Cargo and dynamin regulate clathrin-coated pit maturation.

abstract：:The organization of intra-Golgi trafficking and the nature of the transport intermediates involved (e.g., vesicles, tubules, or tubular continuities) remain incompletely understood. It was recently shown that successive cisternae in the Golgi stack are interconnected by membrane tubules that form during the arrival of...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： San Pietro E,Capestrano M,Polishchuk EV,DiPentima A,Trucco A,Zizza P,Mariggiò S,Pulvirenti T,Sallese M,Tete S,Mironov AA,Leslie CC,Corda D,Luini A,Polishchuk RS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of the ancient Sahul continent (present day Australia and New Guinea, and surrounding islands) is home to extreme linguistic diversity. Even apart from the huge Austronesian language family, which spread into the area after the breakup of the Sahul continent in the Holocene, there are hundreds of languages ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Reesink G,Singer R,Dunn M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 the availability of inorganic phosphate (Pi) is an environmental signal that controls biofilm formation through a cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) signaling pathway. In low Pi conditions, a c-di-GMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) RapA is expressed, depleting cellular c-di-GMP and causing the los...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Newell PD,Boyd CD,Sondermann H,O'Toole GA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are characterized by outstanding molecular heterogeneity that results in severe therapy resistance and poor clinical outcome. Inter- and intratumoral heterogeneity in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) was recently revealed as a major parameter of poor clinical outc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pan M,Schinke H,Luxenburger E,Kranz G,Shakhtour J,Libl D,Huang Y,Gaber A,Pavšič M,Lenarčič B,Kitz J,Jakob M,Schwenk-Zieger S,Canis M,Hess J,Unger K,Baumeister P,Gires O

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs. Improving participation in PD...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Roche DG,Lanfear R,Binning SA,Haff TM,Schwanz LE,Cain KE,Kokko H,Jennions MD,Kruuk LE

更新日期：2014-01-28 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：:Our current understanding of biology is heavily based on a small number of genetically tractable model organisms. Most eukaryotic phyla lack such experimental models, and this limits our ability to explore the molecular mechanisms that ultimately define their biology, ecology, and diversity. In particular, marine prot...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Waller RF,Cleves PA,Rubio-Brotons M,Woods A,Bender SJ,Edgcomb V,Gann ER,Jones AC,Teytelman L,von Dassow P,Wilhelm SW,Collier JL

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that some cancer cells rely upon fatty acid oxidation (FAO) for energy. Here we show that when FAO was reduced approximately 90% by pharmacological inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT1) with low concentrations of etomoxir, the proliferation rate of various cancer cells was unaffec...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yao CH,Liu GY,Wang R,Moon SH,Gross RW,Patti GJ

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells exist within a complex environment that affects how they interpret and respond to stimuli. We have applied a multi-scale in vivo systems approach to understand how intestinal immune cells communicate with epithelial cells to regulate responses to inflammatory signals. Multivariate modeling ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lau KS,Cortez-Retamozo V,Philips SR,Pittet MJ,Lauffenburger DA,Haigis KM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a world beset by attempts to undermine scientific evidence and evidence-based policy, we emphasize their important role in helping humanity rise to the challenges of our time. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pariente N,PLOS Biology Staff Editors.

更新日期：2020-10-22 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：:Virus proliferation involves gene replication inside infected cells and transmission to new target cells. Once positive-strand RNA virus has infected a cell, the viral genome serves as a template for copying ("stay-strategy") or is packaged into a progeny virion that will be released extracellularly ("leave-strategy")...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Iwanami S,Kitagawa K,Ohashi H,Asai Y,Shionoya K,Saso W,Nishioka K,Inaba H,Nakaoka S,Wakita T,Diekmann O,Iwami S,Watashi K

