Systematic association of genes to phenotypes by genome and literature mining.

abstract：:Cell motility is essential for protozoan and metazoan organisms and typically relies on the dynamic turnover of actin filaments. In metazoans, monomeric actin polymerises into usually long and stable filaments, while some protozoans form only short and highly dynamic actin filaments. These different dynamics are partl...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Douglas RG,Nandekar P,Aktories JE,Kumar H,Weber R,Sattler JM,Singer M,Lepper S,Sadiq SK,Wade RC,Frischknecht F

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent cancer studies emphasize that genetic and heritable epigenetic changes drive the evolutionary rate of cancer progression and drug resistance. We discuss the ways in which nonheritable aspects of cellular variability may significantly increase evolutionary rate. Nonheritable variability arises by stochastic fluc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Frank SA,Rosner MR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative regulation of receptor signaling is essential for controlling cell activation and differentiation. In B-lymphocytes, the down-regulation of B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signaling is critical for suppressing the activation of self-reactive B cells; however, the mechanism underlying the negative regulation of ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Liu C,Bai X,Wu J,Sharma S,Upadhyaya A,Dahlberg CI,Westerberg LS,Snapper SB,Zhao X,Song W

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox is unique among infectious diseases in the degree to which it devastated human populations, its long history of control interventions, and the fact that it has been successfully eradicated. Mortality from smallpox in London, England was carefully documented, weekly, for nearly 300 years, providing a rare and ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krylova O,Earn DJD

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic code provides the translation table necessary to transform the information contained in DNA into the language of proteins. In this table, a correspondence between each codon and each amino acid is established: tRNA is the main adaptor that links the two. Although the genetic code is nearly universal, sever...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Abascal F,Posada D,Knight RD,Zardoya R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproducibility crisis triggered worldwide initiatives to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in biomedical research. There are many examples of scientists, journals, and funding agencies adopting responsible research practices. The QUEST (Quality-Ethics-Open Science-Translation) Center offers a uniqu...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Strech D,Weissgerber T,Dirnagl U,QUEST Group.

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion proteins composed of the histone methyltransferase mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) and a variety of unrelated fusion partners are highly leukemogenic. Despite their prevalence, particularly in pediatric acute leukemia, many molecular details of their transforming mechanism are unknown. Here, we provide mechanistic...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Mueller D,García-Cuéllar MP,Bach C,Buhl S,Maethner E,Slany RK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hedgehog signaling is a determinant pathway for tumor progression. However, while inhibition of the Hedgehog canonical pathway-Patched-Smoothened-Gli-has proved efficient in human tumors with activating mutations in this pathway, recent clinical data have failed to show any benefit in other cancers, even though So...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Delloye-Bourgeois C,Gibert B,Rama N,Delcros JG,Gadot N,Scoazec JY,Krauss R,Bernet A,Mehlen P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calorie restriction slows aging and increases life span in many organisms. In yeast, a mechanistic explanation has been proposed whereby calorie restriction slows aging by activating Sir2. Here we report the identification of a Sir2-independent pathway responsible for a majority of the longevity benefit associated wit...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kaeberlein M,Kirkland KT,Fields S,Kennedy BK

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The link between single-cell variation and population-level fate choices lacks a mechanistic explanation despite extensive observations of gene expression and epigenetic variation among individual cells. Here, we found that single human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) have different and biased differentiation potentials ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jang J,Han D,Golkaram M,Audouard M,Liu G,Bridges D,Hellander S,Chialastri A,Dey SS,Petzold LR,Kosik KS

更新日期：2019-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular interactions between male and female factors during mating profoundly affect the reproductive behavior and physiology of female insects. In natural populations of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae, blood-fed females direct nutritional resources towards oogenesis only when inseminated. Here we show that ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Baldini F,Gabrieli P,South A,Valim C,Mancini F,Catteruccia F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large fraction of genome variation between individuals is comprised of submicroscopic copy number variation of genomic DNA segments. We assessed the relative contribution of structural changes and gene dosage alterations on phenotypic outcomes with mouse models of Smith-Magenis and Potocki-Lupski syndromes. We pheno...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ricard G,Molina J,Chrast J,Gu W,Gheldof N,Pradervand S,Schütz F,Young JI,Lupski JR,Reymond A,Walz K

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In Amazonian tropical forests, recent studies have reported increases in aboveground biomass and in primary productivity, as well as shifts in plant species composition favouring fast-growing species over slow-growing ones. This pervasive alteration of mature tropical forests was attributed to global environmental cha...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chave J,Condit R,Muller-Landau HC,Thomas SC,Ashton PS,Bunyavejchewin S,Co LL,Dattaraja HS,Davies SJ,Esufali S,Ewango CE,Feeley KJ,Foster RB,Gunatilleke N,Gunatilleke S,Hall P,Hart TB,Hernández C,Hubbell SP,Itoh A,

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A lysosomal storage disease (LSD) results from deficient lysosomal enzyme activity, thus the substrate of the mutant enzyme accumulates in the lysosome, leading to pathology. In many but not all LSDs, the clinically most important mutations compromise the cellular folding of the enzyme, subjecting it to endoplasmic re...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Mu TW,Fowler DM,Kelly JW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen tube (PT) reception in flowering plants describes the crosstalk between the male and female gametophytes upon PT arrival at the synergid cells of the ovule. It leads to PT growth arrest, rupture, and sperm cell release, and is thus essential to ensure double fertilization. Here, we describe TURAN (TUN) and EVAN...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lindner H,Kessler SA,Müller LM,Shimosato-Asano H,Boisson-Dernier A,Grossniklaus U

