Breast Cancer Patients Have Greatly Benefited from the Progress in Molecular Oncology.

abstract：:The differentiation of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis into a dormant spore is among the most well-characterized developmental pathways in biology. Classical genetic screens performed over the past half century identified scores of factors involved in every step of this morphological process. More recently, transcript...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Meeske AJ,Rodrigues CD,Brady J,Lim HC,Bernhardt TG,Rudner DZ

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many prior studies demonstrating offline behavioral gains in motor skills after sleep, the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. To investigate the neurophysiological basis for offline gains, we performed single-unit recordings in motor cortex as rats learned a skilled upper-limb task. We foun...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ramanathan DS,Gulati T,Ganguly K

更新日期：2015-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription rate of a gene is often controlled by several regulators that bind specific sites in the gene's cis-regulatory region. The combined effect of these regulators is described by a cis-regulatory input function. What determines the form of an input function, and how variable is it with respect to mutatio...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Mayo AE,Setty Y,Shavit S,Zaslaver A,Alon U

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000311.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Simeon R,Jiang M,Chamoun-Emanuelli AM,Yu H,Zhang Y,Meng R,Peng Z,Jakana J,Zhang J,Feng H,Chen Z

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromones form an essential chemical language of intraspecific communication in many animals. How olfactory systems recognize pheromonal signals with both sensitivity and specificity is not well understood. An important in vivo paradigm for this process is the detection mechanism of the sex pheromone (Z)-11-octadecen...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gomez-Diaz C,Reina JH,Cambillau C,Benton R

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The maintenance of pluripotency and specification of cellular lineages during embryonic development are controlled by transcriptional regulatory networks, which coordinate specific sets of genes through both activation and repression. The transcriptional repressor RE1-silencing transcription factor (REST) plays import...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johnson R,Teh CH,Kunarso G,Wong KY,Srinivasan G,Cooper ML,Volta M,Chan SS,Lipovich L,Pollard SM,Karuturi RK,Wei CL,Buckley NJ,Stanton LW

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Amazon is Brazil's greatest natural resource and invaluable to the rest of the world as a buffer against climate change. The recent election of Brazil's president brought disputes over development plans for the region back into the spotlight. Historically, the development model for the Amazon has focused on exploi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Castro MC,Baeza A,Codeço CT,Cucunubá ZM,Dal'Asta AP,De Leo GA,Dobson AP,Carrasco-Escobar G,Lana RM,Lowe R,Monteiro AMV,Pascual M,Santos-Vega M

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin (Rap) and its derivatives, called rapalogs, are being explored in clinical trials targeting cancer and neurodegeneration. The underlying mechanisms of Rap actions, however, are not well understood. Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), a lysosome-localized protein kinase that acts as a critical regulator o...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zhang X,Chen W,Gao Q,Yang J,Yan X,Zhao H,Su L,Yang M,Gao C,Yao Y,Inoki K,Li D,Shao R,Wang S,Sahoo N,Kudo F,Eguchi T,Ruan B,Xu H

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus proliferation involves gene replication inside infected cells and transmission to new target cells. Once positive-strand RNA virus has infected a cell, the viral genome serves as a template for copying ("stay-strategy") or is packaged into a progeny virion that will be released extracellularly ("leave-strategy")...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Iwanami S,Kitagawa K,Ohashi H,Asai Y,Shionoya K,Saso W,Nishioka K,Inaba H,Nakaoka S,Wakita T,Diekmann O,Iwami S,Watashi K

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of biology is heavily based on a small number of genetically tractable model organisms. Most eukaryotic phyla lack such experimental models, and this limits our ability to explore the molecular mechanisms that ultimately define their biology, ecology, and diversity. In particular, marine prot...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Waller RF,Cleves PA,Rubio-Brotons M,Woods A,Bender SJ,Edgcomb V,Gann ER,Jones AC,Teytelman L,von Dassow P,Wilhelm SW,Collier JL

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations can originate from the chance misincorporation of nucleotides during DNA replication or from DNA lesions that arise between replication cycles and are not repaired correctly. We introduce a model that relates the source of mutations to their accumulation with cell divisions, providing a framework for underst...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gao Z,Wyman MJ,Sella G,Przeworski M

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of neuronal networks relies on selective assembly of synaptic connections during development. We examined how synaptic specificity emerges in the pontocerebellar projection. Analysis of axon-target interactions with correlated light-electron microscopy revealed that developing pontine mossy fibers elabora...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kalinovsky A,Boukhtouche F,Blazeski R,Bornmann C,Suzuki N,Mason CA,Scheiffele P

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonistic interactions drive host-virus evolutionary arms races, which often manifest as recurrent amino acid changes (i.e., positive selection) at their protein-protein interaction interfaces. Here, we investigated whether combinatorial mutagenesis of positions under positive selection in a host antiviral protein ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Colón-Thillet R,Hsieh E,Graf L,McLaughlin RN Jr,Young JM,Kochs G,Emerman M,Malik HS

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:The most common form of human autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP) is caused by mutations in the SPG4 (spastin) gene, which encodes an AAA ATPase closely related in sequence to the microtubule-severing protein Katanin. Patients with AD-HSP exhibit degeneration of the distal regions of the longest ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sherwood NT,Sun Q,Xue M,Zhang B,Zinn K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked chromatin remodeler (ATRX), a DAXX (death domain-associated protein) interacting protein, is often lost in cells using the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) pathway, but it is not known how ATRX loss leads to ALT. We report that ATRX deletion from mouse c...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lovejoy CA,Takai K,Huh MS,Picketts DJ,de Lange T