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease-associated misfolded proteins or proteins damaged due to cellular stress are generally disposed via the cellular protein quality-control system. However, under saturating conditions, misfolded proteins will aggregate. In higher eukaryotes, these aggregates can be transported to accumulate in aggresomes at the ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rujano MA,Bosveld F,Salomons FA,Dijk F,van Waarde MA,van der Want JJ,de Vos RA,Brunt ER,Sibon OC,Kampinga HH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds utilize a unique structure, called a syrinx, for the production of their vocalizations. The origins of the syrinx are not well understood. New work, utilizing first principles-based models, suggests that a key element in selection for the early syrinx might be the position of this vocal structure: although the l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Habib MB

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Putting a name to a face is a highly common activity in our daily life that greatly enriches social interactions. Although this specific person-identity association becomes automatic with learning, it remains difficult and can easily be disrupted in normal circumstances or neurological conditions. To shed light on the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Volfart A,Jonas J,Maillard L,Colnat-Coulbois S,Rossion B

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The human body is a complex organism, the gross mechanical properties of which are enabled by an interconnected musculoskeletal network controlled by the nervous system. The nature of musculoskeletal interconnection facilitates stability, voluntary movement, and robustness to injury. However, a fundamental understandi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Murphy AC,Muldoon SF,Baker D,Lastowka A,Bennett B,Yang M,Bassett DS

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1960, magnetic fields have been discussed as Zeitgebers for circadian clocks, but the mechanism by which clocks perceive and process magnetic information has remained unknown. Recently, the radical-pair model involving light-activated photoreceptors as magnetic field sensors has gained considerable support, and ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yoshii T,Ahmad M,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2009-04-07 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

abstract：:Mammalian sex determination (male versus female) is largely controlled by genes, whereas sex differentiation (development of reproductive structures) is largely controlled by hormones. Work in the 20th century indicated that female external anatomy was a "default" pathway of development not requiring steroids, whereas...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Miller WL,Auchus RJ

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2002794.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Obleser J,Henry MJ,Lakatos P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The array of vibrissae on a rat's face is the first stage in a high-resolution tactile sensing system. Progressing from rostral to caudal in any vibrissae row results in an increase in whisker length and thickness. This may, in turn, provide a systematic map of separate tactile channels governed by the mechanical prop...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gugig E,Sharma H,Azouz R

更新日期：2020-10-22 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：:The fate of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) during corticogenesis is determined by a complex interplay of genetic or epigenetic components, but the underlying mechanism is incompletely understood. Here, we demonstrate that Suppressor of Mek null (Smek) interact with methyl-CpG-binding domain 3 (Mbd3) and the complex pl...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moon BS,Yun HM,Chang WH,Steele BH,Cai M,Choi SH,Lu W

更新日期：2017-05-03 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：: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：:No organism lives in a constant environment. Based on classical studies in molecular biology, many have viewed microbes as following strict rules for shifting their metabolic activities when prevailing conditions change. For example, students learn that the bacterium Escherichia coli makes proteins for digesting lacto...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Siegal ML

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:During the entry process, the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer undergoes a sequence of conformational changes triggered by both CD4 and coreceptor engagement. Resolving the conformation of these transient entry intermediates has proven challenging. Here, we fine-mapped the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ivan B,Sun Z,Subbaraman H,Friedrich N,Trkola A

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Misalignment of the daily sleep-wake and fasting-feeding cycles with the endogenous circadian timing system is an inevitable consequence of night shift work and is associated with adverse metabolic health effects. However, a detailed characterisation of the effects of night shifts on 24-h rhythms in the metabolome is ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kervezee L,Cermakian N,Boivin DB

更新日期：2019-06-18 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：:Movements overtly sample sensory information, making sensory analysis an active-sensing process. In this study, we show that visual information sampling is not just locked to the (overt) movement dynamics but to the internal (covert) dynamics of cortico-motor control. We asked human participants to perform continuous ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Tomassini A,Maris E,Hilt P,Fadiga L,D'Ausilio A

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00