The transposon-like Correia elements encode numerous strong promoters and provide a potential new mechanism for phase variation in the meningococcus.

abstract：:Entry into mitosis is triggered by activation of Cdk1 and inactivation of its counteracting phosphatase PP2A/B55. Greatwall kinase inactivates PP2A/B55 via its substrates Ensa and ARPP19. Both Greatwall and Ensa/ARPP19 are regulated by phosphorylation, but the dynamic regulation of Greatwall activity and the phosphata...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hégarat N,Vesely C,Vinod PK,Ocasio C,Peter N,Gannon J,Oliver AW,Novák B,Hochegger H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are present in both vertebrates and invertebrates from nematodes to mammals. Although the importance of gap junctions has been documented in many biological processes, the molecular mechanisms underlying gap junction dynamics remain unclear. Here, using the C. elegans PLM neurons as a model, we show that...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Meng L,Chen CH,Yan D

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of the HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines have identified large numbers of quantitative trait loci for gene expression (eQTLs). Reanalyzing these data using a novel Bayesian hierarchical model, we were able to create a surprisingly high-resolution map of the typical locations of sites that affect mRNA lev...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Veyrieras JB,Kudaravalli S,Kim SY,Dermitzakis ET,Gilad Y,Stephens M,Pritchard JK

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep contributes to cognitive functioning and is sufficient to alter brain morphology and function. However, mechanisms underlying sleep regulation remain poorly understood. In mammals, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) is known to regulate sleep, and cytokine expression may represent an evolutionarily ancient mecha...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Vanderheyden WM,Goodman AG,Taylor RH,Frank MG,Van Dongen HPA,Gerstner JR

更新日期：2018-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessels are vital to sustain life in all vertebrates. While it is known that mural cells (pericytes and smooth muscle cells) regulate vascular integrity, the contribution of other cell types to vascular stabilization has been largely unexplored. Using zebrafish, we identified sclerotome-derived perivascular fibr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rajan AM,Ma RC,Kocha KM,Zhang DJ,Huang P

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cis-regulation plays an essential role in the control of gene expression, and is particularly complex and poorly understood for developmental genes, which are subject to multiple levels of modulation. In this study, we performed a global analysis of the cis-acting elements involved in the control of the zebrafish deve...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Torbey P,Thierion E,Collombet S,de Cian A,Desmarquet-Trin-Dinh C,Dura M,Concordet JP,Charnay P,Gilardi-Hebenstreit P

更新日期：2018-08-06 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：:Translational systems can respond promptly to sudden environmental changes to provide rapid adaptations to environmental stress. Unlike the well-studied translational responses to oxidative stress in eukaryotic systems, little is known regarding how prokaryotes respond rapidly to oxidative stress in terms of translati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhong J,Xiao C,Gu W,Du G,Sun X,He QY,Zhang G

更新日期：2015-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypermutation of the immunoglobulin (Ig) genes requires Activation Induced cytidine Deaminase (AID) and transcription, but it remains unclear why other transcribed genes of B cells do not mutate. We describe a reporter transgene crippled by hypermutation when inserted into or near the Ig light chain (IgL) locus of the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Blagodatski A,Batrak V,Schmidl S,Schoetz U,Caldwell RB,Arakawa H,Buerstedde JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B (MEN2B) is a highly aggressive thyroid cancer syndrome. Since almost all sporadic cases are caused by the same nucleotide substitution in the RET proto-oncogene, the calculated disease incidence is 100-200 times greater than would be expected based on the genome average mutation fr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Choi SK,Yoon SR,Calabrese P,Arnheim N

更新日期：2012-01-01 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

abstract：:Genetic surveillance of malaria parasites supports malaria control programmes, treatment guidelines and elimination strategies. Surveillance studies often pose questions about malaria parasite ancestry (e.g. how antimalarial resistance has spread) and employ statistical methods that characterise parasite population st...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Watson JA,Taylor AR,Ashley EA,Dondorp A,Buckee CO,White NJ,Holmes CC

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

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：:In humans, the absence or irreversible loss of hair cells, the sensory mechanoreceptors in the cochlea, accounts for a large majority of acquired and congenital hearing disorders. In the auditory and vestibular neuroepithelia of the inner ear, hair cells are accompanied by another cell type called supporting cells. Th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Behra M,Bradsher J,Sougrat R,Gallardo V,Allende ML,Burgess SM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topoisomerase 3α, a class I topoisomerase, consists of a TOPRIM domain, an active centre and a variable number of zinc-finger domains (ZFDs) at the C-terminus, in multicellular organisms. Whereas the functions of the TOPRIM domain and the active centre are known, the specific role of the ZFDs is still obscure. In cont...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dorn A,Röhrig S,Papp K,Schröpfer S,Hartung F,Knoll A,Puchta H

