Bacterial adaptation through loss of function.

abstract：:The microrchidia (MORC) family proteins are chromatin-remodelling factors and function in diverse biological processes such as DNA damage response and transposon silencing. Here, we report that mouse Morc2b encodes a functional germ cell-specific member of the MORC protein family. Morc2b arose specifically in the rode...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shi B,Xue J,Zhou J,Kasowitz SD,Zhang Y,Liang G,Guan Y,Shi Q,Liu M,Sha J,Huang X,Wang PJ

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress activates the Unfolded Protein Response, a compensatory signaling response that is mediated by the IRE-1, PERK/PEK-1, and ATF-6 pathways in metazoans. Genetic studies have implicated roles for UPR signaling in animal development and disease, but the function of the UPR under physiolog...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Richardson CE,Kinkel S,Kim DH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic gene silencing plays a critical role in regulating gene expression and contributes to organismal development and cell fate acquisition in eukaryotes. In fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, heterochromatin-associated gene silencing is known to be mediated by RNA processing pathways including RNA interf...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tucker JF,Ohle C,Schermann G,Bendrin K,Zhang W,Fischer T,Zhang K

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Homology-dependent repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by gene conversion involves short tracts of DNA synthesis and limited loss of heterozygosity (LOH). For DSBs that present only one end, repair occurs by invasion into a homologous sequence followed by replication to the end of the chromosome resulting in ext...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Marrero VA,Symington LS

更新日期：2010-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Male mammals produce sperm for most of postnatal life and therefore require a robust germ line stem cell system, with precise balance between self-renewal and differentiation. Prior work established doublesex- and mab-3-related transcription factor 1 (Dmrt1) as a conserved transcriptional regulator of male sexual diff...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang T,Oatley J,Bardwell VJ,Zarkower D

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From genomic association studies, quantitative trait loci analysis, and epigenomic mapping, it is evident that significant efforts are necessary to define genetic-epigenetic interactions and understand their role in disease susceptibility and progression. For this reason, an analysis of the effects of genetic variatio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Delahaye F,Do C,Kong Y,Ashkar R,Salas M,Tycko B,Wapner R,Hughes F

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant interest has emerged in mapping genetic susceptibility for complex traits through whole-genome association studies. These studies rely on the extent of association, i.e., linkage disequilibrium (LD), between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the human genome. LD describes the nonrandom associat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eberle MA,Rieder MJ,Kruglyak L,Nickerson DA

更新日期：2006-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is a pivotal centre for the integration and processing of motor and sensory information. Its extended development into the postnatal period makes this structure vulnerable to a variety of pathologies, including neoplasia. These properties have prompted intensive investigations that reveal not only devel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： van Essen MJ,Nayler S,Becker EBE,Jacob J

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimivirus and Megavirus are the best characterized representatives of an expanding new family of giant viruses infecting Acanthamoeba. Their most distinctive features, megabase-sized genomes carried in particles of size comparable to that of small bacteria, fill the gap between the viral and cellular worlds. These gia...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jeudy S,Abergel C,Claverie JM,Legendre M

更新日期：2012-01-01 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 rate of germline mutation varies widely between species but little is known about the extent of variation in the germline mutation rate between individuals of the same species. Here we demonstrate that an allele that increases the rate of germline mutation can result in a distinctive signature in the genomic regio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Seoighe C,Scally A

更新日期：2017-01-17 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：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a monogenetic disorder that predisposes individuals to tumor formation and cognitive and behavioral symptoms. The neuronal circuitry and developmental events underlying these neurological symptoms are unknown. To better understand how mutations of the underlying gene (NF1) drive behavioral ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： King LB,Boto T,Botero V,Aviles AM,Jomsky BM,Joseph C,Walker JA,Tomchik SM

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alphaproteobacteria show a remarkable diversity of cell cycle-dependent developmental patterns, which are governed by the conserved CtrA pathway. Its central component CtrA is a DNA-binding response regulator that is controlled by a complex two-component signaling network, mediating distinct transcriptional progra...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Leicht O,van Teeseling MCF,Panis G,Reif C,Wendt H,Viollier PH,Thanbichler M

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration into the nuclear genome of germ line cells can lead to vertical inheritance of retroviral genes as host alleles. For other viruses, germ line integration has only rarely been documented. Nonetheless, we identified endogenous viral elements (EVEs) derived from ten non-retroviral families by systematic in si...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Katzourakis A,Gifford RJ

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified tens of thousands of genetic variants associated with various phenotypes, but together they explain only a fraction of heritability, suggesting many variants have yet to be discovered. Recently it has been recognized that incorporating functional info...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dong X,Su YR,Barfield R,Bien SA,He Q,Harrison TA,Huyghe JR,Keku TO,Lindor NM,Schafmayer C,Chan AT,Gruber SB,Jenkins MA,Kooperberg C,Peters U,Hsu L

