The Rab5 effector Rabankyrin-5 regulates and coordinates different endocytic mechanisms.

abstract：:The Hippo pathway plays a key role in regulating cell turnover in adult tissues, and abnormalities in this pathway are consistently associated with human cancers. Hippo was initially implicated in the control of cell proliferation and death, and its inhibition is linked to the expansion of stem cells and progenitors, ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： de Sousa N,Rodríguez-Esteban G,Rojo-Laguna JI,Saló E,Adell T

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the highly conserved class of BEACH domain containing proteins (BDCPs) have been established as broad facilitators of protein-protein interactions and membrane dynamics in the context of human diseases like albinism, bleeding diathesis, impaired cellular immunity, cancer predisposition, and neurological dys...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Steffens A,Bräutigam A,Jakoby M,Hülskamp M

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity is widely believed to constitute a key mechanism for modifying functional properties of neuronal networks. This belief implicitly implies, however, that synapses, when not driven to change their characteristics by physiologically relevant stimuli, will maintain these characteristics over time. How ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Minerbi A,Kahana R,Goldfeld L,Kaufman M,Marom S,Ziv NE

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a class of designed peptide detergents to stabilize photosystem I (PS-I) upon extended drying under N2 on a gold-coated-Ni-NTA glass surface. PS-I is a chlorophyll-containing membrane protein complex that is the primary reducer of ferredoxin and the electron acceptor of plastocyanin. We isolated the complex fr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kiley P,Zhao X,Vaughn M,Baldo MA,Bruce BD,Zhang S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To successfully negotiate a complex environment, an animal must control the timing of motor behaviors in coordination with dynamic sensory information. Here, we report on adaptive temporal control of vocal-motor behavior in an echolocating bat, Eptesicus fuscus, as it captured tethered insects close to background vege...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moss CF,Bohn K,Gilkenson H,Surlykke A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modeling the processes of neuronal progenitor proliferation and differentiation to produce mature cortical neuron subtypes is essential for the study of human brain development and the search for potential cell therapies. We demonstrated a novel paradigm for the generation of vascularized organoids (vOrganoids) consis...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Shi Y,Sun L,Wang M,Liu J,Zhong S,Li R,Li P,Guo L,Fang A,Chen R,Ge WP,Wu Q,Wang X

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular aging, a progressive functional decline driven by damage accumulation, often culminates in the mortality of a cell lineage. Certain lineages, however, are able to sustain long-lasting immortality, as prominently exemplified by stem cells. Here, we show that Escherichia coli cell lineages exhibit comparable pa...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Proenca AM,Rang CU,Qiu A,Shi C,Chao L

更新日期：2019-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of altruism is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology. In a seminal paper Hamilton showed that altruism can be selected for when rb - c > 0, where c is the fitness cost to the altruist, b is the fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and r is their genetic relatedness. While many studies have provided...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Waibel M,Floreano D,Keller L

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-research is the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives. Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits. T...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ioannidis JPA

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked chromatin remodeler (ATRX), a DAXX (death domain-associated protein) interacting protein, is often lost in cells using the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) pathway, but it is not known how ATRX loss leads to ALT. We report that ATRX deletion from mouse c...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lovejoy CA,Takai K,Huh MS,Picketts DJ,de Lange T

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:How should funding agencies enable researchers to explore high-risk but potentially high-reward science? One model that appears to work is the NSF-funded synthesis center, an incubator for community-led, innovative science. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rodrigo A,Alberts S,Cranston K,Kingsolver J,Lapp H,McClain C,Smith R,Vision T,Weintraub J,Wiegmann B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogen gradients are established by the localized production and subsequent diffusion of signaling molecules. It is generally assumed that cell fates are induced only after morphogen profiles have reached their steady state. Yet, patterning processes during early development occur rapidly, and tissue patterning may...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bergmann S,Sandler O,Sberro H,Shnider S,Schejter E,Shilo BZ,Barkai N

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MooSciTIC project is a capacity-building initiative targeting West African research scientists and higher education teachers. The project aimed to improve the self-reliance of researchers and upgrade research practices by providing on-site summer schools on trans-disciplinary topics such as scientific writing, com...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Atindehou M,Adéoti K,Loko LEY,Beulé T,Paradis E,Djedatin G,Tranchant-Dubreuil C,Sabot F,Lagnika L,Jaligot E

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells respond to accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by activating the unfolded protein response (UPR), a signal transduction pathway that communicates between the ER and the nucleus. In yeast, a large set of UPR target genes has been experimentally determined, but the previo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Patil CK,Li H,Walter P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef (GBR) continues to suffer from repeated impacts of cyclones, coral bleaching, and outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), losing much of its coral cover in the process. This raises the question of the ecosystem's systemic resilience and its ability to reboun...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hock K,Wolff NH,Ortiz JC,Condie SA,Anthony KRN,Blackwell PG,Mumby PJ

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC) respond to numerous hormonal and neural signals, resulting in changes in food intake. Here, we demonstrate that ARC POMC neurons express capsaicin-sensitive transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 receptor (TRPV1)-like receptors. To s...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jeong JH,Lee DK,Liu SM,Chua SC Jr,Schwartz GJ,Jo YH

