Transcription initiation patterns indicate divergent strategies for gene regulation at the chromatin level.

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：:In metazoan germlines, the piRNA pathway acts as a genomic immune system, employing small RNA-mediated silencing to defend host DNA from the harmful effects of transposable elements (TEs). Expression of genomic TEs is proposed to initiate self regulation by increasing the production of repressive piRNAs, thereby "adap...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang L,Barbash DA,Kelleher ES

更新日期：2020-06-11 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：: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：:Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA4) is a negative regulator of T-cell proliferation. Polymorphisms in CTLA4 have been inconsistently associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of European ancestry but have not been examined in African Americans. The prevalence of RA in m...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kelley JM,Hughes LB,Faggard JD,Danila MI,Crawford MH,Edberg Y,Padilla MA,Tiwari HK,Westfall AO,Alarcón GS,Conn DL,Jonas BL,Callahan LF,Smith EA,Brasington RD,Allison DB,Kimberly RP,Moreland LW,Edberg JC,Bridges SL J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified thousands of loci for a range of human complex traits and diseases. The proportion of phenotypic variance explained by significant associations is, however, limited. Given the same dense SNP panels, mixed model analyses capture a greater proportion of phenot...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xia C,Amador C,Huffman J,Trochet H,Campbell A,Porteous D,Generation Scotland.,Hastie ND,Hayward C,Vitart V,Navarro P,Haley CS

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Species barriers, expressed as hybrid inviability and sterility, are often due to epistatic interactions between divergent loci from two lineages. Theoretical models indicate that the strength, direction, and complexity of these genetic interactions can strongly affect the expression of interspecific reproductive isol...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Guerrero RF,Muir CD,Josway S,Moyle LC

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During development of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells (NSCs) divide symmetrically to proliferate and asymmetrically to generate neurons. Although faithful segregation of mitotic chromosomes is critical for NSC divisions, its fundamental mechanism remains unclear. A class of evolutionarily conserved protein comp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nishide K,Hirano T

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid genotypes have been repeatedly described among natural isolates of Leishmania, and the recovery of experimental hybrids from sand flies co-infected with different strains or species of Leishmania has formally demonstrated that members of the genus possess the machinery for genetic exchange. As neither gamete st...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Inbar E,Shaik J,Iantorno SA,Romano A,Nzelu CO,Owens K,Sanders MJ,Dobson D,Cotton JA,Grigg ME,Beverley SM,Sacks D

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive proteins are among the fastest evolving in the proteome, often due to the consequences of positive selection, and their rapid evolution is frequently attributed to a coevolutionary process between interacting female and male proteins. Such a process could leave characteristic signatures at coevolving gene...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Clark NL,Gasper J,Sekino M,Springer SA,Aquadro CF,Swanson WJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid regulation of transcription have been studied in detail, the global networks regulated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) remain unknown. To address this question, we performed an orthogonal analysis to identify direct targets of the GR. First, we analyzed the expressi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Phuc Le P,Friedman JR,Schug J,Brestelli JE,Parker JB,Bochkis IM,Kaestner KH

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important follow-up step after genetic markers are found to be associated with a disease outcome is a more detailed analysis investigating how the implicated gene or chromosomal region and an established environment risk factor interact to influence the disease risk. The standard approach to this study of gene-envi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yu K,Wacholder S,Wheeler W,Wang Z,Caporaso N,Landi MT,Liang F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the severely pancytopenic scat mouse model first demonstrated the crucial role of RASA3, a dual RAS and RAP GTPase activating protein (GAP), in hematopoiesis. RASA3 is required for survival in utero; germline deletion is lethal at E12.5-13.5 due to severe hemorrhage. Here, conditional deletion in hematopoie...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Robledo RF,Ciciotte SL,Graber JH,Zhao Y,Lambert AJ,Gwynn B,Maki NJ,Brindley EC,Hartman E,Blanc L,Peters LL

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The human nuclear poly(A)-binding protein PABPN1 has been implicated in the decay of nuclear noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). In addition, PABPN1 promotes hyperadenylation by stimulating poly(A)-polymerases (PAPα/γ), but this activity has not previously been linked to the decay of endogenous transcripts. Moreover, the mechani...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bresson SM,Hunter OV,Hunter AC,Conrad NK

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 3p21-22 harbors two clusters of chemokine receptor genes, several of which serve as major or minor coreceptors of HIV-1. Although the genetic association of CCR5 and CCR2 variants with HIV-1 pathogenesis is well known, the role of variation in other nearby chemokine receptor genes remain unresolved. We geno...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： An P,Li R,Wang JM,Yoshimura T,Takahashi M,Samudralal R,O'Brien SJ,Phair J,Goedert JJ,Kirk GD,Troyer JL,Sezgin E,Buchbinder SP,Donfield S,Nelson GW,Winkler CA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massively parallel pyrosequencing of hypervariable regions from small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) genes can sample a microbial community two or three orders of magnitude more deeply per dollar and per hour than capillary sequencing of full-length SSU rRNA. As with full-length rRNA surveys, each sequence read is a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Huse SM,Dethlefsen L,Huber JA,Mark Welch D,Relman DA,Sogin ML

