Genetic modifiers of muscular dystrophy act on sarcolemmal resealing and recovery from injury.

abstract：:Guanine (G)-rich DNA readily forms four-stranded quadruplexes in vitro, but evidence for their participation in genome regulation is limited. We have identified a quadruplex-binding protein, Lia3, that controls the boundaries of germline-limited, internal eliminated sequences (IESs) of Tetrahymena thermophila. Differe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Carle CM,Zaher HS,Chalker DL

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me) is an evolutionarily conserved modification whose role in the regulation of gene expression has been extensively studied. In contrast, the function of H3K4 acetylation (H3K4ac) has received little attention because of a lack of tools to separate its function from that of H3K...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Guillemette B,Drogaris P,Lin HH,Armstrong H,Hiragami-Hamada K,Imhof A,Bonneil E,Thibault P,Verreault A,Festenstein RJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomes of eukaryotes are organized into structurally and functionally discrete domains. This implies the presence of insulator elements that separate adjacent domains, allowing them to maintain different chromatin structures. We show that the Fun30 chromatin remodeler, Fft3, is essential for maintaining a pro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Strålfors A,Walfridsson J,Bhuiyan H,Ekwall K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late-Onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is a common, complex genetic disorder well-known for its heterogeneous pathology. The genetic heterogeneity underlying common, complex diseases poses a major challenge for targeted therapies and the identification of novel disease-associated variants. Case-control approaches are o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Milind N,Preuss C,Haber A,Ananda G,Mukherjee S,John C,Shapley S,Logsdon BA,Crane PK,Carter GW

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy (HCCAA) is an autosomal dominant disease with high penetrance, manifest by brain hemorrhages in young normotensive adults. In Iceland, this condition is caused by the L68Q mutation in the cystatin C gene, with contemporary carriers reaching an average age of only 30 years. Here...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Palsdottir A,Helgason A,Palsson S,Bjornsson HT,Bragason BT,Gretarsdottir S,Thorsteinsdottir U,Olafsson E,Stefansson K

更新日期：2008-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative transfer of the integrative and conjugative element ICEclc in the bacterium Pseudomonas knackmussii is the consequence of a bistable decision taken in some 3% of cells in a population during stationary phase. Here we study the possible control exerted by the stationary phase sigma factor RpoS on the bistab...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Miyazaki R,Minoia M,Pradervand N,Sulser S,Reinhard F,van der Meer JR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000832.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Clark MJ,Homer N,O'Connor BD,Chen Z,Eskin A,Lee H,Merriman B,Nelson SF

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid hormones act, through their respective nuclear receptors, to regulate target gene expression. Despite their critical role in development, physiology, and disease, however, it is still unclear how these systemic cues are refined into tissue-specific responses. We identified a mutation in the evolutionarily cons...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ihry RJ,Sapiro AL,Bashirullah A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 5% of alternatively spliced internal exons in the human genome are derived from Alu elements in a process termed exonization. Alus are comprised of two homologous arms separated by an internal polypyrimidine tract (PPT). In most exonizations, splice sites are selected from within the same arm. We hypothesize...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gal-Mark N,Schwartz S,Ram O,Eyras E,Ast G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous fungi produce diverse secondary metabolites (SMs) essential to their ecology and adaptation. Although each SM is typically produced by only a handful of species, global SM production is governed by widely conserved transcriptional regulators in conjunction with other cellular processes, such as development...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lind AL,Wisecaver JH,Smith TD,Feng X,Calvo AM,Rokas A

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial step in the development of muscle cells in all metazoan animals is the assembly and anchorage of the sarcomere, the essential repeat unit responsible for muscle contraction. In Caenorhabditis elegans, many of the critical proteins involved in this process have been uncovered through mutational screens focusi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Meissner B,Warner A,Wong K,Dube N,Lorch A,McKay SJ,Khattra J,Rogalski T,Somasiri A,Chaudhry I,Fox RM,Miller DM 3rd,Baillie DL,Holt RA,Jones SJ,Marra MA,Moerman DG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicellular tubes consist of polarized cells wrapped around a central lumen and are essential structures underlying many developmental and physiological functions. In Drosophila compound eyes, each ommatidium forms a luminal matrix, the inter-rhabdomeral space, to shape and separate the key phototransduction organel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nie J,Mahato S,Zelhof AC

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopamine (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Rare genetic mutations in genes such as Parkin, Pink1, DJ-1, α-synuclein, LRRK2 and GBA are found to be responsible for the disease in about 15% of the cases. A key u...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Giguère N,Delignat-Lavaud B,Herborg F,Voisin A,Li Y,Jacquemet V,Anand-Srivastava M,Gether U,Giros B,Trudeau LÉ

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although kinetochores normally play a key role in sister chromatid separation and segregation, chromosome fragments lacking kinetochores (acentrics) can in some cases separate and segregate successfully. In Drosophila neuroblasts, acentric chromosomes undergo delayed, but otherwise normal sister separation, revealing ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Vicars H,Karg T,Warecki B,Bast I,Sullivan W

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooperative developmental system of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is susceptible to exploitation by cheaters-strains that make more than their fair share of spores in chimerae. Laboratory screens in Dictyostelium have shown that the genetic potential for facultative cheating is high, and field surveys...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Khare A,Shaulsky G