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most influential observations in molecular evolution has been a strong association between local recombination rate and nucleotide polymorphisms across the genome. This is interpreted as evidence for ubiquitous natural selection. The alternative explanation, that recombination is mutagenic, has been rejecte...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McGaugh SE,Heil CS,Manzano-Winkler B,Loewe L,Goldstein S,Himmel TL,Noor MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal migration during embryonic development contributes to functional brain circuitry. Many neurons migrate in morphologically distinct stages that coincide with differentiation, requiring tight spatial regulation. It had been proposed that neurotransmitter-mediated activity could exert this control. Here, we demo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Theisen U,Hennig C,Ring T,Schnabel R,Köster RW

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) belongs to the AGC superfamily of related serine/threonine protein kinases. It is a key regulator downstream of various growth factors and hormones and is involved in malignant transformation and chemo-resistance. Full-length PKB protein has not been crystallised, thus studying the molecular...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Calleja V,Laguerre M,Parker PJ,Larijani B

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer research has become a global enterprise, and the number of researchers, as well as the cost for their activities, has skyrocketed. The budget for the National Cancer Institute of the United States National Institutes of Health alone was US$5.2 billion in 2015. Since most of the research is funded by public mone...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Groner BL,Hynes NE

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:During biogenesis of the 40S and 60S ribosomal subunits, the pre-40S particles are exported to the cytoplasm prior to final cleavage of the 20S pre-rRNA to mature 18S rRNA. Amongst the factors involved in this maturation step, Fap7 is unusual, as it both interacts with ribosomal protein Rps14 and harbors adenylate kin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Loc'h J,Blaud M,Réty S,Lebaron S,Deschamps P,Bareille J,Jombart J,Robert-Paganin J,Delbos L,Chardon F,Zhang E,Charenton C,Tollervey D,Leulliot N

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decades, researchers have characterized a set of "clock genes" that drive daily rhythms in physiology and behavior. This arduous work has yielded results with far-reaching consequences in metabolic, psychiatric, and neoplastic disorders. Recent attempts to expand our understanding of circadian regulation...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Anafi RC,Lee Y,Sato TK,Venkataraman A,Ramanathan C,Kavakli IH,Hughes ME,Baggs JE,Growe J,Liu AC,Kim J,Hogenesch JB

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000311.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Simeon R,Jiang M,Chamoun-Emanuelli AM,Yu H,Zhang Y,Meng R,Peng Z,Jakana J,Zhang J,Feng H,Chen Z

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, biology has undergone a data revolution in how researchers collect data and the amount of data being collected. An emerging challenge that has received limited attention in biology is managing, working with, and providing access to data under continual active collection. Regularly updated data pr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yenni GM,Christensen EM,Bledsoe EK,Supp SR,Diaz RM,White EP,Ernest SKM

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-type ATP synthase complex is a rotary nano-motor driven by proton motive force to synthesize ATP. Its F(1) sector catalyzes ATP synthesis, whereas the F(o) sector conducts the protons and provides a stator for the rotary action of the complex. Components of both F(1) and F(o) sectors are highly conserved across ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Balabaskaran Nina P,Dudkina NV,Kane LA,van Eyk JE,Boekema EJ,Mather MW,Vaidya AB

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is triggered by double-stranded RNA that is processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) by Dicer enzyme. Endogenously, RNA interference triggers are created from small noncoding RNAs called microRNAs (miRNAs). RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISC) in human cells can be programmed by exogenously in...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chu CY,Rana TM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals live together with diverse bacteria that can impact their biology. In Drosophila melanogaster, gut-associated bacterial communities are relatively simple in composition but also have a strong impact on host development and physiology. It is generally assumed that gut bacteria in D. melanogaster are transient a...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pais IS,Valente RS,Sporniak M,Teixeira L

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing occurs in the context of chromatin, which is heterogeneous in structure and function across the genome. Chromatin heterogeneity is thought to affect genome editing efficiency, but this has been challenging to quantify due to the presence of confounding variables. Here, we develop a method that exploits ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kallimasioti-Pazi EM,Thelakkad Chathoth K,Taylor GC,Meynert A,Ballinger T,Kelder MJE,Lalevée S,Sanli I,Feil R,Wood AJ

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:What do "microbes" have to do with social equity? These microorganisms are integral to our health, that of our natural environment, and even the "health" of the environments we build. The loss, gain, and retention of microorganisms-their flow between humans and the environment-can greatly impact our health. It is well...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ishaq SL,Rapp M,Byerly R,McClellan LS,O'Boyle MR,Nykanen A,Fuller PJ,Aas C,Stone JM,Killpatrick S,Uptegrove MM,Vischer A,Wolf H,Smallman F,Eymann H,Narode S,Stapleton E,Cioffi CC,Tavalire HF

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The WRAP53 gene gives rise to a p53 antisense transcript that regulates p53. This gene also encodes a protein that directs small Cajal body-specific RNAs to Cajal bodies. Cajal bodies are nuclear organelles involved in diverse functions such as processing ribonucleoproteins important for splicing. Here we identify the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Mahmoudi S,Henriksson S,Weibrecht I,Smith S,Söderberg O,Strömblad S,Wiman KG,Farnebo M

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:During gestation, uterine smooth muscle cells transition from a state of quiescence to one of contractility, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this transition at a genomic level are not well-known. To better understand these events, we evaluated the epigenetic landscape of the mouse myometrium during the pregnan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Shchuka VM,Abatti LE,Hou H,Khader N,Dorogin A,Wilson MD,Shynlova O,Mitchell JA

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00