The Parkinson's Disease-Associated Protein Kinase LRRK2 Modulates Notch Signaling through the Endosomal Pathway.

abstract：:Signaling pathways enable cells to sense and respond to their environment. Many cellular signaling strategies are conserved from fungi to humans, yet their activity and phenotypic consequences can vary extensively among individuals within a species. A systematic assessment of the impact of naturally occurring genetic ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Treusch S,Albert FW,Bloom JS,Kotenko IE,Kruglyak L

更新日期：2015-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement of the transcription machinery along a template alters DNA topology resulting in the accumulation of supercoils in DNA. The positive supercoils generated ahead of transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) and the negative supercoils accumulating behind impose severe topological constraints impeding transcription pro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ahmed W,Sala C,Hegde SR,Jha RK,Cole ST,Nagaraja V

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdenum (Mo) is an essential micronutrient for plants, serving as a cofactor for enzymes involved in nitrate assimilation, sulfite detoxification, abscisic acid biosynthesis, and purine degradation. Here we show that natural variation in shoot Mo content across 92 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions is controlled by va...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baxter I,Muthukumar B,Park HC,Buchner P,Lahner B,Danku J,Zhao K,Lee J,Hawkesford MJ,Guerinot ML,Salt DE

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant muscular dystrophy in which no mutation of pathogenic gene(s) has been identified. Instead, the disease is, in most cases, genetically linked to a contraction in the number of 3.3 kb D4Z4 repeats on chromosome 4q. How contraction of the 4qter D4Z4 repeats c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zeng W,de Greef JC,Chen YY,Chien R,Kong X,Gregson HC,Winokur ST,Pyle A,Robertson KD,Schmiesing JA,Kimonis VE,Balog J,Frants RR,Ball AR Jr,Lock LF,Donovan PJ,van der Maarel SM,Yokomori K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity to pain varies considerably between individuals and is known to be heritable. Increased sensitivity to experimental pain is a risk factor for developing chronic pain, a common and debilitating but poorly understood symptom. To understand mechanisms underlying pain sensitivity and to search for rare gene va...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Williams FM,Scollen S,Cao D,Memari Y,Hyde CL,Zhang B,Sidders B,Ziemek D,Shi Y,Harris J,Harrow I,Dougherty B,Malarstig A,McEwen R,Stephens JC,Patel K,Menni C,Shin SY,Hodgkiss D,Surdulescu G,He W,Jin X,McMahon S

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Demographic models built from genetic data play important roles in illuminating prehistorical events and serving as null models in genome scans for selection. We introduce an inference method based on the joint frequency spectrum of genetic variants within and between populations. For candidate models we numerically c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gutenkunst RN,Hernandez RD,Williamson SH,Bustamante CD

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability of native Saccharomyces cerevisiae to convert xylose from plant biomass into biofuels remains a major challenge for the production of renewable bioenergy. Despite extensive knowledge of the regulatory networks controlling carbon metabolism in yeast, little is known about how to reprogram S. cerevisiae to...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sato TK,Tremaine M,Parreiras LS,Hebert AS,Myers KS,Higbee AJ,Sardi M,McIlwain SJ,Ong IM,Breuer RJ,Avanasi Narasimhan R,McGee MA,Dickinson Q,La Reau A,Xie D,Tian M,Reed JL,Zhang Y,Coon JJ,Hittinger CT,Gasch AP,La

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses play a critical role not only in the global geochemical cycles but also in the biology and evolution of their hosts. Despite their importance, viral diversity remains underexplored mostly due to sampling and cultivation challenges. Direct sequencing approaches such as viromics has provided new insights ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： López-Pérez M,Haro-Moreno JM,Gonzalez-Serrano R,Parras-Moltó M,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2017-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of recombination events per meiosis varies extensively among individuals. This recombination phenotype differs between female and male, and also among individuals of each gender. In this study, we used high-density SNP genotypes of over 2,300 individuals and their offspring in two datasets to characterize r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chowdhury R,Bois PR,Feingold E,Sherman SL,Cheung VG

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:In many cases protein assemblies are stabilized by covalent bonds, one example of which is the formation of intra- or intermolecular ε-(γ-glutamyl)lysil cross-links catalyzed by transglutaminases (TGases). Because of the potential for unwanted cross-linking reactions, the activities of many TGases have been shown to b...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fernandes CG,Martins D,Hernandez G,Sousa AL,Freitas C,Tranfield EM,Cordeiro TN,Serrano M,Moran CP Jr,Henriques AO

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:PCNA ubiquitylation on lysine 164 is required for DNA damage tolerance. In many organisms PCNA is also ubiquitylated in unchallenged S phase but the significance of this has not been established. Using Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we demonstrate that lysine 164 ubiquitylation of PCNA contributes to efficient DNA replica...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Daigaku Y,Etheridge TJ,Nakazawa Y,Nakayama M,Watson AT,Miyabe I,Ogi T,Osborne MA,Carr AM

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eukaryotic RecA-like proteins Rad51 and Dmc1 cooperate during meiosis to promote recombination between homologous chromosomes by repairing programmed DNA double strand breaks (DSBs). Previous studies showed that Rad51 and Dmc1 form partially overlapping co-foci. Here we show these Rad51-Dmc1 co-foci are often arra...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brown MS,Grubb J,Zhang A,Rust MJ,Bishop DK

