@article{WoodcockGarrattPowneyetal.2019, author = {Woodcock, B. A. and Garratt, M. P. D. and Powney, G. D. and Shaw, R. F. and Osborne, J. L. and Soroka, J. and Lindstr{\"o}m, S. A. M. and Stanley, D. and Ouvrard, P. and Edwards, M. E. and Jauker, F. and McCracken, M. E. and Zou, Y. and Potts, S. G. and Rundl{\"o}f, M. and Noriega, J. A. and Greenop, A. and Smith, H. G. and Bommarco, R. and van der Werf, W. and Stout, J. C. and Steffan-Dewenter, I. and Morandin, L. and Bullock, J. M. and Pywell, R. F.}, title = {Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {10}, journal = {Nature Communications}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-09393-6}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-233787}, year = {2019}, abstract = {How insects promote crop pollination remains poorly understood in terms of the contribution of functional trait differences between species. We used meta-analyses to test for correlations between community abundance, species richness and functional trait metrics with oilseed rape yield, a globally important crop. While overall abundance is consistently important in predicting yield, functional divergence between species traits also showed a positive correlation. This result supports the complementarity hypothesis that pollination function is maintained by non-overlapping trait distributions. In artificially constructed communities (mesocosms), species richness is positively correlated with yield, although this effect is not seen under field conditions. As traits of the dominant species do not predict yield above that attributed to the effect of abundance alone, we find no evidence in support of the mass ratio hypothesis. Management practices increasing not just pollinator abundance, but also functional divergence, could benefit oilseed rape agriculture.}, language = {en} } @article{WegertVokuhlCollordetal.2018, author = {Wegert, Jenny and Vokuhl, Christian and Collord, Grace and Del Castillo Velasco-Herrera, Martin and Farndon, Sarah J. and Guzzo, Charlotte and Jorgensen, Mette and Anderson, John and Slater, Olga and Duncan, Catriona and Bausenwein, Sabrina and Streitenberger, Heike and Ziegler, Barbara and Furtw{\"a}ngler, Rhoikos and Graf, Norbert and Stratton, Michael R. and Campbell, Peter J. and Jones, David TW and Koelsche, Christian and Pfister, Stefan M. and Mifsud, William and Sebire, Neil and Sparber-Sauer, Monika and Koscielniak, Ewa and Rosenwald, Andreas and Gessler, Manfred and Behjati, Sam}, title = {Recurrent intragenic rearrangements of EGFR and BRAF in soft tissue tumors of infants}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {9}, journal = {Nature Communications}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-04650-6}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-233446}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Soft tissue tumors of infancy encompass an overlapping spectrum of diseases that pose unique diagnostic and clinical challenges. We studied genomes and transcriptomes of cryptogenic congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN), and extended our findings to five anatomically or histologically related soft tissue tumors: infantile fibrosarcoma (IFS), nephroblastomatosis, Wilms tumor, malignant rhabdoid tumor, and clear cell sarcoma of the kidney. A key finding is recurrent mutation of EGFR in CMN by internal tandem duplication of the kinase domain, thus delineating CMN from other childhood renal tumors. Furthermore, we identify BRAF intragenic rearrangements in CMN and IFS. Collectively these findings reveal novel diagnostic markers and therapeutic strategies and highlight a prominent role of isolated intragenic rearrangements as drivers of infant tumors.}, language = {en} } @article{AnnunziatavandeVlekkertWolfetal.2019, author = {Annunziata, Ida and van de Vlekkert, Diantha and Wolf, Elmar and Finkelstein, David and Neale, Geoffrey and Machado, Eda and Mosca, Rosario and Campos, Yvan and Tillman, Heather and Roussel, Martine F. and Weesner, Jason Andrew and Fremuth, Leigh Ellen and Qiu, Xiaohui and Han, Min-Joon and Grosveld, Gerard C. and d'Azzo, Alessandra}, title = {MYC competes with MiT/TFE in regulating lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy through an epigenetic rheostat}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {10}, journal = {Nature Communications}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-11568-0}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-221189}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Coordinated regulation of the lysosomal and autophagic systems ensures basal catabolism and normal cell physiology, and failure of either system causes disease. Here we describe an epigenetic rheostat orchestrated by c-MYC and histone deacetylases that inhibits lysosomal and autophagic biogenesis by concomitantly repressing the expression of the transcription factors MiT/TFE and FOXH1, and that of lysosomal and autophagy genes. Inhibition of histone deacetylases abates c-MYC binding to the promoters of lysosomal and autophagy genes, granting promoter occupancy to the MiT/TFE members, TFEB and TFE3, and/or the autophagy regulator FOXH1. In pluripotent stem cells and cancer, suppression of lysosomal and autophagic function is directly downstream of c-MYC overexpression and may represent a hallmark of malignant transformation. We propose that, by determining the fate of these catabolic systems, this hierarchical switch regulates the adaptive response of cells to pathological and physiological cues that could be exploited therapeutically.}, language = {en} }