Multifaceted genome control by Set1 Dependent and Independent of H3K4 methylation and the Set1C/COMPASS complex.

abstract：:Diet is a crucial determinant of organismal biology; interactions between the host, its diet, and its microbiota are critical to determining the health of an organism. A variety of genetic and biochemical means were used to assay stress sensitivity in C. elegans reared on two standard laboratory diets: E. coli OP50, t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Revtovich AV,Lee R,Kirienko NV

更新日期：2019-03-13 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：:XRN2 is a conserved 5'→3' exoribonuclease that complexes with proteins that contain XRN2-binding domains (XTBDs). In Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), the XTBD-protein PAXT-1 stabilizes XRN2 to retain its activity. XRN2 activity is also promoted by 3'(2'),5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase 1 (BPNT1) through hydrolysis of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Miki TS,Carl SH,Stadler MB,Großhans H

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine, approved by the FDA for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), is incorporated into the DNA of dividing cells where it specifically inhibits DNA methylation by forming covalent complexes with the DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs). In an effort to study the correlations between DNA methyl...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang X,Noushmehr H,Han H,Andreu-Vieyra C,Liang G,Jones PA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in DNA methylation is being increasingly associated with health and disease outcomes. Although DNA methylation is hypothesized to be a mechanism by which both genetic and non-genetic factors can influence the regulation of gene expression, little is known about the extent to which DNA methylation at specific...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hannon E,Knox O,Sugden K,Burrage J,Wong CCY,Belsky DW,Corcoran DL,Arseneault L,Moffitt TE,Caspi A,Mill J

更新日期：2018-08-09 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：:Positive Transcription Elongation Factor b (P-TEFb) is a kinase consisting of Cdk9 and Cyclin T that releases RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) into active elongation. It can assemble into a larger Super Elongation Complex (SEC) consisting of additional elongation factors. Here, we use a miRNA-based approach to knock down th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dahlberg O,Shilkova O,Tang M,Holmqvist PH,Mannervik M

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The heteropentameric condensin complexes have been shown to participate in mitotic chromosome condensation and to be required for unperturbed chromatid segregation in nuclear divisions. Vertebrates have two condensin complexes, condensin I and condensin II, which contain the same structural maintenance of chromosomes ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Herzog S,Nagarkar Jaiswal S,Urban E,Riemer A,Fischer S,Heidmann SK

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rif1 protein is a negative regulator of DNA replication initiation in eukaryotes. Here we show that budding yeast Rif1 inhibits DNA replication initiation at the rDNA locus. Absence of Rif1, or disruption of its interaction with PP1/Glc7 phosphatase, leads to more intensive rDNA replication. The effect of Rif1-Glc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shyian M,Mattarocci S,Albert B,Hafner L,Lezaja A,Costanzo M,Boone C,Shore D

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic background exerts a strong modulatory effect on the toxicity of aggregation-prone proteins in conformational diseases. In addition to influencing the misfolding and aggregation behavior of the mutant proteins, polymorphisms in putative modifier genes may affect the molecular processes leading to the disease ph...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gidalevitz T,Krupinski T,Garcia S,Morimoto RI

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:The genome of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe encodes 17 kinases that are essential for cell growth. These include the cell-cycle regulator Cdc2, as well as several kinases that coordinate cell growth, polarity, and morphogenesis during the cell cycle. In this study, we further characterized another of the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eckert D,Andrée N,Razanau A,Zock-Emmenthal S,Lützelberger M,Plath S,Schmidt H,Guerra-Moreno A,Cozzuto L,Ayté J,Käufer NF

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) is a DNA damage tolerance mechanism in which specialized low-fidelity DNA polymerases bypass replication-blocking lesions, and it is usually associated with mutagenesis. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae a key event in TLS is the monoubiquitination of PCNA, which enables recruitment of the sp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hendel A,Krijger PH,Diamant N,Goren Z,Langerak P,Kim J,Reissner T,Lee KY,Geacintov NE,Carell T,Myung K,Tateishi S,D'Andrea A,Jacobs H,Livneh Z

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity across different human populations can enhance understanding of the genetic basis of disease. We calculated the genetic risk of 102 diseases in 1,043 unrelated individuals across 51 populations of the Human Genome Diversity Panel. We found that genetic risk for type 2 diabetes and pancreatic cancer d...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Corona E,Chen R,Sikora M,Morgan AA,Patel CJ,Ramesh A,Bustamante CD,Butte AJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a flexible and robust simulation-based framework to infer demographic parameters from the site frequency spectrum (SFS) computed on large genomic datasets. We show that our composite-likelihood approach allows one to study evolutionary models of arbitrary complexity, which cannot be tackled by other curre...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Excoffier L,Dupanloup I,Huerta-Sánchez E,Sousa VC,Foll M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide O-antigen structure expressed by the European Helicobacter pylori model strain G27 encompasses a trisaccharide, an intervening glucan-heptan and distal Lewis antigens that promote immune escape. However, several gaps still remain in the corresponding biosynthetic pathway. Here, systematic mutage...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Li H,Marceau M,Yang T,Liao T,Tang X,Hu R,Xie Y,Tang H,Tay A,Shi Y,Shen Y,Yang T,Pi X,Lamichhane B,Luo Y,Debowski AW,Nilsson HO,Haslam SM,Mulloy B,Dell A,Stubbs KA,Marshall BJ,Benghezal M

