Fuzzy tandem repeats containing p53 response elements may define species-specific p53 target genes.

abstract：:Ophthalmo-acromelic syndrome (OAS), also known as Waardenburg Anophthalmia syndrome, is defined by the combination of eye malformations, most commonly bilateral anophthalmia, with post-axial oligosyndactyly. Homozygosity mapping and subsequent targeted mutation analysis of a locus on 14q24.2 identified homozygous muta...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rainger J,van Beusekom E,Ramsay JK,McKie L,Al-Gazali L,Pallotta R,Saponari A,Branney P,Fisher M,Morrison H,Bicknell L,Gautier P,Perry P,Sokhi K,Sexton D,Bardakjian TM,Schneider AS,Elcioglu N,Ozkinay F,Koenig R,Még

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine (G)-rich DNA readily forms four-stranded quadruplexes in vitro, but evidence for their participation in genome regulation is limited. We have identified a quadruplex-binding protein, Lia3, that controls the boundaries of germline-limited, internal eliminated sequences (IESs) of Tetrahymena thermophila. Differe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Carle CM,Zaher HS,Chalker DL

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of eye tissue is initiated by a conserved set of transcription factors termed retinal determination network (RDN). In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zinc-finger transcription factor Glass acts directly downstream of the RDN to control identity of photoreceptor as well as non-photoreceptor cells...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fritsch C,Bernardo-Garcia FJ,Humberg TH,Mishra AK,Miellet S,Almeida S,Frochaux MV,Deplancke B,Huber A,Sprecher SG

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic resources for the domestic dog have improved with the widespread adoption of a 173k SNP array platform and updated reference genome. SNP arrays of this density are sufficient for detecting genetic associations within breeds but are underpowered for finding associations across multiple breeds or in mixed-breed ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hayward JJ,White ME,Boyle M,Shannon LM,Casal ML,Castelhano MG,Center SA,Meyers-Wallen VN,Simpson KW,Sutter NB,Todhunter RJ,Boyko AR

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic mutations in the nuclear genome are required for tumor formation, but the functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are less understood. Here we identify somatic mtDNA mutations across 527 tumors and 14 cancer types, using an approach that takes advantage of evidence from both geno...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Stewart JB,Alaei-Mahabadi B,Sabarinathan R,Samuelsson T,Gorodkin J,Gustafsson CM,Larsson E

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Diet is a crucial determinant of organismal biology; interactions between the host, its diet, and its microbiota are critical to determining the health of an organism. A variety of genetic and biochemical means were used to assay stress sensitivity in C. elegans reared on two standard laboratory diets: E. coli OP50, t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Revtovich AV,Lee R,Kirienko NV

更新日期：2019-03-13 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：:Retinoblastoma (pRb) is a multifunctional regulator, which was likely present in the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes. The Arabidopsis pRb homolog RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED 1 (RBR1), similar to its animal counterparts, controls not only cell proliferation but is also implicated in developmental decisions, stress re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bouyer D,Heese M,Chen P,Harashima H,Roudier F,Grüttner C,Schnittger A

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperative transcription factor binding at cis-regulatory sites in the genome drives robust eukaryotic gene expression, and many such sites must be coordinated to produce coherent transcriptional programs. The transcriptional program leading to motile cilia formation requires members of the DNA-binding forkhead (Fox)...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Quigley IK,Kintner C

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome encodes thousands of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) genes; the function of majority of them is poorly understood. Aberrant expression of a significant number of lncRNAs is observed in various diseases, including cancer. To gain insights into the role of lncRNAs in breast cancer progression, we performed ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jadaliha M,Gholamalamdari O,Tang W,Zhang Y,Petracovici A,Hao Q,Tariq A,Kim TG,Holton SE,Singh DK,Li XL,Freier SM,Ambs S,Bhargava R,Lal A,Prasanth SG,Ma J,Prasanth KV

更新日期：2018-11-29 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：:The previously identified LRS (Loss of rDNA Silencing) domain of the nucleosome is critically important for silencing at both ribosomal DNA and telomeres. To understand the function of the LRS surface in silencing, we performed an EMS mutagenesis screen to identify suppressors of the H3 A75V LRS allele. We identified ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Norris A,Bianchet MA,Boeke JD

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me) is an evolutionarily conserved modification whose role in the regulation of gene expression has been extensively studied. In contrast, the function of H3K4 acetylation (H3K4ac) has received little attention because of a lack of tools to separate its function from that of H3K...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Guillemette B,Drogaris P,Lin HH,Armstrong H,Hiragami-Hamada K,Imhof A,Bonneil E,Thibault P,Verreault A,Festenstein RJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Bacteria encode a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein (SSB) crucial for genome maintenance. In Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae, an alternative SSB, SsbB, is expressed uniquely during competence for genetic transformation, but its precise role has been disappointingly obscure. Here, we report our...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Attaiech L,Olivier A,Mortier-Barrière I,Soulet AL,Granadel C,Martin B,Polard P,Claverys JP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced bacterial genomes and most genomes of cell organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) do not encode the full set of 32 tRNA species required to read all triplets of the genetic code according to the conventional wobble rules. Superwobbling, in which a single tRNA species that contains a uridine in the wobble p...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Alkatib S,Scharff LB,Rogalski M,Fleischmann TT,Matthes A,Seeger S,Schöttler MA,Ruf S,Bock R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systems biology approaches that are based on the genetics of gene expression have been fruitful in identifying genetic regulatory loci related to complex traits. We use microarray and genetic marker data from an F2 mouse intercross to examine the large-scale organization of the gene co-expression network in liver, and...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ghazalpour A,Doss S,Zhang B,Wang S,Plaisier C,Castellanos R,Brozell A,Schadt EE,Drake TA,Lusis AJ,Horvath S

