Coordinated regulation of Arabidopsis microRNA biogenesis and red light signaling through Dicer-like 1 and phytochrome-interacting factor 4.

abstract：:DNA methyltransferases are ubiquitous enzymes conserved in bacteria, plants and opisthokonta. These enzymes, which methylate cytosines, are involved in numerous biological processes, notably development. In mammals and higher plants, methylation patterns established and maintained by the cytosine DNA methyltransferase...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Grognet P,Timpano H,Carlier F,Aït-Benkhali J,Berteaux-Lecellier V,Debuchy R,Bidard F,Malagnac F

更新日期：2019-08-14 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006396.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hibshman JD,Hung A,Baugh LR

更新日期：2018-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock coordinates physiology and metabolism. mTOR (mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin) is a major intracellular sensor that integrates nutrient and energy status to regulate protein synthesis, metabolism, and cell growth. Previous studies have identified a key role for mTOR in regulating photic en...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ramanathan C,Kathale ND,Liu D,Lee C,Freeman DA,Hogenesch JB,Cao R,Liu AC

更新日期：2018-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilin B (CyPB), encoded by PPIB, is an ER-resident peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPIase) that functions independently and as a component of the collagen prolyl 3-hydroxylation complex. CyPB is proposed to be the major PPIase catalyzing the rate-limiting step in collagen folding. Mutations in PPIB cause re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cabral WA,Perdivara I,Weis M,Terajima M,Blissett AR,Chang W,Perosky JE,Makareeva EN,Mertz EL,Leikin S,Tomer KB,Kozloff KM,Eyre DR,Yamauchi M,Marini JC

更新日期：2014-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetrical segregation of differentiated sister chromatids is thought to be important for cellular differentiation in higher eukaryotes. Similarly, in fission yeast, cellular differentiation involves the asymmetrical segregation of a chromosomal imprint. This imprint has been shown to consist of two ribonucleotides ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sayrac S,Vengrova S,Godfrey EL,Dalgaard JZ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodal and Activin are morphogens of the TGFbeta superfamily of signaling molecules that direct differential cell fate decisions in a dose- and distance-dependent manner. During early embryonic development the Nodal/Activin pathway is responsible for the specification of mesoderm, endoderm, node, and mesendoderm. In co...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lee KL,Lim SK,Orlov YL,Yit le Y,Yang H,Ang LT,Poellinger L,Lim B

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGFβs act through canonical and non-canonical pathways, and canonical signals are transduced via Smad2 and Smad3. However, the contribution of canonical vs. non-canonical pathways in cartilage is unknown because the role of Smad2 in chondrogenesis has not been investigated in vivo. Therefore, we analyzed mice in which...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang W,Song B,Anbarchian T,Shirazyan A,Sadik JE,Lyons KM

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During transcription, the nascent pre-mRNA undergoes a series of processing steps before being exported to the cytoplasm. The 3'-end processing machinery involves different proteins, this function being crucial to cell growth and viability in eukaryotes. Here, we found that the rna14-1, rna15-1, and hrp1-5 alleles of ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gaillard H,Aguilera A

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Cryptococccus neoformans genes are interrupted by introns, and alternative splicing occurs very often. In this study, we examined the influence of introns on C. neoformans gene expression. For most tested genes, elimination of introns greatly reduces mRNA accumulation. Strikingly, the number and the position of i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Goebels C,Thonn A,Gonzalez-Hilarion S,Rolland O,Moyrand F,Beilharz TH,Janbon G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of tumor suppressor genes in stromal fibroblasts induces epithelial cancer development, suggesting an important role of stroma in epithelial homoeostasis. However, the underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated. Here we report that deletion of the gene encoding TGFβ receptor 2 (Tgfbr2) in the stromal fibro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Achyut BR,Bader DA,Robles AI,Wangsa D,Harris CC,Ried T,Yang L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin pigment patterns of vertebrates are a classic system for understanding fundamental mechanisms of morphogenesis, differentiation, and pattern formation, and recent studies of zebrafish have started to elucidate the cellular interactions and molecular mechanisms underlying these processes. In this species, horizont...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Patterson LB,Parichy DM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of yeast telomerase, Est2p, is a telomere associated throughout most of the cell cycle, while the Est1p subunit binds only in late S/G2 phase, the time of telomerase action. Est2p binding in G1/early S phase requires a specific interaction between telomerase RNA (TLC1) and Ku80p. Here, we show th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chan A,Boulé JB,Zakian VA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) performed across autoimmune diseases, there is a great opportunity to study the homogeneity of genetic architectures across autoimmune disease. Previous approaches have been limited in the scope of their analysis and have failed to properly incorporate the direction...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sirota M,Schaub MA,Batzoglou S,Robinson WH,Butte AJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance and identity of functional variation segregating in natural populations is paramount to dissecting the molecular basis of quantitative traits as well as human genetic diseases. Genome sequencing of multiple organisms of the same species provides an efficient means of cataloging rearrangements, insertion,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Doniger SW,Kim HS,Swain D,Corcuera D,Williams M,Yang SP,Fay JC

