Human Management of a Wild Plant Modulates the Evolutionary Dynamics of a Gene Determining Recessive Resistance to Virus Infection.

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified thousands of loci for a range of human complex traits and diseases. The proportion of phenotypic variance explained by significant associations is, however, limited. Given the same dense SNP panels, mixed model analyses capture a greater proportion of phenot...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xia C,Amador C,Huffman J,Trochet H,Campbell A,Porteous D,Generation Scotland.,Hastie ND,Hayward C,Vitart V,Navarro P,Haley CS

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of human diseases arise from mutations that alter muscle contraction. Evolutionary conservation allows genetic studies in Drosophila melanogaster to be used to better understand these myopathies and suggest novel therapeutic strategies. Integrin-mediated adhesion is required to support muscle structure and f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pronovost SM,Beckerle MC,Kadrmas JL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of metazoans from their choanoflagellate-like unicellular ancestor coincided with the acquisition of novel biological functions to support a multicellular lifestyle, and eventually, the unique cellular and physiological demands of differentiated cell types such as those forming the nervous, muscle and im...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Frédéric MY,Lundin VF,Whiteside MD,Cueva JG,Tu DK,Kang SY,Singh H,Baillie DL,Hutter H,Goodman MB,Brinkman FS,Leroux MR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding buffering mechanisms for various perturbations is essential for understanding robustness in cellular systems. Protein-level dosage compensation, which arises when changes in gene copy number do not translate linearly into protein level, is one mechanism for buffering against genetic perturbations. Here, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ishikawa K,Makanae K,Iwasaki S,Ingolia NT,Moriya H

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost 60 years ago, Severo Ochoa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the enzymatic synthesis of RNA by polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase). Although this discovery provided an important tool for deciphering the genetic code, subsequent work revealed that the predominant functi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cameron TA,Matz LM,De Lay NR

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Smc5/6, a member of the conserved SMC family of complexes, is essential for growth in most organisms. Its exact functions in a mitotic cell cycle are controversial, as chronic Smc5/6 loss-of-function alleles produce varying phenotypes. To circumvent this issue, we acutely depleted Smc5/6 in budding yeast and determine...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Peng XP,Lim S,Li S,Marjavaara L,Chabes A,Zhao X

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiating cells interact with their extracellular environment over time. Chondrocytes embed themselves in a proteoglycan (PG)-rich matrix, then undergo a developmental transition, termed "maturation," when they express ihh to induce bone in the overlying tissue, the perichondrium. Here, we ask whether PGs regula...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eames BF,Yan YL,Swartz ME,Levic DS,Knapik EW,Postlethwait JH,Kimmel CB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human growth has an estimated heritability of about 80%-90%. Nevertheless, the underlying cause of shortness of stature remains unknown in the majority of individuals. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) showed that both common single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants (CNVs) contribute to height var...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zahnleiter D,Uebe S,Ekici AB,Hoyer J,Wiesener A,Wieczorek D,Kunstmann E,Reis A,Doerr HG,Rauch A,Thiel CT

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulolytic fungi have evolved a complex regulatory network to maintain the precise balance of nutrients required for growth and hydrolytic enzyme production. When fungi are exposed to cellulose, the transcript levels of cellulase genes rapidly increase and then decline. However, the mechanisms underlying this bell-s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lin L,Wang S,Li X,He Q,Benz JP,Tian C

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic origin of human skin pigmentation remains an open question in biology. Several skin disorders and diseases originate from mutations in conserved pigmentation genes, including albinism, vitiligo, and melanoma. Teleosts possess the capacity to modify their pigmentation to adapt to their environmental backgro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Madelaine R,Ngo KJ,Skariah G,Mourrain P

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic characterization of ẖybrid incompatibility (HI) between related species remains the key to understanding speciation. The genetic basis of HI has been intensively studied in Drosophila species, but remains largely unknown in other species, including nematodes, which is mainly due to the lack of a sister spec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bi Y,Ren X,Yan C,Shao J,Xie D,Zhao Z

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal intestine is a very complex and dynamic organ that must rapidly adapt and remodel in response to a barrage of environmental stimuli during the first few postnatal weeks. Recent studies demonstrate that the zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1 plays an essential role governing postnatal repro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mould AW,Morgan MA,Nelson AC,Bikoff EK,Robertson EJ

更新日期：2015-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic models of ribosome dysfunction show selective organ failure, highlighting a gap in our understanding of cell-type specific responses to translation insufficiency. Translation defects underlie a growing list of inherited and acquired cancer-predisposition syndromes referred to as ribosomopathies. We sought to i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tourlakis ME,Zhang S,Ball HL,Gandhi R,Liu H,Zhong J,Yuan JS,Guidos CJ,Durie PR,Rommens JM

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine kinase QseE and response regulator QseF compose a two-component system in Enterobacteriaceae. In Escherichia coli K-12 QseF activates transcription of glmY and of rpoE from Sigma 54-dependent promoters by binding to upstream activating sequences. Small RNA GlmY and RpoE (Sigma 24) are important regulators of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Göpel Y,Görke B

