Adaptive tuning of mutation rates allows fast response to lethal stress in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) present a functional paradox because they lack stable tertiary structure, but nonetheless play a central role in signaling, utilizing a process known as allostery. Historically, allostery in structured proteins has been interpreted in terms of propagated structural changes that...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Li J,White JT,Saavedra H,Wrabl JO,Motlagh HN,Liu K,Sowers J,Schroer TA,Thompson EB,Hilser VJ

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological and laboratory-based studies suggest that the anti-diabetic drug metformin prevents cancer progression. How metformin diminishes tumor growth is not fully understood. In this study, we report that in human cancer cells, metformin inhibits mitochondrial complex I (NADH dehydrogenase) activity and...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wheaton WW,Weinberg SE,Hamanaka RB,Soberanes S,Sullivan LB,Anso E,Glasauer A,Dufour E,Mutlu GM,Budigner GS,Chandel NS

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Probabilistic models of adaptive immune repertoire sequence distributions can be used to infer the expansion of immune cells in response to stimulus, differentiate genetic from environmental factors that determine repertoire sharing, and evaluate the suitability of various target immune sequences for stimulation via v...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Davidsen K,Olson BJ,DeWitt WS 3rd,Feng J,Harkins E,Bradley P,Matsen FA 4th

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a devastating disease. Although rigorous efforts identified the presence of 'cancer stem cells (CSCs)' in PDAC and molecular markers for them, stem cell dynamics in vivo have not been clearly demonstrated. Here we focused on Doublecortin-like kinase 1 (Dclk1), known as a CSC ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Maruno T,Fukuda A,Goto N,Tsuda M,Ikuta K,Hiramatsu Y,Ogawa S,Nakanishi Y,Yamaga Y,Yoshioka T,Takaori K,Uemoto S,Saur D,Chiba T,Seno H

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in PROP1 are the most common cause of hypopituitarism in humans; therefore, unraveling its mechanism of action is highly relevant from a therapeutic perspective. Our current understanding of the role of PROP1 in the pituitary gland is limited to the repression and activation of the pituitary transcription fa...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pérez Millán MI,Brinkmeier ML,Mortensen AH,Camper SA

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of goal-directed actions tend to resemble those of previously executed actions, but it is unclear whether such effects depend strictly on action history, or also reflect context-dependent processes related to predictive motor planning. Here we manipulated the time available to initiate movements af...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Marinovic W,Poh E,de Rugy A,Carroll TJ

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Atopic Dermatitis (AD) is a T cell-mediated chronic skin disease and is associated with altered skin barrier integrity. Infants with mutations in genes involved in tissue barrier fitness are predisposed towards inflammatory diseases, but most do not develop or sustain the diseases, suggesting that there exist regulato...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Spidale NA,Malhotra N,Frascoli M,Sylvia K,Miu B,Freeman C,Stadinski BD,Huseby E,Kang J

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed in Drosophila melanogaster embryos that low-affinity Ultrabithorax (Ubx)-responsive shavenbaby (svb) enhancers drive expression using localized transcriptional environments and that active svb enhancers on different chromosomes tended to colocalize (Tsai et al., 2017). Here, we test the hypothesis...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tsai A,Alves MR,Crocker J

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how genes and experience work in concert to generate phenotypic variability will provide a better understanding of individuality. Here, we considered this in the main olfactory epithelium, a chemosensory structure with over a thousand distinct cell types in mice. We identified a subpopulation of olfactor...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Vihani A,Hu XS,Gundala S,Koyama S,Block E,Matsunami H

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron and heme play central roles in the production of red blood cells, but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Heme-regulated eIF2α kinase (HRI) controls translation by phosphorylating eIF2α. Here, we investigate the global impact of iron, heme, and HRI on protein translation in vivo in murine pr...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhang S,Macias-Garcia A,Ulirsch JC,Velazquez J,Butty VL,Levine SS,Sankaran VG,Chen JJ

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric disassembly of the synaptonemal complex (SC) is crucial for proper meiotic chromosome segregation. However, the signaling mechanisms that directly regulate this process are poorly understood. Here we show that the mammalian Rho GEF homolog, ECT-2, functions through the conserved RAS/ERK MAP kinase signaling...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nadarajan S,Mohideen F,Tzur YB,Ferrandiz N,Crawley O,Montoya A,Faull P,Snijders AP,Cutillas PR,Jambhekar A,Blower MD,Martinez-Perez E,Harper JW,Colaiacovo MP

更新日期：2016-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster males perform a series of courtship behaviors that, when successful, result in copulation with a female. For over a century, mutations in the yellow gene, named for its effects on pigmentation, have been known to reduce male mating success. Prior work has suggested that yellow influences mating...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Massey JH,Chung D,Siwanowicz I,Stern DL,Wittkopp PJ

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Claims that magnetic fields can be used to manipulate biological systems contradict some basic laws of physics. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Anikeeva P,Jasanoff A

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human ascariasis is a major neglected tropical disease caused by the nematode Ascaris lumbricoides. We report a 296 megabase (Mb) reference-quality genome comprised of 17,902 protein-coding genes derived from a single, representative Ascaris worm. An additional 68 worms were collected from 60 human hosts in Kenyan vil...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Easton A,Gao S,Lawton SP,Bennuru S,Khan A,Dahlstrom E,Oliveira RG,Kepha S,Porcella SF,Webster J,Anderson R,Grigg ME,Davis RE,Wang J,Nutman TB