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decades, researchers have characterized a set of "clock genes" that drive daily rhythms in physiology and behavior. This arduous work has yielded results with far-reaching consequences in metabolic, psychiatric, and neoplastic disorders. Recent attempts to expand our understanding of circadian regulation...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Anafi RC,Lee Y,Sato TK,Venkataraman A,Ramanathan C,Kavakli IH,Hughes ME,Baggs JE,Growe J,Liu AC,Kim J,Hogenesch JB

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of symbioses between eukaryotic hosts and microbes extends from the organismal to the ecosystem level and underpins the health of Earth's most threatened marine ecosystems. Despite rapid growth in research on host-associated microbes, from individual microbial symbionts to host-associated consortia of...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wilkins LGE,Leray M,O'Dea A,Yuen B,Peixoto RS,Pereira TJ,Bik HM,Coil DA,Duffy JE,Herre EA,Lessios HA,Lucey NM,Mejia LC,Rasher DB,Sharp KH,Sogin EM,Thacker RW,Vega Thurber R,Wcislo WT,Wilbanks EG,Eisen JA

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:While the role of cortical microstructure in organising neural function is well established, it remains unclear how structural constraints can give rise to more flexible elements of cognition. While nonhuman primate research has demonstrated a close structure-function correspondence, the relationship between microstru...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Paquola C,Vos De Wael R,Wagstyl K,Bethlehem RAI,Hong SJ,Seidlitz J,Bullmore ET,Evans AC,Misic B,Margulies DS,Smallwood J,Bernhardt BC

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Citizen science is mainstream: millions of people contribute data to a growing array of citizen science projects annually, forming massive datasets that will drive research for years to come. Many citizen science projects implement a "leaderboard" framework, ranking the contributions based on number of records or spec...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Callaghan CT,Rowley JJL,Cornwell WK,Poore AGB,Major RE

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the developmental principles of sensory and cognitive processing have been extensively investigated, their synergy has been largely neglected. During early life, most sensory systems are still largely immature. As a notable exception, the olfactory system is functional at birth, controlling mother-offspring i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gretenkord S,Kostka JK,Hartung H,Watznauer K,Fleck D,Minier-Toribio A,Spehr M,Hanganu-Opatz IL

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox is unique among infectious diseases in the degree to which it devastated human populations, its long history of control interventions, and the fact that it has been successfully eradicated. Mortality from smallpox in London, England was carefully documented, weekly, for nearly 300 years, providing a rare and ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krylova O,Earn DJD

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are being used to generate whole genome sequences for a wide range of crop species. When combined with precise phenotyping methods, these technologies provide a powerful and rapid tool for identifying the genetic basis of agriculturally important traits and for predicting ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Varshney RK,Terauchi R,McCouch SR

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory loss induces cross-modal plasticity, often resulting in altered performance in remaining sensory modalities. Whereas much is known about the macroscopic mechanisms underlying cross-modal plasticity, only scant information exists about its cellular and molecular underpinnings. We found that Caenorhabditis elega...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rabinowitch I,Laurent P,Zhao B,Walker D,Beets I,Schoofs L,Bai J,Schafer WR,Treinin M

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin insulators/boundary elements share the ability to insulate a transgene from its chromosomal context by blocking promiscuous enhancer-promoter interactions and heterochromatin spreading. Several insulating factors target different DNA consensus sequences, defining distinct subfamilies of insulators. Whether e...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Emberly E,Blattes R,Schuettengruber B,Hennion M,Jiang N,Hart CM,Käs E,Cuvier O

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Health 2035 report notes that the "grand convergence"--closure of the infectious, maternal, and child mortality gap between rich and poor countries--is dependent on research and development (R&D) of new drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and other health tools. However, this convergence (and the R&D underpinning...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moran M

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To complete cell division with high fidelity, cytokinesis must be coordinated with chromosome segregation. Mammalian Polo-like kinase 1, Plk1, may function as a critical link because it is required for chromosome segregation and establishment of the cleavage plane following anaphase onset. A central spindle-localized ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wolfe BA,Takaki T,Petronczki M,Glotzer M

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Better understanding of feeding behaviour will be vital in reducing obesity and metabolic syndrome, but we lack a standard model that captures the complexity of feeding behaviour. We construct an accurate stochastic model of rodent feeding at the bout level in order to perform quantitative behavioural analysis. Analys...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McGrath TM,Spreckley E,Rodriguez AF,Viscomi C,Alamshah A,Akalestou E,Murphy KG,Jones NS

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Flexible behavior is critical for everyday decision-making and has been implicated in restricted, repetitive behaviors (RRB) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, how flexible behavior changes developmentally in ASD remains largely unknown. Here, we used a developmental approach and examined flexible behavior on...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Crawley D,Zhang L,Jones EJH,Ahmad J,Oakley B,San José Cáceres A,Charman T,Buitelaar JK,Murphy DGM,Chatham C,den Ouden H,Loth E,EU-AIMS LEAP group.

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00