Alternative epigenetic chromatin states of polycomb target genes.

abstract：:Human cancer is caused by the interplay of mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes and inherited variations in cancer susceptibility genes. While many of the tumor initiating mutations are well characterized, the effect of genetic background variation on disease onset and progression is less understood. We h...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Schmid T,Snoek LB,Fröhli E,van der Bent ML,Kammenga J,Hajnal A

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirements for oocyte meiotic cytokinesis during polar body extrusion are not well understood. In particular, the relationship between the oocyte meiotic spindle and polar body contractile ring dynamics remains largely unknown. We have used live cell imaging and spindle assembly defective mutants lacking the fun...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Schlientz AJ,Bowerman B

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Inter-individual variation in gene regulatory elements is hypothesized to play a causative role in adverse drug reactions and reduced drug activity. However, relatively little is known about the location and function of drug-dependent elements. To uncover drug-associated elements in a genome-wide manner, we performed ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Smith RP,Eckalbar WL,Morrissey KM,Luizon MR,Hoffmann TJ,Sun X,Jones SL,Force Aldred S,Ramamoorthy A,Desta Z,Liu Y,Skaar TC,Trinklein ND,Giacomini KM,Ahituv N

更新日期：2014-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike mammals and birds, teleost fish undergo external embryogenesis, and therefore their embryos are constantly challenged by stresses from their living environment. These stresses, when becoming too harsh, will cause arrest of cell proliferation, abnormal cell death or senescence. Such organisms have to evolve a so...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hu M,Bai Y,Zhang C,Liu F,Cui Z,Chen J,Peng J

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaining insights into genetic predisposition to age-related diseases and lifespan is a challenging task complicated by the elusive role of evolution in these phenotypes. To gain more insights, we combined methods of genome-wide and candidate-gene studies. Genome-wide scan in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (AR...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kulminski AM,He L,Culminskaya I,Loika Y,Kernogitski Y,Arbeev KG,Loiko E,Arbeeva L,Bagley O,Duan M,Yashkin A,Fang F,Kovtun M,Ukraintseva SV,Wu D,Yashin AI

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that TR2 and TR4 orphan nuclear receptors bind to direct repeat (DR) elements in the ε- and γ-globin promoters, and act as molecular anchors for the recruitment of epigenetic corepressors of the multifaceted DRED complex, thereby leading to ε- and γ-globin transcriptional repression during defin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shi L,Sierant MC,Gurdziel K,Zhu F,Cui S,Kolodziej KE,Strouboulis J,Guan Y,Tanabe O,Lim KC,Engel JD

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual development is a key evolutionary innovation of eukaryotes. In many species, mating involves interaction between compatible mating partners that can undergo cell and nuclear fusion and subsequent steps of development including meiosis. Mating compatibility in fungi is governed by the mating type (MAT) loci. In ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sun S,Coelho MA,Heitman J,Nowrousian M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an ancient molecular modification found in most eukaryotes. In plants, DNA methylation is not only critical for transcriptionally silencing transposons, but can also affect phenotype by altering expression of protein coding genes. The extent of its contribution to phenotypic diversity over evolution...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Seymour DK,Koenig D,Hagmann J,Becker C,Weigel D

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress occurs when misfolded proteins accumulate in the ER. The cellular response to ER stress involves complex transcriptional and translational changes, important to the survival of the cell. ER stress is a primary cause and a modifier of many human diseases. A first step to understanding ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chow CY,Wang X,Riccardi D,Wolfner MF,Clark AG

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Class-switch recombination (CSR), induced by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), can be divided into two phases: DNA cleavage of the switch (S) regions and the joining of the cleaved ends of the different S regions. Here, we show that the DSIF complex (Spt4 and Spt5), a transcription elongation factor, is req...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Stanlie A,Begum NA,Akiyama H,Honjo T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the enterobacterial species Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica, expression of horizontally acquired genes with a higher than average AT content is repressed by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS. A classical example of an H-NS-repressed locus is the bgl (aryl-beta,D-glucoside) operon of E. coli. This locus ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sankar TS,Neelakanta G,Sangal V,Plum G,Achtman M,Schnetz K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism, the conversion of nutrients into usable energy and biochemical building blocks, is an essential feature of all cells. The genetic factors responsible for inter-individual metabolic variability remain poorly understood. To investigate genetic causes of metabolome variation, we measured the concentrations of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Breunig JS,Hackett SR,Rabinowitz JD,Kruglyak L

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me) is an evolutionarily conserved modification whose role in the regulation of gene expression has been extensively studied. In contrast, the function of H3K4 acetylation (H3K4ac) has received little attention because of a lack of tools to separate its function from that of H3K...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Guillemette B,Drogaris P,Lin HH,Armstrong H,Hiragami-Hamada K,Imhof A,Bonneil E,Thibault P,Verreault A,Festenstein RJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in fruit weight of cultivated vegetables and fruits accompanied the domestication of these crops. Here we report on the positional cloning of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) controlling fruit weight in tomato. The derived allele of Cell Size Regulator (CSR-D) increases fruit weight predominantly through enl...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mu Q,Huang Z,Chakrabarti M,Illa-Berenguer E,Liu X,Wang Y,Ramos A,van der Knaap E

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Postembryonic development in Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful model for the study of the temporal regulation of development and for the roles of microRNAs in controlling gene expression. Stable switch-like changes in gene expression occur during development as stage-specific microRNAs are expressed and subsequentl...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cohen ML,Kim S,Morita K,Kim SH,Han M

更新日期：2015-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobial infection of legume root hairs requires a rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton to enable the establishment of plant-made infection structures called infection threads. In the SCAR/WAVE (Suppressor of cAMP receptor defect/WASP family verpolin homologous protein) actin regulatory complex, the conserved N-te...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Qiu L,Lin JS,Xu J,Sato S,Parniske M,Wang TL,Downie JA,Xie F

