Fbw7 repression by hes5 creates a feedback loop that modulates Notch-mediated intestinal and neural stem cell fate decisions.

abstract：:In mammals, light exerts pervasive effects on physiology and behavior in two ways: indirectly through clock synchronization and the phase adjustment of circadian rhythms, and directly through the promotion of alertness and sleep, respectively, in diurnal and nocturnal species. A recent report by Pilorz and colleagues ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bourgin P,Hubbard J

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling of the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) via its soluble IL-6 receptor (sIL-6R) is responsible for the proinflammatory properties of IL-6 and constitutes an attractive therapeutic target, but how the sIL-6R is generated in vivo remains largely unclear. Here, we use liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to iden...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Riethmueller S,Somasundaram P,Ehlers JC,Hung CW,Flynn CM,Lokau J,Agthe M,Düsterhöft S,Zhu Y,Grötzinger J,Lorenzen I,Koudelka T,Yamamoto K,Pickhinke U,Wichert R,Becker-Pauly C,Rädisch M,Albrecht A,Hessefort M,Stahnke

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsaccades aid vision by helping to strategically sample visual scenes. Despite the importance of these small eye movements, no cortical area has ever been implicated in their generation. Here, we used unilateral and bilateral reversible inactivation of the frontal eye fields (FEF) to identify a cortical drive for ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Peel TR,Hafed ZM,Dash S,Lomber SG,Corneil BD

更新日期：2016-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane bioenergetics are universal, yet the phospholipid membranes of archaea and bacteria-the deepest branches in the tree of life-are fundamentally different. This deep divergence in membrane chemistry is reflected in other stark differences between the two domains, including ion pumping and DNA replication. We re...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sojo V,Pomiankowski A,Lane N

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ever since the discovery of neural stem cells in the mammalian brain, the possibility of brain tissue regeneration has captured the minds of scientists, clinicians, and the public. Neural stem cells have been envisioned as a source of donor cells for transplantation and vectors for the delivery of gene therapy. Over t...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Maletic-Savatic M

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage modulation of microbial populations impacts critical processes in ocean, soil, and animal ecosystems. However, the role of bacteriophages with RNA genomes (RNA bacteriophages) in these processes is poorly understood, in part because of the limited number of known RNA bacteriophage species. Here, we ident...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krishnamurthy SR,Janowski AB,Zhao G,Barouch D,Wang D

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein modifications play a major role for most biological processes in living organisms. Amino-terminal acetylation of proteins is a common modification found throughout the tree of life: the N-terminus of a nascent polypeptide chain becomes co-translationally acetylated, often after the removal of the initiating me...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Goetze S,Qeli E,Mosimann C,Staes A,Gerrits B,Roschitzki B,Mohanty S,Niederer EM,Laczko E,Timmerman E,Lange V,Hafen E,Aebersold R,Vandekerckhove J,Basler K,Ahrens CH,Gevaert K,Brunner E

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most models of cancer cell population expansion assume exponential growth kinetics at low cell densities, with deviations to account for observed slowing of growth rate only at higher densities due to limited resources such as space and nutrients. However, recent preclinical and clinical observations of tumor initiati...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johnson KE,Howard G,Mo W,Strasser MK,Lima EABF,Huang S,Brock A

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper (Cu) has emerged as an important modifier of body lipid metabolism. However, how Cu contributes to the physiology of fat cells remains largely unknown. We found that adipocytes require Cu to establish a balance between main metabolic fuels. Differentiating adipocytes increase their Cu uptake along with the ATP7...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yang H,Ralle M,Wolfgang MJ,Dhawan N,Burkhead JL,Rodriguez S,Kaplan JH,Wong GW,Haughey N,Lutsenko S

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many efforts are making science more open and accessible; they are mostly concentrated on issues that appear before and after experiments are performed: open access journals, open databases, and many other tools to increase reproducibility of science and access to information. However, these initiatives do not promote...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Maia Chagas A

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Necroptosis is a regulated, nonapoptotic form of cell death initiated by receptor-interacting protein kinase-3 (RIPK3) and mixed lineage kinase domain-like (MLKL) proteins. It is considered to be a form of regulated necrosis, and, by lacking the "find me" and "eat me" signals that are a feature of apoptosis, necroptos...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zargarian S,Shlomovitz I,Erlich Z,Hourizadeh A,Ofir-Birin Y,Croker BA,Regev-Rudzki N,Edry-Botzer L,Gerlic M

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that feeding mice resveratrol activates AMPK and SIRT1 in skeletal muscle leading to deacetylation and activation of PGC-1α, increased mitochondrial biogenesis, and improved running endurance. This study was done to further evaluate the effects of resveratrol, SIRT1, and PGC-1α deacetylation on mi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Higashida K,Kim SH,Jung SR,Asaka M,Holloszy JO,Han DH

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:Munc18-1, a protein essential for regulated exocytosis in neurons and neuroendocrine cells, belongs to the family of Sec1/Munc18-like (SM) proteins. In vitro, Munc18-1 forms a tight complex with the SNARE syntaxin 1, in which syntaxin is stabilized in a closed conformation. Since closed syntaxin is unable to interact ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zilly FE,Sørensen JB,Jahn R,Lang T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum plays a fundamental role in motor learning and reward-related behaviors that are synergistically shaped by populations of D1 dopamine receptor (D1R)- and D2 dopamine receptor (D2R)-expressing medium spiny neurons (MSNs). How various neurotransmitter inputs converging on common intracellular pathways are p...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sutton LP,Muntean BS,Ostrovskaya O,Zucca S,Dao M,Orlandi C,Song C,Xie K,Martemyanov KA