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can arrest their own growth and proliferation upon nutrient depletion and under various stressful conditions to ensure their survival. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for suppressing growth and arresting the cell cycle under such conditions remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify post-...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Leslie DJ,Heinen C,Schramm FD,Thüring M,Aakre CD,Murray SM,Laub MT,Jonas K

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006788.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sharma V,Pandey AK,Kumar A,Misra S,Gupta HPK,Gupta S,Singh A,Buehner NA,Ravi Ram K

更新日期：2017-07-12 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：:The pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) is a helical repeat motif found in an exceptionally large family of RNA-binding proteins that functions in mitochondrial and chloroplast gene expression. PPR proteins harbor between 2 and 30 repeats and typically bind single-stranded RNA in a sequence-specific fashion. However, the b...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Barkan A,Rojas M,Fujii S,Yap A,Chong YS,Bond CS,Small I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed information about stage-specific changes in gene expression is crucial for the understanding of the gene regulatory networks underlying development. Here, we describe the global gene expression dynamics during early flower development, a key process in the life cycle of a plant, during which floral patterning...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wellmer F,Alves-Ferreira M,Dubois A,Riechmann JL,Meyerowitz EM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA4) is a negative regulator of T-cell proliferation. Polymorphisms in CTLA4 have been inconsistently associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of European ancestry but have not been examined in African Americans. The prevalence of RA in m...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kelley JM,Hughes LB,Faggard JD,Danila MI,Crawford MH,Edberg Y,Padilla MA,Tiwari HK,Westfall AO,Alarcón GS,Conn DL,Jonas BL,Callahan LF,Smith EA,Brasington RD,Allison DB,Kimberly RP,Moreland LW,Edberg JC,Bridges SL J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the stochastic way in which lineages sort during speciation, gene trees may differ in topology from each other and from species trees. Surprisingly, assuming that genetic lineages follow a coalescent model of within-species evolution, we find that for any species tree topology with five or more species, the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Degnan JH,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of circadian oscillations in mammals is cell autonomous and is generated by a set of genes that form a transcriptional autoregulatory feedback loop. While these "clock genes" are well conserved among animals, their specific functions remain to be fully understood and their roles in central versus periphe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hong HK,Chong JL,Song W,Song EJ,Jyawook AA,Schook AC,Ko CH,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2007-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is a well-established human carcinogen of poorly understood mechanism of genotoxicity. It is generally accepted that arsenic acts indirectly by generating oxidative DNA damage that can be converted to replication-dependent DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), as well as by interfering with DNA repair pathways and ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Litwin I,Bocer T,Dziadkowiec D,Wysocki R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of meiotic recombination events (crossovers (COs) and non-crossovers (NCOs)) cluster in narrow hotspots surrounded by large regions devoid of recombinational activity. Here, using a new molecular approach in plants, called "pollen-typing", we detected and characterized hundreds of CO and NCO molecule...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Drouaud J,Khademian H,Giraut L,Zanni V,Bellalou S,Henderson IR,Falque M,Mézard C

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic basis of floral symmetry is a topic of great interest because of its effect on pollinator behavior and, consequently, plant diversification. The Asteraceae, which is the largest family of flowering plants, is an ideal system in which to study this trait, as many species within the family exhibit a compound...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chapman MA,Tang S,Draeger D,Nambeesan S,Shaffer H,Barb JG,Knapp SJ,Burke JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in developed countries, and the contribution of genetic susceptibility to breast cancer development has been well-recognized. However, a great proportion of these hereditary predisposing factors still remain unidentified. To examine the contribution of rare copy number ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pylkäs K,Vuorela M,Otsukka M,Kallioniemi A,Jukkola-Vuorinen A,Winqvist R

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Ubiquitination of the replication clamp proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) at the conserved residue lysine (K)164 triggers postreplicative repair (PRR) to fill single-stranded gaps that result from stalled DNA polymerases. However, it has remained elusive as to whether cells engage PRR in response to replicatio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Becker JR,Pons C,Nguyen HD,Costanzo M,Boone C,Myers CL,Bielinsky AK

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00