Adaptive evolution and the birth of CTCF binding sites in the Drosophila genome.

abstract：:Malaria transmission is known to be strongly impacted by temperature. The current understanding of how temperature affects mosquito and parasite life history traits derives from a limited number of empirical studies. These studies, some dating back to the early part of last century, are often poorly controlled, have l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Shapiro LLM,Whitehead SA,Thomas MB

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 20 years ago, alterations to the protein myocilin were confirmed to be linked to a heritable form of the prevalent eye disease, glaucoma, and 10 years ago, my lab set out to develop a deeper understanding of myocilin in its normal and diseased state. We have made strides in understanding how genetic mutations in ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lieberman RL

更新日期：2019-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1) catalyzes the reversible transfer of a phosphoryl group from 1, 3-bisphosphoglycerate (1, 3-BPG) to ADP, producing 3-phosphoglycerate (3-PG) and ATP. PGK1 plays a key role in coordinating glycolytic energy production with one-carbon metabolism, serine biosynthesis, and cellular redox r...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wang S,Jiang B,Zhang T,Liu L,Wang Y,Wang Y,Chen X,Lin H,Zhou L,Xia Y,Chen L,Yang C,Xiong Y,Ye D,Guan KL

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strategies have been pursued to increase the extent of exon 7 inclusion during splicing of SMN2 (survival of motor neuron 2) transcripts, for eventual therapeutic use in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disease. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that target an exon or its flanking splice ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hua Y,Vickers TA,Baker BF,Bennett CF,Krainer AR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid colour change is a remarkable natural phenomenon that has evolved in several vertebrate and invertebrate lineages. The two principal explanations for the evolution of this adaptive strategy are (1) natural selection for crypsis (camouflage) against a range of different backgrounds and (2) selection for conspicuo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stuart-Fox D,Moussalli A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bacterial adhesins appear to promote a pathogen's extracellular lifestyle rather than its entry into host cells. However, little is known about the stimuli elicited upon such pathogen host-cell interactions. Here, we report that type IV pili (Tfp)-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (P(+)GC) induces an immediate r...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boettcher JP,Kirchner M,Churin Y,Kaushansky A,Pompaiah M,Thorn H,Brinkmann V,Macbeath G,Meyer TF

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporarily holding information in mind is an important part of many cognitive processes, such as reasoning and language. The amount of information that can be actively held "in mind" at any time is greatly limited-research suggests that we can only actively hold three or four pieces of information at once. A central ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hakim N,Vogel EK

更新日期：2018-08-29 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：:In this Formal Comment, the authors of the recent publication "Large-scale investigation of the reasons why potentially important genes are ignored" maintain that it can be read as an opportunity to explore the unknown. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stoeger T,Gerlach M,Morimoto RI,Amaral LAN

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Do neuronal oscillations play a causal role in brain function? In a study in this issue of PLOS Biology, Helfrich and colleagues address this long-standing question by attempting to drive brain oscillations using transcranial electrical current stimulation. Remarkably, they were able to manipulate visual perception by...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Thut G

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The MooSciTIC project is a capacity-building initiative targeting West African research scientists and higher education teachers. The project aimed to improve the self-reliance of researchers and upgrade research practices by providing on-site summer schools on trans-disciplinary topics such as scientific writing, com...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Atindehou M,Adéoti K,Loko LEY,Beulé T,Paradis E,Djedatin G,Tranchant-Dubreuil C,Sabot F,Lagnika L,Jaligot E

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:CD1d-mediated presentation of glycolipid antigens to T cells is capable of initiating powerful immune responses that can have a beneficial impact on many diseases. Molecular analyses have recently detailed the lipid antigen recognition strategies utilized by the invariant Vα24-Jα18 TCR rearrangements of iNKT cells, wh...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： López-Sagaseta J,Kung JE,Savage PB,Gumperz J,Adams EJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomes are ubiquitous acidified organelles that degrade intracellular and extracellular material trafficked via multiple pathways. Lysosomes also sense cellular nutrient levels to regulate target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase, a signaling enzyme that drives growth and suppresses activity of the MiT/TFE family of transc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Murphy JT,Liu H,Ma X,Shaver A,Egan BM,Oh C,Boyko A,Mazer T,Ang S,Khopkar R,Javaheri A,Kumar S,Jiang X,Ory D,Mani K,Matkovich SJ,Kornfeld K,Diwan A

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During the entry process, the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer undergoes a sequence of conformational changes triggered by both CD4 and coreceptor engagement. Resolving the conformation of these transient entry intermediates has proven challenging. Here, we fine-mapped the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ivan B,Sun Z,Subbaraman H,Friedrich N,Trkola A

更新日期：2019-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilia play critical roles during embryonic development and adult homeostasis. Dysfunction of cilia leads to various human genetic diseases, including many caused by defects in transition zones (TZs), the "gates" of cilia. The evolutionarily conserved TZ component centrosomal protein 290 (CEP290) is the most frequently...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wu Z,Pang N,Zhang Y,Chen H,Peng Y,Fu J,Wei Q

