OSD1 promotes meiotic progression via APC/C inhibition and forms a regulatory network with TDM and CYCA1;2/TAM.

abstract：:The kinetochore is the central molecular machine that drives chromosome segregation in all eukaryotes. Genetic studies have suggested that protein sumoylation plays a role in regulating the inner kinetochore; however, the mechanism remains elusive. Here, we show that Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ulp2, an evolutionarily co...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Suhandynata RT,Quan Y,Yang Y,Yuan WT,Albuquerque CP,Zhou H

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary structure of a pre-mRNA influences a number of processing steps including alternative splicing. Since most splicing regulatory proteins bind to single-stranded RNA, the sequestration of RNA into double strands could prevent their binding. Here, we analyzed the secondary structure context of experimentall...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hiller M,Zhang Z,Backofen R,Stamm S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that genetic susceptibility plays an important role in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. A large-scale genotyping analysis of gene-based single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes identified the gene encoding acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase beta (ACACB)...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Maeda S,Kobayashi MA,Araki S,Babazono T,Freedman BI,Bostrom MA,Cooke JN,Toyoda M,Umezono T,Tarnow L,Hansen T,Gaede P,Jorsal A,Ng DP,Ikeda M,Yanagimoto T,Tsunoda T,Unoki H,Kawai K,Imanishi M,Suzuki D,Shin HD,Pa

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In enterobacteria, the Rcs system (Regulator of capsule synthesis) monitors envelope integrity and induces a stress response when damages occur in the outer membrane or in the peptidoglycan layer. Built around a two-component system, Rcs controls gene expression via a cascade of phosphoryl transfer reactions. Being pa...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hussein NA,Cho SH,Laloux G,Siam R,Collet JF

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcript elongation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is accompanied by conserved patterns of histone modification. Whereas histone modifications have established roles in transcription initiation, their functions during elongation are not understood. Mono-ubiquitylation of histone H2B (H2Bub1) plays a key role in coord...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sansó M,Lee KM,Viladevall L,Jacques PÉ,Pagé V,Nagy S,Racine A,St Amour CV,Zhang C,Shokat KM,Schwer B,Robert F,Fisher RP,Tanny JC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular clock of neutral mutations, which represents linear mutation fixation over generations, is theoretically explained by genetic drift in fitness-steady evolution or hitchhiking in adaptive evolution. The present study is the first experimental demonstration for the molecular clock of neutral mutations in a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kishimoto T,Ying BW,Tsuru S,Iijima L,Suzuki S,Hashimoto T,Oyake A,Kobayashi H,Someya Y,Narisawa D,Yomo T

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans requires a conserved PMK-1 p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway that regulates the basal and pathogen-induced expression of immune effectors. The mechanisms by which PMK-1 p38 MAPK regulates the transcriptional activation of the C. elegans immune response have n...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shivers RP,Pagano DJ,Kooistra T,Richardson CE,Reddy KC,Whitney JK,Kamanzi O,Matsumoto K,Hisamoto N,Kim DH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial step in the development of muscle cells in all metazoan animals is the assembly and anchorage of the sarcomere, the essential repeat unit responsible for muscle contraction. In Caenorhabditis elegans, many of the critical proteins involved in this process have been uncovered through mutational screens focusi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Meissner B,Warner A,Wong K,Dube N,Lorch A,McKay SJ,Khattra J,Rogalski T,Somasiri A,Chaudhry I,Fox RM,Miller DM 3rd,Baillie DL,Holt RA,Jones SJ,Marra MA,Moerman DG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caenorhabditis elegans left and right AWC olfactory neurons communicate to establish stochastic asymmetric identities, AWC(ON) and AWC(OFF), by inhibiting a calcium-mediated signaling pathway in the future AWC(ON) cell. NSY-4/claudin-like protein and NSY-5/innexin gap junction protein are the two parallel signals ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hsieh YW,Chang C,Chuang CF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because cohesion prevents sister-chromatid separation and spindle elongation, cohesion dissolution may trigger these two events simultaneously. However, the relatively normal spindle elongation kinetics in yeast cohesin mutants indicates an additional mechanism for the temporal control of spindle elongation. Here we s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liang F,Richmond D,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin pigment patterns of vertebrates are a classic system for understanding fundamental mechanisms of morphogenesis, differentiation, and pattern formation, and recent studies of zebrafish have started to elucidate the cellular interactions and molecular mechanisms underlying these processes. In this species, horizont...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Patterson LB,Parichy DM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts are ubiquitous mesenchymal cells with many vital functions during development, tissue repair, and disease. Fibroblasts from different anatomic sites have distinct and characteristic gene expression patterns, but the principles that govern their molecular specialization are poorly understood. Spatial organi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rinn JL,Bondre C,Gladstone HB,Brown PO,Chang HY

