UFGI Publication Round-Up: Week of 03/10/2025

Differential DNA methylation profiles of Alzheimer’s disease-related genomic pathways in the blood of cognitively-intact individuals with and without high impact chronic pain.

Strath LJ, Meng L, Zhang Y, Rani A, Huo Z, Foster TC, Fillingim RB, Cruz-Almeida Y.

J Alzheimers Dis Rep. 2024 Nov 24;8(1):1549-1557. doi: 10.1177/25424823241289376. eCollection 2024.

PMID: 40034342

 

Mucilage produced by aerial roots hosts diazotrophs that provide nitrogen in Sorghum bicolor.

Venado RE, Wilker J, Pankievicz VCS, Infante V, MacIntyre A, Wolf ESA, Vela S, Robbins F, Fernandes-Júnior PI, Vermerris W, Ané JM.

PLoS Biol. 2025 Mar 3;23(3):e3003037. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003037. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 40029899

 

Natural neopolyploids: a stimulus for novel research.

Edger PP, Soltis DE, Yoshioka S, Vallejo-Marin M, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Shimizu KK, Salmon A, Hiscock S, Ainouche M, Soltis PS.

New Phytol. 2025 Apr;246(1):78-93. doi: 10.1111/nph.20437. Epub 2025 Feb 14.

PMID: 39953679

 

Glycogen drives tumour initiation and progression in lung adenocarcinoma.

Clarke HA, Hawkinson TR, Shedlock CJ, Medina T, Ribas RA, Wu L, Liu Z, Ma X, Xia Y, Huang Y, He X, Chang JE, Young LEA, Juras JA, Buoncristiani MD, James AN, Rushin A, Merritt ME, Mestas A, Lamb JF, Manauis EC, Austin GL, Chen L, Singh PK, Bian J, Vander Kooi CW, Evers BM, Brainson CF, Allison DB, Gentry MS, Sun RC.

Nat Metab. 2025 Mar 11. doi: 10.1038/s42255-025-01243-8. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 40069440

 

Early Diagnosis and Intervention is Critical, so What’s Taking so Long?

Kovic Y, Dallas GD, Andrade JL, Lloveras LA, Peters KP, Soda T.

J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 Mar 6:S0890-8567(25)00124-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2025.03.001. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 40074072

 

Repair pathway coordination from gap filling by polβ and subsequent nick sealing by LIG1 or LIG3α governs BER efficiency at the downstream steps.

Çağlayan M.

DNA Repair (Amst). 2025 Mar 10;148:103826. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2025.103826. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 40081282

 

Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation regulates adult muscle stem cell function through modulating metabolic flux and protein acetylation.

Yue F, Gu L, Qiu J, Oprescu SN, Beckett LM, Ellis JM, Donkin SS, Kuang S.

EMBO J. 2025 Mar 10. doi: 10.1038/s44318-025-00397-1. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 40065099

 

Failure to recover from proactive semantic interference predicts trajectory of decline in everyday function among older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

Zheng DD, Cid REC, Ortega A, Crocco EA, Vaillancourt D, Armstrong MJ, Asken B, DeKosky ST, Adjouadi M, Smith G, Duara R, Marsiske M, Rosselli M, W Barker W, Loewenstein DA.

Int Psychogeriatr. 2025 Mar;37(2):100005. doi: 10.1016/j.inpsyc.2024.100005. Epub 2024 Dec 4.

PMID: 40086908

 

Harnessing DFT and machine learning for accurate optical gap prediction in conjugated polymers.

Liu B, Yan Y, Liu M.

Nanoscale. 2025 Mar 10. doi: 10.1039/d4nr03702b. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 40059626

 

Equitable machine learning counteracts ancestral bias in precision medicine.

Smith LA, Cahill JA, Lee JH, Graim K.

Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 10;16(1):2144. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57216-8.

PMID: 40064867