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox is unique among infectious diseases in the degree to which it devastated human populations, its long history of control interventions, and the fact that it has been successfully eradicated. Mortality from smallpox in London, England was carefully documented, weekly, for nearly 300 years, providing a rare and ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krylova O,Earn DJD

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Putting a name to a face is a highly common activity in our daily life that greatly enriches social interactions. Although this specific person-identity association becomes automatic with learning, it remains difficult and can easily be disrupted in normal circumstances or neurological conditions. To shed light on the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Volfart A,Jonas J,Maillard L,Colnat-Coulbois S,Rossion B

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction pathways comprising histidine protein kinases (HPKs) and their response regulators (RRs) are widely used to control bacterial responses to environmental challenges. Some bacteria have over 150 different two-component pathways, and the specificity of the phosphotransfer reactions withi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bell CH,Porter SL,Strawson A,Stuart DI,Armitage JP

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2002794.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Obleser J,Henry MJ,Lakatos P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian sex determination (male versus female) is largely controlled by genes, whereas sex differentiation (development of reproductive structures) is largely controlled by hormones. Work in the 20th century indicated that female external anatomy was a "default" pathway of development not requiring steroids, whereas...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Miller WL,Auchus RJ

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:How cell proliferation subsides as cells terminally differentiate remains largely enigmatic, although this phenomenon is central to the existence of multicellular organisms. Here, we show that GATA-1, the master transcription factor of erythropoiesis, forms a tricomplex with the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) and E2F-2....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kadri Z,Shimizu R,Ohneda O,Maouche-Chretien L,Gisselbrecht S,Yamamoto M,Romeo PH,Leboulch P,Chretien S

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI (fMRI) studies have traditionally relied on intersubject normalization based on global brain morphology, which cannot establish proper functional correspondence between subjects due to substantial intersubject variability in functional organization. Here, we reliably identified a set of discrete, homolo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Li M,Wang D,Ren J,Langs G,Stoecklein S,Brennan BP,Lu J,Chen H,Liu H

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, biology has undergone a data revolution in how researchers collect data and the amount of data being collected. An emerging challenge that has received limited attention in biology is managing, working with, and providing access to data under continual active collection. Regularly updated data pr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yenni GM,Christensen EM,Bledsoe EK,Supp SR,Diaz RM,White EP,Ernest SKM

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells are implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. However, this notion based on studies in mast cell-deficient mice is controversial. We therefore established an in vivo model for hyperactive mast cells by specifically ablating the NF-κB negative feedback regulator A20. While A20 d...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Heger K,Fierens K,Vahl JC,Aszodi A,Peschke K,Schenten D,Hammad H,Beyaert R,Saur D,van Loo G,Roers A,Lambrecht BN,Kool M,Schmidt-Supprian M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to the structure of nodes of Ranvier in the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) of multiple sclerosis (MS) brains are associated with chronic inflammation. We show that the paranodal domains in MS NAWM are longer on average than control, with Kv1.2 channels dislocated into the paranode. These pathological fea...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gallego-Delgado P,James R,Browne E,Meng J,Umashankar S,Tan L,Picon C,Mazarakis ND,Faisal AA,Howell OW,Reynolds R

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many genes are regulated as an innate part of the eukaryotic cell cycle, and a complex transcriptional network helps enable the cyclic behavior of dividing cells. This transcriptional network has been studied in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) and elsewhere. To provide more perspective on these regulatory mec...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Oliva A,Rosebrock A,Ferrezuelo F,Pyne S,Chen H,Skiena S,Futcher B,Leatherwood J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells contain several unconventional poly(A) polymerases in addition to the canonical enzymes responsible for the synthesis of poly(A) tails of nuclear messenger RNA precursors. The yeast protein Trf4p has been implicated in a quality control pathway that leads to the polyadenylation and subsequent exosome-...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Vanácová S,Wolf J,Martin G,Blank D,Dettwiler S,Friedlein A,Langen H,Keith G,Keller W

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells exist within a complex environment that affects how they interpret and respond to stimuli. We have applied a multi-scale in vivo systems approach to understand how intestinal immune cells communicate with epithelial cells to regulate responses to inflammatory signals. Multivariate modeling ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lau KS,Cortez-Retamozo V,Philips SR,Pittet MJ,Lauffenburger DA,Haigis KM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic code provides the translation table necessary to transform the information contained in DNA into the language of proteins. In this table, a correspondence between each codon and each amino acid is established: tRNA is the main adaptor that links the two. Although the genetic code is nearly universal, sever...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Abascal F,Posada D,Knight RD,Zardoya R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosomal trafficking of receptors and associated proteins plays a critical role in signal processing. Until recently, it was thought that trafficking was shut down during cell division. Thus, remarkably, the regulation of trafficking during division remains poorly characterized. Here we delineate the role of mitotic ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Cota CD,Dreier MS,Colgan W,Cha A,Sia T,Davidson B

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00