Genetic and Ultrastructural Analysis Reveals the Key Players and Initial Steps of Bacterial Magnetosome Membrane Biogenesis.

abstract：:Tripartite Motif (TRIM) ubiquitin ligases act in the innate immune response against viruses. One of the best characterized members of this family, TRIM5α, serves as a potent retroviral restriction factor with activity against HIV. Here, we characterize what are likely to be the youngest TRIM genes in the human genome....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Han K,Lou DI,Sawyer SL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomes are the highly complex macromolecular assemblies dedicated to the synthesis of all cellular proteins from mRNA templates. The main principles underlying the making of ribosomes are conserved across eukaryotic organisms and this process has been studied in most detail in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Ye...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pillet B,García-Gómez JJ,Pausch P,Falquet L,Bange G,de la Cruz J,Kressler D

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Orienting the causal relationship between pairs of traits is a fundamental task in scientific research with significant implications in practice, such as in prioritizing molecular targets and modifiable risk factors for developing therapeutic and interventional strategies for complex diseases. A recent method, called ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xue H,Pan W

更新日期：2020-11-02 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：:DNA methyltransferases are ubiquitous enzymes conserved in bacteria, plants and opisthokonta. These enzymes, which methylate cytosines, are involved in numerous biological processes, notably development. In mammals and higher plants, methylation patterns established and maintained by the cytosine DNA methyltransferase...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Grognet P,Timpano H,Carlier F,Aït-Benkhali J,Berteaux-Lecellier V,Debuchy R,Bidard F,Malagnac F

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying immune system recognition of different types of pathogens has been extensively studied over the past few decades; however, the mechanism by which healthy self-tissue evades an attack by its own immune system is less well-understood. Here, we established an autoimmune model of melanotic mass fo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim MJ,Choe KM

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicellular tubes consist of polarized cells wrapped around a central lumen and are essential structures underlying many developmental and physiological functions. In Drosophila compound eyes, each ommatidium forms a luminal matrix, the inter-rhabdomeral space, to shape and separate the key phototransduction organel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nie J,Mahato S,Zelhof AC

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-microfilament interactions are important for cytokinesis and subcellular localization of proteins and mRNAs. In the early zebrafish embryo, astral microtubule-microfilament interactions also facilitate a stereotypic segregation pattern of germ plasm ribonucleoparticles (GP RNPs), which is critical for thei...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nair S,Marlow F,Abrams E,Kapp L,Mullins MC,Pelegri F

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA silencing is a defense system against "genomic parasites" such as transposable elements (TE), which are potentially harmful to host genomes. In plants, transcripts from TEs induce production of double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) and are processed into small RNAs (small interfering RNAs, siRNAs) that suppress TEs by RNA...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nosaka M,Itoh J,Nagato Y,Ono A,Ishiwata A,Sato Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years different types of structural variants (SVs) have been discovered in the human genome and their functional impact has become increasingly clear. Inversions, however, are poorly characterized and more difficult to study, especially those mediated by inverted repeats or segmental duplications. Here, we d...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Aguado C,Gayà-Vidal M,Villatoro S,Oliva M,Izquierdo D,Giner-Delgado C,Montalvo V,García-González J,Martínez-Fundichely A,Capilla L,Ruiz-Herrera A,Estivill X,Puig M,Cáceres M

更新日期：2014-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular toxicity introduced by protein misfolding threatens cell fitness and viability. Failure to eliminate these polypeptides is associated with various aggregation diseases. In eukaryotes, the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) plays a vital role in protein quality control (PQC), by selectively targeting misfolded ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Peters LZ,Karmon O,David-Kadoch G,Hazan R,Yu T,Glickman MH,Ben-Aroya S

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Lethal recessive alleles cause pre- or postnatal death in homozygous affected individuals, reducing fertility. Especially in small size domestic and wild populations, those alleles might be exposed by inbreeding, caused by matings between related parents that inherited the same recessive lethal allele from a common an...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Derks MFL,Gjuvsland AB,Bosse M,Lopes MS,van Son M,Harlizius B,Tan BF,Hamland H,Grindflek E,Groenen MAM,Megens HJ

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9m2) and trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27m3) are two hallmarks of transcriptional repression in many organisms. In Arabidopsis thaliana, H3K27m3 is targeted by Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins and is associated with silent protein-coding genes, while H3K9m2 is correla...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Deleris A,Stroud H,Bernatavichute Y,Johnson E,Klein G,Schubert D,Jacobsen SE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria is a formidable barrier that is difficult for antimicrobial drugs to penetrate. Thus, the list of treatments effective against these organisms is small and with the rise of new resistance mechanisms is shrinking rapidly. New therapies to treat Gram-negative bacterial infecti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Paradis-Bleau C,Kritikos G,Orlova K,Typas A,Bernhardt TG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intra-S phase checkpoint kinase of metazoa and yeast, ATR/MEC1, protects chromosomes from DNA damage and replication stress by phosphorylating subunits of the replicative helicase, MCM2-7. Here we describe an unprecedented ATR-dependent pathway in Tetrahymena thermophila in which the essential pre-replicative comp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sandoval PY,Lee PH,Meng X,Kapler GM

