The secretory pathway calcium ATPase PMR-1/SPCA1 has essential roles in cell migration during Caenorhabditis elegans embryonic development.

abstract：:Hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy (HCCAA) is an autosomal dominant disease with high penetrance, manifest by brain hemorrhages in young normotensive adults. In Iceland, this condition is caused by the L68Q mutation in the cystatin C gene, with contemporary carriers reaching an average age of only 30 years. Here...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Palsdottir A,Helgason A,Palsson S,Bjornsson HT,Bragason BT,Gretarsdottir S,Thorsteinsdottir U,Olafsson E,Stefansson K

更新日期：2008-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary justification for dedicating substantial amounts of research funding to large-scale cancer genomics projects of both somatic and germline DNA is that the biological insights will lead to new treatment targets and strategies for cancer therapy. While it is too early to judge the success of these projects in t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brennan P,Wild CP

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:ATM and ATR are two redundant checkpoint kinases essential for the stable maintenance of telomeres in eukaryotes. Previous studies have established that MRN (Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1) and ATRIP (ATR Interacting Protein) interact with ATM and ATR, respectively, and recruit their partner kinases to sites of DNA damage. Here, we...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Subramanian L,Nakamura TM

更新日期：2010-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Topoisomerase 3α, a class I topoisomerase, consists of a TOPRIM domain, an active centre and a variable number of zinc-finger domains (ZFDs) at the C-terminus, in multicellular organisms. Whereas the functions of the TOPRIM domain and the active centre are known, the specific role of the ZFDs is still obscure. In cont...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dorn A,Röhrig S,Papp K,Schröpfer S,Hartung F,Knoll A,Puchta H

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle control is modified at meiosis compared to mitosis, because two divisions follow a single DNA replication event. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) promote progression through both meiosis and mitosis, and a central regulator of their activity is the APC/C (Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome) that is especia...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cromer L,Heyman J,Touati S,Harashima H,Araou E,Girard C,Horlow C,Wassmann K,Schnittger A,De Veylder L,Mercier R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a powerful experimental framework that combines competitive selection and microarray-based genetic footprinting to comprehensively reveal the genetic basis of bacterial behaviors. Application of this method to Escherichia coli motility identifies 95% of the known flagellar and chemotaxis genes, and r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Girgis HS,Liu Y,Ryu WS,Tavazoie S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is defined by excessive lipid accumulation. However, the active mechanistic roles that lipids play in its progression are not understood. Accumulation of ceramide, the metabolic hub of sphingolipid metabolism, has been associated with metabolic syndrome and obesity in humans and model systems. Here, we use Dro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Walls SM Jr,Attle SJ,Brulte GB,Walls ML,Finley KD,Chatfield DA,Herr DR,Harris GL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary restriction (DR) is the most consistent means of extending longevity in a wide range of organisms. A growing body of literature indicates that mitochondria play an important role in longevity extension by DR, but the impact of mitochondrial genotypes on the DR process have received little attention. Mitochondr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhu CT,Ingelmo P,Rand DM

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although endocrine changes are known to modulate the timing of major developmental transitions, the genetic mechanisms underlying these changes remain poorly understood. In insects, two developmental hormones, juvenile hormone (JH) and ecdysteroids, are coordinated with each other to induce developmental changes assoc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cheng C,Ko A,Chaieb L,Koyama T,Sarwar P,Mirth CK,Smith WA,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is a major energy source and is a key regulator of metabolism but excessive dietary glucose is linked to several disorders including type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiac dysfunction. Dietary intake greatly influences organismal survival but whether the effects of nutritional status are transmitted to the offsp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tauffenberger A,Parker JA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongator complex is required for formation of the side chains at position 5 of modified nucleosides 5-carbamoylmethyluridine (ncm⁵U₃₄), 5-methoxycarbonylmethyluridine (mcm⁵U₃₄), and 5-methoxycarbonylmethyl-2-thiouridine (mcm⁵s²U₃₄) at wobble position in tRNA. These modified nucleosides are important for efficient dec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chen C,Huang B,Eliasson M,Rydén P,Byström AS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intra-S phase checkpoint kinase of metazoa and yeast, ATR/MEC1, protects chromosomes from DNA damage and replication stress by phosphorylating subunits of the replicative helicase, MCM2-7. Here we describe an unprecedented ATR-dependent pathway in Tetrahymena thermophila in which the essential pre-replicative comp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sandoval PY,Lee PH,Meng X,Kapler GM

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caenorhabditis elegans class A and B synthetic multivulva (synMuv) genes redundantly antagonize an EGF/Ras pathway to prevent ectopic vulval induction. We identify a class A synMuv mutation in the promoter of the lin-3 EGF gene, establishing that lin-3 is the key biological target of the class A synMuv genes in vu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Saffer AM,Kim DH,van Oudenaarden A,Horvitz HR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements are driving forces for establishing genetic innovations such as transcriptional regulatory networks in eukaryotic genomes. Here, we describe a silencer situated in the last 300 bp of the Mos1 transposase open reading frame (ORF) which functions in vertebrate and arthropod cells. Functional silenc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bire S,Casteret S,Piégu B,Beauclair L,Moiré N,Arensbuger P,Bigot Y

