Smek promotes corticogenesis through regulating Mbd3's stability and Mbd3/NuRD complex recruitment to genes associated with neurogenesis.

abstract：:Eukaryotic protein kinases regulate most cellular functions by phosphorylating targeted protein substrates through a highly conserved catalytic core. In the active state, the catalytic core oscillates between open, intermediate, and closed conformations. Currently, the intramolecular interactions that regulate the act...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Meharena HS,Fan X,Ahuja LG,Keshwani MM,McClendon CL,Chen AM,Adams JA,Taylor SS

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes and mechanisms of evolutionary diversification are central issues in biology. Geographic isolation is the traditional explanation for diversification, but recent theoretical and empirical studies have shown that frequency-dependent selection can drive diversification without isolation and that adaptive dive...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Herron MD,Doebeli M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that gene duplication is a major driving force of evolutionary change and the key mechanism underlying the emergence of new genes and biological processes, this study sought to use a novel genome-wide approach to identify genes that have undergone lineage-specific duplications or contractions among several homin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fortna A,Kim Y,MacLaren E,Marshall K,Hahn G,Meltesen L,Brenton M,Hink R,Burgers S,Hernandez-Boussard T,Karimpour-Fard A,Glueck D,McGavran L,Berry R,Pollack J,Sikela JM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine guides behavior and learning through pleasure, according to classic understanding. Dopaminergic neurons are traditionally thought to signal positive or negative prediction errors (PEs) when reward expectations are, respectively, exceeded or not matched. These signed PEs are quite different from the unsigned P...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Valdés-Baizabal C,Carbajal GV,Pérez-González D,Malmierca MS

更新日期：2020-06-19 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：:Protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) belongs to the AGC superfamily of related serine/threonine protein kinases. It is a key regulator downstream of various growth factors and hormones and is involved in malignant transformation and chemo-resistance. Full-length PKB protein has not been crystallised, thus studying the molecular...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Calleja V,Laguerre M,Parker PJ,Larijani B

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of animals depends critically on prioritizing responses to motivationally salient stimuli. While it is generally believed that motivational salience increases decision speed, the quantitative relationship between motivational salience and decision speed, measured by reaction time (RT), remains unclear. He...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Avila I,Lin SC

更新日期：2014-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although compound heterozygosity, or the presence of two different mutant alleles of the same gene, is common in human recessive disease, its potential to impact disease outcome has not been well documented. This is most likely because of the inherent difficulty in distinguishing specific biallelic effects from differ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Andressoo JO,Jans J,de Wit J,Coin F,Hoogstraten D,van de Ven M,Toussaint W,Huijmans J,Thio HB,van Leeuwen WJ,de Boer J,Egly JM,Hoeijmakers JH,van der Horst GT,Mitchell JR

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Many genes are regulated as an innate part of the eukaryotic cell cycle, and a complex transcriptional network helps enable the cyclic behavior of dividing cells. This transcriptional network has been studied in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) and elsewhere. To provide more perspective on these regulatory mec...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Oliva A,Rosebrock A,Ferrezuelo F,Pyne S,Chen H,Skiena S,Futcher B,Leatherwood J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin VI has been studied in both a monomeric and a dimeric form in vitro. Because the functional characteristics of the motor are dramatically different for these two forms, it is important to understand whether myosin VI heavy chains are brought together on endocytic vesicles. We have used fluorescence anisotropy m...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Altman D,Goswami D,Hasson T,Spudich JA,Mayor S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation and programmed cell death are closely controlled during animal development. Proliferative stimuli generally also induce apoptosis, and anti-apoptotic factors are required to allow net cell proliferation. Genetic studies in Drosophila have led to identification of a number of genes that control both ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hipfner DR,Cohen SM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creating artificial protein families affords new opportunities to explore the determinants of structure and biological function free from many of the constraints of natural selection. We have created an artificial family comprising 3,000 P450 heme proteins that correctly fold and incorporate a heme cofactor by recombi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Otey CR,Landwehr M,Endelman JB,Hiraga K,Bloom JD,Arnold FH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that some cancer cells rely upon fatty acid oxidation (FAO) for energy. Here we show that when FAO was reduced approximately 90% by pharmacological inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT1) with low concentrations of etomoxir, the proliferation rate of various cancer cells was unaffec...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yao CH,Liu GY,Wang R,Moon SH,Gross RW,Patti GJ

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation is now a well-known precursor for cancer development. Infectious prostatitis are the most common causes of prostate inflammation, but emerging evidence points the role of metabolic disorders as a potential source of cancer-related inflammation. Although the widely used treatment for prostate cance...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bousset L,Septier A,Bunay J,Voisin A,Guiton R,Damon-Soubeyrant C,Renaud Y,De Haze A,Sapin V,Fogli A,Rambur A,De Joussineau C,Kocer A,Trousson A,Henry-Berger J,Höring M,Liebisch G,Matysik S,Lobaccaro JA,Morel L,Bar

