioses I: From Primary to Complex Plastids, Serial Endosymbiotic Events Methods in Molecular Biology: Plastids DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3726-5_2
Urbanová V., Lu S., Kalinová E., Martins L., Kozelková T., Dycka F., Ribeiro J., Hajdušek O., Perner J., Kopáček P. From the fat body to the hemolymph: Profiling tick immune and storage proteins through transcriptomics and proteomics Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology research DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2024.104072
Ellen McMullen, Lukas Strych, Lenka Chodakova, Amber Krebs & Tomas Dolezal JAK/STAT mediated insulin resistance in muscles is essential for effective immune response Cell Communication and Signaling research https://doi.org/10.1186/s12964-024-01575-0
Gabriela Krejčová, Adéla Danielová, Hana Sehadová, Filip Dyčka, Jiří Kubásek, Martin Moos, and Adam Bajgar Macrophages play a nutritive role in post-metamorphic maturation in Drosophila Develeopment research https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202492
Afonin D.A., Gerasimov E.S., Škodová-Sveráková I., Záhonová K., Gahura O., Albanaz A.T.S., Myšková E., Bykova A., Paris Z., Lukeš J., Opperdoes F.R., Horváth A., Zimmer S., Yurchenko V. Blastocrithidia nonstop mitochondrial genome and its expression are remarkably insulated from nuclear codon reassignment Nucleic Acid Research research https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae168
Kazek, M., Chodáková, L., Lehr, K., Strych L, Nedbalová, P., McMullen, E., Bajgar, A., Opekar, S., Šimek, P., Moos M., Doležal, T. Glucose and trehalose metabolism through the cyclic pentose phosphate pathway shapes pathogen resistance and host protection in Drosophila PLoS Biology research https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002299
Bartošová-Sojková P., Butenko A., Richtová J., Fiala I., Oborník M., Lukeš J. Inside the host: understanding the evolutionary trajectories of intracellular parasitism ANNUAL REVIEW OF MICROBIOLOGY https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-micro-041222-025305

2023

Smykal V, Chodakova L, Hejnikova M, Briedikova K, Wu BCH, Vaneckova H, Chen P, Janovska A, Kyjakova P, Vacha M, Dolezel D. (2023) Steroid receptor coactivator TAIMAN is a new modulator of insect circadian clock. PLOS Genetics 19(9): e1010924. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010924

Krejčová G, Morgantini C, Zemanová H, Lauschke VM, Kovářová J, Kubásek J, Nedbalová P, Kamps-Hughes N, Moos M, Aouadi M, Doležal T and Bajgar A. (2023) Macrophage-derived insulin antagonist ImpL2 induces lipoprotein mobilization uponbacterial infection. The EMBO Journal. e114086|2023. doi.10.15252/embj.2023114086

Gahurova L, Tomankova J, Cerna P, Bora P, Kubickova M, Virnicchi G, Kovacovicova K, Potesil D, Hruska P, Zdrahal Z, Anger M, Susor A, Bruce AW. (2023) Spatial positioning of preimplantation mouse embryo cells is regulated by mTORC1 and m7G-cap-dependent translation at the 8- to 16-cell transition. Open Biology. doi.org/10.1098/rsob.230081

Svobodová K, Maitre A, Obregón D, Wu-Chuang A, Thaduri S, Locke B, de Miranda JR, Mateos-Hernández L, Bruce Krejčí A, Cabezas-Cruz A. (2023) Gut microbiota assembly of Gotland varroa-surviving honey bees excludes major viral pathogens. Microbiological Research. 274:127418. doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2023.127418

Jayakodi M, Golicz AA, Kreplak J, Fechete LI, ..., Koblížková A, Neumann P, Novák P, Avila Robledillo L, Macas J, et al. (2023) The giant diploid faba genome unlocks variation in a global protein crop Nature 615 (7953): 652–659. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05791-5

Macas J, Avila Robledillo L, Kreplak J, Novák P, Koblížková A, Vrbová I, Burstin J, Neumann P. (2023) Assembly of the 81.6 Mb centromere of pea chromosome 6 elucidates the structure and evolution of metapolycentric chromosomes. PLoS Genetics 19(2): e1010633. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010633

Zeiner A, Colina F, Citterico M, Wrzaczek M. (2023) CYSTEINE-RICH RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN KINASES: their evolution, structure, and roles in stress response and development. Journal of Experimental Botany on-line first: doi:10.1093/jxb/erad236

Bruce Krejčí A, Votýpková K, Lukeš J, Votýpka J. (2023) Varroa destructor Trends in Parasitology 39: 487-488. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2023.03.009