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic homeostasis in metazoans is regulated by endocrine control of insulin/IGF signaling (IIS) activity. Stress and inflammatory signaling pathways--such as Jun-N-terminal Kinase (JNK) signaling--repress IIS, curtailing anabolic processes to promote stress tolerance and extend lifespan. While this interaction con...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hull-Thompson J,Muffat J,Sanchez D,Walker DW,Benzer S,Ganfornina MD,Jasper H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust, bistable switch regulates the fluctuations between wakefulness and natural sleep as well as those between wakefulness and anesthetic-induced unresponsiveness. We previously provided experimental evidence for the existence of a behavioral barrier to transitions between these states of arousal, which we call n...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Joiner WJ,Friedman EB,Hung HT,Koh K,Sowcik M,Sehgal A,Kelz MB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are rare quiescent cells that continuously replenish the cellular components of the peripheral blood. Observing that the ataxia-associated gene Ataxin-1-like (Atxn1L) was highly expressed in HSCs, we examined its role in HSC function through in vitro and in vivo assays. Mice lacking Atx...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kahle JJ,Souroullas GP,Yu P,Zohren F,Lee Y,Shaw CA,Zoghbi HY,Goodell MA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating and gametogenesis are two essential components of animal reproduction. Gametogenesis must be modulated by the need for gametes, yet little is known of how mating, a process that utilizes gametes, may modulate the process of gametogenesis. Here, we report that mating stimulates female germline stem cell (GSC) pr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ameku T,Niwa R

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms perceive changes in their dietary environment and enact a suite of behavioral and metabolic adaptations that can impact motivational behavior, disease resistance, and longevity. However, the precise nature and mechanism of these dietary responses is not known. We have uncovered a novel link between dietary f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Linford NJ,Chan TP,Pletcher SD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H1 linker histones facilitate higher-order chromatin folding and are essential for mammalian development. To achieve high-resolution mapping of H1 variants H1d and H1c in embryonic stem cells (ESCs), we have established a knock-in system and shown that the N-terminally tagged H1 proteins are functionally interchangeab...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cao K,Lailler N,Zhang Y,Kumar A,Uppal K,Liu Z,Lee EK,Wu H,Medrzycki M,Pan C,Ho PY,Cooper GP Jr,Dong X,Bock C,Bouhassira EE,Fan Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have shown that pleiotropy is a common phenomenon that can potentially be exploited for enhanced detection of susceptibility loci. We propose heritability informed power optimization (HIPO) for conducting powerful pleiotropic analysis using summary-level association statistics. We find ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Qi G,Chatterjee N

更新日期：2018-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In oocytes, where centrosomes are absent, the chromosomes direct the assembly of a bipolar spindle. Interactions between chromosomes and microtubules are essential for both spindle formation and chromosome segregation, but the nature and function of these interactions is not clear. We have examined oocytes lacking two...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Radford SJ,Hoang TL,Głuszek AA,Ohkura H,McKim KS

更新日期：2015-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006425.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mitra I,Tsang K,Ladd-Acosta C,Croen LA,Aldinger KA,Hendren RL,Traglia M,Lavillaureix A,Zaitlen N,Oldham MC,Levitt P,Nelson S,Amaral DG,Hertz-Picciotto I,Fallin MD,Weiss LA

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of whole genomes has revealed large and frequent changes in the size of gene families. These changes occur because of high rates of both gene gain (via duplication) and loss (via deletion or pseudogenization), as well as the evolution of entirely new genes. Here we use the genomes of 12 fully sequenced Dros...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hahn MW,Han MV,Han SG

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L1 retrotransposons have a prominent role in reshaping mammalian genomes. To replicate, the L1 ribonucleoprotein particle (RNP) first uses its endonuclease (EN) to nick the genomic DNA. The newly generated DNA end is subsequently used as a primer to initiate reverse transcription within the L1 RNA poly(A) tail, a proc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Monot C,Kuciak M,Viollet S,Mir AA,Gabus C,Darlix JL,Cristofari G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their protein coding function, exons can also serve as transcriptional enhancers. Mutations in these exonic-enhancers (eExons) could alter both protein function and transcription. However, the functional consequence of eExon mutations is not well known. Here, using massively parallel reporter assays, we...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Birnbaum RY,Patwardhan RP,Kim MJ,Findlay GM,Martin B,Zhao J,Bell RJ,Smith RP,Ku AA,Shendure J,Ahituv N

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitination of the replication clamp proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) at the conserved residue lysine (K)164 triggers postreplicative repair (PRR) to fill single-stranded gaps that result from stalled DNA polymerases. However, it has remained elusive as to whether cells engage PRR in response to replicatio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Becker JR,Pons C,Nguyen HD,Costanzo M,Boone C,Myers CL,Bielinsky AK

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The two DNA strands of the nuclear genome are replicated asymmetrically using three DNA polymerases, α, δ, and ε. Current evidence suggests that DNA polymerase ε (Pol ε) is the primary leading strand replicase, whereas Pols α and δ primarily perform lagging strand replication. The fact that these polymerases differ in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lujan SA,Williams JS,Pursell ZF,Abdulovic-Cui AA,Clark AB,Nick McElhinny SA,Kunkel TA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest (NC) is a vertebrate-specific cell population that exhibits remarkable multipotency. Although derived from the neural plate border (NPB) ectoderm, cranial NC (CNC) cells contribute not only to the peripheral nervous system but also to the ectomesenchymal precursors of the head skeleton. To date, the d...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cox SG,Kim H,Garnett AT,Medeiros DM,An W,Crump JG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular mechanisms of ultraviolet (UV) induced melanoma formation is becoming crucial with more reported cases each year. Expression of type II nuclear receptor Retinoid-X-Receptor α (RXRα) is lost during melanoma progression in humans. Here, we observed that in mice with melanocyte-specific ablati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Coleman DJ,Garcia G,Hyter S,Jang HS,Chagani S,Liang X,Larue L,Ganguli-Indra G,Indra AK

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00