Role of the single-stranded DNA-binding protein SsbB in pneumococcal transformation: maintenance of a reservoir for genetic plasticity.

abstract：:Previous genetic studies have suggested a history of sub-Saharan African gene flow into some West Eurasian populations after the initial dispersal out of Africa that occurred at least 45,000 years ago. However, there has been no accurate characterization of the proportion of mixture, or of its date. We analyze genome-...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Moorjani P,Patterson N,Hirschhorn JN,Keinan A,Hao L,Atzmon G,Burns E,Ostrer H,Price AL,Reich D

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Conjugation is one mechanism for intra- and inter-species horizontal gene transfer among bacteria. Conjugative elements have been instrumental in many bacterial species to face the threat of antibiotics, by allowing them to evolve and adapt to these hostile conditions. Conjugative plasmids are transferred to plasmidle...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baharoglu Z,Bikard D,Mazel D

更新日期：2010-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate at which genomes adapt to environmental changes and the prevalence of adaptive processes in molecular evolution are two controversial issues in current evolutionary genetics. Previous attempts to quantify the genome-wide rate of adaptation through amino-acid substitution have revealed a surprising diversity o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Galtier N

更新日期：2016-01-11 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：:H1 linker histones facilitate higher-order chromatin folding and are essential for mammalian development. To achieve high-resolution mapping of H1 variants H1d and H1c in embryonic stem cells (ESCs), we have established a knock-in system and shown that the N-terminally tagged H1 proteins are functionally interchangeab...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cao K,Lailler N,Zhang Y,Kumar A,Uppal K,Liu Z,Lee EK,Wu H,Medrzycki M,Pan C,Ho PY,Cooper GP Jr,Dong X,Bock C,Bouhassira EE,Fan Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

abstract：:Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (UESL) is a rare and aggressive malignancy. Though the molecular underpinnings of this cancer have been largely unexplored, recurrent chromosomal breakpoints affecting a noncoding region on chr19q13, which includes the chromosome 19 microRNA cluster (C19MC), have been re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Setty BA,Jinesh GG,Arnold M,Pettersson F,Cheng CH,Cen L,Yoder SJ,Teer JK,Flores ER,Reed DR,Brohl AS

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of ribosomal RNA by RNA polymerase I (RNA pol I) is an elemental biological process and is key for cellular homeostasis. In a forward genetic screen in C. elegans designed to identify DNA damage-response factors, we isolated a point mutation of RNA pol I, rpoa-2(op259), that leads to altered rRNA synthesis a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eberhard R,Stergiou L,Hofmann ER,Hofmann J,Haenni S,Teo Y,Furger A,Hengartner MO

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex traits are known to be influenced by a combination of environmental factors and rare and common genetic variants. However, detection of such multivariate associations can be compromised by low statistical power and confounding by population structure. Linear mixed effects models (LMM) can account for correlati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bhatnagar SR,Yang Y,Lu T,Schurr E,Loredo-Osti JC,Forest M,Oualkacha K,Greenwood CMT

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) is a helical repeat motif found in an exceptionally large family of RNA-binding proteins that functions in mitochondrial and chloroplast gene expression. PPR proteins harbor between 2 and 30 repeats and typically bind single-stranded RNA in a sequence-specific fashion. However, the b...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Barkan A,Rojas M,Fujii S,Yap A,Chong YS,Bond CS,Small I

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Movement of the transcription machinery along a template alters DNA topology resulting in the accumulation of supercoils in DNA. The positive supercoils generated ahead of transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) and the negative supercoils accumulating behind impose severe topological constraints impeding transcription pro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ahmed W,Sala C,Hegde SR,Jha RK,Cole ST,Nagaraja V

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:From Darwin's study of the Galapagos and Wallace's study of Indonesia, islands have played an important role in evolutionary investigations, and radiations within archipelagos are readily interpreted as supporting the conventional view of allopatric speciation. Even during the ongoing paradigm shift towards other mode...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Thorpe RS,Surget-Groba Y,Johansson H

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying regions of positive selection in genomic data remains a challenge in population genetics. Most current approaches rely on comparing values of summary statistics calculated in windows. We present an approach termed SURFDAWave, which translates measures of genetic diversity calculated in genomic windows to f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mughal MR,Koch H,Huang J,Chiaromonte F,DeGiorgio M

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a monogenetic disorder that predisposes individuals to tumor formation and cognitive and behavioral symptoms. The neuronal circuitry and developmental events underlying these neurological symptoms are unknown. To better understand how mutations of the underlying gene (NF1) drive behavioral ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： King LB,Boto T,Botero V,Aviles AM,Jomsky BM,Joseph C,Walker JA,Tomchik SM

