Reading the tea leaves: Dead transposon copies reveal novel host and transposon biology.

abstract：:RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) is a method to inhibit gene function by introduction of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). Recently, an RNAi library was constructed that consists of bacterial clones expressing dsRNA, corresponding to nearly 90% of the 19,427 predicted genes of C. elegans. Feeding of this RNAi library to th...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Simmer F,Moorman C,van der Linden AM,Kuijk E,van den Berghe PV,Kamath RS,Fraser AG,Ahringer J,Plasterk RH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are being used to generate whole genome sequences for a wide range of crop species. When combined with precise phenotyping methods, these technologies provide a powerful and rapid tool for identifying the genetic basis of agriculturally important traits and for predicting ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Varshney RK,Terauchi R,McCouch SR

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is triggered by double-stranded RNA that is processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) by Dicer enzyme. Endogenously, RNA interference triggers are created from small noncoding RNAs called microRNAs (miRNAs). RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISC) in human cells can be programmed by exogenously in...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chu CY,Rana TM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) form the cellular scaffold of lymph nodes (LNs) and establish distinct microenvironmental niches to provide key molecules that drive innate and adaptive immune responses and control immune regulatory processes. Here, we have used a graph theory-based systems biology approach to dete...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Novkovic M,Onder L,Cupovic J,Abe J,Bomze D,Cremasco V,Scandella E,Stein JV,Bocharov G,Turley SJ,Ludewig B

更新日期：2016-07-14 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：: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：:Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) plays a key role in regulating the levels of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Here, we demonstrate that the compound PF-06446846 inhibits translation of PCSK9 by inducing the ribosome to stall around codon 34, mediated by the sequence of the nasc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lintner NG,McClure KF,Petersen D,Londregan AT,Piotrowski DW,Wei L,Xiao J,Bolt M,Loria PM,Maguire B,Geoghegan KF,Huang A,Rolph T,Liras S,Doudna JA,Dullea RG,Cate JH

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:How cell proliferation subsides as cells terminally differentiate remains largely enigmatic, although this phenomenon is central to the existence of multicellular organisms. Here, we show that GATA-1, the master transcription factor of erythropoiesis, forms a tricomplex with the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) and E2F-2....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kadri Z,Shimizu R,Ohneda O,Maouche-Chretien L,Gisselbrecht S,Yamamoto M,Romeo PH,Leboulch P,Chretien S

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Central mechanisms by which specific motor programs are selected to achieve meaningful behaviors are not well understood. Using electrophysiological recordings from pharyngeal nerves upon central activation of neurotransmitter-expressing cells, we show that distinct neuronal ensembles can regulate different feeding mo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schoofs A,Hückesfeld S,Schlegel P,Miroschnikow A,Peters M,Zeymer M,Spieß R,Chiang AS,Pankratz MJ

更新日期：2014-06-24 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：:Characterization of circadian systems at the organism level-a top-down approach-has led to definition of unifying properties, a hallmark of the science of chronobiology. The next challenge is to use a bottom-up approach to show how the molecular workings of the cellular circadian clock work as building blocks of those...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Merrow M,Harrington M

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A large repertoire of natural object manipulation tasks require precisely coupled symmetrical opposing forces by both hands on a single object. We asked how the lateralized brain handles this basic problem of spatial and temporal coordination. We show that the brain consistently appoints one of the hands as prime acto...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johansson RS,Theorin A,Westling G,Andersson M,Ohki Y,Nyberg L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis is a major energy-consuming process in the cell that has to be rapidly down-regulated in response to stress or nutrient depletion. The target of rapamycin 1 (Tor1) pathway regulates synthesis of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) at the level of transcription initiation. It remains unclear whether ribosome bioge...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kos-Braun IC,Jung I,Koš M

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent whisker input consists of dense microvibration sequences that are often temporally integrated for perceptual discrimination. Whether primary somatosensory cortex (S1) participates in temporal integration is unknown. We trained rats to discriminate whisker impulse sequences that varied in single-impulse kinemati...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McGuire LM,Telian G,Laboy-Juárez KJ,Miyashita T,Lee DJ,Smith KA,Feldman DE

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria transmission is known to be strongly impacted by temperature. The current understanding of how temperature affects mosquito and parasite life history traits derives from a limited number of empirical studies. These studies, some dating back to the early part of last century, are often poorly controlled, have l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Shapiro LLM,Whitehead SA,Thomas MB

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:PubMed is a free search engine for biomedical literature accessed by millions of users from around the world each day. With the rapid growth of biomedical literature-about two articles are added every minute on average-finding and retrieving the most relevant papers for a given query is increasingly challenging. We pr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fiorini N,Canese K,Starchenko G,Kireev E,Kim W,Miller V,Osipov M,Kholodov M,Ismagilov R,Mohan S,Ostell J,Lu Z

