CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate significant molecular alterations in the VAT proteome associated with severe obesity, providing insights into the underlying mechanisms of metabolic disease. The differentially expressed proteins may serve…
LimROTS: A Hybrid Method Integrating Empirical Bayes and Reproducibility-Optimized Statistics for Robust Differential Expression Analysis
MOTIVATION: Differential expression analysis plays a vital role in omics research enabling precise identification of features that associate with different phenotypes. This process is critical for uncovering biological differences between…
MicroRNA gene dynamics in immune cell subpopulations during aging and atherosclerosis disease development at single-cell resolution
CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that miRNA gene transcriptional activity is widely impacted in immune cells by aging and during disease development and further identify the corresponding translatome signature of inflamed adipose…
Heidi Isokääntä Successfully Defends Dissertation on Gut Microbiome Development
Heidi Isokääntä Successfully Defends Dissertation on Gut Microbiome Deveopment Turku, 26 September 2025 – Bioanalyst Heidi Isokääntä has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in medical microbiology at the University of…
Functional characterization and directed evolution of Cicer arietinum glutathione transferases for enhanced hydroperoxidase activity and ligandin function
Tau class glutathione transferases (GSTUs) play essential roles in plant defense by facilitating the nucleophilic attack of glutathione (GSH) to a wide range of electrophilic xenobiotics. In addition to their…
Early life gut microbial and metabolic shifts reflected in stool consistency- a gut transit time proxy
Transit time, fluid intake, diet, and overall gut health all influence stool consistency. However, the relationships between the gut microbiota, metabolome (microbial metabolites), and stool consistency in infants and young…
Turku Metabolomics Core Enhances MALDI Imaging with New Sprayer
The Turku Metabolomics Core, part of the Turku Bioscience Centre, has acquired a SunCollect MALDI Sprayer (Sunchrom) with support from the Research Council of Finland, the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, and…
Anisomelic acid promotes proteasomal degradation of HPV16 E6 via E3 ligase recruitment: A mass spectrometry-based interactome study
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a major driver of cervical and other epithelial cancers, with the viral oncoprotein E6 playing a central role in tumorigenesis by promoting degradation of the tumor…
HSF2 drives breast cancer progression by acting as a stage-specific switch between proliferation and invasion
Breast cancer is hallmarked by phenotypic transitions enabling abnormal cell proliferation and invasion. The stress-protective transcription factor heat shock factor 2 (HSF2) is associated with cancer, but its function in…
Breast Milk Proteome: Changes in the Different Stages of Lactation and Impacts of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Body Mass Index
Breast milk proteome comprises hundreds of bioactive proteins supporting infant development. The extent to which maternal metabolic conditions modify the proteome is poorly known. This study investigates proteome evolution from…