VirE2: a unique ssDNA-compacting molecular machine.

abstract：:Rapid colour change is a remarkable natural phenomenon that has evolved in several vertebrate and invertebrate lineages. The two principal explanations for the evolution of this adaptive strategy are (1) natural selection for crypsis (camouflage) against a range of different backgrounds and (2) selection for conspicuo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stuart-Fox D,Moussalli A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major challenges of functional genomics is to unravel the connection between genotype and phenotype. So far no global analysis has attempted to explore those connections in the light of the large phenotypic variability seen in nature. Here, we use an unsupervised, systematic approach for associating genes a...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Korbel JO,Doerks T,Jensen LJ,Perez-Iratxeta C,Kaczanowski S,Hooper SD,Andrade MA,Bork P

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：: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：:For the last 100 years, it has been uncontroversial to state that the plant germline is set aside late in development, but there is surprisingly little evidence to support this view. In contrast, much evolutionary theory and several recent empirical studies seem to suggest the opposite-that the germlines of some and p...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lanfear R

更新日期：2018-05-16 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 cerebral cortex performs complex cognitive functions at the expense of tremendous energy consumption. Blood vessels in the brain are known to form stereotypic patterns that facilitate efficient oxygen and nutrient delivery. Yet little is known about how vessel development in the brain is normally regulated. Radial...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ma S,Kwon HJ,Johng H,Zang K,Huang Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every instant of perception depends on a cascade of brain processes calibrated to the history of sensory and decisional events. In the present work, we show that human visual perception is constantly shaped by two contrasting forces exerted by sensory adaptation and past decisions. In a series of experiments, we used ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pascucci D,Mancuso G,Santandrea E,Della Libera C,Plomp G,Chelazzi L

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that gene duplication is a major driving force of evolutionary change and the key mechanism underlying the emergence of new genes and biological processes, this study sought to use a novel genome-wide approach to identify genes that have undergone lineage-specific duplications or contractions among several homin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fortna A,Kim Y,MacLaren E,Marshall K,Hahn G,Meltesen L,Brenton M,Hink R,Burgers S,Hernandez-Boussard T,Karimpour-Fard A,Glueck D,McGavran L,Berry R,Pollack J,Sikela JM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion is an essential component of everyday tactile experience: most manual interactions involve relative movement between the skin and objects. Much of the research on the neural basis of tactile motion perception has focused on how direction is encoded, but less is known about how speed is. Perceived speed has been...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Delhaye BP,O'Donnell MK,Lieber JD,McLellan KR,Bensmaia SJ

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborn granule cells become functionally integrated into the synaptic circuitry of the adult dentate gyrus after a morphological and electrophysiological maturation process. The molecular mechanisms by which immature neurons and the neurites extending from them find their appropriate position and target area remain l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jessberger S,Aigner S,Clemenson GD Jr,Toni N,Lie DC,Karalay O,Overall R,Kempermann G,Gage FH

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box helicase proteins accelerate folding and rearrangements of highly structured RNAs and RNA-protein complexes (RNPs) in many essential cellular processes. Although DEAD-box proteins have been shown to use ATP to unwind short RNA helices, it is not known how they disrupt RNA tertiary structure. Here, we use sing...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pan C,Potratz JP,Cannon B,Simpson ZB,Ziehr JL,Tijerina P,Russell R

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological and personality factors, socioeconomic status, and brain properties all contribute to chronic pain but have essentially been studied independently. Here, we administered a broad battery of questionnaires to patients with chronic back pain (CBP) and collected repeated sessions of resting-state functional ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Vachon-Presseau E,Berger SE,Abdullah TB,Griffith JW,Schnitzer TJ,Apkarian AV

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vascular networks in vertebrates are essential to tissue survival. Establishment of a fully functional vasculature is complex and requires a number of steps including vasculogenesis and angiogenesis that are followed by differentiation into specialized vascular tissues (i.e., arteries, veins, and lymphatics) and...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ricard N,Simons M

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which genes control organ shape are poorly understood. In principle, genes may control shape by modifying local rates and/or orientations of deformation. Distinguishing between these possibilities has been difficult because of interactions between patterns, orientations, and mechanical constraints du...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Green AA,Kennaway JR,Hanna AI,Bangham JA,Coen E

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic reprogramming to fulfill the biosynthetic and bioenergetic demands of cancer cells has aroused great interest in recent years. However, metabolic reprogramming for cancer metastasis has not been well elucidated. Here, we screened a subpopulation of breast cancer cells with highly metastatic capacity to the l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lv Y,Wang X,Li X,Xu G,Bai Y,Wu J,Piao Y,Shi Y,Xiang R,Wang L

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene loci are found in nuclear subcompartments that are related to their expression status. For instance, silent genes are often localized to heterochromatin and the nuclear periphery, whereas active genes tend to be found in the nuclear center. Evidence also suggests that chromosomes may be specifically positioned wi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kosak ST,Scalzo D,Alworth SV,Li F,Palmer S,Enver T,Lee JS,Groudine M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we describe why and how to build a local community of practice in scientific programming for life scientists who use computers and programming in their research. A community of practice is a small group of scientists who meet regularly to help each other and promote good practices in scientific programm...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stevens SLR,Kuzak M,Martinez C,Moser A,Bleeker P,Galland M

