Yeast genetic analysis reveals the involvement of chromatin reassembly factors in repressing HIV-1 basal transcription.

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journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baker RL,Leong WF,Brock MT,Rubin MJ,Markelz RJC,Welch S,Maloof JN,Weinig C

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Insecticide resistance in malaria vectors threatens to reverse recent gains in malaria control. Deciphering patterns of gene flow and resistance evolution in malaria vectors is crucial to improving control strategies and preventing malaria resurgence. A genome-wide survey of Anopheles funestus genetic diversity Africa...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Weedall GD,Riveron JM,Hearn J,Irving H,Kamdem C,Fouet C,White BJ,Wondji CS

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, proper differentiation and final organ size rely on the control of territorial specification and cell proliferation. Although many regulators of these processes have been identified, how both are coordinated remains largely unknown. The homeodomain Iroquois/Irx proteins play a key, evolutionarily c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Barrios N,González-Pérez E,Hernández R,Campuzano S

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that the DNA methylome changes with age. This epigenetic drift may have deep implications for cellular differentiation and disease development. However, it remains unclear how much of this drift is functional or caused by underlying changes in cell subtype composition. Moreover, no stu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yuan T,Jiao Y,de Jong S,Ophoff RA,Beck S,Teschendorff AE

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian meiosis, homologous chromosome synapsis is coupled with recombination. As in most eukaryotes, mammalian meiocytes have checkpoints that monitor the fidelity of these processes. We report that the mouse ortholog (Trip13) of pachytene checkpoint 2 (PCH2), an essential component of the synapsis checkpoint in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Li XC,Schimenti JC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor CONSTANS (CO) is a central component that promotes Arabidopsis flowering under long-day conditions (LDs). Here, we show that the microRNA319-regulated TEOSINTE BRANCHED/CYCLOIDEA/PCF (TCP) transcription factors promote photoperiodic flowering through binding to the CO promoter and activating i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liu J,Cheng X,Liu P,Li D,Chen T,Gu X,Sun J

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Senataxin, mutated in the human genetic disorder ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA2), plays an important role in maintaining genome integrity by coordination of transcription, DNA replication, and the DNA damage response. We demonstrate that senataxin is essential for spermatogenesis and that it functions at ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Becherel OJ,Yeo AJ,Stellati A,Heng EY,Luff J,Suraweera AM,Woods R,Fleming J,Carrie D,McKinney K,Xu X,Deng C,Lavin MF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpreting the impact of human genome variation on phenotype is challenging. The functional effect of protein-coding variants is often predicted using sequence conservation and population frequency data, however other factors are likely relevant. We hypothesized that variants in protein post-translational modificati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Reimand J,Wagih O,Bader GD

更新日期：2015-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate at which genomes adapt to environmental changes and the prevalence of adaptive processes in molecular evolution are two controversial issues in current evolutionary genetics. Previous attempts to quantify the genome-wide rate of adaptation through amino-acid substitution have revealed a surprising diversity o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Galtier N

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogens N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis display robust intra- and interstrain glycan diversity associated with their O-linked protein glycosylation (pgl) systems. In an effort to better understand the evolution and function of protein glycosylation operating there, we aimed to determine if other human-r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hadjineophytou C,Anonsen JH,Wang N,Ma KC,Viburiene R,Vik Å,Harrison OB,Maiden MCJ,Grad YH,Koomey M

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Although multiple environmental cues regulate the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana, previous studies have suggested that wild A. thaliana accessions fall primarily into two classes, distinguished by their requirement for vernalization (extended winter-like temperatures), which enables rapid flowering un...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lempe J,Balasubramanian S,Sureshkumar S,Singh A,Schmid M,Weigel D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed information about stage-specific changes in gene expression is crucial for the understanding of the gene regulatory networks underlying development. Here, we describe the global gene expression dynamics during early flower development, a key process in the life cycle of a plant, during which floral patterning...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wellmer F,Alves-Ferreira M,Dubois A,Riechmann JL,Meyerowitz EM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli translation initiation factor 2 (IF2) performs the unexpected function of promoting transition from recombination to replication during bacteriophage Mu transposition in vitro, leading to initiation by replication restart proteins. This function has suggested a role of IF2 in engaging cellular restart...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Madison KE,Abdelmeguid MR,Jones-Foster EN,Nakai H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms may interact and together affect biological processes and disease development. However, most previous studies have investigated genetic and epigenetic mechanisms independently, and studies examining their interactions throughout the human genome are lacking. To identify genetic loci t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Olsson AH,Volkov P,Bacos K,Dayeh T,Hall E,Nilsson EA,Ladenvall C,Rönn T,Ling C

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophthalmo-acromelic syndrome (OAS), also known as Waardenburg Anophthalmia syndrome, is defined by the combination of eye malformations, most commonly bilateral anophthalmia, with post-axial oligosyndactyly. Homozygosity mapping and subsequent targeted mutation analysis of a locus on 14q24.2 identified homozygous muta...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rainger J,van Beusekom E,Ramsay JK,McKie L,Al-Gazali L,Pallotta R,Saponari A,Branney P,Fisher M,Morrison H,Bicknell L,Gautier P,Perry P,Sokhi K,Sexton D,Bardakjian TM,Schneider AS,Elcioglu N,Ozkinay F,Koenig R,Még

