Blimp1/Prdm1 Functions in Opposition to Irf1 to Maintain Neonatal Tolerance during Postnatal Intestinal Maturation.

abstract：:The bHLH transcription factor, Phytochrome Interacting Factor 3 (PIF3), interacts specifically with the photoactivated, Pfr, form of Arabidopsis phytochrome B (phyB). This interaction induces PIF3 phosphorylation and degradation in vivo and modulates phyB-mediated seedling deetiolation in response to red light. To ide...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kikis EA,Oka Y,Hudson ME,Nagatani A,Quail PH

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Abeta peptide accumulation is thought to be the primary event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with downstream neurotoxic effects including the hyperphosphorylation of tau protein. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is increasingly implicated as playing a pivotal role in this amyloid cascade. We have d...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sofola O,Kerr F,Rogers I,Killick R,Augustin H,Gandy C,Allen MJ,Hardy J,Lovestone S,Partridge L

更新日期：2010-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the ~670 Mb genome assembly of the Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer), a tropical marine teleost. We used long-read sequencing augmented by transcriptomics, optical and genetic mapping along with shared synteny from closely related fish species to derive a chromosome-level assembly with a contig N50 size ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Vij S,Kuhl H,Kuznetsova IS,Komissarov A,Yurchenko AA,Van Heusden P,Singh S,Thevasagayam NM,Prakki SR,Purushothaman K,Saju JM,Jiang J,Mbandi SK,Jonas M,Hin Yan Tong A,Mwangi S,Lau D,Ngoh SY,Liew WC,Shen X,Hon LS,

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the oldest domesticated crop species in the world, having fed more people than any other plant in human history. We report the patterns of DNA sequence variation in rice and its wild ancestor, O. rufipogon, across 111 randomly chosen gene fragments, and use these to inf...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Caicedo AL,Williamson SH,Hernandez RD,Boyko A,Fledel-Alon A,York TL,Polato NR,Olsen KM,Nielsen R,McCouch SR,Bustamante CD,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have transformed our understanding of the genetics of complex traits such as autoimmune diseases, but how risk variants contribute to pathogenesis remains largely unknown. Identifying genetic variants that affect gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci, or eQTLs) is c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Peters JE,Lyons PA,Lee JC,Richard AC,Fortune MD,Newcombe PJ,Richardson S,Smith KG

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome duplications are important evolutionary events that impact the rate and spectrum of beneficial mutations and thus the rate of adaptation. Laboratory evolution experiments initiated with haploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultures repeatedly experience whole-genome duplication (WGD). We report recurrent genome dup...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fisher KJ,Buskirk SW,Vignogna RC,Marad DA,Lang GI

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli translation initiation factor 2 (IF2) performs the unexpected function of promoting transition from recombination to replication during bacteriophage Mu transposition in vitro, leading to initiation by replication restart proteins. This function has suggested a role of IF2 in engaging cellular restart...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Madison KE,Abdelmeguid MR,Jones-Foster EN,Nakai H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an evolutionarily conserved epigenetic modification that is critical for gene silencing and the maintenance of genome integrity. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the de novo DNA methyltransferase, domains rearranged methyltransferase 2 (DRM2), is targeted to specific genomic loci by 24 nt small interfering ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Law JA,Vashisht AA,Wohlschlegel JA,Jacobsen SE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) is the primary DNA repair pathway thought to underlie chromosomal translocations and other genomic rearrangements in somatic cells. The canonical NHEJ pathway, including DNA ligase IV (Lig4), suppresses genomic instability and chromosomal translocations, leading to the notion that a po...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Simsek D,Brunet E,Wong SY,Katyal S,Gao Y,McKinnon PJ,Lou J,Zhang L,Li J,Rebar EJ,Gregory PD,Holmes MC,Jasin M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appropriate development of conidia and appressoria is critical in the disease cycle of many fungal pathogens, including Magnaporthe oryzae. A total of eight genes (MoHOX1 to MoHOX8) encoding putative homeobox transcription factors (TFs) were identified from the M. oryzae genome. Knockout mutants for each MoHOX gen...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim S,Park SY,Kim KS,Rho HS,Chi MH,Choi J,Park J,Kong S,Park J,Goh J,Lee YH

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Transcription factors are grouped into families based on sequence similarity within functional domains, particularly DNA-binding domains. The Specificity proteins Sp1, Sp2 and Sp3 are paradigmatic of closely related transcription factors. They share amino-terminal glutamine-rich regions and a conserved carboxy-termina...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Völkel S,Stielow B,Finkernagel F,Stiewe T,Nist A,Suske G

更新日期：2015-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of the HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines have identified large numbers of quantitative trait loci for gene expression (eQTLs). Reanalyzing these data using a novel Bayesian hierarchical model, we were able to create a surprisingly high-resolution map of the typical locations of sites that affect mRNA lev...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Veyrieras JB,Kudaravalli S,Kim SY,Dermitzakis ET,Gilad Y,Stephens M,Pritchard JK

