The DEAD-box Protein Rok1 Orchestrates 40S and 60S Ribosome Assembly by Promoting the Release of Rrp5 from Pre-40S Ribosomes to Allow for 60S Maturation.

abstract：:In this paper, we describe why and how to build a local community of practice in scientific programming for life scientists who use computers and programming in their research. A community of practice is a small group of scientists who meet regularly to help each other and promote good practices in scientific programm...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stevens SLR,Kuzak M,Martinez C,Moser A,Bleeker P,Galland M

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of animals depends critically on prioritizing responses to motivationally salient stimuli. While it is generally believed that motivational salience increases decision speed, the quantitative relationship between motivational salience and decision speed, measured by reaction time (RT), remains unclear. He...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Avila I,Lin SC

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity is widely believed to constitute a key mechanism for modifying functional properties of neuronal networks. This belief implicitly implies, however, that synapses, when not driven to change their characteristics by physiologically relevant stimuli, will maintain these characteristics over time. How ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Minerbi A,Kahana R,Goldfeld L,Kaufman M,Marom S,Ziv NE

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptor protein (AP) complexes sort cargo into vesicles for transport from one membrane compartment of the cell to another. Four distinct AP complexes have been identified, which are present in most eukaryotes. We report the existence of a fifth AP complex, AP-5. Tagged AP-5 localises to a late endosomal compartment i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hirst J,Barlow LD,Francisco GC,Sahlender DA,Seaman MN,Dacks JB,Robinson MS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) belongs to the AGC superfamily of related serine/threonine protein kinases. It is a key regulator downstream of various growth factors and hormones and is involved in malignant transformation and chemo-resistance. Full-length PKB protein has not been crystallised, thus studying the molecular...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Calleja V,Laguerre M,Parker PJ,Larijani B

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic dissemination employs both the blood and lymphatic vascular systems. Solid tumors dynamically remodel and generate both vessel types during cancer progression. Lymphatic vessel invasion and cancer cells in the tumor-draining lymph nodes (LNs) are prognostic markers for breast cancer metastasis and patient o...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chen Y,Keskin D,Sugimoto H,Kanasaki K,Phillips PE,Bizarro L,Sharpe A,LeBleu VS,Kalluri R

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Every instant of perception depends on a cascade of brain processes calibrated to the history of sensory and decisional events. In the present work, we show that human visual perception is constantly shaped by two contrasting forces exerted by sensory adaptation and past decisions. In a series of experiments, we used ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pascucci D,Mancuso G,Santandrea E,Della Libera C,Plomp G,Chelazzi L

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproducibility crisis triggered worldwide initiatives to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in biomedical research. There are many examples of scientists, journals, and funding agencies adopting responsible research practices. The QUEST (Quality-Ethics-Open Science-Translation) Center offers a uniqu...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Strech D,Weissgerber T,Dirnagl U,QUEST Group.

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid destruction of the planet's biodiversity has prompted the nations of the world to set a target of achieving a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. However, we do not yet have an adequate way of monitoring progress towards achieving this target. Here we present a method for produ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Butchart SH,Stattersfield AJ,Bennun LA,Shutes SM,Akçakaya HR,Baillie JE,Stuart SN,Hilton-Taylor C,Mace GM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is the most prevalent intermediate on the oxidative DNA demethylation pathway and is implicated in regulation of embryogenesis, neurological processes, and cancerogenesis. Profiling of this relatively scarce genomic modification in clinical samples requires cost-effective high-resolution...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gibas P,Narmontė M,Staševskij Z,Gordevičius J,Klimašauskas S,Kriukienė E

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the highly conserved class of BEACH domain containing proteins (BDCPs) have been established as broad facilitators of protein-protein interactions and membrane dynamics in the context of human diseases like albinism, bleeding diathesis, impaired cellular immunity, cancer predisposition, and neurological dys...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Steffens A,Bräutigam A,Jakoby M,Hülskamp M

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane bioenergetics are universal, yet the phospholipid membranes of archaea and bacteria-the deepest branches in the tree of life-are fundamentally different. This deep divergence in membrane chemistry is reflected in other stark differences between the two domains, including ion pumping and DNA replication. We re...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sojo V,Pomiankowski A,Lane N

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Many soft tissue tumors recapitulate features of normal connective tissue. We hypothesize that different types of fibroblastic tumors are representative of different populations of fibroblastic cells or different activation states of these cells. We examined two tumors with fibroblastic features, solitary fibrous tumo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： West RB,Nuyten DS,Subramanian S,Nielsen TO,Corless CL,Rubin BP,Montgomery K,Zhu S,Patel R,Hernandez-Boussard T,Goldblum JR,Brown PO,van de Vijver M,van de Rijn M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a class of designed peptide detergents to stabilize photosystem I (PS-I) upon extended drying under N2 on a gold-coated-Ni-NTA glass surface. PS-I is a chlorophyll-containing membrane protein complex that is the primary reducer of ferredoxin and the electron acceptor of plastocyanin. We isolated the complex fr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kiley P,Zhao X,Vaughn M,Baldo MA,Bruce BD,Zhang S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001154.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： PLOS Biology Staff.

