Comparative Genomics: One for all.

abstract：:A hallmark of CRISPR-Cas immunity systems is the CRISPR array, a genomic locus consisting of short, repeated sequences ('repeats') interspersed with short, variable sequences ('spacers'). CRISPR arrays are transcribed and processed into individual CRISPR RNAs that each include a single spacer, and direct Cas proteins ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Stringer AM,Baniulyte G,Lasek-Nesselquist E,Seed KD,Wade JT

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Proprioception, the sense of body position, movement, and associated forces, remains poorly understood, despite its critical role in movement. Most studies of area 2, a proprioceptive area of somatosensory cortex, have simply compared neurons' activities to the movement of the hand through space. Using motion tracking...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chowdhury RH,Glaser JI,Miller LE

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The straight-tusked elephants Palaeoloxodon spp. were widespread across Eurasia during the Pleistocene. Phylogenetic reconstructions using morphological traits have grouped them with Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), and many paleontologists place Palaeoloxodon within Elephas. Here, we report the recovery of full mit...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Meyer M,Palkopoulou E,Baleka S,Stiller M,Penkman KEH,Alt KW,Ishida Y,Mania D,Mallick S,Meijer T,Meller H,Nagel S,Nickel B,Ostritz S,Rohland N,Schauer K,Schüler T,Roca AL,Reich D,Shapiro B,Hofreiter M

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:From bacteria to mammals, different phospholipid species are segregated between the inner and outer leaflets of the plasma membrane by ATP-dependent lipid transporters. Disruption of this asymmetry by ATP-independent phospholipid scrambling is important in cellular signaling, but its mechanism remains incompletely und...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jiang T,Yu K,Hartzell HC,Tajkhorshid E

更新日期：2017-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to act as important cell biological regulators including cell fate decisions but are often ignored in human genetics. Combining differential lncRNA expression during neuronal lineage induction with copy number variation morbidity maps of a cohort of children with autism sp...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ang CE,Ma Q,Wapinski OL,Fan S,Flynn RA,Lee QY,Coe B,Onoguchi M,Olmos VH,Do BT,Dukes-Rimsky L,Xu J,Tanabe K,Wang L,Elling U,Penninger JM,Zhao Y,Qu K,Eichler EE,Srivastava A,Wernig M,Chang HY

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas systems provide sequence-specific immunity against phages and mobile genetic elements using CRISPR-associated nucleases guided by short CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs). Type III systems exhibit a robust immune response that can lead to the extinction of a phage population, a feat coordinated by a multi-subunit effecto...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chou-Zheng L,Hatoum-Aslan A

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant KRAS colorectal cancer (CRC) cells release protein-laden exosomes that can alter the tumor microenvironment. To test whether exosomal RNAs also contribute to changes in gene expression in recipient cells, and whether mutant KRAS might regulate the composition of secreted microRNAs (miRNAs), we compared small RN...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Cha DJ,Franklin JL,Dou Y,Liu Q,Higginbotham JN,Demory Beckler M,Weaver AM,Vickers K,Prasad N,Levy S,Zhang B,Coffey RJ,Patton JG

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a small-molecule communication mechanism was discovered in a range of Bacillus-infecting bacteriophages, which these temperate phages use to inform their lysis-lysogeny decision. We present a mathematical model of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of such viral communication, and show that a communica...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Doekes HM,Mulder GA,Hermsen R

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase extends telomere sequences at chromosomal ends to protect genomic DNA. During this process it must select the correct nucleotide from a pool of nucleotides with various sugars and base pairing properties, which is critically important for the proper capping of telomeric sequences by shelterin. Unfortunately...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Schaich MA,Sanford SL,Welfer GA,Johnson SA,Khoang TH,Opresko PL,Freudenthal BD

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-sensitive transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels are members of the large tetrameric cation channels superfamily but are considered to be uniquely sensitive to heat, which has been presumed to be due to the existence of an unidentified temperature-sensing domain. Here we report that the homologous...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yang F,Zheng J

更新日期：2014-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:During embryogenesis, chromatin accessibility profiles control lineage-specific gene expression by modulating transcription, thus impacting multipotent progenitor states and subsequent fate choices. Subsets of cardiac and pharyngeal/head muscles share a common origin in the cardiopharyngeal mesoderm, but the chromatin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Racioppi C,Wiechecki KA,Christiaen L

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in the presence or absence of transposable elements (TEs) is a major source of genetic variation between individuals. Here, we identified 23,095 TE presence/absence variants between 216 Arabidopsis accessions. Most TE variants were rare, and we find these rare variants associated with local extremes of gene ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Stuart T,Eichten SR,Cahn J,Karpievitch YV,Borevitz JO,Lister R

更新日期：2016-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong kinetochore-microtubule attachments are essential for faithful segregation of sister chromatids during mitosis. The Dam1 and Ndc80 complexes are the main microtubule binding components of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae kinetochore. Cooperation between these two complexes enhances kinetochore-microtubule coupling ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kim JO,Zelter A,Umbreit NT,Bollozos A,Riffle M,Johnson R,MacCoss MJ,Asbury CL,Davis TN

更新日期：2017-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:As the demographics of the modern world skew older, understanding and mitigating the effects of aging is increasingly important within biomedical research. Recent studies in model organisms demonstrate that the aging process is frequently modified by an organism's ability to perceive and respond to changes in its envi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Miller HA,Dean ES,Pletcher SD,Leiser SF