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated nuclear entry of clock proteins is a conserved feature of eukaryotic circadian clocks and serves to separate the phase of mRNA activation from mRNA repression in the molecular feedback loop. In Drosophila, nuclear entry of the clock proteins, PERIOD (PER) and TIMELESS (TIM), is tightly controlled, and impair...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jang AR,Moravcevic K,Saez L,Young MW,Sehgal A

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis is a specialized cell division used by diploid organisms to form haploid gametes for sexual reproduction. Central to this reductive division is repair of endogenous DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by the meiosis-specific enzyme Spo11. These DSBs are repaired in a process called homologous recombination...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lilienthal I,Kanno T,Sjögren C

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered daily patterns of hormone action are suspected to contribute to metabolic disease. It is poorly understood how the adrenal glucocorticoid hormones contribute to the coordination of daily global patterns of transcription and metabolism. Here, we examined diurnal metabolite and transcriptome patterns in a zebraf...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Weger BD,Weger M,Görling B,Schink A,Gobet C,Keime C,Poschet G,Jost B,Krone N,Hell R,Gachon F,Luy B,Dickmeis T

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication programs have been studied extensively in yeast and animal systems, where they have been shown to correlate with gene expression and certain epigenetic modifications. Despite the conservation of core DNA replication proteins, little is known about replication programs in plants. We used flow cytometry ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lee TJ,Pascuzzi PE,Settlage SB,Shultz RW,Tanurdzic M,Rabinowicz PD,Menges M,Zheng P,Main D,Murray JA,Sosinski B,Allen GC,Martienssen RA,Hanley-Bowdoin L,Vaughn MW,Thompson WF

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pervasive natural selection can strongly influence observed patterns of genetic variation, but these effects remain poorly understood when multiple selected variants segregate in nearby regions of the genome. Classical population genetics fails to account for interference between linked mutations, which grows increasi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Good BH,Walczak AM,Neher RA,Desai MM

更新日期：2014-03-27 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：:Mitotic divisions depend on the timely assembly and proper orientation of the mitotic spindle. Malfunctioning of these processes can considerably delay mitosis, thereby compromising tissue growth and homeostasis, and leading to chromosomal instability. Loss of functional Mms19 drastically affects the growth and develo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chippalkatti R,Egger B,Suter B

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their protein coding function, exons can also serve as transcriptional enhancers. Mutations in these exonic-enhancers (eExons) could alter both protein function and transcription. However, the functional consequence of eExon mutations is not well known. Here, using massively parallel reporter assays, we...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Birnbaum RY,Patwardhan RP,Kim MJ,Findlay GM,Martin B,Zhao J,Bell RJ,Smith RP,Ku AA,Shendure J,Ahituv N

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the transcriptional regulation of pluripotent cells is of fundamental interest and will greatly inform efforts aimed at directing differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells or reprogramming somatic cells. We first analyzed the transcriptional profiles of mouse ES cells and primordial germ cells and ide...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Grskovic M,Chaivorapol C,Gaspar-Maia A,Li H,Ramalho-Santos M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent phenotypic evolution is often caused by recurrent changes at particular nodes in the underlying gene regulatory networks (GRNs). The genes at such evolutionary 'hotspots' are thought to maximally affect the phenotype with minimal pleiotropic consequences. This has led to the suggestion that if a GRN is unde...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kittelmann S,Buffry AD,Franke FA,Almudi I,Yoth M,Sabaris G,Couso JP,Nunes MDS,Frankel N,Gómez-Skarmeta JL,Pueyo-Marques J,Arif S,McGregor AP

更新日期：2018-05-03 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：:The ribonuclease III enzyme Drosha has a central role in the biogenesis of microRNA (miRNA) by binding and cleaving hairpin structures in primary RNA transcripts into precursor miRNAs (pre-miRNAs). Many miRNA genes are located within protein-coding host genes and cleaved by Drosha in a manner that is coincident with s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Havens MA,Reich AA,Hastings ML

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In understanding the etiology of breast cancer, the contributions of both genetic and environmental risk factors are further complicated by the impact of breast developmental stage. Specifically, the time period ranging from childhood to young adulthood represents a critical developmental window in a woman's life when...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Henning AN,Haag JD,Smits BM,Gould MN

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome assembly cofactors are widely conserved across all domains of life. One such group, the ribosome-associated GTPases (RA-GTPase), act as molecular switches to coordinate ribosome assembly. We previously identified the Staphylococcus aureus RA-GTPase Era as a target for the stringent response alarmone (p)ppGpp,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wood A,Irving SE,Bennison DJ,Corrigan RM

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00