A nuclear calcium-sensing pathway is critical for gene regulation and salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis.

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journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mitra I,Tsang K,Ladd-Acosta C,Croen LA,Aldinger KA,Hendren RL,Traglia M,Lavillaureix A,Zaitlen N,Oldham MC,Levitt P,Nelson S,Amaral DG,Hertz-Picciotto I,Fallin MD,Weiss LA

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the somatic cells of adult metazoans, including mammals, do not undergo continuous cycles of replication. Instead, they are quiescent and devote most of their metabolic activity to gene expression. The mutagenic consequences of exposure to DNA-damaging agents are well documented, but less is known about the im...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brégeon D,Peignon PA,Sarasin A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me) is an evolutionarily conserved modification whose role in the regulation of gene expression has been extensively studied. In contrast, the function of H3K4 acetylation (H3K4ac) has received little attention because of a lack of tools to separate its function from that of H3K...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Guillemette B,Drogaris P,Lin HH,Armstrong H,Hiragami-Hamada K,Imhof A,Bonneil E,Thibault P,Verreault A,Festenstein RJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teleost fishes, thanks to their rapid evolution of sex determination mechanisms, provide remarkable opportunities to study the formation of sex chromosomes and the mechanisms driving the birth of new master sex determining (MSD) genes. However, the evolutionary interplay between the sex chromosomes and the MSD genes t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pan Q,Feron R,Yano A,Guyomard R,Jouanno E,Vigouroux E,Wen M,Busnel JM,Bobe J,Concordet JP,Parrinello H,Journot L,Klopp C,Lluch J,Roques C,Postlethwait J,Schartl M,Herpin A,Guiguen Y

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA replication programs have been studied extensively in yeast and animal systems, where they have been shown to correlate with gene expression and certain epigenetic modifications. Despite the conservation of core DNA replication proteins, little is known about replication programs in plants. We used flow cytometry ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lee TJ,Pascuzzi PE,Settlage SB,Shultz RW,Tanurdzic M,Rabinowicz PD,Menges M,Zheng P,Main D,Murray JA,Sosinski B,Allen GC,Martienssen RA,Hanley-Bowdoin L,Vaughn MW,Thompson WF

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide scans for positively selected genes (PSGs) in mammals have provided insight into the dynamics of genome evolution, the genetic basis of differences between species, and the functions of individual genes. However, previous scans have been limited in power and accuracy owing to small numbers of available gen...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kosiol C,Vinar T,da Fonseca RR,Hubisz MJ,Bustamante CD,Nielsen R,Siepel A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a congenital disorder caused by mutations of the myotubularin gene, MTM1. Myotubularin belongs to a large family of conserved lipid phosphatases that include both catalytically active and inactive myotubularin-related proteins (i.e., "MTMRs"). Biochemically, catalytically inacti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gupta VA,Hnia K,Smith LL,Gundry SR,McIntire JE,Shimazu J,Bass JR,Talbot EA,Amoasii L,Goldman NE,Laporte J,Beggs AH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate at which genomes adapt to environmental changes and the prevalence of adaptive processes in molecular evolution are two controversial issues in current evolutionary genetics. Previous attempts to quantify the genome-wide rate of adaptation through amino-acid substitution have revealed a surprising diversity o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Galtier N

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Postembryonic development in Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful model for the study of the temporal regulation of development and for the roles of microRNAs in controlling gene expression. Stable switch-like changes in gene expression occur during development as stage-specific microRNAs are expressed and subsequentl...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cohen ML,Kim S,Morita K,Kim SH,Han M

更新日期：2015-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced bacterial genomes and most genomes of cell organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) do not encode the full set of 32 tRNA species required to read all triplets of the genetic code according to the conventional wobble rules. Superwobbling, in which a single tRNA species that contains a uridine in the wobble p...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Alkatib S,Scharff LB,Rogalski M,Fleischmann TT,Matthes A,Seeger S,Schöttler MA,Ruf S,Bock R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variants in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are tested for disease association mostly using simple regression, one variant at a time. Standard approaches to improve power in detecting disease-associated SNPs use multiple regression with Bayesian variable selection in which a sparsity-enforcing prior on ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Banerjee S,Zeng L,Schunkert H,Söding J

更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the genetic mechanisms leading to phenotypic differentiation, it is important to identify genomic regions under selection. We scanned the genome of two chicken lines from a single trait selection experiment, where 50 generations of selection have resulted in a 9-fold difference in body weight. Analyses o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Johansson AM,Pettersson ME,Siegel PB,Carlborg O

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence polymorphism in a regulatory protein can have a widespread transcriptional effect. Here we present a computational approach for analyzing modules of genes with a common regulation that are affected by specific DNA polymorphisms. We identify such regulatory-linkage modules by integrating genotypic and expr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gat-Viks I,Meller R,Kupiec M,Shamir R

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:As a consequence of the accumulation of insertion events over evolutionary time, mobile elements now comprise nearly half of the human genome. The Alu, L1, and SVA mobile element families are still duplicating, generating variation between individual genomes. Mobile element insertions (MEI) have been identified as cau...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Stewart C,Kural D,Strömberg MP,Walker JA,Konkel MK,Stütz AM,Urban AE,Grubert F,Lam HY,Lee WP,Busby M,Indap AR,Garrison E,Huff C,Xing J,Snyder MP,Jorde LB,Batzer MA,Korbel JO,Marth GT,1000 Genomes Project.