更新日期：2015-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Allotetraploid cotton species are a vital source of spinnable fiber for textiles. The polyploid nature of the cotton genome raises many evolutionary questions as to the relationships between duplicated genomes. We describe the evolution of the cotton genome (SNPs and structural variants) with the greatly improved reso...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Page JT,Liechty ZS,Alexander RH,Clemons K,Hulse-Kemp AM,Ashrafi H,Van Deynze A,Stelly DM,Udall JA

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant resistance (R) proteins provide a robust surveillance system to defend against potential pathogens. Despite their importance in plant innate immunity, relatively few of the approximately 170 R proteins in Arabidopsis have well-characterized resistance specificity. In order to identify the R protein responsible f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lewis JD,Wu R,Guttman DS,Desveaux D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooperative developmental system of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is susceptible to exploitation by cheaters-strains that make more than their fair share of spores in chimerae. Laboratory screens in Dictyostelium have shown that the genetic potential for facultative cheating is high, and field surveys...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Khare A,Shaulsky G

更新日期：2010-02-26 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 PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) is a mitochondrial kinase, and pink1 mutations cause early onset Parkinson's disease (PD) in humans. Loss of pink1 in Drosophila leads to defects in mitochondrial function, and genetic data suggest that another PD-related gene product, Parkin, acts with pink1 to regulate the clearance...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Esposito G,Vos M,Vilain S,Swerts J,De Sousa Valadas J,Van Meensel S,Schaap O,Verstreken P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc is an essential trace element involved in a wide range of biological processes and human diseases. Zinc excess is deleterious, and animals require mechanisms to protect against zinc toxicity. To identify genes that modulate zinc tolerance, we performed a forward genetic screen for Caenorhabditis elegans mutants t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Murphy JT,Bruinsma JJ,Schneider DL,Collier S,Guthrie J,Chinwalla A,Robertson JD,Mardis ER,Kornfeld K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent that both positive and negative selection vary across different portions of plant genomes remains poorly understood. Here, we sequence whole genomes of 13 Capsella grandiflora individuals and quantify the amount of selection across the genome. Using an estimate of the distribution of fitness effects, we sho...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Williamson RJ,Josephs EB,Platts AE,Hazzouri KM,Haudry A,Blanchette M,Wright SI

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In haploid cells of Ogataea (Hansenula) polymorpha an environmental signal, nitrogen starvation, induces a reversible change in the structure of a chromosome. This process, mating-type switching, inverts a 19-kb DNA region to place either MATa or MATα genes under centromeric repression of transcription, depending on t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hanson SJ,Byrne KP,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic architecture of the small and isolated Greenlandic population is advantageous for identification of novel genetic variants associated with cardio-metabolic traits. We aimed to identify genetic loci associated with body mass index (BMI), to expand the knowledge of the genetic and biological mechanisms under...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Andersen MK,Jørsboe E,Skotte L,Hanghøj K,Sandholt CH,Moltke I,Grarup N,Kern T,Mahendran Y,Søborg B,Bjerregaard P,Larsen CVL,Dahl-Petersen IK,Tiwari HK,Feenstra B,Koch A,Wiener HW,Hopkins SE,Pedersen O,Melbye M,Boy

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In metazoans, apoptotic cells are swiftly engulfed by phagocytes and degraded inside phagosomes. Multiple small GTPases in the Rab family are known to function in phagosome maturation by regulating vesicle trafficking. We discovered rab-35 as a new gene important for apoptotic cell clearance from a genetic screen targ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Haley R,Wang Y,Zhou Z

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifespan can be extended by reduction of dietary intake. This practice is referred to as dietary restriction (DR), and extension of lifespan by DR is evolutionarily conserved in taxonomically diverse organisms including yeast, invertebrates, and mammals. Although these two often-stated facts carry the implication that...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Piper MD,Partridge L

更新日期：2007-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A universal Tree of Life (TOL) has long been a goal of molecular phylogeneticists, but reticulation at the level of genes and possibly at the levels of cells and species renders any simple interpretation of such a TOL, especially as applied to prokaryotes, problematic. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Doolittle WF,Brunet TD

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of synthetic, well-defined biomolecular systems can elucidate inherent capabilities that may be difficult to uncover in a native biological context. Here, we used a minimal, reconstituted translation system from Escherichia coli to identify efficient ribosome binding sites (RBSs) in an unbiased, high-throughpu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Barendt PA,Shah NA,Barendt GA,Sarkar CA

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms may interact and together affect biological processes and disease development. However, most previous studies have investigated genetic and epigenetic mechanisms independently, and studies examining their interactions throughout the human genome are lacking. To identify genetic loci t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Olsson AH,Volkov P,Bacos K,Dayeh T,Hall E,Nilsson EA,Ladenvall C,Rönn T,Ling C

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Most biological nitrogen fixation is catalyzed by molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase, an enzyme complex comprising two component proteins that contains three different metalloclusters. Diazotrophs contain a common core of nitrogen fixation nif genes that encode the structural subunits of the enzyme and components requir...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang L,Zhang L,Liu Z,Zhao D,Liu X,Zhang B,Xie J,Hong Y,Li P,Chen S,Dixon R,Li J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00