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have exploited the high selectivity of the homing endonuclease I-PpoI for the X-linked Anopheles gambiae 28S ribosomal genes to selectively target X chromosome carrying spermatozoa. Our data demonstrated that in heterozygous males, the expression of I-PpoI in the testes induced a strong bias toward Y chromosome-car...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Windbichler N,Papathanos PA,Crisanti A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to stress and injury a coordinated activation of conserved signalling modules, such as JNK and JAK/STAT, is critical to trigger regenerative tissue restoration. While these pathways rebuild homeostasis and promote faithful organ recovery, it is intriguing that they also become activated in various tumour c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Beira JV,Torres J,Paro R

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnesium is an essential divalent metal that serves many cellular functions. While most divalent cations are maintained at relatively low intracellular concentrations, magnesium is maintained at a higher level (∼0.5-2.0 mM). Three families of transport proteins were previously identified for magnesium import: CorA, M...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shin JH,Wakeman CA,Goodson JR,Rodionov DA,Freedman BG,Senger RS,Winkler WC

更新日期：2014-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the human LMNA gene cause muscular dystrophy by mechanisms that are incompletely understood. The LMNA gene encodes A-type lamins, intermediate filaments that form a network underlying the inner nuclear membrane, providing structural support for the nucleus and organizing the genome. To better understand t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dialynas G,Shrestha OK,Ponce JM,Zwerger M,Thiemann DA,Young GH,Moore SA,Yu L,Lammerding J,Wallrath LL

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The C. elegans ortholog of mammalian calsyntenins, CASY-1, is an evolutionarily conserved type-I transmembrane protein that is highly enriched in the nervous system. Mammalian calsyntenins are strongly expressed at inhibitory synapses, but their role in synapse development and function is still elusive. Here, we repor...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Thapliyal S,Vasudevan A,Dong Y,Bai J,Koushika SP,Babu K

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:How do adapting populations navigate the tensions between the costs of gene expression and the benefits of gene products to optimize the levels of many genes at once? Here we combined independently-arising beneficial mutations that altered enzyme levels in the central metabolism of Methylobacterium extorquens to uncov...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chou HH,Delaney NF,Draghi JA,Marx CJ

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells trigger massive changes in gene expression upon environmental fluctuations. The Hog1 stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) is an important regulator of the transcriptional activation program that maximizes cell fitness when yeast cells are exposed to osmostress. Besides being associated with transcription facto...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Silva A,Cavero S,Begley V,Solé C,Böttcher R,Chávez S,Posas F,de Nadal E

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary rescue occurs when a population that is threatened with extinction by an environmental change adapts to the change sufficiently rapidly to survive. Here we extend the mathematical theory of evolutionary rescue. In particular, we model evolutionary rescue to a sudden environmental change when adaptation in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Orr HA,Unckless RL