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental biology (including embryology) is proposed as "the stem cell of biological disciplines." Genetics, cell biology, oncology, immunology, evolutionary mechanisms, neurobiology, and systems biology each has its ancestry in developmental biology. Moreover, developmental biology continues to roll on, budding o...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gilbert SF

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the history of living and extinct elephantids, we generated 39,763 bp of aligned nuclear DNA sequence across 375 loci for African savanna elephant, African forest elephant, Asian elephant, the extinct American mastodon, and the woolly mammoth. Our data establish that the Asian elephant is the closest livi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rohland N,Reich D,Mallick S,Meyer M,Green RE,Georgiadis NJ,Roca AL,Hofreiter M

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 3 decades, in a series of studies on some of the most extensively studied toxic chemicals and pollutants, scientists have found that the amount of toxic chemical linked with the development of a disease or death-which is central to determining "safe" or "hazardous" levels-is proportionately greater at th...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lanphear BP

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that the catch bond mechanism, where binding becomes stronger under tensile force, is a common property among non-covalent interactions between biological molecules that are exposed to mechanical force in vivo. Here, by using the multi-protein tip complex of the mannose-binding type 1 fimb...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Aprikian P,Interlandi G,Kidd BA,Le Trong I,Tchesnokova V,Yakovenko O,Whitfield MJ,Bullitt E,Stenkamp RE,Thomas WE,Sokurenko EV

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulation in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. However, the molecular mechanism controlling microglial Aβ phagocytosis is poorly understood. Here we found that the E3 ubiquitin ligase Pellino 1 (Peli1) is induced in the microglia of AD-like five familial AD (5×FAD) mice, ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Xu J,Yu T,Pietronigro EC,Yuan J,Arioli J,Pei Y,Luo X,Ye J,Constantin G,Mao C,Xiao Y

更新日期：2020-10-05 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：:Over the last decades, researchers have characterized a set of "clock genes" that drive daily rhythms in physiology and behavior. This arduous work has yielded results with far-reaching consequences in metabolic, psychiatric, and neoplastic disorders. Recent attempts to expand our understanding of circadian regulation...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Anafi RC,Lee Y,Sato TK,Venkataraman A,Ramanathan C,Kavakli IH,Hughes ME,Baggs JE,Growe J,Liu AC,Kim J,Hogenesch JB

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This primer discusses a study from Bradley et al. in which changes in transcription factor binding between two Drosophila species are revealed by chromatin immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wittkopp PJ

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs. Improving participation in PD...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Roche DG,Lanfear R,Binning SA,Haff TM,Schwanz LE,Cain KE,Kokko H,Jennions MD,Kruuk LE

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The small GTPase Rab5 is a key regulator of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. On early endosomes, within a spatially restricted domain enriched in phosphatydilinositol-3-phosphate [PI(3)P], Rab5 coordinates a complex network of effectors that functionally cooperate in membrane tethering, fusion, and organelle motility. H...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schnatwinkel C,Christoforidis S,Lindsay MR,Uttenweiler-Joseph S,Wilm M,Parton RG,Zerial M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian sex determination (male versus female) is largely controlled by genes, whereas sex differentiation (development of reproductive structures) is largely controlled by hormones. Work in the 20th century indicated that female external anatomy was a "default" pathway of development not requiring steroids, whereas...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Miller WL,Auchus RJ

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:African swine fever virus (ASFV) can cause highly lethal disease in pigs and is becoming a global threat. ASFV DNA Polymerase X (AsfvPolX) is the most distinctive DNA polymerase identified to date; it lacks two DNA-binding domains (the thumb domain and 8-KD domain) conserved in the homologous proteins. AsfvPolX cataly...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chen Y,Zhang J,Liu H,Gao Y,Li X,Zheng L,Cui R,Yao Q,Rong L,Li J,Huang Z,Ma J,Gan J

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropilin-1 (Nrp1) guides the development of the nervous and vascular systems, but its role in the mature brain remains to be explored. Here we report that the expression of the 65 kDa isoform of Sema3A, the ligand of Nrp1, by adult vascular endothelial cells, is regulated during the ovarian cycle and promotes axonal...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Giacobini P,Parkash J,Campagne C,Messina A,Casoni F,Vanacker C,Langlet F,Hobo B,Cagnoni G,Gallet S,Hanchate NK,Mazur D,Taniguchi M,Mazzone M,Verhaagen J,Ciofi P,Bouret SG,Tamagnone L,Prevot V

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, most mRNAs are exported from the nucleus by the transcription export (TREX) complex, which is loaded onto mRNAs after their splicing and capping. We have studied in mammalian cells the nuclear export of mRNAs that code for secretory proteins, which are targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum membran...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Palazzo AF,Springer M,Shibata Y,Lee CS,Dias AP,Rapoport TA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00