The phrase "affect starvation" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe how something influences or impacts starvation, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The economic crisis can significantly affect starvation rates in developing countries."
Alternatives: "impact hunger" or "influence food scarcity".
We should also take into account that by affecting foraging behaviour, predation risk can consequently affect starvation risk [4].
Expression of DN-CREB in the fat body also reduced glycogen levels, while it did not affect starvation sensitivity, presumably due to increased lipid levels in these flies.
In contrast, while disruption of CREB function in the fat body also reduced glycogen levels, it increased lipid stores, and did not affect starvation sensitivity (Figure 2 3).
Therefore, mutants in many genes that are not specifically involved in the sporulation mechanism (i.e. mutants that affect starvation- or population density-sensing, motility, or coordination of fruiting body formation) nevertheless produce a sporulation defect [ 33].
This T300A variant does not affect starvation-induced autophagy, but does reduce the clearance of intracellular microbes.
Notably, RAB5A-DN expression or RAB5A knockdown did not affect starvation-induced autophagy (Fig. 4 C and D; Figs. S11 and S12).
In HepG2 cells, siRNA-induced p53 knockdown almost completely blocked starvation-induced apoptosis; however, DRAM knockdown by siRNA did not affect starvation-induced apoptosis, suggesting that the apoptosis-inducing role of p53 is not impaired in hepatoma cells with wild-type p53, although p53-induced DRAM cannot induce apoptosis by mediating autophagy.
Moreover, it is still unclear if absence of Sir2/SIRT1 affects starvation resistance.
These results clearly delineate the functions of dSir2 in the two different metabolic tissues in affecting starvation survival.
Based on the molecular results, we wanted to check if knocking down dSir2 in specific tissues, such as fatbody and muscles, affected starvation survival.
The most active cinnamaldehyde analogs were found to affect the starvation response, biofilm formation, pigment production and protease production in Vibrio spp in vitro, while exhibiting low cytotoxicity.