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins secreted by pathogens during host colonization largely determine the outcome of pathogen-host interactions and are commonly called 'effectors'. In fungal plant pathogens, coordinated transcriptional up-regulation of effector genes is a key feature of pathogenesis and effectors are often encoded in genomic reg...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： van der Does HC,Fokkens L,Yang A,Schmidt SM,Langereis L,Lukasiewicz JM,Hughes TR,Rep M

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:rs143383 is a C to T transition SNP located in the 5'untranslated region (5'UTR) of the growth differentiation factor 5 gene GDF5. The T allele of the SNP is associated with increased risk of osteoarthritis (OA) in Europeans and in Asians. This susceptibility is mediated by the T allele producing less GDF5 transcript ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Syddall CM,Reynard LN,Young DA,Loughlin J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, gene expression in the haploid male gametophyte (pollen) is essential for sperm delivery and double fertilization. Pollen also undergoes dynamic epigenetic regulation of expression from transposable elements (TEs), but how this process interacts with gene expression is not clearly understood. To e...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Warman C,Panda K,Vejlupkova Z,Hokin S,Unger-Wallace E,Cole RA,Chettoor AM,Jiang D,Vollbrecht E,Evans MMS,Slotkin RK,Fowler JE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that play essential roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. We conducted a genome-wide survey of maize miRNA genes, characterizing their structure, expression, and evolution. Computational approaches based on homology and secondary structure modeling ident...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang L,Chia JM,Kumari S,Stein JC,Liu Z,Narechania A,Maher CA,Guill K,McMullen MD,Ware D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how axon guidance receptors are activated by their extracellular ligands to regulate growth cone motility is critical to learning how proper wiring is established during development. Roundabout (Robo) is one such guidance receptor that mediates repulsion from its ligand Slit in both invertebrates and ver...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chance RK,Bashaw GJ

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Dancing, which is integrally related to music, likely has its origins close to the birth of Homo sapiens, and throughout our history, dancing has been universally practiced in all societies. We hypothesized that there are differences among individuals in aptitude, propensity, and need for dancing that may partially be...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bachner-Melman R,Dina C,Zohar AH,Constantini N,Lerer E,Hoch S,Sella S,Nemanov L,Gritsenko I,Lichtenberg P,Granot R,Ebstein RP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most biological nitrogen fixation is catalyzed by molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase, an enzyme complex comprising two component proteins that contains three different metalloclusters. Diazotrophs contain a common core of nitrogen fixation nif genes that encode the structural subunits of the enzyme and components requir...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang L,Zhang L,Liu Z,Zhao D,Liu X,Zhang B,Xie J,Hong Y,Li P,Chen S,Dixon R,Li J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic models built from genetic data play important roles in illuminating prehistorical events and serving as null models in genome scans for selection. We introduce an inference method based on the joint frequency spectrum of genetic variants within and between populations. For candidate models we numerically c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gutenkunst RN,Hernandez RD,Williamson SH,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetics of lymphoma susceptibility reflect the marked heterogeneity of diseases that comprise this broad phenotype. However, multiple subtypes of lymphoma are observed in some families, suggesting shared pathways of genetic predisposition to these pathologically distinct entities. Using a two-stage GWAS, we teste...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Vijai J,Kirchhoff T,Schrader KA,Brown J,Dutra-Clarke AV,Manschreck C,Hansen N,Rau-Murthy R,Sarrel K,Przybylo J,Shah S,Cheguri S,Stadler Z,Zhang L,Paltiel O,Ben-Yehuda D,Viale A,Portlock C,Straus D,Lipkin SM,Lacher

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotoxic agents that cause double-strand breaks (DSBs) often generate damage at the break termini. Processing enzymes, including nucleases and polymerases, must remove damaged bases and/or add new bases before completion of repair. Artemis is a nuclease involved in mammalian nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), but in S...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tseng SF,Gabriel A,Teng SC

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites follow a complex life cycle that consists of multiple stages that span from the human host to the mosquito vector. Among the species causing malaria, Plasmodium falciparum is the most lethal, with clinical symptoms manifesting during the intraerythrocytic developmental cycle (IDC). During the IDC, P....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Walzer KA,Fradin H,Emerson LY,Corcoran DL,Chi JT

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Race, specifically African ancestry, and obesity are important risk factors for uterine fibroids, and likely interact to provide the right conditions for fibroid growth. However, existing studies largely focus on the main-effects rather than their interaction. Here, we firstly provide evidence for interaction between ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Giri A,Edwards TL,Hartmann KE,Torstenson ES,Wellons M,Schreiner PJ,Velez Edwards DR

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The length of cilia is controlled by a poorly understood mechanism that involves members of the conserved RCK kinase group, and among them, the LF4/MOK kinases. The multiciliated protist model, Tetrahymena, carries two types of cilia (oral and locomotory) and the length of the locomotory cilia is dependent on their po...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jiang YY,Maier W,Baumeister R,Minevich G,Joachimiak E,Wloga D,Ruan Z,Kannan N,Bocarro S,Bahraini A,Vasudevan KK,Lechtreck K,Orias E,Gaertig J

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The microrchidia (MORC) family proteins are chromatin-remodelling factors and function in diverse biological processes such as DNA damage response and transposon silencing. Here, we report that mouse Morc2b encodes a functional germ cell-specific member of the MORC protein family. Morc2b arose specifically in the rode...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shi B,Xue J,Zhou J,Kasowitz SD,Zhang Y,Liang G,Guan Y,Shi Q,Liu M,Sha J,Huang X,Wang PJ

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00