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats exhibit 'empathy' making them a model to understand the neural underpinnings of such behavior. We show data consistent with these findings, but also that behavior and dopamine (DA) release reflects subjective rather than objective evaluation of appetitive and aversive events that occur to another. We recorded DA ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lichtenberg NT,Lee B,Kashtelyan V,Chappa BS,Girma HT,Green EA,Kantor S,Lagowala DA,Myers MA,Potemri D,Pecukonis MG,Tesfay RT,Walters MS,Zhao AC,Blair RJR,Cheer JF,Roesch MR

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:During inflammation, serum amyloid A proteins transport retinol to infected tissues. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ganal SC,MacPherson AJ

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of cultural processes to behavioural diversity in our closest living relatives is central to revealing the evolutionary origins of human culture. However, the bonobo is often overlooked as a candidate model. Further, a prominent critique to many examples of proposed animal cultures is premature exclusio...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Samuni L,Wegdell F,Surbeck M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent transcriptional profiling technologies are uncovering previously-undefined cell populations and molecular markers at an unprecedented pace. While single cell RNA (scRNA) sequencing is an attractive approach for unbiased transcriptional profiling of all cell types, a complementary method to isolate and sequence ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Amamoto R,Garcia MD,West ER,Choi J,Lapan SW,Lane EA,Perrimon N,Cepko CL

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the leading cause of invasive bacterial neonatal infections. Late-onset diseases (LOD) occur between 7 and 89 days of life and are largely due to the CC17 GBS hypervirulent clone. We studied the impact of estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4), which impregnate the fetus during pregnancy, ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hays C,Touak G,Bouaboud A,Fouet A,Guignot J,Poyart C,Tazi A

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Meibum lipids form a lipid layer on the outermost side of the tear film and function to prevent water evaporation and reduce surface tension. (O-Acyl)-ω-hydroxy fatty acids (OAHFAs), a subclass of these lipids, are thought to be involved in connecting the lipid and aqueous layers in tears, although their actual functi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Miyamoto M,Sassa T,Sawai M,Kihara A

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We collated contact tracing data from COVID-19 clusters in Singapore and Tianjin, China and estimated the extent of pre-symptomatic transmission by estimating incubation periods and serial intervals. The mean incubation periods accounting for intermediate cases were 4.91 days (95%CI 4.35, 5.69) and 7.54 (95%CI 6.76, 8...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tindale LC,Stockdale JE,Coombe M,Garlock ES,Lau WYV,Saraswat M,Zhang L,Chen D,Wallinga J,Colijn C

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational models postulate that head-direction (HD) cells are part of an attractor network integrating head turns. This network requires inputs from visual landmarks to anchor the HD signal to the external world. We investigated whether information about HD and visual landmarks is integrated in the medial entorhin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kornienko O,Latuske P,Bassler M,Kohler L,Allen K

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:WNK1, a kinase that controls kidney salt homeostasis, also regulates adhesion and migration in CD4+ T cells. Wnk1 is highly expressed in thymocytes, and since migration is important for thymocyte maturation, we investigated a role for WNK1 in mouse thymocyte development. We find that WNK1 is required for the transitio...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Köchl R,Vanes L,Llorian Sopena M,Chakravarty P,Hartweger H,Fountain K,White A,Cowan J,Anderson G,Tybulewicz VL

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:D2 autoreceptors regulate dopamine release throughout the brain. Two isoforms of the D2 receptor, D2S and D2L, are expressed in midbrain dopamine neurons. Differential roles of these isoforms as autoreceptors are poorly understood. By virally expressing the isoforms in dopamine neurons of D2 receptor knockout mice, th...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gantz SC,Robinson BG,Buck DC,Bunzow JR,Neve RL,Williams JT,Neve KA

更新日期：2015-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, tissue repair, and tumor growth, most blood vessel networks are generated through angiogenesis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key regulator of this process and currently both VEGF and its receptors, VEGFR1, VEGFR2, and Neuropilin1 (NRP1), are targeted in therapeutic strategies for ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gelfand MV,Hagan N,Tata A,Oh WJ,Lacoste B,Kang KT,Kopycinska J,Bischoff J,Wang JH,Gu C

更新日期：2014-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived neural organoids display unprecedented emergent properties. Yet in contrast to the singular neuroepithelial tube from which the entire central nervous system (CNS) develops in vivo, current organoid protocols yield tissues with multiple neuroepithelial units, a.k.a. neural ro...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Knight GT,Lundin BF,Iyer N,Ashton LM,Sethares WA,Willett RM,Ashton RS

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoothened (Smo) inhibition by Patched (Ptch) is central to Hedgehog (Hh) signaling. Ptch, a proton driven antiporter, is required for Smo inhibition via an unknown mechanism. Hh ligand binding to Ptch reverses this inhibition and activated Smo initiates the Hh response. To determine whether Ptch inhibits Smo strictly...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Roberts B,Casillas C,Alfaro AC,Jägers C,Roelink H

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of the trophectoderm (TE) from the inner cell mass (ICM) in the mouse blastocyst is determined by position-dependent Hippo signaling. However, the window of responsiveness to Hippo signaling, the exact timing of lineage commitment and the overall relationship between cell commitment and global gene exp...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Posfai E,Petropoulos S,de Barros FRO,Schell JP,Jurisica I,Sandberg R,Lanner F,Rossant J

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of cell fate focus on specification, but little is known about maintenance of the differentiated state. In this study, we find that the mouse tendon cell fate requires continuous maintenance in vivo and identify an essential role for TGFβ signaling in maintenance of the tendon cell fate. To examine the role of...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tan GK,Pryce BA,Stabio A,Brigande JV,Wang C,Xia Z,Tufa SF,Keene DR,Schweitzer R

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have identified two genes-follistatin and activin-as having an important role in the ability of certain flatworms to identify wounds that require the production of new tissue. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sánchez Alvarado A

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00