更新日期：2008-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The DREAM (Dp/Retinoblastoma(Rb)-like/E2F/MuvB) transcriptional repressor complex acts as a gatekeeper of the mammalian cell cycle by establishing and maintaining cellular quiescence. How DREAM's three functional components, the E2F-DP heterodimer, the Rb-like pocket protein, and the MuvB subcomplex, form and function...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Goetsch PD,Garrigues JM,Strome S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an admixture analysis of a sample comprising 1,019 individuals from all the provinces of Cuba. We used a panel of 128 autosomal Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) to estimate the admixture proportions. We also characterized a number of haplogroup diagnostic markers in the mtDNA and Y-chromosome in orde...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Marcheco-Teruel B,Parra EJ,Fuentes-Smith E,Salas A,Buttenschøn HN,Demontis D,Torres-Español M,Marín-Padrón LC,Gómez-Cabezas EJ,Alvarez-Iglesias V,Mosquera-Miguel A,Martínez-Fuentes A,Carracedo A,Børglum AD,Mors O

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism (NSHPT) are homozygous for the calcium-sensing receptor (CaR) mutation and have very high circulating PTH, abundant parathyroid hyperplasia, and severe life-threatening hypercalcemia. Mice with homozygous deletion of CaR mimic the syndrome of NSHPT. To determine effect...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liu J,Lv F,Sun W,Tao C,Ding G,Karaplis A,Brown E,Goltzman D,Miao D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs), ligand-gated ionotropic glutamate receptors, play key roles in normal brain development and various neurological disorders. Here we use standing variation data from the human population to assess which protein domains within NMDAR GluN1, GluN2A and GluN2B subunits show the stro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ogden KK,Chen W,Swanger SA,McDaniel MJ,Fan LZ,Hu C,Tankovic A,Kusumoto H,Kosobucki GJ,Schulien AJ,Su Z,Pecha J,Bhattacharya S,Petrovski S,Cohen AE,Aizenman E,Traynelis SF,Yuan H

更新日期：2017-01-17 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：:Resequencing is an emerging tool for identification of rare disease-associated mutations. Rare mutations are difficult to tag with SNP genotyping, as genotyping studies are designed to detect common variants. However, studies have shown that genetic heterogeneity is a probable scenario for common diseases, in which mu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Madsen BE,Browning SR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previously identified LRS (Loss of rDNA Silencing) domain of the nucleosome is critically important for silencing at both ribosomal DNA and telomeres. To understand the function of the LRS surface in silencing, we performed an EMS mutagenesis screen to identify suppressors of the H3 A75V LRS allele. We identified ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Norris A,Bianchet MA,Boeke JD

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB) and Walker Warburg Syndrome (WWS) belong to a spectrum of autosomal recessive diseases characterized by ocular dysgenesis, neuronal migration defects, and congenital muscular dystrophy. Until now, the pathophysiology of MEB/WWS has been attributed to alteration in dystroglycan post-trans...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Labelle-Dumais C,Dilworth DJ,Harrington EP,de Leau M,Lyons D,Kabaeva Z,Manzini MC,Dobyns WB,Walsh CA,Michele DE,Gould DB

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual dimorphisms in trait expression are widespread among animals and are especially pronounced in ornaments and weapons of sexual selection, which can attain exaggerated sizes. Expression of exaggerated traits is usually male-specific and nutrition sensitive. Consequently, the developmental mechanisms generating se...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gotoh H,Miyakawa H,Ishikawa A,Ishikawa Y,Sugime Y,Emlen DJ,Lavine LC,Miura T

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:Here we demonstrate association of variants in the mitochondrial asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase NARS2 with human hearing loss and Leigh syndrome. A homozygous missense mutation ([c.637G>T; p.Val213Phe]) is the underlying cause of nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNB94) and compound heterozygous mutations ([c.969T>A; p.Tyr323*...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Simon M,Richard EM,Wang X,Shahzad M,Huang VH,Qaiser TA,Potluri P,Mahl SE,Davila A,Nazli S,Hancock S,Yu M,Gargus J,Chang R,Al-Sheqaih N,Newman WG,Abdenur J,Starr A,Hegde R,Dorn T,Busch A,Park E,Wu J,Schwenzer

更新日期：2015-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt represents a nodal point between the Insulin receptor and TOR signaling, and its activation by phosphorylation controls cell proliferation, cell size, and metabolism. The activity of Akt must be carefully balanced, as increased Akt signaling is frequently associated with cancer and as insufficient Akt signaling is...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kockel L,Kerr KS,Melnick M,Brückner K,Hebrok M,Perrimon N

更新日期：2010-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining how facultative anaerobic organisms sense and direct cellular responses to electron acceptor availability has been a subject of intense study. However, even in the model organism Escherichia coli, established mechanisms only explain a small fraction of the hundreds of genes that are regulated during electr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Federowicz S,Kim D,Ebrahim A,Lerman J,Nagarajan H,Cho BK,Zengler K,Palsson B

更新日期：2014-04-03 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