Phosphorylation of the conserved transcription factor ATF-7 by PMK-1 p38 MAPK regulates innate immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans.

abstract：:The Hippo pathway regulates organ size, stem cell proliferation and tumorigenesis in adult organs. Whether the Hippo pathway influences establishment of stem cell niche size to accommodate changes in organ size, however, has received little attention. Here, we ask whether Hippo signaling influences the number of stem ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sarikaya DP,Extavour CG

更新日期：2015-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008367.]. ...

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：:At the molecular level, the evolution of new traits can be broadly divided between changes in gene expression and changes in protein-coding sequence. For proteins, the evolution of novel functions is generally thought to proceed through sequential point mutations or recombination of whole functional units. In Saccharo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baker EP,Hittinger CT

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Three closely related thermally dimorphic pathogens are causal agents of major fungal diseases affecting humans in the Americas: blastomycosis, histoplasmosis and paracoccidioidomycosis. Here we report the genome sequence and analysis of four strains of the etiological agent of blastomycosis, Blastomyces, and two spec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Muñoz JF,Gauthier GM,Desjardins CA,Gallo JE,Holder J,Sullivan TD,Marty AJ,Carmen JC,Chen Z,Ding L,Gujja S,Magrini V,Misas E,Mitreva M,Priest M,Saif S,Whiston EA,Young S,Zeng Q,Goldman WE,Mardis ER,Taylor JW,Mc

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The exclusive localization of the histone H3 variant CENP-A to centromeres is essential for accurate chromosome segregation. Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis helps to ensure that CENP-A does not mislocalize to euchromatin, which can lead to genomic instability. Consistent with this, overexpression of the budding yeast C...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hildebrand EM,Biggins S

更新日期：2016-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Codon usage bias affects protein translation because tRNAs that recognize synonymous codons differ in their abundance. Although the current dogma states that tRNA expression is exclusively regulated by intrinsic control elements (A- and B-box sequences), we revealed, using a reporter that monitors the levels of indivi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sagi D,Rak R,Gingold H,Adir I,Maayan G,Dahan O,Broday L,Pilpel Y,Rechavi O

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been practiced for thousands of years, but only within the last few decades has its use become more widespread outside of Asia. Concerns continue to be raised about the efficacy, legality, and safety of many popular complementary alternative medicines, including TCMs. Ingredients...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Coghlan ML,Haile J,Houston J,Murray DC,White NE,Moolhuijzen P,Bellgard MI,Bunce M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is defined by excessive lipid accumulation. However, the active mechanistic roles that lipids play in its progression are not understood. Accumulation of ceramide, the metabolic hub of sphingolipid metabolism, has been associated with metabolic syndrome and obesity in humans and model systems. Here, we use Dro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Walls SM Jr,Attle SJ,Brulte GB,Walls ML,Finley KD,Chatfield DA,Herr DR,Harris GL

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Zinc is an essential trace element involved in a wide range of biological processes and human diseases. Zinc excess is deleterious, and animals require mechanisms to protect against zinc toxicity. To identify genes that modulate zinc tolerance, we performed a forward genetic screen for Caenorhabditis elegans mutants t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Murphy JT,Bruinsma JJ,Schneider DL,Collier S,Guthrie J,Chinwalla A,Robertson JD,Mardis ER,Kornfeld K

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:The Caenorhabditis elegans left and right AWC olfactory neurons communicate to establish stochastic asymmetric identities, AWC(ON) and AWC(OFF), by inhibiting a calcium-mediated signaling pathway in the future AWC(ON) cell. NSY-4/claudin-like protein and NSY-5/innexin gap junction protein are the two parallel signals ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hsieh YW,Chang C,Chuang CF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zygotic gene expression programs control cell differentiation in vertebrate development. In Xenopus, these programs are initiated by local induction of regulatory genes through maternal signaling activities in the wake of zygotic genome activation (ZGA) at the midblastula transition (MBT). These programs lay down the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wagner G,Singhal N,Nicetto D,Straub T,Kremmer E,Rupp RAW

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuins are NAD⁺-dependent deacetylases, lipoamidases, and ADP-ribosyltransferases that link cellular metabolism to multiple intracellular pathways that influence processes as diverse as cell survival, longevity, and cancer growth. Sirtuins influence the extent of neuronal death in stroke. However, different sirtuins...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sangaletti R,D'Amico M,Grant J,Della-Morte D,Bianchi L

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiating cells interact with their extracellular environment over time. Chondrocytes embed themselves in a proteoglycan (PG)-rich matrix, then undergo a developmental transition, termed "maturation," when they express ihh to induce bone in the overlying tissue, the perichondrium. Here, we ask whether PGs regula...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eames BF,Yan YL,Swartz ME,Levic DS,Knapik EW,Postlethwait JH,Kimmel CB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal cargos are differentially targeted to either axons or dendrites, and this polarized cargo targeting critically depends on the interaction between microtubules and molecular motors. From a forward mutagenesis screen, we identified a gain-of-function mutation in the C. elegans α-tubulin gene mec-12 that trigger...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hsu JM,Chen CH,Chen YC,McDonald KL,Gurling M,Lee A,Garriga G,Pan CL

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression can be highly heterogeneous in isogenic cell populations. An extreme type of heterogeneity is the so-called bistable or bimodal expression, whereby a cell can differentiate into two alternative expression states. Stochastic fluctuations of protein levels, also referred to as noise, provide the necessar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gamba P,Jonker MJ,Hamoen LW

