Hypothalamic transcriptomes of 99 mouse strains reveal trans eQTL hotspots, splicing QTLs and novel non-coding genes.

abstract：:Mammalian HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCR), the rate-limiting enzyme of the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway and the therapeutic target of statins, is post-transcriptionally regulated by sterol-accelerated degradation. Under cholesterol-replete conditions, HMGCR is ubiquitinated and degraded, but the identity of the E3 ubiqu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Menzies SA,Volkmar N,van den Boomen DJ,Timms RT,Dickson AS,Nathan JA,Lehner PJ

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely argued that personalized instruction based on individual differences in learning styles or genetic predispositions could improve learning outcomes. However, this proposition has resisted clear demonstration in human studies, where it is difficult to control experience and quantify outcomes. Here, we take ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mets DG,Brainard MS

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite employing diverse molecular mechanisms, many different cell signaling systems avoid losing information by transmitting it in a linear manner. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Andrews SS,Brent R,Balázsi G

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual perception and imagery rely on similar representations in the visual cortex. During perception, visual activity is characterized by distinct processing stages, but the temporal dynamics underlying imagery remain unclear. Here, we investigated the dynamics of visual imagery in human participants using magnetoenc...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dijkstra N,Mostert P,Lange FP,Bosch S,van Gerven MA

更新日期：2018-05-29 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：:Actin dynamics generate forces to deform the membrane and overcome the cell's high turgor pressure during clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) in yeast, but precise molecular details are still unresolved. Our previous models predicted that actin filaments of the endocytic meshwork continually polymerize and disassemble...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lacy MM,Baddeley D,Berro J

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:While traditional microbiological freshwater tests focus on the detection of specific bacterial indicator species, including pathogens, direct tracing of all aquatic DNA through metagenomics poses a profound alternative. Yet, in situ metagenomic water surveys face substantial challenges in cost and logistics. Here, we...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Urban L,Holzer A,Baronas JJ,Hall MB,Braeuninger-Weimer P,Scherm MJ,Kunz DJ,Perera SN,Martin-Herranz DE,Tipper ET,Salter SJ,Stammnitz MR

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies identified the BIN1 locus as a leading modulator of genetic risk in Alzheimer's disease (AD). One limitation in understanding BIN1's contribution to AD is its unknown function in the brain. AD-associated BIN1 variants are generally noncoding and likely change expression. Here, we determ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Voskobiynyk Y,Roth JR,Cochran JN,Rush T,Carullo NV,Mesina JS,Waqas M,Vollmer RM,Day JJ,McMahon LL,Roberson ED

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The palmitoyl acyltransferase (PAT) ZDHHC14 is highly expressed in the hippocampus and is the only PAT predicted to bind Type-I PDZ domain-containing proteins. However, ZDHHC14's neuronal roles are unknown. Here, we identify the PDZ domain-containing Membrane-associated Guanylate Kinase (MaGUK) PSD93 as a direct ZDHHC...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sanders SS,Hernandez LM,Soh H,Karnam S,Walikonis RS,Tzingounis AV,Thomas GM

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory processing depends upon inhibitory signaling by interneurons, even at its earliest stages in the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN). Remarkably, to date only a single subtype of inhibitory neuron has been documented in the VCN, a projection neuron termed the D-stellate cell. With the use of a transgenic mouse lin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ngodup T,Romero GE,Trussell LO

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontal disease is an age-associated disorder clinically defined by periodontal bone loss, inflammation of the specialized tissues that surround and support the tooth, and microbiome dysbiosis. Currently, there is no therapy for reversing periodontal disease, and treatment is generally restricted to preventive mea...

journal_title：eLife

authors： An JY,Kerns KA,Ouellette A,Robinson L,Morris HD,Kaczorowski C,Park SI,Mekvanich T,Kang A,McLean JS,Cox TC,Kaeberlein M

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The numerous neurons and glia that form the brain originate from tightly controlled growth and division of neural stem cells, regulated systemically by important known stem cell-extrinsic signals. However, the cell-intrinsic mechanisms that control the distinctive proliferation rates of individual neural stem cells ar...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Samuels TJ,Järvelin AI,Ish-Horowicz D,Davis I

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous presence of inhibitory interneurons in the thalamus of primates contrasts with the sparsity of interneurons reported in mice. Here, we identify a larger than expected complexity and distribution of interneurons across the mouse thalamus, where all thalamic interneurons can be traced back to two developm...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jager P,Moore G,Calpin P,Durmishi X,Salgarella I,Menage L,Kita Y,Wang Y,Kim DW,Blackshaw S,Schultz SR,Brickley S,Shimogori T,Delogu A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swi2/Snf2 ATPases remodel substrates such as nucleosomes and transcription complexes to control a wide range of DNA-associated processes, but detailed structural information on the ATP-dependent remodeling reactions is largely absent. The single subunit remodeler Mot1 (modifier of transcription 1) dissociates TATA box...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Butryn A,Schuller JM,Stoehr G,Runge-Wollmann P,Förster F,Auble DT,Hopfner KP

更新日期：2015-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium sporozoites, the mosquito-transmitted forms of the malaria parasite, first infect the liver for an initial round of replication before the emergence of pathogenic blood stages. Sporozoites represent attractive targets for antimalarial preventive strategies, yet the mechanisms of parasite entry into hepatocy...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Manzoni G,Marinach C,Topçu S,Briquet S,Grand M,Tolle M,Gransagne M,Lescar J,Andolina C,Franetich JF,Zeisel MB,Huby T,Rubinstein E,Snounou G,Mazier D,Nosten F,Baumert TF,Silvie O