更新日期：2010-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:At least 25 inherited disorders in humans result from microsatellite repeat expansion. Dramatic variation in repeat instability occurs at different disease loci and between different tissues; however, cis-elements and trans-factors regulating the instability process remain undefined. Genomic fragments from the human s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Libby RT,Hagerman KA,Pineda VV,Lau R,Cho DH,Baccam SL,Axford MM,Cleary JD,Moore JM,Sopher BL,Tapscott SJ,Filippova GN,Pearson CE,La Spada AR

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using small molecule probes to understand gene function is an attractive approach that allows functional characterization of genes that are dispensable in standard laboratory conditions and provides insight into the mode of action of these compounds. Using chemogenomic assays we previously identified yeast Crg1, an un...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lissina E,Young B,Urbanus ML,Guan XL,Lowenson J,Hoon S,Baryshnikova A,Riezman I,Michaut M,Riezman H,Cowen LE,Wenk MR,Clarke SG,Giaever G,Nislow C

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During meiotic prophase, a structure called the synaptonemal complex (SC) assembles at the interface between aligned pairs of homologous chromosomes, and crossover recombination events occur between their DNA molecules. Here we investigate the inter-relationships between these two hallmark features of the meiotic prog...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pattabiraman D,Roelens B,Woglar A,Villeneuve AM

更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement of the transcription machinery along a template alters DNA topology resulting in the accumulation of supercoils in DNA. The positive supercoils generated ahead of transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) and the negative supercoils accumulating behind impose severe topological constraints impeding transcription pro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ahmed W,Sala C,Hegde SR,Jha RK,Cole ST,Nagaraja V

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphthamide is a highly modified histidine residue in eukaryal translation elongation factor 2 (eEF2) that is the target for irreversible ADP ribosylation by diphtheria toxin (DT). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the initial steps of diphthamide biosynthesis are well characterized and require the DPH1-DPH5 genes. However...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Uthman S,Bär C,Scheidt V,Liu S,ten Have S,Giorgini F,Stark MJ,Schaffrath R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of circadian oscillations in mammals is cell autonomous and is generated by a set of genes that form a transcriptional autoregulatory feedback loop. While these "clock genes" are well conserved among animals, their specific functions remain to be fully understood and their roles in central versus periphe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hong HK,Chong JL,Song W,Song EJ,Jyawook AA,Schook AC,Ko CH,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2007-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribonuclease III enzyme Drosha has a central role in the biogenesis of microRNA (miRNA) by binding and cleaving hairpin structures in primary RNA transcripts into precursor miRNAs (pre-miRNAs). Many miRNA genes are located within protein-coding host genes and cleaved by Drosha in a manner that is coincident with s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Havens MA,Reich AA,Hastings ML

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicative DNA helicases expose the two strands of the double helix to the replication apparatus, but accessory helicases are often needed to help forks move past naturally occurring hard-to-replicate sites, such as tightly bound proteins, RNA/DNA hybrids, and DNA secondary structures. Although the Schizosaccharomyce...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： McDonald KR,Guise AJ,Pourbozorgi-Langroudi P,Cristea IM,Zakian VA,Capra JA,Sabouri N

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004936.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Feng B,Liu C,de Oliveira MV,Intorne AC,Li B,Babilonia K,de Souza Filho GA,Shan L,He P

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Most biological nitrogen fixation is catalyzed by molybdenum-dependent nitrogenase, an enzyme complex comprising two component proteins that contains three different metalloclusters. Diazotrophs contain a common core of nitrogen fixation nif genes that encode the structural subunits of the enzyme and components requir...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang L,Zhang L,Liu Z,Zhao D,Liu X,Zhang B,Xie J,Hong Y,Li P,Chen S,Dixon R,Li J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the extent to which ecological divergence is repeatable is essential for predicting responses of biodiversity to environmental change. Here we test the predictability of evolution, from genotype to phenotype, by studying parallel evolution in a salmonid fish, Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), across ele...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jacobs A,Carruthers M,Yurchenko A,Gordeeva NV,Alekseyev SS,Hooker O,Leong JS,Minkley DR,Rondeau EB,Koop BF,Adams CE,Elmer KR

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variation within an isogenic bacterial population is thought to ensure the survival of a subset of cells in adverse conditions. The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa variably expresses several phenotypes, including antibiotic resistance, biofilm formation, and the production of CupA fimbriae. He...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Turner KH,Vallet-Gely I,Dove SL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smc5/6, a member of the conserved SMC family of complexes, is essential for growth in most organisms. Its exact functions in a mitotic cell cycle are controversial, as chronic Smc5/6 loss-of-function alleles produce varying phenotypes. To circumvent this issue, we acutely depleted Smc5/6 in budding yeast and determine...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Peng XP,Lim S,Li S,Marjavaara L,Chabes A,Zhao X

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous instances of presence/absence variations for introns have been documented in eukaryotes, and some cases of recurrent loss of the same intron have been suggested. However, there has been no comprehensive or phylogenetically deep analysis of recurrent intron loss. Of 883 cases of intron presence/absence variati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang H,Devos KM,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine viruses play a critical role not only in the global geochemical cycles but also in the biology and evolution of their hosts. Despite their importance, viral diversity remains underexplored mostly due to sampling and cultivation challenges. Direct sequencing approaches such as viromics has provided new insights ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： López-Pérez M,Haro-Moreno JM,Gonzalez-Serrano R,Parras-Moltó M,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2017-09-25 00:00:00