更新日期：2006-08-18 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：:The molecular genetic mechanisms of sex determination are not known for most vertebrates, including zebrafish. We identified a mutation in the zebrafish fancl gene that causes homozygous mutants to develop as fertile males due to female-to-male sex reversal. Fancl is a member of the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA DNA repair path...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rodríguez-Marí A,Cañestro C,Bremiller RA,Nguyen-Johnson A,Asakawa K,Kawakami K,Postlethwait JH

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (Alk) receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) plays a critical role in the specification of founder cells (FCs) in the Drosophila visceral mesoderm (VM) during embryogenesis. Reporter gene and CRISPR/Cas9 deletion analysis reveals enhancer regions in and upstream of the Alk locus that influence t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mendoza-García P,Hugosson F,Fallah M,Higgins ML,Iwasaki Y,Pfeifer K,Wolfstetter G,Varshney G,Popichenko D,Gergen JP,Hens K,Deplancke B,Palmer RH

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The considerable uncertainty regarding cancer risks associated with inherited mutations of BRCA2 is due to unknown factors. To investigate whether common genetic variants modify penetrance for BRCA2 mutation carriers, we undertook a two-staged genome-wide association study in BRCA2 mutation carriers. In stage 1 using ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gaudet MM,Kirchhoff T,Green T,Vijai J,Korn JM,Guiducci C,Segrè AV,McGee K,McGuffog L,Kartsonaki C,Morrison J,Healey S,Sinilnikova OM,Stoppa-Lyonnet D,Mazoyer S,Gauthier-Villars M,Sobol H,Longy M,Frenay M,GEMO Study

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mismatch repair greatly increases genome fidelity by recognizing and removing replication errors. In order to understand how this fidelity is maintained, it is important to uncover the relative specificities of the different components of mismatch repair. There are two major mispair recognition complexes in eukary...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Romanova NV,Crouse GF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angelman syndrome (AS) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder caused by maternal deficiency of the imprinted gene UBE3A. Individuals with AS suffer from intellectual disability, speech impairment, and motor dysfunction. Currently there is no cure for the disease. Here, we evaluated the phenotypic effect of activating...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Meng L,Person RE,Huang W,Zhu PJ,Costa-Mattioli M,Beaudet AL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riboviruses (RNA viruses without DNA replication intermediates) are the most abundant pathogens infecting animals and plants. Only a few riboviral infections can be controlled with antiviral drugs, mainly because of the rapid appearance of resistance mutations. Little reliable information is available concerning i) ki...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： García-Villada L,Drake JW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in transcriptional regulatory networks underlie much of the phenotypic variation observed across organisms. Changes to cis-regulatory elements are widely believed to be the predominant means by which regulatory networks evolve, yet examples of regulatory network divergence due to transcription factor (TF) ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nadimpalli S,Persikov AV,Singh M

更新日期：2015-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-microfilament interactions are important for cytokinesis and subcellular localization of proteins and mRNAs. In the early zebrafish embryo, astral microtubule-microfilament interactions also facilitate a stereotypic segregation pattern of germ plasm ribonucleoparticles (GP RNPs), which is critical for thei...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nair S,Marlow F,Abrams E,Kapp L,Mullins MC,Pelegri F

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosensory pheromonal information regulates aggression and reproduction in many species, but how pheromonal signals are transduced to reliably produce behavior is not well understood. Here we demonstrate that the pheromonal signals detected by Gr32a-expressing chemosensory neurons to enhance male aggression are filt...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Andrews JC,Fernández MP,Yu Q,Leary GP,Leung AK,Kavanaugh MP,Kravitz EA,Certel SJ

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila bithorax complex (BX-C) is one of the best model systems for studying the role of boundaries (insulators) in gene regulation. Expression of three homeotic genes, Ubx, abd-A, and Abd-B, is orchestrated by nine parasegment-specific regulatory domains. These domains are flanked by boundary elements, which func...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Postika N,Metzler M,Affolter M,Müller M,Schedl P,Georgiev P,Kyrchanova O

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular basis for phenotypic differences between humans and other primates remains an outstanding challenge. Mutations in non-coding regulatory DNA that alter gene expression have been hypothesized as a key driver of these phenotypic differences. This has been supported by differential gene express...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shibata Y,Sheffield NC,Fedrigo O,Babbitt CC,Wortham M,Tewari AK,London D,Song L,Lee BK,Iyer VR,Parker SC,Margulies EH,Wray GA,Furey TS,Crawford GE

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exome sequencing has been widely used in detecting pathogenic nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants (SNVs) for human inherited diseases. However, traditional statistical genetics methods are ineffective in analyzing exome sequencing data, due to such facts as the large number of sequenced variants, the presence of ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wu J,Li Y,Jiang R

更新日期：2014-03-20 00:00:00