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike passive rupture of the human chorioamnion at birth, the insect extraembryonic (EE) tissues - the amnion and serosa - actively rupture and withdraw in late embryogenesis. Withdrawal is essential for development and has been a morphogenetic puzzle. Here, we use new fluorescent transgenic lines in the beetle Tribo...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hilbrant M,Horn T,Koelzer S,Panfilio KA

更新日期：2016-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbial populations rapidly adapt to changing environments with multiple variants competing for survival. To quantify such complex evolutionary dynamics in vivo, time resolved and genome wide data including rare variants are essential. We performed whole-genome deep sequencing of HIV-1 populations in 9 untreate...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zanini F,Brodin J,Thebo L,Lanz C,Bratt G,Albert J,Neher RA

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons form bona fide synapses with oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs), but the circuit context of these neuron to OPC synapses remains incompletely understood. Using monosynaptically-restricted rabies virus tracing of OPC afferents, we identified extensive afferent synaptic inputs to OPCs residing in secondary m...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mount CW,Yalçın B,Cunliffe-Koehler K,Sundaresh S,Monje M

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymph nodes (LNs) are a common site of metastasis in solid cancers, and cutaneous melanomas show inherent properties of LN colonization. However, interactions between LN stroma and pioneer metastatic cells during metastatic colonization remain largely uncharacterized. Here we studied mice implanted with GFP-expressing...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Singh R,Choi BK

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota of patients recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis is enriched in microbes belonging to the Prevotella genus. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mathis D

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription at individual genes in single cells is often pulsatile and stochastic. A key question emerges regarding how this behaviour contributes to tissue phenotype, but it has been a challenge to quantitatively analyse this in living cells over time, as opposed to studying snap-shots of gene expression state. We ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Featherstone K,Hey K,Momiji H,McNamara AV,Patist AL,Woodburn J,Spiller DG,Christian HC,McNeilly AS,Mullins JJ,Finkenstädt BF,Rand DA,White MR,Davis JR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in regulating cancer and stem cells are being increasingly appreciated. Its diverse mechanisms provide the regulatory network with a bigger repertoire to increase complexity. Here we report a novel LncRNA, Lnc34a, that is enriched in colon cancer stem cells (CCSCs) and initi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wang L,Bu P,Ai Y,Srinivasan T,Chen HJ,Xiang K,Lipkin SM,Shen X

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate chromosome segregation relies on bioriented amphitelic attachments of chromosomes to microtubules of the mitotic spindle, in which sister chromatids are connected to opposite spindle poles. BUB-1 is a protein of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint (SAC) that coordinates chromosome attachment with anaphase onset. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Edwards F,Maton G,Gareil N,Canman JC,Dumont J

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic crossovers result from homology-directed repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Unlike yeast and plants, where DSBs are generated near gene promoters, in many vertebrates DSBs are enriched at hotspots determined by the DNA binding activity of the rapidly evolving zinc finger array of PRDM9 (PR domain zinc ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mahgoub M,Paiano J,Bruno M,Wu W,Pathuri S,Zhang X,Ralls S,Cheng X,Nussenzweig A,Macfarlan TS

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise and efficient manipulation of genes is crucial for understanding the molecular mechanisms that govern human hematopoiesis and for developing novel therapies for diseases of the blood and immune system. Current methods do not enable precise engineering of complex genotypes that can be easily tracked in a mixed ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bak RO,Dever DP,Reinisch A,Cruz Hernandez D,Majeti R,Porteus MH

更新日期：2017-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria infection starts with injection of Plasmodium sporozoites by an Anopheles mosquito into the skin of the mammalian host. How sporozoites locate and enter a blood vessel is a critical, but poorly understood process. In this study, we examine sporozoite motility and their interaction with dermal blood vessels, us...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hopp CS,Chiou K,Ragheb DR,Salman AM,Khan SM,Liu AJ,Sinnis P

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In most animals, the brain controls the body via a set of descending neurons (DNs) that traverse the neck. DN activity activates, maintains or modulates locomotion and other behaviors. Individual DNs have been well-studied in species from insects to primates, but little is known about overall connectivity patterns acr...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Namiki S,Dickinson MH,Wong AM,Korff W,Card GM

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Grid cells in the brain respond when an animal occupies a periodic lattice of 'grid fields' during navigation. Grids are organized in modules with different periodicity. We propose that the grid system implements a hierarchical code for space that economizes the number of neurons required to encode location with a giv...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wei XX,Prentice J,Balasubramanian V

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:During early embryogenesis, cells must exit pluripotency and commit to multiple lineages in all germ-layers. How this transition is operated in vivo is poorly understood. Here, we report that MEK1 and the Nanog-related transcription factor Ventx2 coordinate this transition. MEK1 was required to make Xenopus pluripoten...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Scerbo P,Marchal L,Kodjabachian L

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal cord has the capacity to coordinate motor activities such as locomotion. Following spinal transection, functional activity can be regained, to a degree, following motor training. To identify microcircuits involved in this recovery, we studied a population of mouse spinal interneurons known to receive direct...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bui TV,Stifani N,Akay T,Brownstone RM

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00