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We present Knowledge Engine for Genomics (KnowEnG), a free-to-use computational system for analysis of genomics data sets, designed to accelerate biomedical discovery. It includes tools for popular bioinformatics tasks such as gene prioritization, sample clustering, gene set analysis, and expression signature analysis...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Blatti C 3rd,Emad A,Berry MJ,Gatzke L,Epstein M,Lanier D,Rizal P,Ge J,Liao X,Sobh O,Lambert M,Post CS,Xiao J,Groves P,Epstein AT,Chen X,Srinivasan S,Lehnert E,Kalari KR,Wang L,Weinshilboum RM,Song JS,Jongeneel

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The archaeal RNA polymerase (RNAP) shares structural similarities with eukaryotic RNAP II but requires a reduced subset of general transcription factors for promoter-dependent initiation. To deepen our knowledge of cellular transcription, we have determined the structure of the 13-subunit DNA-directed RNAP from Sulfol...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Korkhin Y,Unligil UM,Littlefield O,Nelson PJ,Stuart DI,Sigler PB,Bell SD,Abrescia NG

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory loss induces cross-modal plasticity, often resulting in altered performance in remaining sensory modalities. Whereas much is known about the macroscopic mechanisms underlying cross-modal plasticity, only scant information exists about its cellular and molecular underpinnings. We found that Caenorhabditis elega...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rabinowitch I,Laurent P,Zhao B,Walker D,Beets I,Schoofs L,Bai J,Schafer WR,Treinin M

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hosts are likely to respond to parasitic infections by a combination of resistance (expulsion of pathogens) and tolerance (active mitigation of pathology). Of these strategies, the basis of tolerance in animal hosts is relatively poorly understood, with especially little known about how tolerance is manifested in natu...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jackson JA,Hall AJ,Friberg IM,Ralli C,Lowe A,Zawadzka M,Turner AK,Stewart A,Birtles RJ,Paterson S,Bradley JE,Begon M

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Every year, ovarian cancer kills approximately 14,000 women in the United States and more than 140,000 women worldwide. Most of these deaths are caused by tumors of the serous histological type, which is rarely diagnosed before it has disseminated. By deep paired-end sequencing of mRNA from serous ovarian cancers, fol...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Salzman J,Marinelli RJ,Wang PL,Green AE,Nielsen JS,Nelson BH,Drescher CW,Brown PO

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analyses of the fossil record and molecular phylogenies suggest that there are fundamental limits to biodiversity, possibly arising from constraints in the availability of space, resources, or ecological niches. Under this hypothesis, speciation rates decay over time and biodiversity eventually saturates, with ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Morlon H,Potts MD,Plotkin JB

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic combination therapies are important for the efficient treatment of many types of infections, including those caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Combination treatment strategies are typically used under the assumption that synergies are conserved across species and strains, even though recent results ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fatsis-Kavalopoulos N,Roemhild R,Tang PC,Kreuger J,Andersson DI

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The 70 kDa heat shock protein (HSP70) family of chaperones are the front line of protection from stress-induced misfolding and aggregation of polypeptides in most organisms and are responsible for promoting the stability, folding, and degradation of clients to maintain cellular protein homeostasis. Here, we demonstrat...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ryu SW,Stewart R,Pectol DC,Ender NA,Wimalarathne O,Lee JH,Zanini CP,Harvey A,Huibregtse JM,Mueller P,Paull TT

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000193.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Field KA,Paquet PC,Artelle K,Proulx G,Brook RK,Darimont CT

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Better understanding of feeding behaviour will be vital in reducing obesity and metabolic syndrome, but we lack a standard model that captures the complexity of feeding behaviour. We construct an accurate stochastic model of rodent feeding at the bout level in order to perform quantitative behavioural analysis. Analys...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McGrath TM,Spreckley E,Rodriguez AF,Viscomi C,Alamshah A,Akalestou E,Murphy KG,Jones NS

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of neuronal networks relies on selective assembly of synaptic connections during development. We examined how synaptic specificity emerges in the pontocerebellar projection. Analysis of axon-target interactions with correlated light-electron microscopy revealed that developing pontine mossy fibers elabora...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kalinovsky A,Boukhtouche F,Blazeski R,Bornmann C,Suzuki N,Mason CA,Scheiffele P

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:During in vitro fertilisation (IVF), pharmacological activation of the murine X chromosome-encoded receptor proteins Toll-like receptor (TLR) 7 and TLR8 reportedly results in male-biased litters by selectively disrupting the motility of X-bearing sperm cells. Thus-in the context of agonist treatment during IVF-these r...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Navarro-Costa PA,Molaro A,Misra CS,Meiklejohn CD,Ellis PJ

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00