Liver-Enriched Gene 1, a Glycosylated Secretory Protein, Binds to FGFR and Mediates an Anti-stress Pathway to Protect Liver Development in Zebrafish.

abstract：:Sideroblastic anemias are acquired or inherited anemias that result in a decreased ability to synthesize hemoglobin in red blood cells and result in the presence of iron deposits in the mitochondria of red blood cell precursors. A common subtype of congenital sideroblastic anemia is due to autosomal recessive mutation...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fernández-Murray JP,Prykhozhij SV,Dufay JN,Steele SL,Gaston D,Nasrallah GK,Coombs AJ,Liwski RS,Fernandez CV,Berman JN,McMaster CR

更新日期：2016-01-28 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：:DNA sequence polymorphism in a regulatory protein can have a widespread transcriptional effect. Here we present a computational approach for analyzing modules of genes with a common regulation that are affected by specific DNA polymorphisms. We identify such regulatory-linkage modules by integrating genotypic and expr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gat-Viks I,Meller R,Kupiec M,Shamir R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers control DNA access for transcription, recombination, and other processes. Acf1 (also known as BAZ1A in mammals) is a defining subunit of the conserved ISWI-family chromatin remodelers ACF and CHRAC, first purified over 15 years ago from Drosophila melanogaster embryos. Much is known ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dowdle JA,Mehta M,Kass EM,Vuong BQ,Inagaki A,Egli D,Jasin M,Keeney S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic cytokinesis influences the fertility and ploidy of gametes. However, limited information is available on the genetic control of meiotic cytokinesis in plants. Here, we identified a rice mutant with low male fertility, defective callose in meiosis 1 (dcm1). The pollen grains of dcm1 are proved to be defective i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang C,Shen Y,Tang D,Shi W,Zhang D,Du G,Zhou Y,Liang G,Li Y,Cheng Z

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) loci, together with cas (CRISPR-associated) genes, form the CRISPR/Cas adaptive immune system, a primary defense strategy that eubacteria and archaea mobilize against foreign nucleic acids, including phages and conjugative plasmids. Short spacer sequen...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rho M,Wu YW,Tang H,Doak TG,Ye Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid regulation of transcription have been studied in detail, the global networks regulated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) remain unknown. To address this question, we performed an orthogonal analysis to identify direct targets of the GR. First, we analyzed the expressi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Phuc Le P,Friedman JR,Schug J,Brestelli JE,Parker JB,Bochkis IM,Kaestner KH

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the well-documented role of remote enhancers in controlling developmental gene expression, the mechanisms that allocate enhancers to genes are poorly characterized. Here, we investigate the cis-regulatory organization of the locus containing the Tfap2c and Bmp7 genes in vivo, using a series of engineered chrom...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tsujimura T,Klein FA,Langenfeld K,Glaser J,Huber W,Spitz F

更新日期：2015-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are present in both vertebrates and invertebrates from nematodes to mammals. Although the importance of gap junctions has been documented in many biological processes, the molecular mechanisms underlying gap junction dynamics remain unclear. Here, using the C. elegans PLM neurons as a model, we show that...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Meng L,Chen CH,Yan D

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical growth of plants is a dynamic process that is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and has a pronounced effect on overall plant architecture and biomass composition. We have performed six controlled growth trials of an interspecific Setaria italica x Setaria viridis recombinant inbred line populati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Feldman MJ,Paul RE,Banan D,Barrett JF,Sebastian J,Yee MC,Jiang H,Lipka AE,Brutnell TP,Dinneny JR,Leakey ADB,Baxter I

更新日期：2017-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia (SCZ) has not yet been identified. Here, we apply a novel statistical algorithm called Covariate-Modulated Mixture Modeling (CM3), which incorporates auxiliary information (heterozygosity, total linkage disequilibrium, genomic annotations, pleiotropy) for each single n...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang Y,Thompson WK,Schork AJ,Holland D,Chen CH,Bettella F,Desikan RS,Li W,Witoelar A,Zuber V,Devor A,Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.,Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics throug

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant pathogens with a broad host range are able to infect plant lineages that diverged over 100 million years ago. They exert similar and recurring constraints on the evolution of unrelated plant populations. Plants generally respond with quantitative disease resistance (QDR), a form of immunity relying on complex ge...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Badet T,Voisin D,Mbengue M,Barascud M,Sucher J,Sadon P,Balagué C,Roby D,Raffaele S

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniofacial abnormalities, including facial skeletal defects, comprise approximately one-third of all birth defects in humans. Since most bones in the face derive from cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs), which are multipotent stem cells, craniofacial bone disorders are largely attributed to defects in CNCCs. However,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kitami K,Kitami M,Kaku M,Wang B,Komatsu Y

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Massively parallel pyrosequencing of hypervariable regions from small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) genes can sample a microbial community two or three orders of magnitude more deeply per dollar and per hour than capillary sequencing of full-length SSU rRNA. As with full-length rRNA surveys, each sequence read is a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Huse SM,Dethlefsen L,Huber JA,Mark Welch D,Relman DA,Sogin ML

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During development of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells (NSCs) divide symmetrically to proliferate and asymmetrically to generate neurons. Although faithful segregation of mitotic chromosomes is critical for NSC divisions, its fundamental mechanism remains unclear. A class of evolutionarily conserved protein comp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nishide K,Hirano T