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:SHANK genes code for scaffold proteins located at the post-synaptic density of glutamatergic synapses. In neurons, SHANK2 and SHANK3 have a positive effect on the induction and maturation of dendritic spines, whereas SHANK1 induces the enlargement of spine heads. Mutations in SHANK genes have been associated with auti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Leblond CS,Nava C,Polge A,Gauthier J,Huguet G,Lumbroso S,Giuliano F,Stordeur C,Depienne C,Mouzat K,Pinto D,Howe J,Lemière N,Durand CM,Guibert J,Ey E,Toro R,Peyre H,Mathieu A,Amsellem F,Rastam M,Gillberg IC,Rap

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic characterization of ẖybrid incompatibility (HI) between related species remains the key to understanding speciation. The genetic basis of HI has been intensively studied in Drosophila species, but remains largely unknown in other species, including nematodes, which is mainly due to the lack of a sister spec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bi Y,Ren X,Yan C,Shao J,Xie D,Zhao Z

更新日期：2015-02-18 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：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated T-DNA integration is a common tool for plant genome manipulation. However, there is controversy regarding whether T-DNA integration is biased towards genes or randomly distributed throughout the genome. In order to address this question, we performed high-throughput mapping of T-DNA-...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shilo S,Tripathi P,Melamed-Bessudo C,Tzfadia O,Muth TR,Levy AA

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variation within an isogenic bacterial population is thought to ensure the survival of a subset of cells in adverse conditions. The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa variably expresses several phenotypes, including antibiotic resistance, biofilm formation, and the production of CupA fimbriae. He...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Turner KH,Vallet-Gely I,Dove SL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C. elegans germline is pluripotent and mitotic, similar to self-renewing mammalian tissues. Apoptosis is triggered as part of the normal oogenesis program, and is increased in response to various stresses. Here, we examined the effect of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress on apoptosis in the C. elegans germline. We...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Levi-Ferber M,Salzberg Y,Safra M,Haviv-Chesner A,Bülow HE,Henis-Korenblit S

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium is an important trace element that occurs in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec) and in tRNAs in the form of selenouridine. Recent large-scale metagenomics projects provide an opportunity for understanding global trends in trace element utilization. Herein, we characterized the selenoproteome of the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2008-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seedling establishment is inhibited on media containing high levels (∼ 6%) of glucose or fructose. Genetic loci that overcome the inhibition of seedling growth on high sugar have been identified using natural variation analysis and mutant selection, providing insight into sugar signaling pathways. In this study, a qua...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Li P,Zhou H,Shi X,Yu B,Zhou Y,Chen S,Wang Y,Peng Y,Meyer RC,Smeekens SC,Teng S

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are rare quiescent cells that continuously replenish the cellular components of the peripheral blood. Observing that the ataxia-associated gene Ataxin-1-like (Atxn1L) was highly expressed in HSCs, we examined its role in HSC function through in vitro and in vivo assays. Mice lacking Atx...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kahle JJ,Souroullas GP,Yu P,Zohren F,Lee Y,Shaw CA,Zoghbi HY,Goodell MA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi-interacting RNAs are a diverse class of small non-coding RNAs implicated in the silencing of transposable elements and the safeguarding of genome integrity. In mammals, male germ cells express two genetically and developmentally distinct populations of piRNAs at the pre-pachytene and pachytene stages of meiosis, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zheng K,Wang PJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although little is known about the role of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) gene in reproductive physiology, numerous variants in this gene have been implicated in etiology of male infertility due to congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD). Here, we studied the fertility effects of t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kosova G,Pickrell JK,Kelley JL,McArdle PF,Shuldiner AR,Abney M,Ober C

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance to high levels of ethanol is an ecologically and industrially relevant phenotype of microbes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this complex trait remain largely unknown. Here, we use long-term experimental evolution of isogenic yeast populations of different initial ploidy to study adaptation to incre...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Voordeckers K,Kominek J,Das A,Espinosa-Cantú A,De Maeyer D,Arslan A,Van Pee M,van der Zande E,Meert W,Yang Y,Zhu B,Marchal K,DeLuna A,Van Noort V,Jelier R,Verstrepen KJ

更新日期：2015-11-06 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：:The genetic background of complex diseases is proposed to consist of several low-penetrance risk loci. Addressing this complexity likely requires both large sample size and simultaneous analysis of different predisposing variants. We investigated the role of four thrombosis genes: coagulation factor V (F5), intercellu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Auro K,Alanne M,Kristiansson K,Silander K,Kuulasmaa K,Salomaa V,Peltonen L,Perola M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rs143383 is a C to T transition SNP located in the 5'untranslated region (5'UTR) of the growth differentiation factor 5 gene GDF5. The T allele of the SNP is associated with increased risk of osteoarthritis (OA) in Europeans and in Asians. This susceptibility is mediated by the T allele producing less GDF5 transcript ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Syddall CM,Reynard LN,Young DA,Loughlin J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome, a common form of inherited mental retardation, is caused by the loss of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). We have previously demonstrated that dFmr1, the Drosophila ortholog of the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene, plays a role in the proper maintenance of germline stem cells in Droso...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang Y,Xu S,Xia L,Wang J,Wen S,Jin P,Chen D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00