Ho Chan T, Picard-Sánchez M, Majstorović J, Rebl A, Koczan D, Dycka F, Holzer A, Korytář T. (2023) Red blood cells in proliferative kidney disease-rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) infected by Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae harbor IgM(+) red blood cells Frontiers in Immunology 14: 1041325. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2023.1041325

Kachale A, Pavliková Z, Nenarokova A, Roithová A, Durante I, Miletínová P, Záhonová K, Nenarokov S, Votýpka J, Horáková E, Ross RL, Yurchenko V, Beznosková P, Paris Z, Valášek LS, Lukeš J. (2023) Short tRNA anticodon stem and mutant eRF1 allow stop codon reassignment Nature 613: 751–758. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05584-2

Muñoz-Gómez SA, Cadena L, Gardiner AT, Leger MM, Sheikh S, Connell LB, Bílý T, Kopejtka K, Beatty T, Koblížek M, Roger A, Slamovits CH, Lukeš J, Hashimi H. (2023) Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60. Current Biology 33: 1099 - 1111. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.059

Obiol A, López-Escardó D, Salomaki E, Wisniewska M, Forn I, Sà E, Vaqué D, Kolísko M, Massana R. (2023) Gene expression dynamics of natural assemblages of heterotrophic flagellates during bacterivory Microbiome 11: 134. doi:10.1186/s40168-023-01571-5

Sheikh S, Pánek T, Gahura O, Týč J, Záhonová K, Lukeš J, Eliáš M, Hashimi H. (2023) A novel group of dynamin-related proteins shared by eukaryotes and giant viruses is able to remodel mitochondria from within the matrix Molecular Biology and Evolution 40: msad134. doi:10.1093/molbev/msad134

Wong J, Panicucci Zíková A, Gahura O. (2023) The ancestral shape of the access proton path of mitochondrial ATP synthases revealed by a split subunit-a. Molecular Biology and Evolution 40: msad146. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msad146

Bajgar A, Krejčová G. (2023) On the origin of macrophage functional versatility. Frontiers in Physiology 14:1128984. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1128984

Dalíková M, Provazníková I, Provazník J, Grof-Tisza P, Pepi A, Nguyen P. (2023) The role of repetitive sequences in repatterning of major ribosomal DNA clusters in Lepidoptera. Genome Biology and Evolution 15: evad090. doi:10.1093/gbe/evad090

Hejníčková M, Dalíková M, Zrzavá M, Marec F, Lorite P, Montiel EE. (2023) Accumulation of retrotransposons contributes to W chromosome differentiation in the willow beauty Peribatodes rhomboidaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Scientific Reports 13: 534. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-27757-3

Kaniewska M, Chvalová D, Doležel D. (2023) Impact of photoperiod and functional clock on male diapause in cryptochrome and pdf mutants in the linden bug Pyrrhocoris apterus. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. Early View: doi:10.1007/s00359-023-01647-5

Pospíšilová K, Van ’t Hof A, Yoshido A, Kružíková R, Visser S, Zrzavá M, Bobryshava K, Dalíková M, Marec F. (2023) Masculinizer gene controls male sex determination in the codling moth, Cydia pomonella. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 160: 103991. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2023.103991

2022

Tumova S, Milacek M, Snajdr I and Jindra M. Unique peptidic agonists of a juvenile hormone receptor with species-specific effects on insect development and reproduction. PNAS 119 (48) e2215541119.  doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215541119

Kubásek J, Svobodová K, Půta F, Bruce Krejčí A. Honeybees control the gas permeability of brood and honey cappings. iScience 25(11):105445. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105445

Domínguez-Martín MA, Sauer PV, Kirst H, Sutter M, Bína M, Greber BJ, Nogales E, Polívka T, Kerfeld CA. Structures of a phycobilisome in light-harvesting and photoprotected states. Nature 609, 835–845 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05156-4

Kotwica-Rolinska J, Chodáková L. Smýkal V, Damulewicz M, Provazník J, Wu C, Hejníková M, Chvalová D, Doležel D. (2022) Loss of Timeless Underlies an Evolutionary Transition within the Circadian Clock. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39: msab346. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab346

Kotwica-Rolinska J, Damulewicz M, Chodáková L, Krištofová L, Doležel D. (2022) Pigment dispersing factor is a circadian clock output and regulates photoperiodic response in the linden bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus. Frontiers in Physiology 13: 884909. doi:10.3389/fphys.2022.884909

