MicroRNA-driven developmental remodeling in the brain distinguishes humans from other primates.

abstract：:The organization and the mechanisms of condensation of mitotic chromosomes remain unsolved despite many decades of efforts. The lack of resolution, tight compaction, and the absence of function-specific chromatin labels have been the key technical obstacles. The correlation between DNA sequence composition and its con...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Strukov YG,Sural TH,Kuroda MI,Sedat JW

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The array of vibrissae on a rat's face is the first stage in a high-resolution tactile sensing system. Progressing from rostral to caudal in any vibrissae row results in an increase in whisker length and thickness. This may, in turn, provide a systematic map of separate tactile channels governed by the mechanical prop...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gugig E,Sharma H,Azouz R

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell imaging, combined with recent advances in image analysis and microfluidic technologies, have enabled fundamental discoveries of cellular responses to chemical perturbations that are often obscured by traditional liquid-culture experiments. Temperature is an environmental variable well known to impact growt...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Knapp BD,Zhu L,Huang KC

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarized growth is maintained by both polarized exocytosis, which transports membrane components to specific locations on the cell cortex, and endocytosis, which retrieves these components before they can diffuse away. Despite functional links between these two transport pathways, they are generally considered to be ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johansen J,Alfaro G,Beh CT

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the developmental principles of sensory and cognitive processing have been extensively investigated, their synergy has been largely neglected. During early life, most sensory systems are still largely immature. As a notable exception, the olfactory system is functional at birth, controlling mother-offspring i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gretenkord S,Kostka JK,Hartung H,Watznauer K,Fleck D,Minier-Toribio A,Spehr M,Hanganu-Opatz IL

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001326.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lu W,Hu Y,Chen G,Chen Z,Zhang H,Wang F,Feng L,Pelicano H,Wang H,Keating MJ,Liu J,McKeehan W,Wang H,Luo Y,Huang P

更新日期：2017-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bax/Bak-mediated mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) is essential for "intrinsic" apoptotic cell death. Published studies used synthetic liposomes to reveal an intrinsic pore-forming activity of Bax, but it is unclear how other mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) proteins might facilitate this function...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kushnareva Y,Andreyev AY,Kuwana T,Newmeyer DD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyocytes are vulnerable to hypoxia in the adult, but adapted to hypoxia in utero. Current understanding of endogenous cardiac oxygen sensing pathways is limited. Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by regulation of energy metabolism, which shifts from glycolysis to lipid oxidation soon after birth, and i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Breckenridge RA,Piotrowska I,Ng KE,Ragan TJ,West JA,Kotecha S,Towers N,Bennett M,Kienesberger PC,Smolenski RT,Siddall HK,Offer JL,Mocanu MM,Yelon DM,Dyck JR,Griffin JL,Abramov AY,Gould AP,Mohun TJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Courtship is a widespread behavior in which one gender conveys to the other a series of cues about their species identity, gender, and suitability as mates. In many species, females decode these male displays and either accept or reject them. Despite the fact that courtship has been investigated for a long time, the g...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schinaman JM,Giesey RL,Mizutani CM,Lukacsovich T,Sousa-Neves R

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, neuroscientists have increasingly turned their attention to the question of how the brain implements decisions between differently valued options. This emerging field, called neuroeconomics, has made quick progress in identifying a plethora of brain areas that track or are modulated by rewar...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stott JJ,Redish AD

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001154.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： PLOS Biology Staff.

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:STEP (STriatal-Enriched protein tyrosine Phosphatase) is a neuron-specific phosphatase that regulates N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR) trafficking, as well as ERK1/2, p38, Fyn, and Pyk2 activity. STEP is overactive in several neuropsychiatr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Xu J,Chatterjee M,Baguley TD,Brouillette J,Kurup P,Ghosh D,Kanyo J,Zhang Y,Seyb K,Ononenyi C,Foscue E,Anderson GM,Gresack J,Cuny GD,Glicksman MA,Greengard P,Lam TT,Tautz L,Nairn AC,Ellman JA,Lombroso PJ

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecologically significant shift in developmental strategy from planktotrophic (feeding) to lecithotrophic (nonfeeding) development in the sea urchin genus Heliocidaris is one of the most comprehensively studied life history transitions in any animal. Although the evolution of lecithotrophy involved substantial chan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Israel JW,Martik ML,Byrne M,Raff EC,Raff RA,McClay DR,Wray GA

更新日期：2016-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are characterized by outstanding molecular heterogeneity that results in severe therapy resistance and poor clinical outcome. Inter- and intratumoral heterogeneity in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) was recently revealed as a major parameter of poor clinical outc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pan M,Schinke H,Luxenburger E,Kranz G,Shakhtour J,Libl D,Huang Y,Gaber A,Pavšič M,Lenarčič B,Kitz J,Jakob M,Schwenk-Zieger S,Canis M,Hess J,Unger K,Baumeister P,Gires O

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic heterogeneity can confer clonal groups of organisms with new functionality. A paradigmatic example is the bistable expression of virulence genes in Salmonella typhimurium, which leads to phenotypically virulent and phenotypically avirulent subpopulations. The two subpopulations have been shown to divide lab...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Arnoldini M,Vizcarra IA,Peña-Miller R,Stocker N,Diard M,Vogel V,Beardmore RE,Hardt WD,Ackermann M

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many prior studies demonstrating offline behavioral gains in motor skills after sleep, the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. To investigate the neurophysiological basis for offline gains, we performed single-unit recordings in motor cortex as rats learned a skilled upper-limb task. We foun...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ramanathan DS,Gulati T,Ganguly K