更新日期：2014-12-04 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：:Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic parasites that selfishly replicate at the expense of host fitness. Fifty years of evolutionary studies of TEs have concentrated on the deleterious genetic effects of TEs, such as their effects on disrupting genes and regulatory sequences. However, a flurry of recent work suggest...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Choi JY,Lee YCG

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the rare colonizers of heavy-metal rich toxic soils, Arabidopsis halleri is a compelling model extremophile, physiologically distinct from its sister species A. lyrata, and A. thaliana. Naturally selected metal hypertolerance and extraordinarily high leaf metal accumulation in A. halleri both require Heavy Metal...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hanikenne M,Kroymann J,Trampczynska A,Bernal M,Motte P,Clemens S,Krämer U

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major transition to eusociality required the evolution of a switch to canalize development into either a reproductive or a helper, the nature of which is currently unknown. Following predictions from the 'theory of facilitated variation', we identify sex differentiation pathways as promising candidates because of ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Klein A,Schultner E,Lowak H,Schrader L,Heinze J,Holman L,Oettler J

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, the absence or irreversible loss of hair cells, the sensory mechanoreceptors in the cochlea, accounts for a large majority of acquired and congenital hearing disorders. In the auditory and vestibular neuroepithelia of the inner ear, hair cells are accompanied by another cell type called supporting cells. Th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Behra M,Bradsher J,Sougrat R,Gallardo V,Allende ML,Burgess SM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a considerable proportion of serum lipids loci identified in European ancestry individuals (EA) replicate in African Americans (AA), interethnic differences in the distribution of serum lipids suggest that some genetic determinants differ by ethnicity. We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of five lipid can...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bentley AR,Chen G,Shriner D,Doumatey AP,Zhou J,Huang H,Mullikin JC,Blakesley RW,Hansen NF,Bouffard GG,Cherukuri PF,Maskeri B,Young AC,Adeyemo A,Rotimi CN

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Regenerative processes are critical to maintain tissue homeostasis in high-turnover tissues. At the same time, proliferation of stem and progenitor cells has to be carefully controlled to prevent hyper-proliferative diseases. Mechanisms that ensure this balance, thus promoting proliferative homeostasis, are expected t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Biteau B,Karpac J,Supoyo S,Degennaro M,Lehmann R,Jasper H

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the role played by cellular RNA pools produced by homologous genomic loci in defining the transcriptional state of a silenced gene, we tested the effect of non-functional alleles of the white gene in the presence of a functional copy of white, silenced by heterochromatin. We found that non-functional...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Onorati MC,Arancio W,Cavalieri V,Ingrassia AM,Pavesi G,Corona DF

更新日期：2015-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The number and distribution of crossover events are tightly regulated at prophase of meiosis I. The resolution of Holliday junctions by structure-specific endonucleases, including MUS-81, SLX-1, XPF-1 and GEN-1, is one of the main mechanisms proposed for crossover formation. However, how these nucleases coordinately r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Saito TT,Lui DY,Kim HM,Meyer K,Colaiácovo MP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We resequenced and phased 27 kb of DNA within 580 kb of the MHC class II region in 158 population chromosomes, most of which were conserved extended haplotypes (CEHs) of European descent or contained their centromeric fragments. We determined the single nucleotide polymorphism and deletion-insertion polymorphism allel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Larsen CE,Alford DR,Trautwein MR,Jalloh YK,Tarnacki JL,Kunnenkeri SK,Fici DA,Yunis EJ,Awdeh ZL,Alper CA

更新日期：2014-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhox cluster on the mouse X chromosome contains reproduction-related homeobox genes expressed in a sexually dimorphic manner. We report that two members of the Rhox cluster, Rhox6 and 9, are regulated by de-methylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 by KDM6A, a histone demethylase with female-biased expression. Consis...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Berletch JB,Deng X,Nguyen DK,Disteche CM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large fraction of human genes are regulated by genetic variation near the transcribed sequence (cis-eQTL, expression quantitative trait locus), and many cis-eQTLs have implications for human disease. Less is known regarding the effects of genetic variation on expression of distant genes (trans-eQTLs) and their biolo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pierce BL,Tong L,Chen LS,Rahaman R,Argos M,Jasmine F,Roy S,Paul-Brutus R,Westra HJ,Franke L,Esko T,Zaman R,Islam T,Rahman M,Baron JA,Kibriya MG,Ahsan H

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:From Darwin's study of the Galapagos and Wallace's study of Indonesia, islands have played an important role in evolutionary investigations, and radiations within archipelagos are readily interpreted as supporting the conventional view of allopatric speciation. Even during the ongoing paradigm shift towards other mode...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Thorpe RS,Surget-Groba Y,Johansson H

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) related pathways are essential for germline development and fertility in metazoa and can contribute to inter- and trans-generational inheritance. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, environmental double-stranded RNA provided by feeding can lead to heritable changes in phenotype and gene exp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bezler A,Braukmann F,West SM,Duplan A,Conconi R,Schütz F,Gönczy P,Piano F,Gunsalus K,Miska EA,Keller L

更新日期：2019-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The t-haplotype, a variant form of the t-complex region on mouse chromosome 17, acts as selfish genetic element and is transmitted at high frequencies (> 95%) from heterozygous (t/+) males to their offspring. This phenotype is termed transmission ratio distortion (TRD) and is caused by the interaction of the t-complex...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bauer H,Schindler S,Charron Y,Willert J,Kusecek B,Herrmann BG

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00