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deregulation of metabolism is a hallmark of aging. As such, changes in the expression of metabolic genes and the profiles of amino acid levels are features associated with aging animals. We previously reported that the levels of most amino acids decline with age in Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). Glycine, in ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liu YJ,Janssens GE,McIntyre RL,Molenaars M,Kamble R,Gao AW,Jongejan A,Weeghel MV,MacInnes AW,Houtkooper RH

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative pre-mRNA splicing adjusts the transcriptional output of the genome by generating related mRNAs from a single primary transcript, thereby expanding protein diversity. A fundamental unanswered question is how splicing factors achieve specificity in the selection of target substrates despite the recognition o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dembowski JA,Grabowski PJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular toxicity introduced by protein misfolding threatens cell fitness and viability. Failure to eliminate these polypeptides is associated with various aggregation diseases. In eukaryotes, the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) plays a vital role in protein quality control (PQC), by selectively targeting misfolded ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Peters LZ,Karmon O,David-Kadoch G,Hazan R,Yu T,Glickman MH,Ben-Aroya S

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The t-haplotype, a variant form of the t-complex region on mouse chromosome 17, acts as selfish genetic element and is transmitted at high frequencies (> 95%) from heterozygous (t/+) males to their offspring. This phenotype is termed transmission ratio distortion (TRD) and is caused by the interaction of the t-complex...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bauer H,Schindler S,Charron Y,Willert J,Kusecek B,Herrmann BG

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulatory information guides development and shapes the course of evolution. To test conservation of gene regulation within the phylum Nematoda, we compared the functions of putative cis-regulatory sequences of four sets of orthologs (unc-47, unc-25, mec-3 and elt-2) from distantly-related nematode species. Thes...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gordon KL,Arthur RK,Ruvinsky I

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding buffering mechanisms for various perturbations is essential for understanding robustness in cellular systems. Protein-level dosage compensation, which arises when changes in gene copy number do not translate linearly into protein level, is one mechanism for buffering against genetic perturbations. Here, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ishikawa K,Makanae K,Iwasaki S,Ingolia NT,Moriya H

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have demonstrated the clinical utility and importance of epilepsy gene panel testing to confirm the specific aetiology of disease, enable appropriate therapeutic interventions, and inform accurate family counselling. Previously, SCN9A gene variants, in particular a c.1921A>T p.(Asn641Tyr) substitution, ha...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fasham J,Leslie JS,Harrison JW,Deline J,Williams KB,Kuhl A,Scott Schwoerer J,Cross HE,Crosby AH,Baple EL

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory infectious diseases are the third cause of worldwide death. The nasopharynx is the portal of entry and the ecological niche of many microorganisms, of which some are pathogenic to humans, such as Neisseria meningitidis and Moraxella catarrhalis. These microbes possess several surface structures that intera...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Veyrier FJ,Biais N,Morales P,Belkacem N,Guilhen C,Ranjeva S,Sismeiro O,Péhau-Arnaudet G,Rocha EP,Werts C,Taha MK,Boneca IG

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis is commonly found harmlessly colonising the mucosal surfaces of the human nasopharynx. Occasionally strains can invade host tissues causing septicaemia and meningitis, making the bacterium a major cause of morbidity and mortality in both the developed and developing world. The spec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bentley SD,Vernikos GS,Snyder LA,Churcher C,Arrowsmith C,Chillingworth T,Cronin A,Davis PH,Holroyd NE,Jagels K,Maddison M,Moule S,Rabbinowitsch E,Sharp S,Unwin L,Whitehead S,Quail MA,Achtman M,Barrell B,Saunders NJ

更新日期：2007-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) in female lymphocytes is uniquely regulated, as the inactive X (Xi) chromosome lacks localized Xist RNA and heterochromatin modifications. Epigenetic profiling reveals that Xist RNA is lost from the Xi at the pro-B cell stage and that additional heterochromatic modifications are gradual...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Syrett CM,Sindhava V,Hodawadekar S,Myles A,Liang G,Zhang Y,Nandi S,Cancro M,Atchison M,Anguera MC

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex is a specialized region of the brain that processes cognitive, motor, somatosensory, auditory, and visual functions. Its characteristic architecture and size is dependent upon the number of neurons generated during embryogenesis and has been postulated to be governed by symmetric versus asymmetric ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sakai D,Dixon J,Dixon MJ,Trainor PA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late-Onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is a common, complex genetic disorder well-known for its heterogeneous pathology. The genetic heterogeneity underlying common, complex diseases poses a major challenge for targeted therapies and the identification of novel disease-associated variants. Case-control approaches are o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Milind N,Preuss C,Haber A,Ananda G,Mukherjee S,John C,Shapley S,Logsdon BA,Crane PK,Carter GW

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of recombination events per meiosis varies extensively among individuals. This recombination phenotype differs between female and male, and also among individuals of each gender. In this study, we used high-density SNP genotypes of over 2,300 individuals and their offspring in two datasets to characterize r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chowdhury R,Bois PR,Feingold E,Sherman SL,Cheung VG

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphthamide is a highly modified histidine residue in eukaryal translation elongation factor 2 (eEF2) that is the target for irreversible ADP ribosylation by diphtheria toxin (DT). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the initial steps of diphthamide biosynthesis are well characterized and require the DPH1-DPH5 genes. However...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Uthman S,Bär C,Scheidt V,Liu S,ten Have S,Giorgini F,Stark MJ,Schaffrath R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00