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic dogs exhibit tremendous phenotypic diversity, including a greater variation in body size than any other terrestrial mammal. Here, we generate a high density map of canine genetic variation by genotyping 915 dogs from 80 domestic dog breeds, 83 wild canids, and 10 outbred African shelter dogs across 60,968 sin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boyko AR,Quignon P,Li L,Schoenebeck JJ,Degenhardt JD,Lohmueller KE,Zhao K,Brisbin A,Parker HG,vonHoldt BM,Cargill M,Auton A,Reynolds A,Elkahloun AG,Castelhano M,Mosher DS,Sutter NB,Johnson GS,Novembre J,Hubisz MJ,

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-research is the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives. Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits. T...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ioannidis JPA

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Flight speed is expected to increase with mass and wing loading among flying animals and aircraft for fundamental aerodynamic reasons. Assuming geometrical and dynamical similarity, cruising flight speed is predicted to vary as (body mass)(1/6) and (wing loading)(1/2) among bird species. To test these scaling rules an...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Alerstam T,Rosén M,Bäckman J,Ericson PG,Hellgren O

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2002794.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Obleser J,Henry MJ,Lakatos P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1960, magnetic fields have been discussed as Zeitgebers for circadian clocks, but the mechanism by which clocks perceive and process magnetic information has remained unknown. Recently, the radical-pair model involving light-activated photoreceptors as magnetic field sensors has gained considerable support, and ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yoshii T,Ahmad M,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are characterized by outstanding molecular heterogeneity that results in severe therapy resistance and poor clinical outcome. Inter- and intratumoral heterogeneity in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) was recently revealed as a major parameter of poor clinical outc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pan M,Schinke H,Luxenburger E,Kranz G,Shakhtour J,Libl D,Huang Y,Gaber A,Pavšič M,Lenarčič B,Kitz J,Jakob M,Schwenk-Zieger S,Canis M,Hess J,Unger K,Baumeister P,Gires O

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny of related host species. Here, we test the prevalence of phylosymbiosis and its functional significance under highly controlled conditions b...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Brooks AW,Kohl KD,Brucker RM,van Opstal EJ,Bordenstein SR

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation is now a well-known precursor for cancer development. Infectious prostatitis are the most common causes of prostate inflammation, but emerging evidence points the role of metabolic disorders as a potential source of cancer-related inflammation. Although the widely used treatment for prostate cance...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bousset L,Septier A,Bunay J,Voisin A,Guiton R,Damon-Soubeyrant C,Renaud Y,De Haze A,Sapin V,Fogli A,Rambur A,De Joussineau C,Kocer A,Trousson A,Henry-Berger J,Höring M,Liebisch G,Matysik S,Lobaccaro JA,Morel L,Bar

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously it was shown that male mice, when they encounter female mice or their pheromones, emit ultrasonic vocalizations with frequencies ranging over 30-110 kHz. Here, we show that these vocalizations have the characteristics of song, consisting of several different syllable types, whose temporal sequencing include...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Holy TE,Guo Z

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Task-related activity in the ventral thalamus, a major target of basal ganglia output, is often assumed to be permitted or triggered by changes in basal ganglia activity through gating- or rebound-like mechanisms. To test those hypotheses, we sampled single-unit activity from connected basal ganglia output and thalami...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schwab BC,Kase D,Zimnik A,Rosenbaum R,Codianni MG,Rubin JE,Turner RS

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI (fMRI) studies have traditionally relied on intersubject normalization based on global brain morphology, which cannot establish proper functional correspondence between subjects due to substantial intersubject variability in functional organization. Here, we reliably identified a set of discrete, homolo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Li M,Wang D,Ren J,Langs G,Stoecklein S,Brennan BP,Lu J,Chen H,Liu H

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal epithelial cells exist within a complex environment that affects how they interpret and respond to stimuli. We have applied a multi-scale in vivo systems approach to understand how intestinal immune cells communicate with epithelial cells to regulate responses to inflammatory signals. Multivariate modeling ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lau KS,Cortez-Retamozo V,Philips SR,Pittet MJ,Lauffenburger DA,Haigis KM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies have shown that disruption of mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) function in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans can result in life extension. Counter to these findings, many mutations that disrupt ETC function in humans are known to be pathologically life-shortening. In this study, we have und...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rea SL,Ventura N,Johnson TE

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine guides behavior and learning through pleasure, according to classic understanding. Dopaminergic neurons are traditionally thought to signal positive or negative prediction errors (PEs) when reward expectations are, respectively, exceeded or not matched. These signed PEs are quite different from the unsigned P...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Valdés-Baizabal C,Carbajal GV,Pérez-González D,Malmierca MS

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of the ancient Sahul continent (present day Australia and New Guinea, and surrounding islands) is home to extreme linguistic diversity. Even apart from the huge Austronesian language family, which spread into the area after the breakup of the Sahul continent in the Holocene, there are hundreds of languages ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Reesink G,Singer R,Dunn M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00