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High glucose diets are unhealthy, although the mechanisms by which elevated glucose is harmful to whole animal physiology are not well understood. In Caenorhabditis elegans, high glucose shortens lifespan, while chemically inflicted glucose restriction promotes longevity. We investigated the impact of glucose metaboli...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Onken B,Kalinava N,Driscoll M

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Exome sequencing has been widely used in detecting pathogenic nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants (SNVs) for human inherited diseases. However, traditional statistical genetics methods are ineffective in analyzing exome sequencing data, due to such facts as the large number of sequenced variants, the presence of ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wu J,Li Y,Jiang R

更新日期：2014-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome reduction has been observed in many bacterial lineages that have adapted to specialized environments. The extreme genome degradation seen for obligate pathogens and symbionts appears to be dominated by genetic drift. In contrast, for free-living organisms with reduced genomes, the dominant force is proposed to ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lee MC,Marx CJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphthamide is a highly modified histidine residue in eukaryal translation elongation factor 2 (eEF2) that is the target for irreversible ADP ribosylation by diphtheria toxin (DT). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the initial steps of diphthamide biosynthesis are well characterized and require the DPH1-DPH5 genes. However...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Uthman S,Bär C,Scheidt V,Liu S,ten Have S,Giorgini F,Stark MJ,Schaffrath R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous lines of evidence point to a genetic basis for facial morphology in humans, yet little is known about how specific genetic variants relate to the phenotypic expression of many common facial features. We conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses of 20 quantitative facial measurements derived from the 3D ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shaffer JR,Orlova E,Lee MK,Leslie EJ,Raffensperger ZD,Heike CL,Cunningham ML,Hecht JT,Kau CH,Nidey NL,Moreno LM,Wehby GL,Murray JC,Laurie CA,Laurie CC,Cole J,Ferrara T,Santorico S,Klein O,Mio W,Feingold E,Hallgr

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetative phase change is regulated by a decrease in the abundance of the miRNAs, miR156 and miR157, and the resulting increase in the expression of their targets, SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE (SPL) transcription factors. To determine how miR156/miR157 specify the quantitative and qualitative changes in lea...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： He J,Xu M,Willmann MR,McCormick K,Hu T,Yang L,Starker CG,Voytas DF,Meyers BC,Poethig RS

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Synonymous mutations do not alter the specified amino acid but may alter the structure or function of an mRNA in ways that impact fitness. There are few examples in the literature, however, in which the effects of synonymous mutations on microbial growth rates have been measured, and even fewer for which the underlyin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kristofich J,Morgenthaler AB,Kinney WR,Ebmeier CC,Snyder DJ,Old WM,Cooper VS,Copley SD

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about contacts in the spliceosome between proteins and intron nucleotides surrounding the pre-mRNA branch-site and their dynamics during splicing. We investigated protein-pre-mRNA interactions by UV-induced crosslinking of purified yeast B(act) spliceosomes formed on site-specifically labeled pre-mRNA,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Schneider C,Agafonov DE,Schmitzová J,Hartmuth K,Fabrizio P,Lührmann R

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripartite Motif (TRIM) ubiquitin ligases act in the innate immune response against viruses. One of the best characterized members of this family, TRIM5α, serves as a potent retroviral restriction factor with activity against HIV. Here, we characterize what are likely to be the youngest TRIM genes in the human genome....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Han K,Lou DI,Sawyer SL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational fitness effects can be measured with relatively high accuracy in viruses due to their small genome size, which facilitates full-length sequencing and genetic manipulation. Previous work has shown that animal and plant RNA viruses are very sensitive to mutation. Here, we characterize mutational fitness effec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Domingo-Calap P,Cuevas JM,Sanjuán R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic surveillance of malaria parasites supports malaria control programmes, treatment guidelines and elimination strategies. Surveillance studies often pose questions about malaria parasite ancestry (e.g. how antimalarial resistance has spread) and employ statistical methods that characterise parasite population st...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Watson JA,Taylor AR,Ashley EA,Dondorp A,Buckee CO,White NJ,Holmes CC

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is an evolutionarily conserved master regulator of metabolism and a therapeutic target in type 2 diabetes. As an energy sensor, AMPK activity is responsive to both metabolic inputs, for instance the ratio of AMP to ATP, and numerous hormonal cues. As in mammals, each of two genes, a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cunningham KA,Bouagnon AD,Barros AG,Lin L,Malard L,Romano-Silva MA,Ashrafi K

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During nervous system development, neuronal cell bodies and their axodendritic projections are precisely positioned through transiently expressed patterning cues. We show here that two neuronally expressed, secreted immunoglobulin (Ig) domain-containing proteins, ZIG-5 and ZIG-8, have no detectable role during embryon...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bénard CY,Blanchette C,Recio J,Hobert O

更新日期：2012-01-01 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