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene GAD2 encoding the glutamic acid decarboxylase enzyme (GAD65) is a positional candidate gene for obesity on Chromosome 10p11-12, a susceptibility locus for morbid obesity in four independent ethnic populations. GAD65 catalyzes the formation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which interacts with neuropeptide Y...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boutin P,Dina C,Vasseur F,Dubois S,Corset L,Séron K,Bekris L,Cabellon J,Neve B,Vasseur-Delannoy V,Chikri M,Charles MA,Clement K,Lernmark A,Froguel P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catch-up growth after insults to growing organs is paramount to achieving robust body proportions. In fly larvae, injury to individual tissues is followed by local and systemic compensatory mechanisms that allow the damaged tissue to regain normal proportions with other tissues. In vertebrates, local catch-up growth h...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Roselló-Díez A,Madisen L,Bastide S,Zeng H,Joyner AL

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The sperm's crucial function is to locate and fuse with a mature oocyte. Under laboratory conditions, Caenorhabditis elegans sperm are very efficient at navigating the hermaphrodite reproductive tract and locating oocytes. Here, we identify chemosensory and oxygen-sensing circuits that affect the sperm's navigational ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hoang HD,Miller MA

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic heterogeneity can confer clonal groups of organisms with new functionality. A paradigmatic example is the bistable expression of virulence genes in Salmonella typhimurium, which leads to phenotypically virulent and phenotypically avirulent subpopulations. The two subpopulations have been shown to divide lab...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Arnoldini M,Vizcarra IA,Peña-Miller R,Stocker N,Diard M,Vogel V,Beardmore RE,Hardt WD,Ackermann M

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites possess the remarkable ability to maintain chronic infections that fail to elicit a protective immune response, characteristics that have stymied vaccine development and cause people living in endemic regions to remain at risk of malaria despite previous exposure to the disease. These traits stem fro...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zhang X,Alexander N,Leonardi I,Mason C,Kirkman LA,Deitsch KW

更新日期：2019-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:How do we defend ourselves against pathogenic microbes and other parasites infecting us? Research on defence against parasites has traditionally focused on resistance--the ability to prevent infection or limit parasite replication. The genetics, physiology, and evolutionary ecology of such traits are now relatively we...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Råberg L

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1) catalyzes the reversible transfer of a phosphoryl group from 1, 3-bisphosphoglycerate (1, 3-BPG) to ADP, producing 3-phosphoglycerate (3-PG) and ATP. PGK1 plays a key role in coordinating glycolytic energy production with one-carbon metabolism, serine biosynthesis, and cellular redox r...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wang S,Jiang B,Zhang T,Liu L,Wang Y,Wang Y,Chen X,Lin H,Zhou L,Xia Y,Chen L,Yang C,Xiong Y,Ye D,Guan KL

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial dysbiosis in the upper digestive tract is linked to an increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Overabundance of Porphyromonas gingivalis is associated with shorter survival of ESCC patients. We investigated the molecular mechanisms driving aggressive progression of ESCC by P. gingivalis....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Qi YJ,Jiao YL,Chen P,Kong JY,Gu BL,Liu K,Feng DD,Zhu YF,Ruan HJ,Lan ZJ,Liu QW,Mi YJ,Guo XQ,Wang M,Liang GF,Lamont RJ,Wang H,Zhou FY,Feng XS,Gao SG

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006145.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Saran AR,Kalinowska D,Oh S,Janknecht R,DiTacchio L

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the human host, the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is exposed to multiple selection pressures. The host environment changes dramatically in severe malaria, but the extent to which the parasite responds to-or is selected by-this environment remains unclear. From previous studies, the parasites that cause...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Tonkin-Hill GQ,Trianty L,Noviyanti R,Nguyen HHT,Sebayang BF,Lampah DA,Marfurt J,Cobbold SA,Rambhatla JS,McConville MJ,Rogerson SJ,Brown GV,Day KP,Price RN,Anstey NM,Papenfuss AT,Duffy MF

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Independently evolving populations may adapt to similar selection pressures via different genetic changes. The interactions between such changes, such as in a hybrid individual, can inform us about what course adaptation may follow and allow us to determine whether gene flow would be facilitated or hampered following ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ono J,Gerstein AC,Otto SP

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002454.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hussain A,Zhang M,Üçpunar HK,Svensson T,Quillery E,Gompel N,Ignell R,Grunwald Kadow IC

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 the availability of inorganic phosphate (Pi) is an environmental signal that controls biofilm formation through a cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) signaling pathway. In low Pi conditions, a c-di-GMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) RapA is expressed, depleting cellular c-di-GMP and causing the los...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Newell PD,Boyd CD,Sondermann H,O'Toole GA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations affect individual health, population persistence, adaptation, diversification, and genome evolution. There is evidence that the mutation rate varies among genotypes, but the causes of this variation are poorly understood. Here, we link differences in genetic quality with variation in spontaneous mutation in ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sharp NP,Agrawal AF

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:FBW7 is a crucial component of an SCF-type E3 ubiquitin ligase, which mediates degradation of an array of different target proteins. The Fbw7 locus comprises three different isoforms, each with its own promoter and each suspected to have a distinct set of substrates. Most FBW7 targets have important functions in devel...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sancho R,Blake SM,Tendeng C,Clurman BE,Lewis J,Behrens A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00