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of specialized cells and structures in the heart is regulated by spatially -restricted molecular pathways. Disruptions in these pathways can cause severe congenital cardiac malformations or functional defects. To better understand these pathways and how they regulate cardiac development we used tomo-seq, c...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Burkhard SB,Bakkers J

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the crystal structure of nuclear import receptor Importin-9 bound to its cargo, the histones H2A-H2B. Importin-9 wraps around the core, globular region of H2A-H2B to form an extensive interface. The nature of this interface coupled with quantitative analysis of deletion mutants of H2A-H2B suggests that the N...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Padavannil A,Sarkar P,Kim SJ,Cagatay T,Jiou J,Brautigam CA,Tomchick DR,Sali A,D'Arcy S,Chook YM

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair follicle (HF) development is orchestrated by coordinated signals from adjacent epithelial and mesenchymal cells. In humans this process only occurs during embryogenesis and viable strategies to induce new HFs in adult skin are lacking. Here, we reveal that activation of Hedgehog (Hh) signaling in adjacent epithel...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sun X,Are A,Annusver K,Sivan U,Jacob T,Dalessandri T,Joost S,Füllgrabe A,Gerling M,Kasper M

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-modal MRI techniques have identified biomarkers that could help to predict whether someone will develop epilepsy. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gröhn O,Sierra A

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Across species, sleep in young animals is critical for normal brain maturation. The molecular determinants of early life sleep remain unknown. Through an RNAi-based screen, we identified a gene, pdm3, required for sleep maturation in Drosophila. Pdm3, a transcription factor, coordinates an early developmental program ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chakravarti Dilley L,Szuperak M,Gong NN,Williams CE,Saldana RL,Garbe DS,Syed MH,Jain R,Kayser MS

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual recognition (IR) is essential for maintaining various social interactions in a group, and face recognition is one of the most specialised cognitive abilities in IR. We used both a mating preference system and an electric shock conditioning experiment to test IR ability in medaka, and found that signals near...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wang MY,Takeuchi H

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein concentration gradients pattern developing organisms and single cells. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe rod-shaped cells, Pom1 kinase forms gradients with maxima at cell poles. Pom1 controls the timing of mitotic entry by inhibiting Cdr2, which forms stable membrane-associated nodes at mid-cell. Pom1 gradients rel...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gerganova V,Floderer C,Archetti A,Michon L,Carlini L,Reichler T,Manley S,Martin SG

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The central complex is a highly conserved insect brain region composed of morphologically stereotyped neurons that arborize in distinctively shaped substructures. The region is implicated in a wide range of behaviors and several modeling studies have explored its circuit computations. Most studies have relied on assum...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Franconville R,Beron C,Jayaraman V

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Social rank differentially influences how male and female mice respond to chronic stress. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bangasser DA,Sanchez EO

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms generating epileptic neuronal networks following insults such as severe seizures are unknown. We have previously shown that interfering with the function of the neuron-restrictive silencer factor (NRSF/REST), an important transcription factor that influences neuronal phenotype, attenuated development of...

journal_title：eLife

authors： McClelland S,Brennan GP,Dubé C,Rajpara S,Iyer S,Richichi C,Bernard C,Baram TZ

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells respond to changes in their environment through signaling networks that modulate cytoskeleton and membrane organization to coordinate cell-cycle progression, polarized cell growth and multicellular development. Here, we define a novel regulatory mechanism by which the motor activity and function of the fission y...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Baker K,Gyamfi IA,Mashanov GI,Molloy JE,Geeves MA,Mulvihill DP

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Dsc E3 ligase complex has long been recognized as a Golgi-specific protein ubquitination system. It shares a striking sequence similarity to the Hrd1 complex that plays critical roles in the ER-associated degradation pathway. Using biochemical purification and mass spectrometry, we identified two novel Dsc s...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yang X,Arines FM,Zhang W,Li M

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of synthetic optogenetic tools that allow precise spatiotemporal control of biological processes previously inaccessible to optogenetic control has developed rapidly over the last years. Rational design of such tools requires detailed knowledge of allosteric light signaling in natural photoreceptors. To und...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Heintz U,Schlichting I

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In hypoxic stress conditions, glycolysis enzymes assemble into singular cytoplasmic granules called glycolytic (G) bodies. G body formation in yeast correlates with increased glucose consumption and cell survival. However, the physical properties and organizing principles that define G body formation are unclear. We d...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fuller GG,Han T,Freeberg MA,Moresco JJ,Ghanbari Niaki A,Roach NP,Yates JR 3rd,Myong S,Kim JK

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Context-dependent memories may guide adaptive behavior relaying in previous experience while updating stored information through reconsolidation. Retrieval can be triggered by partial and shared cues. When the cue is presented, the most relevant memory should be updated. In a contextual version of the object recogniti...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Morici JF,Miranda M,Gallo FT,Zanoni B,Bekinschtein P,Weisstaub NV

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The link between the combined action of neuromodulators in the brain and global brain states remains a mystery. In this study, using biophysically realistic models of the thalamocortical network, we identified the critical intrinsic and synaptic mechanisms, associated with the putative action of acetylcholine (ACh), G...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Krishnan GP,Chauvette S,Shamie I,Soltani S,Timofeev I,Cash SS,Halgren E,Bazhenov M

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00