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement of the transcription machinery along a template alters DNA topology resulting in the accumulation of supercoils in DNA. The positive supercoils generated ahead of transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) and the negative supercoils accumulating behind impose severe topological constraints impeding transcription pro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ahmed W,Sala C,Hegde SR,Jha RK,Cole ST,Nagaraja V

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of specific neurons to regenerate their axons after injury is governed by cell-intrinsic regeneration pathways. However, the signaling pathways that orchestrate axon regeneration are not well understood. In Caenorhabditis elegans, initiation of axon regeneration is positively regulated by SVH-2 Met-like gr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hisamoto N,Nagamori Y,Shimizu T,Pastuhov SI,Matsumoto K

更新日期：2016-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic dog breeds exhibit remarkable morphological variations that result from centuries of artificial selection and breeding. Identifying the genetic changes that contribute to these variations could provide critical insights into the molecular basis of tissue and organismal morphogenesis. Bulldogs, French Bulldogs...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mansour TA,Lucot K,Konopelski SE,Dickinson PJ,Sturges BK,Vernau KL,Choi S,Stern JA,Thomasy SM,Döring S,Verstraete FJM,Johnson EG,York D,Rebhun RB,Ho HH,Brown CT,Bannasch DL

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome encodes thousands of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) genes; the function of majority of them is poorly understood. Aberrant expression of a significant number of lncRNAs is observed in various diseases, including cancer. To gain insights into the role of lncRNAs in breast cancer progression, we performed ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jadaliha M,Gholamalamdari O,Tang W,Zhang Y,Petracovici A,Hao Q,Tariq A,Kim TG,Holton SE,Singh DK,Li XL,Freier SM,Ambs S,Bhargava R,Lal A,Prasanth SG,Ma J,Prasanth KV

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the striking findings of comparative developmental genetics was that expression patterns of core transcription factors are extraordinarily conserved in bilaterians. However, it remains unclear whether cis-regulatory elements of their target genes also exhibit common signatures associated with conserved embryoni...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Haeussler M,Jaszczyszyn Y,Christiaen L,Joly JS

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies in population of European ancestry have shown that 30% ~ 50% of heritability for human complex traits such as height and body mass index, and common diseases such as schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis, can be captured by common SNPs and that genetic variation attributed to chromosomes are in proport...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang J,Lee T,Kim J,Cho MC,Han BG,Lee JY,Lee HJ,Cho S,Kim H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic resources for the domestic dog have improved with the widespread adoption of a 173k SNP array platform and updated reference genome. SNP arrays of this density are sufficient for detecting genetic associations within breeds but are underpowered for finding associations across multiple breeds or in mixed-breed ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hayward JJ,White ME,Boyle M,Shannon LM,Casal ML,Castelhano MG,Center SA,Meyers-Wallen VN,Simpson KW,Sutter NB,Todhunter RJ,Boyko AR

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alphaproteobacteria show a remarkable diversity of cell cycle-dependent developmental patterns, which are governed by the conserved CtrA pathway. Its central component CtrA is a DNA-binding response regulator that is controlled by a complex two-component signaling network, mediating distinct transcriptional progra...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Leicht O,van Teeseling MCF,Panis G,Reif C,Wendt H,Viollier PH,Thanbichler M

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration into the nuclear genome of germ line cells can lead to vertical inheritance of retroviral genes as host alleles. For other viruses, germ line integration has only rarely been documented. Nonetheless, we identified endogenous viral elements (EVEs) derived from ten non-retroviral families by systematic in si...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Katzourakis A,Gifford RJ

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of large-scale population genomic analyses and trait-based mapping approaches has the potential to provide novel insights into the evolutionary history and genome organization of crop plants. Here, we describe the detailed genotypic and phenotypic analysis of a sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) associat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mandel JR,Nambeesan S,Bowers JE,Marek LF,Ebert D,Rieseberg LH,Knapp SJ,Burke JM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of biological relatedness between samples is important for many genetic studies. In large-scale human genetic association studies, the estimated kinship is used to remove cryptic relatedness, control for family structure, and estimate trait heritability. However, estimation of kinship is challenging for spar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dou J,Sun B,Sim X,Hughes JD,Reilly DF,Tai ES,Liu J,Wang C

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Release factors (RFs) govern the termination phase of protein synthesis. Human mitochondria harbor four different members of the class 1 RF family: RF1Lmt/mtRF1a, RF1mt, C12orf65 and ICT1. The homolog of the essential ICT1 factor is widely distributed in bacteria and organelles and has the peculiar feature in human mi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Akabane S,Ueda T,Nierhaus KH,Takeuchi N

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to stress and injury a coordinated activation of conserved signalling modules, such as JNK and JAK/STAT, is critical to trigger regenerative tissue restoration. While these pathways rebuild homeostasis and promote faithful organ recovery, it is intriguing that they also become activated in various tumour c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Beira JV,Torres J,Paro R

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Homolog pairing and crossing over during meiosis I prophase is required for accurate chromosome segregation to form euploid gametes. The repair of Spo11-induced double-strand breaks (DSB) using a homologous chromosome template is a major driver of pairing in many species, including fungi, plants, and mammals. Inapprop...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lui DY,Cahoon CK,Burgess SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of modern molecular biology tools in deciphering the perturbed biochemistry and physiology underlying the obese state has proven invaluable. Identifying the hypothalamic leptin/melanocortin pathway as critical in many cases of monogenic obesity has permitted targeted, hypothesis-driven experiments to be perfor...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mutch DM,Clément K

更新日期：2006-12-29 00:00:00