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms perceive changes in their dietary environment and enact a suite of behavioral and metabolic adaptations that can impact motivational behavior, disease resistance, and longevity. However, the precise nature and mechanism of these dietary responses is not known. We have uncovered a novel link between dietary f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Linford NJ,Chan TP,Pletcher SD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have now been conducted for hundreds of phenotypes of relevance to human health. Many such GWAS involve multiple closely-related phenotypes collected on the same samples. However, the vast majority of these GWAS have been analyzed using simple univariate analyses, which consider ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Turchin MC,Stephens M

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular clock of neutral mutations, which represents linear mutation fixation over generations, is theoretically explained by genetic drift in fitness-steady evolution or hitchhiking in adaptive evolution. The present study is the first experimental demonstration for the molecular clock of neutral mutations in a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kishimoto T,Ying BW,Tsuru S,Iijima L,Suzuki S,Hashimoto T,Oyake A,Kobayashi H,Someya Y,Narisawa D,Yomo T

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperative transcription factor binding at cis-regulatory sites in the genome drives robust eukaryotic gene expression, and many such sites must be coordinated to produce coherent transcriptional programs. The transcriptional program leading to motile cilia formation requires members of the DNA-binding forkhead (Fox)...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Quigley IK,Kintner C

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia is a causal and modifiable risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. A critical pathway regulating cholesterol homeostasis involves the receptor-mediated endocytosis of low-density lipoproteins into hepatocytes, mediated by the LDL receptor. We applied genome-scale CRISPR screening t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Emmer BT,Sherman EJ,Lascuna PJ,Graham SE,Willer CJ,Ginsburg D

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-cell gene expression noise is thought to be an important mechanism for generating phenotypic diversity. Furthermore, telomeric regions are major sites for gene amplification, which is thought to drive genetic diversity. Here we found that individual subtelomeric TLO genes exhibit increased variation in transcr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Anderson MZ,Gerstein AC,Wigen L,Baller JA,Berman J

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:miRNAs are small RNAs directing many developmental processes by posttranscriptional regulation of protein-coding genes. We uncovered a new role for miR-1-1/133a-2 and miR-1-2/133a-1 clusters in the specification of embryonic cardiomyocytes allowing transition from an immature state characterized by expression of smoot...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wystub K,Besser J,Bachmann A,Boettger T,Braun T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006425.]. ...

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：:Increases in fruit weight of cultivated vegetables and fruits accompanied the domestication of these crops. Here we report on the positional cloning of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) controlling fruit weight in tomato. The derived allele of Cell Size Regulator (CSR-D) increases fruit weight predominantly through enl...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mu Q,Huang Z,Chakrabarti M,Illa-Berenguer E,Liu X,Wang Y,Ramos A,van der Knaap E

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Homolog pairing and crossing over during meiosis I prophase is required for accurate chromosome segregation to form euploid gametes. The repair of Spo11-induced double-strand breaks (DSB) using a homologous chromosome template is a major driver of pairing in many species, including fungi, plants, and mammals. Inapprop...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lui DY,Cahoon CK,Burgess SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin assembly mutants accumulate recombinogenic DNA damage and are sensitive to genotoxic agents. Here we have analyzed why impairment of the H3K56 acetylation-dependent CAF1 and Rtt106 chromatin assembly pathways, which have redundant roles in H3/H4 deposition during DNA replication, leads to genetic instability...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Clemente-Ruiz M,González-Prieto R,Prado F

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conserved protein kinase Sch9 is a central player in the nutrient-induced signaling network in yeast, although only few of its direct substrates are known. We now provide evidence that Sch9 controls the vacuolar proton pump (V-ATPase) to maintain cellular pH homeostasis and ageing. A synthetic sick phenotype arise...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wilms T,Swinnen E,Eskes E,Dolz-Edo L,Uwineza A,Van Essche R,Rosseels J,Zabrocki P,Cameroni E,Franssens V,De Virgilio C,Smits GJ,Winderickx J

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic resources for the domestic dog have improved with the widespread adoption of a 173k SNP array platform and updated reference genome. SNP arrays of this density are sufficient for detecting genetic associations within breeds but are underpowered for finding associations across multiple breeds or in mixed-breed ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hayward JJ,White ME,Boyle M,Shannon LM,Casal ML,Castelhano MG,Center SA,Meyers-Wallen VN,Simpson KW,Sutter NB,Todhunter RJ,Boyko AR

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria encode a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein (SSB) crucial for genome maintenance. In Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae, an alternative SSB, SsbB, is expressed uniquely during competence for genetic transformation, but its precise role has been disappointingly obscure. Here, we report our...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Attaiech L,Olivier A,Mortier-Barrière I,Soulet AL,Granadel C,Martin B,Polard P,Claverys JP

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:The use of autozygosity as a mapping tool in the search for autosomal recessive disease genes is well established. We hypothesized that autozygosity not only unmasks the recessiveness of disease causing variants, but can also reveal natural knockouts of genes with less obvious phenotypic consequences. To test this hyp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Alsalem AB,Halees AS,Anazi S,Alshamekh S,Alkuraya FS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00