更新日期：2020-08-24 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：:NURF is a conserved higher eukaryotic ISWI-containing chromatin remodeling complex that catalyzes ATP-dependent nucleosome sliding. By sliding nucleosomes, NURF is able to alter chromatin dynamics to control transcription and genome organization. Previous biochemical and genetic analysis of the specificity-subunit of ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kwon SY,Grisan V,Jang B,Herbert J,Badenhorst P

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbes exhibit quorum sensing (QS) to cooperate, share and perform a social task in unison. Recent studies have shown the emergence of reversible phenotypic heterogeneity in the QS-responding pathogenic microbial population under laboratory conditions as a possible bet-hedging survival strategy. However, very l...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Samal B,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive proteins are among the fastest evolving in the proteome, often due to the consequences of positive selection, and their rapid evolution is frequently attributed to a coevolutionary process between interacting female and male proteins. Such a process could leave characteristic signatures at coevolving gene...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Clark NL,Gasper J,Sekino M,Springer SA,Aquadro CF,Swanson WJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the enterobacterial species Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica, expression of horizontally acquired genes with a higher than average AT content is repressed by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS. A classical example of an H-NS-repressed locus is the bgl (aryl-beta,D-glucoside) operon of E. coli. This locus ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sankar TS,Neelakanta G,Sangal V,Plum G,Achtman M,Schnetz K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Talin serves an essential function during integrin-mediated adhesion in linking integrins to actin via the intracellular adhesion complex. In addition, the N-terminal head domain of talin regulates the affinity of integrins for their ECM-ligands, a process known as inside-out activation. We previously showed that in D...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ellis SJ,Lostchuck E,Goult BT,Bouaouina M,Fairchild MJ,López-Ceballos P,Calderwood DA,Tanentzapf G

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In budding yeast, intragenic histone modification is linked with transcriptional elongation through the conserved regulator Paf1C. To investigate Paf1C-related function in higher eukaryotes, we analyzed the effects of loss of Paf1C on histone H3 density and patterns of H3 methylated at K4, K27, and K36 in Arabidopsis ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Oh S,Park S,van Nocker S

更新日期：2008-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous systems have the ability to select appropriate actions and action sequences in response to sensory cues. The circuit mechanisms by which nervous systems achieve choice, stability and transitions between behaviors are still incompletely understood. To identify neurons and brain areas involved in controlling the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Masson JB,Laurent F,Cardona A,Barré C,Skatchkovsky N,Zlatic M,Jovanic T

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and microRNAs (miRNAs) are key external and internal signals for plant development, respectively. However, the relationship between the light signaling and miRNA biogenesis pathways remains unknown. Here we found that miRNA processer proteins DCL1 and HYL1 interact with a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcript...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sun Z,Li M,Zhou Y,Guo T,Liu Y,Zhang H,Fang Y

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is a nearly universal behavior that is regulated by diverse environmental stimuli and physiological states. A defining feature of sleep is a homeostatic rebound following deprivation, where animals compensate for lost sleep by increasing sleep duration and/or sleep depth. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brown EB,Shah KD,Faville R,Kottler B,Keene AC

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone modifiers are critical regulators of chromatin-based processes in eukaryotes. The histone methyltransferase Set1, a component of the Set1C/COMPASS complex, catalyzes the methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3 (H3K4me), a hallmark of euchromatin. Here, we show that the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Set...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mikheyeva IV,Grady PJ,Tamburini FB,Lorenz DR,Cam HP

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Wu and colleagues [1] proposed two novel statistics for genome-wide interaction analysis using case/control or case-only data. In computer simulations, their proposed case/control statistic outperformed competing approaches, including the fast-epistasis option in PLINK and logistic regression analysis under ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ueki M,Cordell HJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele age has long been a focus of population genetic research, primarily because it can be an important clue to the fitness effects of an allele. By virtue of their effects on fitness, alleles under directional selection are expected to be younger than neutral alleles of the same frequency. We developed a new coales...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Platt A,Pivirotto A,Knoblauch J,Hey J

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitylation is fundamental for the regulation of the stability and function of p53 and c-Myc. The E3 ligase Pirh2 has been reported to polyubiquitylate p53 and to mediate its proteasomal degradation. Here, using Pirh2 deficient mice, we report that Pirh2 is important for the in vivo regulation of p53 stability in r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hakem A,Bohgaki M,Lemmers B,Tai E,Salmena L,Matysiak-Zablocki E,Jung YS,Karaskova J,Kaustov L,Duan S,Madore J,Boutros P,Sheng Y,Chesi M,Bergsagel PL,Perez-Ordonez B,Mes-Masson AM,Penn L,Squire J,Chen X,Jurisica I

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00