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In species with separate sexes, parasite prevalence and disease expression is often different between males and females. This effect has mainly been attributed to sex differences in host traits, such as immune response. Here, we make the case for how properties of the parasites themselves can also matter. Specifically...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Duneau D,Ebert D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, light exerts pervasive effects on physiology and behavior in two ways: indirectly through clock synchronization and the phase adjustment of circadian rhythms, and directly through the promotion of alertness and sleep, respectively, in diurnal and nocturnal species. A recent report by Pilorz and colleagues ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bourgin P,Hubbard J

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial shape is determined by fission and fusion reactions catalyzed by large GTPases of the dynamin family, mutation of which can cause neurological dysfunction. While fission-inducing protein phosphatases have been identified, the identity of opposing kinase signaling complexes has remained elusive. We report...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Merrill RA,Dagda RK,Dickey AS,Cribbs JT,Green SH,Usachev YM,Strack S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flight speed is expected to increase with mass and wing loading among flying animals and aircraft for fundamental aerodynamic reasons. Assuming geometrical and dynamical similarity, cruising flight speed is predicted to vary as (body mass)(1/6) and (wing loading)(1/2) among bird species. To test these scaling rules an...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Alerstam T,Rosén M,Bäckman J,Ericson PG,Hellgren O

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A substantial proportion of protein interactions relies on small domains binding to short peptides in the partner proteins. Many of these interactions are relatively low affinity and transient, and they impact on signal transduction. However, neither the number of potential interactions mediated by each domain nor the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Landgraf C,Panni S,Montecchi-Palazzi L,Castagnoli L,Schneider-Mergener J,Volkmer-Engert R,Cesareni G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demonstration of association between common genetic variants and chronic human diseases such as obesity could have profound implications for the prediction, prevention, and treatment of these conditions. Unequivocal proof of such an association, however, requires independent replication of initial positive finding...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Swarbrick MM,Waldenmaier B,Pennacchio LA,Lind DL,Cavazos MM,Geller F,Merriman R,Ustaszewska A,Malloy M,Scherag A,Hsueh WC,Rief W,Mauvais-Jarvis F,Pullinger CR,Kane JP,Dent R,McPherson R,Kwok PY,Hinney A,Hebebrand J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporarily holding information in mind is an important part of many cognitive processes, such as reasoning and language. The amount of information that can be actively held "in mind" at any time is greatly limited-research suggests that we can only actively hold three or four pieces of information at once. A central ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hakim N,Vogel EK

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental evolution, scientists evolve organisms in the lab, typically by challenging them to new environmental conditions. How best to evolve a desired trait? Should the challenge be applied abruptly, gradually, periodically, sporadically? Should one apply chemical mutagenesis, and do strains with high innate m...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kaminski Strauss S,Schirman D,Jona G,Brooks AN,Kunjapur AM,Nguyen Ba AN,Flint A,Solt A,Mershin A,Dixit A,Yona AH,Csörgő B,Busby BP,Hennig BP,Pál C,Schraivogel D,Schultz D,Wernick DG,Agashe D,Levi D,Zabezhinsky D,

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms by which floral homeotic genes act as major developmental switches to specify the identity of floral organs are still largely unknown. Floral homeotic genes encode transcription factors of the MADS-box family, which are supposed to assemble in a combinatorial fashion into organ-specific multim...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kaufmann K,Muiño JM,Jauregui R,Airoldi CA,Smaczniak C,Krajewski P,Angenent GC

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component systems, composed of a sensor histidine kinase and an effector response regulator (RR), are the main signal transduction devices in bacteria. In Bacillus, the Rap protein family modulates complex signaling processes mediated by two-component systems, such as competence, sporulation, or biofilm formation,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gallego del Sol F,Marina A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are well studied for their role in binding and charging tRNAs with cognate amino acids. Recent RNA interactome studies had suggested that these enzymes can also bind polyadenylated RNAs. Here, we explored the mRNA repertoire bound by several yeast aaRSs. RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP)...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Levi O,Arava Y

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common cystic fibrosis (CF) causing mutation, deletion of phenylalanine 508 (ΔF508 or Phe508del), results in functional expression defect of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) at the apical plasma membrane (PM) of secretory epithelia, which is attributed to the degradation of the misfolded chan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Veit G,Oliver K,Apaja PM,Perdomo D,Bidaud-Meynard A,Lin ST,Guo J,Icyuz M,Sorscher EJ,Hartman JL IV,Lukacs GL

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This speculative Essay explores the consequences of the imagined premature death of Oswald Avery, who in 1944 provided evidence that genes are made of DNA. Four imaginary alternate routes to the genetic function of DNA are outlined, each of which highlights different aspects of the actual process of discovery. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Cobb M

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction pathways comprising histidine protein kinases (HPKs) and their response regulators (RRs) are widely used to control bacterial responses to environmental challenges. Some bacteria have over 150 different two-component pathways, and the specificity of the phosphotransfer reactions withi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bell CH,Porter SL,Strawson A,Stuart DI,Armitage JP

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00