Maaroufi H, Pauchová L, Lin YH, Wu C, Rouhová L, Kučerová L, Marques Cota Vieira LM, Renner M, Sehadová H, Hradilová M, Žurovec M. (2022) Mutation in Drosophila concentrative nucleoside transporter 1 alters spermatid maturation and mating behavior. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 10:945572. doi:10.3389/fcell.2022.945572

Rouhová L, Sehadová H, Pauchová L, Hradilová M, Žurovcová M, Šerý M, Rindoš M, Žurovec M. (2022) Using the multi-omics approach to reveal the silk composition in Plectrocnemia conspersa. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 9:945239. doi:10.3389/fmolb.2022.945239

Štundlová J, Hospodářská M, Lukšíková K, Volenikova A, Pavlica T, Altmanová M, Richter A, Reichard M, Dalíková M, Pelikánová Š, Marta A, Simanovsky SA, Hiřman M, Jankásek M, Dvořák T, Bohlen J, Ráb P., Englert C, Nguyen P, Sember A. (2022) Sex chromosome differentiation via changes in the Y chromosome repeat landscape in African annual killifishes Nothobranchius furzeri and N. kadleci. Chromosome Research 30: 309-33. doi:10.1007/s10577-022-09707-3

Thakkar N, Giesecke A, Bazalová O, Martinek J, Smýkal V, Stanewsky R., Doležel D. (2022) Evolution of casein kinase 1 and functional analysis of new doubletime mutants in Frontiers in Physiology 13: article number: 1062632. doi:10.3389/fphys.2022.1062632

Voleníková A, Nguyen P, Davey P, Sehadová H, Kludkiewicz B, Koutecky P, Walters JR, Roessingh P, Provazníková I, Šerý M, Žurovcová M, Hradilova M, Rouhová L, Žurovec M. (2022) Genome sequence and silkomics of the spindle ermine moth, Yponomeuta cagnagella, representing the early diverging lineage of the ditrysian Lepidoptera. Communications Biology 5: 1281. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04240-9

Wu C, Šauman I, Maaroufi H, Žaloudíková A, Žurovcová M, Kludkiewicz B, Hradilova M, Žurovec M. (2022) Characterization of silk genes in Ephestia kuehniella and Galleria mellonella revealed duplication of sericin genes and highly divergent sequences encoding fibroin heavy chains. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 9:1023381. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1023381

Benz C, Muller N, Kaltenbrunner S, Váchová H , Vancová M, Lukeš J, Varga V, Hashimi H. (2022) Kinetoplastid-specific X2-family kinesins interact with a kinesin-like pleckstrin homology domain protein that localizes to the trypanosomal microtubule quartet Molecular Microbiology 118: 155–174. doi: 10.1111/mmi.14958

Gahura O, Chauhan P, Panicucci Zíková A. (2022) Mechanisms and players of mitoribosomal biogenesis revealed in trypanosomatids Trends in Parasitology 38: 1053-1067. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.08.010

Gahura O, Mühleip A, Hierro-Yap C, Panicucci B, Jain M, Hollaus D, Slapničková M., Panicucci Zíková A, Amunts A. (2022) An ancestral interaction module promotes oligomerization in divergent mitochondrial ATP synthases Nature Communications 13:5989. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33588-z

Hegedüsová E, Maršalová V, Kulkarni S, Paris Z. (2022) Trafficking and/or division: Distinct roles of nucleoporins based on their location within the nuclear pore complex RNA Biology 19: 650–661. doi:10.1080/15476286.2022.2067711

Kaurov I, Heller J, Deisenhammer S, Potěšil D, Zdráhal Z, Hashimi H. (2022) The essential cysteines in the CIPC motif of the thioredoxin-like Trypanosoma brucei MICOS subunit TbMic20 do not form an intramolecular disulfide bridge in vivo Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 248: 111463. doi:10.1016/j.molbiopara.2022.111463

Selinger M, Věchtová P, Tykalová H, Ošlejšková P, Rumlová M, Štěrba J, Grubhoffer L. (2022) Integrative RNA profiling of TBEV-infected neurons and astrocytes reveals potential pathogenic effectors Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 20: 2759-2777. doi:10.1016/j.csbj.2022.05.052

Hofstatter PG, Thangavel G, Lux T, Neumann P, Vondrak T, Novák P, Zhang M, Costa L, Castellani M, Scott A, Toegelová H, Fuchs J, Mata-Sucre Y, Dias Y, Vanzela A, Huettel B, Almeida CCS, Šimková H, Souza G, Pedrosa-Harand A, Macas J, Mayer K, Houben A, Marques A. (2022) Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution Cell 185: 1-16. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.045