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological development of fungi and their combined production of secondary metabolites are both acting in defence and protection. These processes are mainly coordinated by velvet regulators, which contain a yet functionally and structurally uncharacterized velvet domain. Here we demonstrate that the velvet domain o...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ahmed YL,Gerke J,Park HS,Bayram Ö,Neumann P,Ni M,Dickmanns A,Kim SC,Yu JH,Braus GH,Ficner R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, prominent theoretical linguists have argued for an explicit scenario for the evolution of the human language capacity on the basis of its computational properties. Concretely, the simplicity of a minimalist formulation of the operation Merge, which allows humans to recursively compute hierarchical relations ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Martins PT,Boeckx C

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal DNA transfer (HDT) is a pervasive mechanism of diversification in many microbial species, but its primary evolutionary role remains controversial. Much recent research has emphasised the adaptive benefit of acquiring novel DNA, but here we argue instead that intragenomic conflict provides a coherent framewo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Croucher NJ,Mostowy R,Wymant C,Turner P,Bentley SD,Fraser C

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The human body is a complex organism, the gross mechanical properties of which are enabled by an interconnected musculoskeletal network controlled by the nervous system. The nature of musculoskeletal interconnection facilitates stability, voluntary movement, and robustness to injury. However, a fundamental understandi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Murphy AC,Muldoon SF,Baker D,Lastowka A,Bennett B,Yang M,Bassett DS

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible behavior is critical for everyday decision-making and has been implicated in restricted, repetitive behaviors (RRB) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, how flexible behavior changes developmentally in ASD remains largely unknown. Here, we used a developmental approach and examined flexible behavior on...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Crawley D,Zhang L,Jones EJH,Ahmad J,Oakley B,San José Cáceres A,Charman T,Buitelaar JK,Murphy DGM,Chatham C,den Ouden H,Loth E,EU-AIMS LEAP group.

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine guides behavior and learning through pleasure, according to classic understanding. Dopaminergic neurons are traditionally thought to signal positive or negative prediction errors (PEs) when reward expectations are, respectively, exceeded or not matched. These signed PEs are quite different from the unsigned P...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Valdés-Baizabal C,Carbajal GV,Pérez-González D,Malmierca MS

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial dysbiosis in the upper digestive tract is linked to an increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Overabundance of Porphyromonas gingivalis is associated with shorter survival of ESCC patients. We investigated the molecular mechanisms driving aggressive progression of ESCC by P. gingivalis....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Qi YJ,Jiao YL,Chen P,Kong JY,Gu BL,Liu K,Feng DD,Zhu YF,Ruan HJ,Lan ZJ,Liu QW,Mi YJ,Guo XQ,Wang M,Liang GF,Lamont RJ,Wang H,Zhou FY,Feng XS,Gao SG

更新日期：2020-09-04 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：:The authors of "Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality" respond to objections raised by Martin Nowak and Benjamin Allen. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Queller DC,Rong S,Liao X

更新日期：2015-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimivirus is the largest known virus whose genome and physical size are comparable to some small bacteria, blurring the boundary between a virus and a cell. Structural studies of Mimivirus have been difficult because of its size and long surface fibers. Here we report the use of enzymatic digestions to remove the surf...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Xiao C,Kuznetsov YG,Sun S,Hafenstein SL,Kostyuchenko VA,Chipman PR,Suzan-Monti M,Raoult D,McPherson A,Rossmann MG

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway directs cell differentiation during organogenesis, in part by restricting proliferation. How Hippo signaling maintains a proliferation-differentiation balance in developing tissues via distinct molecular targets is only beginning to be understood. Our study makes the unexpected finding that Hippo sup...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Braitsch CM,Azizoglu DB,Htike Y,Barlow HR,Schnell U,Chaney CP,Carroll TJ,Stanger BZ,Cleaver O

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Every instant of perception depends on a cascade of brain processes calibrated to the history of sensory and decisional events. In the present work, we show that human visual perception is constantly shaped by two contrasting forces exerted by sensory adaptation and past decisions. In a series of experiments, we used ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pascucci D,Mancuso G,Santandrea E,Della Libera C,Plomp G,Chelazzi L

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial complex I, the largest and most complicated proton pump of the respiratory chain, links the electron transfer from NADH to ubiquinone to the pumping of four protons from the matrix into the intermembrane space. In humans, defects in complex I are involved in a wide range of degenerative disorders. Recent...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Dröse S,Krack S,Sokolova L,Zwicker K,Barth HD,Morgner N,Heide H,Steger M,Nübel E,Zickermann V,Kerscher S,Brutschy B,Radermacher M,Brandt U

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, Escherichia coli are exposed to harsh and non-ideal growth environments-nutrients may be limiting, and cells are often challenged by oxidative stress. For E. coli cells confronting these realities, there appears to be a link between oxidative stress, methionine availability, and the enzyme that catalyzes th...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hondorp ER,Matthews RG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sperm's crucial function is to locate and fuse with a mature oocyte. Under laboratory conditions, Caenorhabditis elegans sperm are very efficient at navigating the hermaphrodite reproductive tract and locating oocytes. Here, we identify chemosensory and oxygen-sensing circuits that affect the sperm's navigational ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hoang HD,Miller MA

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00