Phosphatidylserine externalization, "necroptotic bodies" release, and phagocytosis during necroptosis.

abstract：:A cell is a minifactory in which structures and molecules are assembled, rearranged, disassembled, packaged, sorted, and transported. Because cellular structures and molecules are invisible to the human eye, students often have difficulty conceptualizing the dynamic nature of cells that function at multiple scales acr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Reindl KM,White AR,Johnson C,Vender B,Slator BM,McClean P

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The most consistent result in more than two decades of experimental evolution is that the fitness of populations adapting to a constant environment does not increase indefinitely, but reaches a plateau. Using experimental evolution with bacteriophage, we show here that the converse is also true. In populations small e...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Silander OK,Tenaillon O,Chao L

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lowered insulin/insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling (IIS) can extend healthy lifespan in worms, flies, and mice, but it can also have adverse effects (the "insulin paradox"). Chronic, moderately lowered IIS rescues age-related decline in neurotransmission through the Drosophila giant fiber system (GFS), a simpl...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Augustin H,McGourty K,Allen MJ,Madem SK,Adcott J,Kerr F,Wong CT,Vincent A,Godenschwege T,Boucrot E,Partridge L

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strategies have been pursued to increase the extent of exon 7 inclusion during splicing of SMN2 (survival of motor neuron 2) transcripts, for eventual therapeutic use in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disease. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that target an exon or its flanking splice ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hua Y,Vickers TA,Baker BF,Bennett CF,Krainer AR

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Although amyloid fibrillation is generally believed to be a nucleation-dependent process, the nuclei are largely structurally uncharacterized. This is in part due to the inherent experimental challenge associated with structural descriptions of individual components in a dynamic multi-component equilibrium. There are ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Vestergaard B,Groenning M,Roessle M,Kastrup JS,van de Weert M,Flink JM,Frokjaer S,Gajhede M,Svergun DI

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long distance migration of differentiating granule cells from the cerebellar upper rhombic lip has been reported in many vertebrates. However, the knowledge about the subcellular dynamics and molecular mechanisms regulating directional neuronal migration in vivo is just beginning to emerge. Here we show by time-lapse ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rieger S,Senghaas N,Walch A,Köster RW

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a research perspective, the interest in biobanking continues to intensify. Governments and industry have invested heavily in biobanks, as exemplified by initiatives like the United Kingdom Biobank and United States' Precision Medicine Initiative. But despite this enthusiasm, many profound legal and ethical challe...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Caulfield T,Murdoch B

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative regulation of receptor signaling is essential for controlling cell activation and differentiation. In B-lymphocytes, the down-regulation of B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signaling is critical for suppressing the activation of self-reactive B cells; however, the mechanism underlying the negative regulation of ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Liu C,Bai X,Wu J,Sharma S,Upadhyaya A,Dahlberg CI,Westerberg LS,Snapper SB,Zhao X,Song W

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent report by the Institute of Medicine leaves few urgent reasons standing for the continued use of chimpanzees in biomedical research. It is high time to think about their retirement, Frans de Waal argues, without neglecting prospects for non-invasive research on behavior, cognition, and genetics. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： de Waal FB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of organisms use sex pheromones to communicate with each other and to identify appropriate mating partners. While the evolution of chemical communication has been suggested to cause sexual isolation and speciation, the mechanisms that govern evolutionary transitions in sex pheromone production are poorly ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Shirangi TR,Dufour HD,Williams TM,Carroll SB

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental transition from a vegetative to a reproductive phase (i.e., flowering) is timed by the seasonal cue day length or photoperiod in many plant species. Through the photoperiod pathway, inductive day lengths trigger the production of a systemic flowering signal, florigen, to provoke the floral transition...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gu X,Wang Y,He Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIR-FM) has become a powerful tool for studying clathrin-mediated endocytosis. However, due to difficulties in tracking and quantifying their heterogeneous dynamic behavior, detailed analyses have been restricted to a limited number of selected clathrin-coated pits (C...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Loerke D,Mettlen M,Yarar D,Jaqaman K,Jaqaman H,Danuser G,Schmid SL

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborn granule cells become functionally integrated into the synaptic circuitry of the adult dentate gyrus after a morphological and electrophysiological maturation process. The molecular mechanisms by which immature neurons and the neurites extending from them find their appropriate position and target area remain l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jessberger S,Aigner S,Clemenson GD Jr,Toni N,Lie DC,Karalay O,Overall R,Kempermann G,Gage FH

