Flip/flop mating-type switching in the methylotrophic yeast Ogataea polymorpha is regulated by an Efg1-Rme1-Ste12 pathway.

abstract：:Respiratory infectious diseases are the third cause of worldwide death. The nasopharynx is the portal of entry and the ecological niche of many microorganisms, of which some are pathogenic to humans, such as Neisseria meningitidis and Moraxella catarrhalis. These microbes possess several surface structures that intera...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Veyrier FJ,Biais N,Morales P,Belkacem N,Guilhen C,Ranjeva S,Sismeiro O,Péhau-Arnaudet G,Rocha EP,Werts C,Taha MK,Boneca IG

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is an ancient molecular modification found in most eukaryotes. In plants, DNA methylation is not only critical for transcriptionally silencing transposons, but can also affect phenotype by altering expression of protein coding genes. The extent of its contribution to phenotypic diversity over evolution...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Seymour DK,Koenig D,Hagmann J,Becker C,Weigel D

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the DNA molecule is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. In this study, we use 283 parent-offspring trios to estimate the rate of mutation for both single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and short length variants (indels) in humans and examine the mutation process. We found 17812 SNVs, correspondin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Besenbacher S,Sulem P,Helgason A,Helgason H,Kristjansson H,Jonasdottir A,Jonasdottir A,Magnusson OT,Thorsteinsdottir U,Masson G,Kong A,Gudbjartsson DF,Stefansson K

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular communication mediated by gap junction (GJ) proteins is indispensable during embryogenesis, tissue regeneration and wound healing. Here we report functional analysis of a gap junction protein, Innexin 2 (Inx2), in cell type specification during Drosophila oogenesis. Our data reveal a novel involvement of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sahu A,Ghosh R,Deshpande G,Prasad M

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermal hyperpigmentation or Fibromelanosis (FM) is one of the few examples of skin pigmentation phenotypes in the chicken, where most other pigmentation variants influence feather color and patterning. The Silkie chicken is the most widespread and well-studied breed displaying this phenotype. The presence of the domin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dorshorst B,Molin AM,Rubin CJ,Johansson AM,Strömstedt L,Pham MH,Chen CF,Hallböök F,Ashwell C,Andersson L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual development is a key evolutionary innovation of eukaryotes. In many species, mating involves interaction between compatible mating partners that can undergo cell and nuclear fusion and subsequent steps of development including meiosis. Mating compatibility in fungi is governed by the mating type (MAT) loci. In ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sun S,Coelho MA,Heitman J,Nowrousian M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome (MSY) includes eight large inverted repeats (palindromes) in which arm-to-arm similarity exceeds 99.9%, due to gene conversion activity. Here, we studied one of these palindromes, P6, in order to illuminate the dynamics of the gene conversion process. We genotyped ten...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hallast P,Balaresque P,Bowden GR,Ballereau S,Jobling MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine ecosystems are changing rapidly as the oceans warm and become more acidic. The physical factors and the changes to ocean chemistry that they drive can all be measured with great precision. Changes in the biological composition of communities in different ocean regions are far more challenging to measure because...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Berry TE,Saunders BJ,Coghlan ML,Stat M,Jarman S,Richardson AJ,Davies CH,Berry O,Harvey ES,Bunce M

更新日期：2019-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report a stop-mutation in the BOD1 (Biorientation Defective 1) gene, which co-segregates with intellectual disability in a large consanguineous family, where individuals that are homozygous for the mutation have no detectable BOD1 mRNA or protein. The BOD1 protein is required for proper chromosome segregation,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Esmaeeli-Nieh S,Fenckova M,Porter IM,Motazacker MM,Nijhof B,Castells-Nobau A,Asztalos Z,Weißmann R,Behjati F,Tzschach A,Felbor U,Scherthan H,Sayfati SM,Ropers HH,Kahrizi K,Najmabadi H,Swedlow JR,Schenck A,Kuss AW

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered daily patterns of hormone action are suspected to contribute to metabolic disease. It is poorly understood how the adrenal glucocorticoid hormones contribute to the coordination of daily global patterns of transcription and metabolism. Here, we examined diurnal metabolite and transcriptome patterns in a zebraf...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Weger BD,Weger M,Görling B,Schink A,Gobet C,Keime C,Poschet G,Jost B,Krone N,Hell R,Gachon F,Luy B,Dickmeis T

