Photoperiodic regulation of flowering time through periodic histone deacetylation of the florigen gene FT.

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity is widely believed to constitute a key mechanism for modifying functional properties of neuronal networks. This belief implicitly implies, however, that synapses, when not driven to change their characteristics by physiologically relevant stimuli, will maintain these characteristics over time. How ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Minerbi A,Kahana R,Goldfeld L,Kaufman M,Marom S,Ziv NE

更新日期：2009-06-23 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：: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：:Newborn granule cells become functionally integrated into the synaptic circuitry of the adult dentate gyrus after a morphological and electrophysiological maturation process. The molecular mechanisms by which immature neurons and the neurites extending from them find their appropriate position and target area remain l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jessberger S,Aigner S,Clemenson GD Jr,Toni N,Lie DC,Karalay O,Overall R,Kempermann G,Gage FH

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we describe why and how to build a local community of practice in scientific programming for life scientists who use computers and programming in their research. A community of practice is a small group of scientists who meet regularly to help each other and promote good practices in scientific programm...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stevens SLR,Kuzak M,Martinez C,Moser A,Bleeker P,Galland M

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated many open and collaborative analytical research projects with real-world impact. However, despite their value, such activities are generally overlooked by traditional academic metrics. Science is ultimately improved by analytical work, whether ensuring reproducible and well-document...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kucharski AJ,Funk S,Eggo RM

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common form of human autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP) is caused by mutations in the SPG4 (spastin) gene, which encodes an AAA ATPase closely related in sequence to the microtubule-severing protein Katanin. Patients with AD-HSP exhibit degeneration of the distal regions of the longest ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sherwood NT,Sun Q,Xue M,Zhang B,Zinn K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FBW7 is a crucial component of an SCF-type E3 ubiquitin ligase, which mediates degradation of an array of different target proteins. The Fbw7 locus comprises three different isoforms, each with its own promoter and each suspected to have a distinct set of substrates. Most FBW7 targets have important functions in devel...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sancho R,Blake SM,Tendeng C,Clurman BE,Lewis J,Behrens A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002454.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hussain A,Zhang M,Üçpunar HK,Svensson T,Quillery E,Gompel N,Ignell R,Grunwald Kadow IC

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-cell imaging, combined with recent advances in image analysis and microfluidic technologies, have enabled fundamental discoveries of cellular responses to chemical perturbations that are often obscured by traditional liquid-culture experiments. Temperature is an environmental variable well known to impact growt...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Knapp BD,Zhu L,Huang KC

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic cells in animals are engulfed by phagocytic cells and subsequently degraded inside phagosomes. To study the mechanisms controlling the degradation of apoptotic cells, we developed time-lapse imaging protocols in developing Caenorhabditis elegans embryos and established the temporal order of multiple events d...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yu X,Lu N,Zhou Z

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoid T-zone fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) actively promote T-cell trafficking, homeostasis, and expansion but can also attenuate excessive T-cell responses via inducible nitric oxide (NO) and constitutive prostanoid release. It remains unclear how these FRC-derived mediators dampen T-cell responses and wheth...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schaeuble K,Cannelle H,Favre S,Huang HY,Oberle SG,Speiser DE,Zehn D,Luther SA

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A key feature of most social relationships is that we like seeing good things happen to others. Research has implicated the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in attaching value to social outcomes. For example, single neurons in macaque ACC selectively code reward delivery to the self, a partner, both monkeys, or neither...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Basile BM,Schafroth JL,Karaskiewicz CL,Chang SWC,Murray EA

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis is a major energy-consuming process in the cell that has to be rapidly down-regulated in response to stress or nutrient depletion. The target of rapamycin 1 (Tor1) pathway regulates synthesis of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) at the level of transcription initiation. It remains unclear whether ribosome bioge...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kos-Braun IC,Jung I,Koš M

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of terminal cell fate and onset of differentiation are instructed by cell type-specific master control genes. Loss of differentiation is frequently observed during cancer progression, but the underlying causes and mechanisms remain poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that master regulators of d...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bossuyt W,De Geest N,Aerts S,Leenaerts I,Marynen P,Hassan BA

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny of related host species. Here, we test the prevalence of phylosymbiosis and its functional significance under highly controlled conditions b...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Brooks AW,Kohl KD,Brucker RM,van Opstal EJ,Bordenstein SR

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsZ is a tubulin-like GTPase that is the major cytoskeletal protein in bacterial cell division. It polymerizes into a ring, called the Z ring, at the division site and acts as a scaffold to recruit other division proteins to this site as well as providing a contractile force for cytokinesis. To understand how FtsZ pe...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Strauss MP,Liew AT,Turnbull L,Whitchurch CB,Monahan LG,Harry EJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This primer discusses a study from Bradley et al. in which changes in transcription factor binding between two Drosophila species are revealed by chromatin immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wittkopp PJ