更新日期：2015-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors develop through multiple stages, implicating multiple effectors, but the tools to assess how candidate genes contribute to stepwise tumor progression have been limited. We have developed a novel system in which progression of phenotypes in a mouse model of pancreatic islet cell tumorigenesis can be used to meas...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Du YC,Lewis BC,Hanahan D,Varmus H

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene GAD2 encoding the glutamic acid decarboxylase enzyme (GAD65) is a positional candidate gene for obesity on Chromosome 10p11-12, a susceptibility locus for morbid obesity in four independent ethnic populations. GAD65 catalyzes the formation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which interacts with neuropeptide Y...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boutin P,Dina C,Vasseur F,Dubois S,Corset L,Séron K,Bekris L,Cabellon J,Neve B,Vasseur-Delannoy V,Chikri M,Charles MA,Clement K,Lernmark A,Froguel P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease-associated misfolded proteins or proteins damaged due to cellular stress are generally disposed via the cellular protein quality-control system. However, under saturating conditions, misfolded proteins will aggregate. In higher eukaryotes, these aggregates can be transported to accumulate in aggresomes at the ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rujano MA,Bosveld F,Salomons FA,Dijk F,van Waarde MA,van der Want JJ,de Vos RA,Brunt ER,Sibon OC,Kampinga HH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A developing plant organ exhibits complex spatiotemporal patterns of growth, cell division, cell size, cell shape, and organ shape. Explaining these patterns presents a challenge because of their dynamics and cross-correlations, which can make it difficult to disentangle causes from effects. To address these problems,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fox S,Southam P,Pantin F,Kennaway R,Robinson S,Castorina G,Sánchez-Corrales YE,Sablowski R,Chan J,Grieneisen V,Marée AFM,Bangham JA,Coen E

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent cancer studies emphasize that genetic and heritable epigenetic changes drive the evolutionary rate of cancer progression and drug resistance. We discuss the ways in which nonheritable aspects of cellular variability may significantly increase evolutionary rate. Nonheritable variability arises by stochastic fluc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Frank SA,Rosner MR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex performs complex cognitive functions at the expense of tremendous energy consumption. Blood vessels in the brain are known to form stereotypic patterns that facilitate efficient oxygen and nutrient delivery. Yet little is known about how vessel development in the brain is normally regulated. Radial...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ma S,Kwon HJ,Johng H,Zang K,Huang Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef (GBR) continues to suffer from repeated impacts of cyclones, coral bleaching, and outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), losing much of its coral cover in the process. This raises the question of the ecosystem's systemic resilience and its ability to reboun...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hock K,Wolff NH,Ortiz JC,Condie SA,Anthony KRN,Blackwell PG,Mumby PJ

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are generated from somatic cells by genetic manipulation. Reprogramming entails multiple transgene integrations and occurs apparently stochastically in rare cells over many days. Tissue stem cells may be subject to less-stringent epigenetic restrictions than other cells and might t...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Silva J,Barrandon O,Nichols J,Kawaguchi J,Theunissen TW,Smith A

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:African swine fever virus (ASFV) can cause highly lethal disease in pigs and is becoming a global threat. ASFV DNA Polymerase X (AsfvPolX) is the most distinctive DNA polymerase identified to date; it lacks two DNA-binding domains (the thumb domain and 8-KD domain) conserved in the homologous proteins. AsfvPolX cataly...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chen Y,Zhang J,Liu H,Gao Y,Li X,Zheng L,Cui R,Yao Q,Rong L,Li J,Huang Z,Ma J,Gan J

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of symbioses between eukaryotic hosts and microbes extends from the organismal to the ecosystem level and underpins the health of Earth's most threatened marine ecosystems. Despite rapid growth in research on host-associated microbes, from individual microbial symbionts to host-associated consortia of...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wilkins LGE,Leray M,O'Dea A,Yuen B,Peixoto RS,Pereira TJ,Bik HM,Coil DA,Duffy JE,Herre EA,Lessios HA,Lucey NM,Mejia LC,Rasher DB,Sharp KH,Sogin EM,Thacker RW,Vega Thurber R,Wcislo WT,Wilbanks EG,Eisen JA

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, the high-dose refuge (HDR) strategy, aimed at delaying the evolution of pest resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins produced by transgenic crops, became mandatory in the United States and is being discussed for Europe. However, precopulatory dispersal and the mating rate between residen...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Dalecky A,Ponsard S,Bailey RI,Pélissier C,Bourguet D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002125.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Franco CA,Jones ML,Bernabeu MO,Geudens I,Mathivet T,Rosa A,Lopes FM,Lima AP,Ragab A,Collins RT,Phng LK,Coveney PV,Gerhardt H

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently a demand for new highly efficient and specific drugs to treat osteoporosis, a chronic bone disease affecting millions of people worldwide. We have developed a combinatorial strategy for engineering bispecific inhibitors that simultaneously target the unique combination of c-FMS and αvβ3 integrin, wh...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zur Y,Rosenfeld L,Keshelman CA,Dalal N,Guterman-Ram G,Orenbuch A,Einav Y,Levaot N,Papo N

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonistic interactions drive host-virus evolutionary arms races, which often manifest as recurrent amino acid changes (i.e., positive selection) at their protein-protein interaction interfaces. Here, we investigated whether combinatorial mutagenesis of positions under positive selection in a host antiviral protein ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Colón-Thillet R,Hsieh E,Graf L,McLaughlin RN Jr,Young JM,Kochs G,Emerman M,Malik HS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00