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of deep sequencing to map 5' capped transcripts has confirmed the existence of at least two distinct promoter classes in metazoans: "focused" promoters with transcription start sites (TSSs) that occur in a narrowly defined genomic span and "dispersed" promoters with TSSs that are spread over a larger w...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rach EA,Winter DR,Benjamin AM,Corcoran DL,Ni T,Zhu J,Ohler U

更新日期：2011-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligodendrocyte density is greater and myelin sheaths are thicker in the adult male mouse brain when compared with females. Here, we show that these sex differences emerge during the first 10 postnatal days, precisely at a stage when a late wave of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells arises and starts differentiating...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Abi Ghanem C,Degerny C,Hussain R,Liere P,Pianos A,Tourpin S,Habert R,Macklin WB,Schumacher M,Ghoumari AM

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of ribosomal RNA by RNA polymerase I (RNA pol I) is an elemental biological process and is key for cellular homeostasis. In a forward genetic screen in C. elegans designed to identify DNA damage-response factors, we isolated a point mutation of RNA pol I, rpoa-2(op259), that leads to altered rRNA synthesis a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eberhard R,Stergiou L,Hofmann ER,Hofmann J,Haenni S,Teo Y,Furger A,Hengartner MO

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Bacterial diversification is often observed, but underlying mechanisms are difficult to disentangle and remain generally unknown. Moreover, controlled diversification experiments in ecologically relevant environments are lacking. We studied bacterial diversification in the mammalian gut, one of the most complex bacter...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： De Paepe M,Gaboriau-Routhiau V,Rainteau D,Rakotobe S,Taddei F,Cerf-Bensussan N

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of biological relatedness between samples is important for many genetic studies. In large-scale human genetic association studies, the estimated kinship is used to remove cryptic relatedness, control for family structure, and estimate trait heritability. However, estimation of kinship is challenging for spar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dou J,Sun B,Sim X,Hughes JD,Reilly DF,Tai ES,Liu J,Wang C

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNF) biologic therapy is a widely used treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It is unknown why some RA patients fail to respond adequately to anti-TNF therapy, which limits the development of clinical biomarkers to predict response or new drugs to target refractory cases. To u...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cui J,Stahl EA,Saevarsdottir S,Miceli C,Diogo D,Trynka G,Raj T,Mirkov MU,Canhao H,Ikari K,Terao C,Okada Y,Wedrén S,Askling J,Yamanaka H,Momohara S,Taniguchi A,Ohmura K,Matsuda F,Mimori T,Gupta N,Kuchroo M,Morg

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies have identified substantial non-African admixture in the Horn of Africa (HOA). In the most recent genomic studies, this non-African ancestry has been attributed to admixture with Middle Eastern populations during the last few thousand years. However, mitochondrial and Y chromosome data are suggestive o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hodgson JA,Mulligan CJ,Al-Meeri A,Raaum RL

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mp is an irradiation-induced mouse mutation associated with microphthalmia, micropinna and hind limb syndactyly. We show that Mp is caused by a 660 kb balanced inversion on chromosome 18 producing reciprocal 3-prime gene fusion events involving Fbn2 and Isoc1. The Isoc1-Fbn2 fusion gene (Isoc1(Mp)) mRNA has a frameshi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rainger J,Keighren M,Keene DR,Charbonneau NL,Rainger JK,Fisher M,Mella S,Huang JT,Rose L,van't Hof R,Sakai LY,Jackson IJ,Fitzpatrick DR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iran, despite its size, geographic location and past cultural influence, has largely been a blind spot for human population genetic studies. With only sparse genetic information on the Iranian population available, we pursued its genome-wide and geographic characterization based on 1021 samples from eleven ethnic grou...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mehrjoo Z,Fattahi Z,Beheshtian M,Mohseni M,Poustchi H,Ardalani F,Jalalvand K,Arzhangi S,Mohammadi Z,Khoshbakht S,Najafi F,Nikuei P,Haddadi M,Zohrehvand E,Oladnabi M,Mohammadzadeh A,Jafari MH,Akhtarkhavari T,Gooshki ES