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Male mammals produce sperm for most of postnatal life and therefore require a robust germ line stem cell system, with precise balance between self-renewal and differentiation. Prior work established doublesex- and mab-3-related transcription factor 1 (Dmrt1) as a conserved transcriptional regulator of male sexual diff...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang T,Oatley J,Bardwell VJ,Zarkower D

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle control is modified at meiosis compared to mitosis, because two divisions follow a single DNA replication event. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) promote progression through both meiosis and mitosis, and a central regulator of their activity is the APC/C (Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome) that is especia...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cromer L,Heyman J,Touati S,Harashima H,Araou E,Girard C,Horlow C,Wassmann K,Schnittger A,De Veylder L,Mercier R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpains constitute a superfamily of Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteases, indispensable for various cellular processes. Among the 15 mammalian calpains, calpain 8/nCL-2 and calpain 9/nCL-4 are predominantly expressed in the gastrointestinal tract and are restricted to the gastric surface mucus (pit) cells in the stomach...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hata S,Abe M,Suzuki H,Kitamura F,Toyama-Sorimachi N,Abe K,Sakimura K,Sorimachi H

更新日期：2010-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although numerous genetic loci have been associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) with genome wide association studies, efforts are needed to identify the causal genes in these loci and link them into fundamental signaling pathways. Recent studies have investigated the disease mechanism of CAD associated gene SMA...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Iyer D,Zhao Q,Wirka R,Naravane A,Nguyen T,Liu B,Nagao M,Cheng P,Miller CL,Kim JB,Pjanic M,Quertermous T

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of yeast telomerase, Est2p, is a telomere associated throughout most of the cell cycle, while the Est1p subunit binds only in late S/G2 phase, the time of telomerase action. Est2p binding in G1/early S phase requires a specific interaction between telomerase RNA (TLC1) and Ku80p. Here, we show th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chan A,Boulé JB,Zakian VA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycete Trichoderma reesei is a highly prolific cellulase producer. While XYR1 (Xylanase regulator 1) has been firmly established to be the master activator of cellulase gene expression in T. reesei, its precise transcriptional activation mechanism remains poorly understood. In the present study, TrGAL11, a com...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zheng F,Cao Y,Yang R,Wang L,Lv X,Zhang W,Meng X,Liu W

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent comparative genomic analysis of alternative splicing has shown that protein modularity is an important criterion for functional alternative splicing events. Exons that are alternatively spliced in multiple organisms are much more likely to be an exact multiple of 3 nt in length, representing a class of "modular...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xing Y,Lee CJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding transcription factor TFAP2A result in pigmentation anomalies in model organisms and premature hair graying in humans. However, the pleiotropic functions of TFAP2A and its redundantly-acting paralogs have made the precise contribution of TFAP2-type activity to melanocyte differentiation u...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Seberg HE,Van Otterloo E,Loftus SK,Liu H,Bonde G,Sompallae R,Gildea DE,Santana JF,Manak JR,Pavan WJ,Williams T,Cornell RA

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 1...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Graff M,Scott RA,Justice AE,Young KL,Feitosa MF,Barata L,Winkler TW,Chu AY,Mahajan A,Hadley D,Xue L,Workalemahu T,Heard-Costa NL,den Hoed M,Ahluwalia TS,Qi Q,Ngwa JS,Renström F,Quaye L,Eicher JD,Hayes JE,Corneli

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium is an important trace element that occurs in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec) and in tRNAs in the form of selenouridine. Recent large-scale metagenomics projects provide an opportunity for understanding global trends in trace element utilization. Herein, we characterized the selenoproteome of the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang Y,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2008-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration into the nuclear genome of germ line cells can lead to vertical inheritance of retroviral genes as host alleles. For other viruses, germ line integration has only rarely been documented. Nonetheless, we identified endogenous viral elements (EVEs) derived from ten non-retroviral families by systematic in si...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Katzourakis A,Gifford RJ

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the conserved phosphatase Cdc14 is required for the exit from mitosis. It is anchored on nucleolar chromatin by the Cfi1/Net1 protein until early anaphase, at which time it is released into the nucleoplasm. Two poorly understood, redundant pathways promote Cdc14 release, the FEAR (Cdc four...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hwang WW,Madhani HD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing generates protein diversity and allows for post-transcriptional gene regulation. Estimates suggest that 10% of the genes in Caenorhabditis elegans undergo alternative splicing. We constructed a splicing-sensitive microarray to detect alternative splicing for 352 cassette exons and tested for chang...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Barberan-Soler S,Zahler AM

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillorenal syndrome (PRS, also known as renal-coloboma syndrome) is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by potentially-blinding congenital optic nerve excavation and congenital kidney abnormalities. Many patients with PRS have mutations in the paired box transcription factor gene, PAX2. Although most mutatio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Alur RP,Vijayasarathy C,Brown JD,Mehtani M,Onojafe IF,Sergeev YV,Boobalan E,Jones M,Tang K,Liu H,Xia CH,Gong X,Brooks BP

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00