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional consequences of long-range nuclear reorganization were studied in a cell-by-cell analysis of gene expression and long-range chromosomal interactions in the Drosophila eye and eye imaginal disk. Position-effect variegation was used to stochastically perturb gene expression and probe nuclear reorganizatio...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Harmon B,Sedat J

更新日期：2005-03-01 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

abstract：:Ever since the discovery of neural stem cells in the mammalian brain, the possibility of brain tissue regeneration has captured the minds of scientists, clinicians, and the public. Neural stem cells have been envisioned as a source of donor cells for transplantation and vectors for the delivery of gene therapy. Over t...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Maletic-Savatic M

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of sex chromosome differentiation from ancestral autosomes, male mammalian cells only contain one X chromosome. It has long been hypothesized that X-linked gene expression levels have become doubled in males to restore the original transcriptional output, and that the resulting X overexpression in females ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Julien P,Brawand D,Soumillon M,Necsulea A,Liechti A,Schütz F,Daish T,Grützner F,Kaessmann H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian oocytes, three actin binding proteins, Formin 2 (Fmn2), Spire, and profilin, synergistically organize a dynamic cytoplasmic actin meshwork that mediates translocation of the spindle toward the cortex and is required for successful fertilization. Here we characterize Fmn2 and elucidate the molecular mechan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Montaville P,Jégou A,Pernier J,Compper C,Guichard B,Mogessie B,Schuh M,Romet-Lemonne G,Carlier MF

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bacterial adhesins appear to promote a pathogen's extracellular lifestyle rather than its entry into host cells. However, little is known about the stimuli elicited upon such pathogen host-cell interactions. Here, we report that type IV pili (Tfp)-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (P(+)GC) induces an immediate r...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boettcher JP,Kirchner M,Churin Y,Kaushansky A,Pompaiah M,Thorn H,Brinkmann V,Macbeath G,Meyer TF

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid colour change is a remarkable natural phenomenon that has evolved in several vertebrate and invertebrate lineages. The two principal explanations for the evolution of this adaptive strategy are (1) natural selection for crypsis (camouflage) against a range of different backgrounds and (2) selection for conspicuo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stuart-Fox D,Moussalli A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How should funding agencies enable researchers to explore high-risk but potentially high-reward science? One model that appears to work is the NSF-funded synthesis center, an incubator for community-led, innovative science. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rodrigo A,Alberts S,Cranston K,Kingsolver J,Lapp H,McClain C,Smith R,Vision T,Weintraub J,Wiegmann B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tools enabling closed-loop experiments are crucial to delineate causal relationships between the activity of genetically labeled neurons and specific behaviors. We developed the Raspberry Pi Virtual Reality (PiVR) system to conduct closed-loop optogenetic stimulation of neural functions in unrestrained animals. PiVR i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Tadres D,Louis M

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide studies of circadian transcription or mRNA translation have been hindered by the presence of heterogeneous cell populations in complex tissues such as the nervous system. We describe here the use of a Drosophila cell-specific translational profiling approach to document the rhythmic "translatome" of neural...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Huang Y,Ainsley JA,Reijmers LG,Jackson FR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarized growth is maintained by both polarized exocytosis, which transports membrane components to specific locations on the cell cortex, and endocytosis, which retrieves these components before they can diffuse away. Despite functional links between these two transport pathways, they are generally considered to be ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johansen J,Alfaro G,Beh CT

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Flight speed is expected to increase with mass and wing loading among flying animals and aircraft for fundamental aerodynamic reasons. Assuming geometrical and dynamical similarity, cruising flight speed is predicted to vary as (body mass)(1/6) and (wing loading)(1/2) among bird species. To test these scaling rules an...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Alerstam T,Rosén M,Bäckman J,Ericson PG,Hellgren O

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative contributions to modern European populations of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers from the Near East have been intensely debated. Haplogroup R1b1b2 (R-M269) is the commonest European Y-chromosomal lineage, increasing in frequency from east to west, and carried by 110 million European men....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Balaresque P,Bowden GR,Adams SM,Leung HY,King TE,Rosser ZH,Goodwin J,Moisan JP,Richard C,Millward A,Demaine AG,Barbujani G,Previderè C,Wilson IJ,Tyler-Smith C,Jobling MA

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, the high-dose refuge (HDR) strategy, aimed at delaying the evolution of pest resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins produced by transgenic crops, became mandatory in the United States and is being discussed for Europe. However, precopulatory dispersal and the mating rate between residen...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Dalecky A,Ponsard S,Bailey RI,Pélissier C,Bourguet D

更新日期：2006-06-01 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