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The C. elegans ortholog of mammalian calsyntenins, CASY-1, is an evolutionarily conserved type-I transmembrane protein that is highly enriched in the nervous system. Mammalian calsyntenins are strongly expressed at inhibitory synapses, but their role in synapse development and function is still elusive. Here, we repor...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Thapliyal S,Vasudevan A,Dong Y,Bai J,Koushika SP,Babu K

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetative phase change is regulated by a decrease in the abundance of the miRNAs, miR156 and miR157, and the resulting increase in the expression of their targets, SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE (SPL) transcription factors. To determine how miR156/miR157 specify the quantitative and qualitative changes in lea...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： He J,Xu M,Willmann MR,McCormick K,Hu T,Yang L,Starker CG,Voytas DF,Meyers BC,Poethig RS

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:While several studies have investigated general properties of the genetic architecture of natural variation in gene expression, few of these have considered natural, outbreeding populations. In parallel, systems biology has established that a general feature of biological networks is that they are scale-free, renderin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mähler N,Wang J,Terebieniec BK,Ingvarsson PK,Street NR,Hvidsten TR

更新日期：2017-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:As miRNAs are associated with normal cellular processes, deregulation of miRNAs is thought to play a causative role in many complex diseases. Nevertheless, the precise contribution of miRNAs in fibrotic lung diseases, especially the idiopathic form (IPF), remains poorly understood. Given the poor response rate of IPF ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lino Cardenas CL,Henaoui IS,Courcot E,Roderburg C,Cauffiez C,Aubert S,Copin MC,Wallaert B,Glowacki F,Dewaeles E,Milosevic J,Maurizio J,Tedrow J,Marcet B,Lo-Guidice JM,Kaminski N,Barbry P,Luedde T,Perrais M,Mari B,

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have transformed our understanding of the genetics of complex traits such as autoimmune diseases, but how risk variants contribute to pathogenesis remains largely unknown. Identifying genetic variants that affect gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci, or eQTLs) is c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Peters JE,Lyons PA,Lee JC,Richard AC,Fortune MD,Newcombe PJ,Richardson S,Smith KG

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Both genetic and epigenetic alterations contribute to Facio-Scapulo-Humeral Dystrophy (FSHD), which is linked to the shortening of the array of D4Z4 repeats at the 4q35 locus. The consequence of this rearrangement remains enigmatic, but deletion of this 3.3-kb macrosatellite element might affect the expression of the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ottaviani A,Rival-Gervier S,Boussouar A,Foerster AM,Rondier D,Sacconi S,Desnuelle C,Gilson E,Magdinier F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multicellular organisms, tight regulation of gene expression ensures appropriate tissue and organismal growth throughout development. Reversible phosphorylation of the RNA Polymerase II (RNAPII) C-terminal domain (CTD) is critical for the regulation of gene expression states, but how phosphorylation is actively mod...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ciurciu A,Duncalf L,Jonchere V,Lansdale N,Vasieva O,Glenday P,Rudenko A,Vissi E,Cobbe N,Alphey L,Bennett D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosensory pheromonal information regulates aggression and reproduction in many species, but how pheromonal signals are transduced to reliably produce behavior is not well understood. Here we demonstrate that the pheromonal signals detected by Gr32a-expressing chemosensory neurons to enhance male aggression are filt...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Andrews JC,Fernández MP,Yu Q,Leary GP,Leung AK,Kavanaugh MP,Kravitz EA,Certel SJ

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression can be highly heterogeneous in isogenic cell populations. An extreme type of heterogeneity is the so-called bistable or bimodal expression, whereby a cell can differentiate into two alternative expression states. Stochastic fluctuations of protein levels, also referred to as noise, provide the necessar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gamba P,Jonker MJ,Hamoen LW

更新日期：2015-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction of DNA sequences into the genome often results in homology-dependent gene silencing in organisms as diverse as plants, fungi, flies, nematodes, and mammals. We previously showed in Cryptococcus neoformans that a repeat transgene array can induce gene silencing at a high frequency during mating (∼50%), but...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang X,Wang P,Sun S,Darwiche S,Idnurm A,Heitman J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00