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study neural correlates of a robust somatosensory illusion that can dissociate tactile perception from physical stimulation. Repeated rapid stimulation at the wrist, then near the elbow, can create the illusion of touches at intervening locations along the arm, a...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Blankenburg F,Ruff CC,Deichmann R,Rees G,Driver J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1B (CDKN1B)/p27, previously known as a cell cycle inhibitor, is also localized within mitochondria. The migratory capacity of endothelial cells, which need intact mitochondria, is completely dependent on mitochondrial p27. Mitochondrial p27 improves mitochondrial memb...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ale-Agha N,Goy C,Jakobs P,Spyridopoulos I,Gonnissen S,Dyballa-Rukes N,Aufenvenne K,von Ameln F,Zurek M,Spannbrucker T,Eckermann O,Jakob S,Gorressen S,Abrams M,Grandoch M,Fischer JW,Köhrer K,Deenen R,Unfried K,Altsch

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic dogs exhibit tremendous phenotypic diversity, including a greater variation in body size than any other terrestrial mammal. Here, we generate a high density map of canine genetic variation by genotyping 915 dogs from 80 domestic dog breeds, 83 wild canids, and 10 outbred African shelter dogs across 60,968 sin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boyko AR,Quignon P,Li L,Schoenebeck JJ,Degenhardt JD,Lohmueller KE,Zhao K,Brisbin A,Parker HG,vonHoldt BM,Cargill M,Auton A,Reynolds A,Elkahloun AG,Castelhano M,Mosher DS,Sutter NB,Johnson GS,Novembre J,Hubisz MJ,

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To successfully negotiate a complex environment, an animal must control the timing of motor behaviors in coordination with dynamic sensory information. Here, we report on adaptive temporal control of vocal-motor behavior in an echolocating bat, Eptesicus fuscus, as it captured tethered insects close to background vege...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moss CF,Bohn K,Gilkenson H,Surlykke A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When one finger touches the other, the resulting tactile sensation is perceived as weaker than the same stimulus externally imposed. This attenuation of sensation could result from a predictive process that subtracts the expected sensory consequences of the action, or from a postdictive process that alters the percept...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bays PM,Flanagan JR,Wolpert DM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations can originate from the chance misincorporation of nucleotides during DNA replication or from DNA lesions that arise between replication cycles and are not repaired correctly. We introduce a model that relates the source of mutations to their accumulation with cell divisions, providing a framework for underst...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gao Z,Wyman MJ,Sella G,Przeworski M

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cobalamin-independent methionine synthase (MetE) catalyzes the transfer of a methyl group from methyltetrahydrofolate to L-homocysteine (Hcy) without using an intermediate methyl carrier. Although MetE displays no detectable sequence homology with cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase (MetH), both enzymes require zi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pejchal R,Ludwig ML

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of pluripotency and specification of cellular lineages during embryonic development are controlled by transcriptional regulatory networks, which coordinate specific sets of genes through both activation and repression. The transcriptional repressor RE1-silencing transcription factor (REST) plays import...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johnson R,Teh CH,Kunarso G,Wong KY,Srinivasan G,Cooper ML,Volta M,Chan SS,Lipovich L,Pollard SM,Karuturi RK,Wei CL,Buckley NJ,Stanton LW

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:CD45(+):Sca1(+) adult stem cells isolated from uninjured muscle do not display any myogenic potential, whereas those isolated from regenerating muscle give rise to myoblasts expressing the paired-box transcription factor Pax7 and the bHLH factors Myf5 and MyoD. By contrast, CD45(+):Sca1(+) isolated from injured Pax7( ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Seale P,Ishibashi J,Scimè A,Rudnicki MA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide immunogens provide an approach to focus antibody responses to specific neutralizing sites on the HIV envelope protein (Env) trimer or on other pathogens. However, the physical characteristics of peptide immunogens can limit their pharmacokinetic and immunological properties. Here, we have designed synthetic "s...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Francica JR,Laga R,Lynn GM,Mužíková G,Androvič L,Aussedat B,Walkowicz WE,Padhan K,Ramirez-Valdez RA,Parks R,Schmidt SD,Flynn BJ,Tsybovsky Y,Stewart-Jones GBE,Saunders KO,Baharom F,Petrovas C,Haynes BF,Seder RA

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollination is exclusively or mainly animal mediated for 70% to 90% of angiosperm species. Thus, pollinators provide an essential ecosystem service to humankind. However, the impact of human-induced biodiversity loss on the functioning of plant-pollinator interactions has not been tested experimentally. To understand ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fontaine C,Dajoz I,Meriguet J,Loreau M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00