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Dr Kinga Duszyc

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 334 62337
k.duszyc@imb.uq.edu.au
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Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (15)
Thesis (1)

Book Chapter

Brooks, John W., Parton, Robert G., Yap, Alpha S. and Duszyc, Kinga (2022). Epithelial mechanosensing at cell-cell contacts and tight junctions. Tight Junctions. (pp. 27-50) edited by Lorenza González-Mariscal. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-97204-2_3

Journal Articles

Juliani, Juliani, Tran, Sharon, Harris, Tiffany J., De Cruz, Peter, Ellis, Sarah L., Gleeson, Paul A., Mariadason, John M., Duszyc, Kinga, Yap, Alpha S., Lee, Erinna F. and Fairlie, Walter D. (2025). BECLIN-1 is essential for the maintenance of gastrointestinal epithelial integrity by regulating endocytic trafficking, F-actin organization, and lysosomal function. Autophagy Reports, 4 (1). doi: 10.1080/27694127.2025.2484494
Nanavati, Bageshri Naimish, Noordstra, Ivar, Lwin, Angela K.O., Brooks, John W., Rae, James, Parton, Robert G., Verma, Suzie, Duszyc, Kinga, Green, Kathleen J. and Yap, Alpha S. (2024). The desmosome-intermediate filament system facilitates mechanotransduction at adherens junctions for epithelial homeostasis. Current Biology, 34 (17), 4081-4090. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.074
Tran, Sharon, Juliani, Juliani, Harris, Tiffany J., Evangelista, Marco, Ratcliffe, Julian, Ellis, Sarah L., Baloyan, David, Reehorst, Camilla M., Nightingale, Rebecca, Luk, Ian Y., Jenkins, Laura J., Ghilas, Sonia, Yakou, Marina H., Inguanti, Chantelle, Johnson, Chad, Buchert, Michael, Lee, James C., De Cruz, Peter, Duszyc, Kinga, Gleeson, Paul A., Kile, Benjamin T., Mielke, Lisa A., Yap, Alpha S., Mariadason, John M., Douglas Fairlie, W. and Lee, Erinna F. (2024). BECLIN1 is essential for intestinal homeostasis involving autophagy-independent mechanisms through its function in endocytic trafficking. Communications Biology, 7 (1) 209, 209. doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-05890-7
Duszyc, Kinga, von Pein, Jessica B., Ramnath, Divya, Currin-Ross, Denni, Verma, Suzie, Lim, Fayth, Sweet, Matthew J., Schroder, Kate and Yap, Alpha S. (2023). Apical extrusion prevents apoptosis from activating an acute inflammatory program in epithelia. Developmental Cell, 58 (21), 2235-2248.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.08.009
Mann, Zoya, Lim, Fayth, Verma, Suzie, Nanavati, Bageshri N., Davies, Julie M., Begun, Jakob, Hardeman, Edna C., Gunning, Peter W., Subramanyam, Deepa, Yap, Alpha S. and Duszyc, Kinga (2023). Pre-existing tissue mechanical hypertension at adherens junctions disrupts apoptotic extrusion in epithelia. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 35 (1) br3, 1-12. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e23-08-0337
Chau, Tevin C. Y., Keyser, Mikaela S., Da Silva, Jason A., Morris, Elysse K., Yordanov, Teodor E., Duscyz, Kinga P., Paterson, Scott, Yap, Alpha S., Hogan, Benjamin M. and Lagendijk, Anne Karine (2022). Dynamically regulated focal adhesions coordinate endothelial cell remodelling in developing vasculature. Development, 149 (23) dev200454, 1-14. doi: 10.1242/dev.200454
Bonfim-Melo, Alexis, Duszyc, Kinga, Gomez, Guillermo A. and Yap, Alpha S. (2022). Regulating life after death: how mechanical communication mediates the epithelial response to apoptosis. The European Physical Journal E, 45 (1) 9, 9. doi: 10.1140/epje/s10189-022-00163-9
Duszyc, Kinga, Noordstra, Ivar, Yap, Alpha S and Gomez, Guillermo A (2021). Live imaging of apoptotic extrusion and quantification of apical extrusion in epithelial cells. Bio-protocol, 11 (22) e4232, e4232. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4232
Gupta, Shafali, Duszyc, Kinga, Verma, Suzie, Budnar, Srikanth, Liang, Xuan, Gomez, Guillermo A., Marcq, Philippe, Noordstra, Ivar and Yap, Alpha S. (2021). Enhanced RhoA signaling stabilizes E-cadherin in migrating epithelial monolayers. Journal of Cell Science, 134 (17) jcs258767, 1-13. doi: 10.1242/jcs.258767
Duszyc, Kinga, Gomez, Guillermo A., Lagendijk, Anne K., Yau, Mei-Kwan, Nanavati, Bageshri Naimish, Gliddon, Briony L., Hall, Thomas E., Verma, Suzie, Hogan, Benjamin M., Pitson, Stuart M., Fairlie, David P., Parton, Robert G. and Yap, Alpha S. (2021). Mechanotransduction activates RhoA in the neighbors of apoptotic epithelial cells to engage apical extrusion. Current Biology, 31 (6), 1326-1336.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.003
Wee, Kenneth, Hediyeh-Zadeh, Soroor, Duszyc, Kinga, Verma, Suzie, Nanavati, Bageshri N., Khare, Satyajeet, Varma, Amrita, Daly, Roger J., Yap, Alpha S., Davis, Melissa J. and Budnar, Srikanth (2020). Snail induces epithelial cell extrusion by regulating RhoA contractile signalling and cell–matrix adhesion. Journal of Cell Science, 133 (13) jcs235622, jcs235622. doi: 10.1242/jcs.235622
Acharya, Bipul R., Nestor-Bergmann, Alexander, Liang, Xuan, Gupta, Shafali, Duszyc, Kinga, Gauquelin, Estelle, Gomez, Guillermo A., Budnar, Srikanth, Marcq, Philippe, Jensen, Oliver E., Bryant, Zev and Yap, Alpha S. (2018). A mechanosensitive RhoA pathway that protects epithelia against acute tensile stress. Developmental Cell, 47 (4), 439-452. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.09.016
Yap, Alpha S., Duszyc, Kinga and Viasnoff, Virgile (2018). Mechanosensing and mechanotransduction at cell-cell junctions. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 10 (8) a028761, a028761. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a028761
Duszyc, Kinga, Gomez, Guillermo A., Schroder, Kate, Sweet, Matthew J. and Yap, Alpha S. (2017). In life there is death: How epithelial tissue barriers are preserved despite the challenge of apoptosis. Tissue Barriers, 5 (4) e1345353, e1345353. doi: 10.1080/21688370.2017.1345353
Priya, Rashmi, Liang, Xuan, Teo, Jessica L., Duszyc, Kinga, Yap, Alpha S. and Gomez, Guillermo A. (2017). ROCK1 but not ROCK2 contributes to RhoA signaling and NMIIA-mediated contractility at the epithelial zonula adherens. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 28 (1), 12-20. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E16-04-0262

Thesis

Duszyc, Kinga Patrycja (2019). Elimination of apoptotic epithelial cells: Regulation of apoptotic extrusion and immune responses to epithelial apoptosis. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.709
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