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nrf2, a transcriptional activator of cell protection genes, is an attractive therapeutic target for the prevention of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Current Nrf2 activators, however, may exert toxicity and pathway over-activation can induce detrimental effects. An understanding of the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kerr F,Sofola-Adesakin O,Ivanov DK,Gatliff J,Gomez Perez-Nievas B,Bertrand HC,Martinez P,Callard R,Snoeren I,Cochemé HM,Adcott J,Khericha M,Castillo-Quan JI,Wells G,Noble W,Thornton J,Partridge L

更新日期：2017-03-02 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：:Numerous instances of presence/absence variations for introns have been documented in eukaryotes, and some cases of recurrent loss of the same intron have been suggested. However, there has been no comprehensive or phylogenetically deep analysis of recurrent intron loss. Of 883 cases of intron presence/absence variati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang H,Devos KM,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clocks in chlorophyte algae have been studied in two model organisms, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Ostreococcus tauri. These studies revealed that the chlorophyte clocks include some genes that are homologous to those of the angiosperm circadian clock. However, the genetic network architectures of the c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Matsuo T,Iida T,Ohmura A,Gururaj M,Kato D,Mutoh R,Ihara K,Ishiura M

更新日期：2020-06-17 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：:CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) loci, together with cas (CRISPR-associated) genes, form the CRISPR/Cas adaptive immune system, a primary defense strategy that eubacteria and archaea mobilize against foreign nucleic acids, including phages and conjugative plasmids. Short spacer sequen...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rho M,Wu YW,Tang H,Doak TG,Ye Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004936.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Feng B,Liu C,de Oliveira MV,Intorne AC,Li B,Babilonia K,de Souza Filho GA,Shan L,He P

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertions and deletions (indels) are a major source of genetic variation within species and may result in functional changes to coding or regulatory sequences. In this study we report that an indel polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of the metallothionein gene MtnA is associated with gene expression var...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Catalán A,Glaser-Schmitt A,Argyridou E,Duchen P,Parsch J

更新日期：2016-04-27 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：:Patients with neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism (NSHPT) are homozygous for the calcium-sensing receptor (CaR) mutation and have very high circulating PTH, abundant parathyroid hyperplasia, and severe life-threatening hypercalcemia. Mice with homozygous deletion of CaR mimic the syndrome of NSHPT. To determine effect...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liu J,Lv F,Sun W,Tao C,Ding G,Karaplis A,Brown E,Goltzman D,Miao D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic heterogeneity that characterizes human cancers reflects the enormous genetic complexity of the oncogenic process. This complexity can also be seen in mouse models where it is frequently observed that in addition to the initiating genetic alteration, the resulting tumor harbors additional, somatically ac...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rempel RE,Mori S,Gasparetto M,Glozak MA,Andrechek ER,Adler SB,Laakso NM,Lagoo AS,Storms R,Smith C,Nevins JR

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deluge of data generated by genome sequencing has led to an increasing reliance on bioinformatic predictions, since the traditional experimental approach of characterizing gene function one at a time cannot possibly keep pace with the sequence-based discovery of novel genes. We have utilized Biolog phenotype Micro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Johnson DA,Tetu SG,Phillippy K,Chen J,Ren Q,Paulsen IT

更新日期：2008-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary forces that shape regulatory networks remain poorly understood. In mammals, the Rb pathway is a classic example of species-specific gene regulation, as a germline mutation in one Rb allele promotes retinoblastoma in humans, but not in mice. Here we show that p53 transactivates the Retinoblastoma-like 2 (R...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Simeonova I,Lejour V,Bardot B,Bouarich-Bourimi R,Morin A,Fang M,Charbonnier L,Toledo F

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mp is an irradiation-induced mouse mutation associated with microphthalmia, micropinna and hind limb syndactyly. We show that Mp is caused by a 660 kb balanced inversion on chromosome 18 producing reciprocal 3-prime gene fusion events involving Fbn2 and Isoc1. The Isoc1-Fbn2 fusion gene (Isoc1(Mp)) mRNA has a frameshi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rainger J,Keighren M,Keene DR,Charbonneau NL,Rainger JK,Fisher M,Mella S,Huang JT,Rose L,van't Hof R,Sakai LY,Jackson IJ,Fitzpatrick DR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient adaptation to iron starvation is an essential virulence determinant of the most common human mold pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus. Here, we demonstrate that the cytosolic monothiol glutaredoxin GrxD plays an essential role in iron sensing in this fungus. Our studies revealed that (i) GrxD is essential for gr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Misslinger M,Scheven MT,Hortschansky P,López-Berges MS,Heiss K,Beckmann N,Heigl T,Hermann M,Krüger T,Kniemeyer O,Brakhage AA,Haas H

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00