更新日期：2015-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) post-transcriptionally regulate the expression of thousands of distinct mRNAs. While some regulatory interactions help to maintain basal cellular functions, others are likely relevant in more specific settings, such as response to stress. Here we describe such a role for the mir-290-295 cluster, the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zheng GX,Ravi A,Calabrese JM,Medeiros LA,Kirak O,Dennis LM,Jaenisch R,Burge CB,Sharp PA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major force driving bacterial evolution. Because of their ability to cross inter-species barriers, bacterial plasmids are essential agents for HGT. This ability, however, poses specific requisites on plasmid physiology, in particular the need to overcome a multilevel selection proce...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fernandez-Lopez R,Del Campo I,Revilla C,Cuevas A,de la Cruz F

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:As a member of the large Ran-binding protein family, Ran-binding protein 9 (RANBP9) has been suggested to play a critical role in diverse cellular functions in somatic cell lineages in vitro, and this is further supported by the neonatal lethality phenotype in Ranbp9 global knockout mice. However, the exact molecular ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bao J,Tang C,Li J,Zhang Y,Bhetwal BP,Zheng H,Yan W

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic parasites that selfishly replicate at the expense of host fitness. Fifty years of evolutionary studies of TEs have concentrated on the deleterious genetic effects of TEs, such as their effects on disrupting genes and regulatory sequences. However, a flurry of recent work suggest...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Choi JY,Lee YCG

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:TGFβs act through canonical and non-canonical pathways, and canonical signals are transduced via Smad2 and Smad3. However, the contribution of canonical vs. non-canonical pathways in cartilage is unknown because the role of Smad2 in chondrogenesis has not been investigated in vivo. Therefore, we analyzed mice in which...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang W,Song B,Anbarchian T,Shirazyan A,Sadik JE,Lyons KM

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The semidominant Danforth's short tail (Sd) mutation arose spontaneously in the 1920s. The homozygous Sd phenotype includes severe malformations of the axial skeleton with an absent tail, kidney agenesis, anal atresia, and persistent cloaca. The Sd mutant phenotype mirrors features seen in human caudal malformation sy...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Vlangos CN,Siuniak AN,Robinson D,Chinnaiyan AM,Lyons RH Jr,Cavalcoli JD,Keegan CE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The High Pathogenicity Island of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis IP32637 was previously shown to be horizontally transferable as part of a large chromosomal segment. We demonstrate here that at low temperature other chromosomal loci, as well as a non-mobilizable plasmid (pUC4K), are also transferable. This transfer, desig...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lesic B,Zouine M,Ducos-Galand M,Huon C,Rosso ML,Prévost MC,Mazel D,Carniel E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 5% of alternatively spliced internal exons in the human genome are derived from Alu elements in a process termed exonization. Alus are comprised of two homologous arms separated by an internal polypyrimidine tract (PPT). In most exonizations, splice sites are selected from within the same arm. We hypothesize...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gal-Mark N,Schwartz S,Ram O,Eyras E,Ast G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is a key molecule in the pathogenesis of familial and idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). We have identified two novel LRRK2-associated proteins, a HECT-type ubiquitin ligase, HERC2, and an adaptor-like protein with six repeated Neuralized domains, NEURL4. LRRK2 binds to NEURL4 an...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Imai Y,Kobayashi Y,Inoshita T,Meng H,Arano T,Uemura K,Asano T,Yoshimi K,Zhang CL,Matsumoto G,Ohtsuka T,Kageyama R,Kiyonari H,Shioi G,Nukina N,Hattori N,Takahashi R

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A cascade of alternative sigma factors directs developmental gene expression during spore formation by the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. As the spore develops, a tightly regulated switch occurs in which the early-acting sigma factor σF is replaced by the late-acting sigma factor σG. The gene encoding σG (sigG) is trans...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mearls EB,Jackter J,Colquhoun JM,Farmer V,Matthews AJ,Murphy LS,Fenton C,Camp AH

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cell tumours are the most common type of skin cancer in dogs, representing a significant concern in canine health. The molecular pathogenesis is largely unknown, but breed-predisposition for mast cell tumour development suggests the involvement of inherited genetic risk factors in some breeds. In this study, we a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Biasoli D,Compston-Garnett L,Ricketts SL,Birand Z,Courtay-Cahen C,Fineberg E,Arendt M,Boerkamp K,Melin M,Koltookian M,Murphy S,Rutteman G,Lindblad-Toh K,Starkey M

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A universal Tree of Life (TOL) has long been a goal of molecular phylogeneticists, but reticulation at the level of genes and possibly at the levels of cells and species renders any simple interpretation of such a TOL, especially as applied to prokaryotes, problematic. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Doolittle WF,Brunet TD

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue lipolysis occurs during the development of heart failure as a consequence of chronic adrenergic stimulation. However, the impact of enhanced adipose triacylglycerol hydrolysis mediated by adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) on cardiac function is unclear. To investigate the role of adipose tissue lipolys...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Salatzki J,Foryst-Ludwig A,Bentele K,Blumrich A,Smeir E,Ban Z,Brix S,Grune J,Beyhoff N,Klopfleisch R,Dunst S,Surma MA,Klose C,Rothe M,Heinzel FR,Krannich A,Kershaw EE,Beule D,Schulze PC,Marx N,Kintscher U

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00