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more prevalent in African Americans than in Europeans. However, little is known about the genetic risk in African Americans despite the recent identification of more than 70 T2D loci primarily by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry. In order to investigat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ng MC,Shriner D,Chen BH,Li J,Chen WM,Guo X,Liu J,Bielinski SJ,Yanek LR,Nalls MA,Comeau ME,Rasmussen-Torvik LJ,Jensen RA,Evans DS,Sun YV,An P,Patel SR,Lu Y,Long J,Armstrong LL,Wagenknecht L,Yang L,Snively BM,

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic disruption of the dystrophin complex produces muscular dystrophy characterized by a fragile muscle plasma membrane leading to excessive muscle degeneration. Two genetic modifiers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy implicate the transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) pathway, osteopontin encoded by the SPP1 gene and l...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Quattrocelli M,Capote J,Ohiri JC,Warner JL,Vo AH,Earley JU,Hadhazy M,Demonbreun AR,Spencer MJ,McNally EM

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the GroEL chaperonin is duplicated in nearly 30% of bacterial genomes; and although duplicated groEL genes have been comprehensively determined to have distinct physiological functions in different species, the mechanisms involved have not been characterized to date. Myxococcus xanthus DK1622 has two...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang Y,Zhang WY,Zhang Z,Li J,Li ZF,Tan ZG,Zhang TT,Wu ZH,Liu H,Li YZ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been practiced for thousands of years, but only within the last few decades has its use become more widespread outside of Asia. Concerns continue to be raised about the efficacy, legality, and safety of many popular complementary alternative medicines, including TCMs. Ingredients...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Coghlan ML,Haile J,Houston J,Murray DC,White NE,Moolhuijzen P,Bellgard MI,Bunce M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variance heterogeneity across genotypes at a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) may reflect underlying gene-environment (G×E) or gene-gene interactions. We modeled variance heterogeneity for blood lipids and BMI in up to 44,211 participants and investigated relationships between variance effects (Pv), G×E...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shungin D,Deng WQ,Varga TV,Luan J,Mihailov E,Metspalu A,GIANT Consortium.,Morris AP,Forouhi NG,Lindgren C,Magnusson PKE,Pedersen NL,Hallmans G,Chu AY,Justice AE,Graff M,Winkler TW,Rose LM,Langenberg C,Cupples LA,R

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenesis of mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes requires a concerted maturation of both the small (SSU) and large subunit (LSU). We demonstrate here that the m(5)C methyltransferase NSUN4, which forms a complex with MTERF4, is essential in mitochondrial ribosomal biogenesis as mitochondrial translation is abolished in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Metodiev MD,Spåhr H,Loguercio Polosa P,Meharg C,Becker C,Altmueller J,Habermann B,Larsson NG,Ruzzenente B

更新日期：2014-02-06 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：:Mollicutes is a class of parasitic bacteria that have evolved from a common Firmicutes ancestor mostly by massive genome reduction. With genomes under 1 Mbp in size, most Mollicutes species retain the capacity to replicate and grow autonomously. The major goal of this work was to identify the minimal set of proteins t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Grosjean H,Breton M,Sirand-Pugnet P,Tardy F,Thiaucourt F,Citti C,Barré A,Yoshizawa S,Fourmy D,de Crécy-Lagard V,Blanchard A

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the ancestry of chromosomal segments of distinct ancestry has a wide range of applications from disease mapping to learning about history. Most methods require the use of unlinked markers; but, using all markers from genome-wide scanning arrays, it should in principle be possible to infer the ancestry of e...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Price AL,Tandon A,Patterson N,Barnes KC,Rafaels N,Ruczinski I,Beaty TH,Mathias R,Reich D,Myers S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy-induced noncoding RNA (PINC) and retinoblastoma-associated protein 46 (RbAp46) are upregulated in alveolar cells of the mammary gland during pregnancy and persist in alveolar cells that remain in the regressed lobules following involution. The cells that survive involution are thought to function as alveolar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shore AN,Kabotyanski EB,Roarty K,Smith MA,Zhang Y,Creighton CJ,Dinger ME,Rosen JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00