2021

Bora P , Gahurova L, Hauserova A, Stiborova M, Collier R, Potěšil D, Zdráhal Z and Bruce AW. DDX21 is a p38-MAPK sensitive nucleolar protein necessary for mouse preimplantation embryo development and cell-fate specification. Open Biology 7:210092 (2021). doi/10.1098/rsob.210092

Bora P, Gahurova L, Mašek T, Hauserova A, Potěšil D, Jansova D, Susor A, Zdráhal Z, Ajduk A, Pospíšek M and Bruce AW. p38-MAPK-mediated translation regulation during early blastocyst development is required for primitive endoderm differentiation in mice. Commun. Biol. 4:788 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02290-z

Bajgar A, Krejcova G, Dolezal T. Polarization of Macrophages in Insects: Opening Gates for Immuno-Metabolic Research. Front Cell Dev Biol 9: 629238. (2021) doi/10.3389/fcell.2021.629238.

Sember A, Nguyen P, Perez MF, Altmanová M, Ráb P, Cioffi MB. Multiple sex chromosomes in teleost fishes from a cytogenetic perspective: state of the art and future challenges. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. (2021) doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0098

Ávila Herrera IM, Král J, Pastuchová M, Forman M, Musilová J, Kořínková T, Šťáhlavský F, Zrzavá M, Nguyen P, Just P, Haddad C, Hiřman M, Koubová M, Sadílek D, Huber BA. Evolutionary pattern of karyotypes, sex chromosomes, nucleolus organizer regions, and meiosis in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): implications for reconstructing karyotype evolution of araneomorph spiders. BMC Evol Biol. (2021) doi/10.1186/s12862-021-01750-8

2020

Virnicchi G, Bora P, Gahurova L, Šušor A and Bruce AW. Wwc2 is a novel cell division regulator during preimplantation mouse embryo lineage formation and oogenesis. Front. Cell. Dev. Biol. 8:857 (2020). doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2020.00857

Del Llano E, Masek T, Gahurova L, Pospisek M, Koncicka M, Jindrova A, Jansova D, Iappan R, Roucova K, Bruce AW, Kubelka M and Susor A. Age-related differences in the translational landscape of mammalian oocytes. Aging Cell e13231 (2020). doi.org/10.1111/acel.13231

Yoshido A, Šíchová J, Pospíšilová K, Nguyen P, Voleníková A, Šafář J, Provazník J, Vila R, Marec F. Evolution of multiple sex chromosomes associated with dynamic genome reshuffling in Leptidea wood white butterflies. Heredity 125: 138–154. (2020) doi.org/10.1038/s41437-020-0325-9

2019

Bora P, Thamodaran V, Šušor A and Bruce AW. p38-mitogen activated kinases mediate a developmental regulatory response to amino acid depletion and associated oxidative stress in mouse blastocyst embryos. Front. Cell. Dev. Biol. 7:276 (2019). doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2019.00276

Krejcova G, Danielova A, Nedbalova P, Kazek M, Strych L, Chawla G, Tennessen JM, Lieskovská J, Jindra M, Dolezal T, Bajgar A. Drosophila macrophages switch to aerobic glycolysis to mount effective antibacterial defense. eLife 14;8. pii: e50414. (2019) doi/10.7554/eLife.50414.

Dolezal T, Krejcova G, Bajgar A, Nedbalova P, Strasser P. Molecular regulations of metabolism during immune response in insects. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 109:31-42. (2019). doi/10.1016/j.ibmb.2019.04.005

Bajgar, A., Salon, I., Krejcova, G., et al. Yeast glucan particles enable intracellular protein delivery in Drosophila without compromising the immune system. Biomaterial Sci. 7 (11) 4708-4719. (2019) doi.org/10.1039/C9BM00539K

Morgantini, C.,..., Krejcova, G, Bajgar, A, Aouadi, M.  Liver macrophages regulate systemic metabolism through non- inflammatory factors. Nat. Metab. 1 (4): 445-459 (2019) doi/10.1038/s42255-019-0044-9

Meccariello A., Salvemini M., Primo P., Hall B., Koskinioti P., Dalíková M., et al. Maleness-on-the-Y (MoY) orchestrates male sex determination in major agricultural fruit fly pests. Science 27 : eaax1318. (2019) doi/10.1126/science.aax1318

Carabajal Paladino LZ, Hladová I, Berger M, Bass C, Aratchige NS, López SN, Marec F, Nguyen P. Sex chromosome turnover in moths of the diverse superfamily Gelechioidea. Genome Biol Evol 11:1307–1319. (2019) doi/10.1093/gbe/evz075