The C-terminal of CASY-1/Calsyntenin regulates GABAergic synaptic transmission at the Caenorhabditis elegans neuromuscular junction.

abstract：:Gap junctions are present in both vertebrates and invertebrates from nematodes to mammals. Although the importance of gap junctions has been documented in many biological processes, the molecular mechanisms underlying gap junction dynamics remain unclear. Here, using the C. elegans PLM neurons as a model, we show that...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Meng L,Chen CH,Yan D

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Across phylogeny, glutamate (Glu) signaling plays a critical role in regulating neural excitability, thus supporting many complex behaviors. Perturbed synaptic and extrasynaptic Glu homeostasis in the human brain has been implicated in multiple neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's dis...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gibson CL,Balbona JT,Niedzwiecki A,Rodriguez P,Nguyen KCQ,Hall DH,Blakely RD

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:At the molecular level, the evolution of new traits can be broadly divided between changes in gene expression and changes in protein-coding sequence. For proteins, the evolution of novel functions is generally thought to proceed through sequential point mutations or recombination of whole functional units. In Saccharo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baker EP,Hittinger CT

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:H1 linker histones facilitate higher-order chromatin folding and are essential for mammalian development. To achieve high-resolution mapping of H1 variants H1d and H1c in embryonic stem cells (ESCs), we have established a knock-in system and shown that the N-terminally tagged H1 proteins are functionally interchangeab...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cao K,Lailler N,Zhang Y,Kumar A,Uppal K,Liu Z,Lee EK,Wu H,Medrzycki M,Pan C,Ho PY,Cooper GP Jr,Dong X,Bock C,Bouhassira EE,Fan Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cases protein assemblies are stabilized by covalent bonds, one example of which is the formation of intra- or intermolecular ε-(γ-glutamyl)lysil cross-links catalyzed by transglutaminases (TGases). Because of the potential for unwanted cross-linking reactions, the activities of many TGases have been shown to b...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fernandes CG,Martins D,Hernandez G,Sousa AL,Freitas C,Tranfield EM,Cordeiro TN,Serrano M,Moran CP Jr,Henriques AO

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex is a specialized region of the brain that processes cognitive, motor, somatosensory, auditory, and visual functions. Its characteristic architecture and size is dependent upon the number of neurons generated during embryogenesis and has been postulated to be governed by symmetric versus asymmetric ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sakai D,Dixon J,Dixon MJ,Trainor PA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a congenital disorder caused by mutations of the myotubularin gene, MTM1. Myotubularin belongs to a large family of conserved lipid phosphatases that include both catalytically active and inactive myotubularin-related proteins (i.e., "MTMRs"). Biochemically, catalytically inacti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gupta VA,Hnia K,Smith LL,Gundry SR,McIntire JE,Shimazu J,Bass JR,Talbot EA,Amoasii L,Goldman NE,Laporte J,Beggs AH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bHLH transcription factor, Phytochrome Interacting Factor 3 (PIF3), interacts specifically with the photoactivated, Pfr, form of Arabidopsis phytochrome B (phyB). This interaction induces PIF3 phosphorylation and degradation in vivo and modulates phyB-mediated seedling deetiolation in response to red light. To ide...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kikis EA,Oka Y,Hudson ME,Nagatani A,Quail PH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Krüppel-associated box domain-zinc finger proteins (KRAB-ZFPs) are tetrapod-specific transcriptional repressors encoded in the hundreds by the human genome. In order to explore their as yet ill-defined impact on gene expression, we developed an ectopic repressor assay, allowing the study of KRAB-mediated transcription...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Groner AC,Meylan S,Ciuffi A,Zangger N,Ambrosini G,Dénervaud N,Bucher P,Trono D

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In non-motile fungi, sexual reproduction relies on strong morphogenetic changes in response to pheromone signaling. We report here on a systematic screen for morphological abnormalities of the mating process in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We derived a homothallic (self-fertile) collection of viable deleti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dudin O,Merlini L,Bendezú FO,Groux R,Vincenzetti V,Martin SG

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During nervous system development, neuronal cell bodies and their axodendritic projections are precisely positioned through transiently expressed patterning cues. We show here that two neuronally expressed, secreted immunoglobulin (Ig) domain-containing proteins, ZIG-5 and ZIG-8, have no detectable role during embryon...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bénard CY,Blanchette C,Recio J,Hobert O

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate at which genomes adapt to environmental changes and the prevalence of adaptive processes in molecular evolution are two controversial issues in current evolutionary genetics. Previous attempts to quantify the genome-wide rate of adaptation through amino-acid substitution have revealed a surprising diversity o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Galtier N

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The female gametophyte of flowering plants, the embryo sac, develops within the diploid (sporophytic) tissue of the ovule. While embryo sac-expressed genes are known to be required at multiple stages of the fertilization process, the set of embryo sac-expressed genes has remained poorly defined. In particular, the set...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jones-Rhoades MW,Borevitz JO,Preuss D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb (PcG) regulation has been thought to produce stable long-term gene silencing. Genomic analyses in Drosophila and mammals, however, have shown that it targets many genes, which can switch state during development. Genetic evidence indicates that critical for the active state of PcG target genes are the histone...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Schwartz YB,Kahn TG,Stenberg P,Ohno K,Bourgon R,Pirrotta V

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cell tumours are the most common type of skin cancer in dogs, representing a significant concern in canine health. The molecular pathogenesis is largely unknown, but breed-predisposition for mast cell tumour development suggests the involvement of inherited genetic risk factors in some breeds. In this study, we a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Biasoli D,Compston-Garnett L,Ricketts SL,Birand Z,Courtay-Cahen C,Fineberg E,Arendt M,Boerkamp K,Melin M,Koltookian M,Murphy S,Rutteman G,Lindblad-Toh K,Starkey M

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Massively parallel pyrosequencing of hypervariable regions from small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) genes can sample a microbial community two or three orders of magnitude more deeply per dollar and per hour than capillary sequencing of full-length SSU rRNA. As with full-length rRNA surveys, each sequence read is a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Huse SM,Dethlefsen L,Huber JA,Mark Welch D,Relman DA,Sogin ML

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA silencing is a defense system against "genomic parasites" such as transposable elements (TE), which are potentially harmful to host genomes. In plants, transcripts from TEs induce production of double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) and are processed into small RNAs (small interfering RNAs, siRNAs) that suppress TEs by RNA...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nosaka M,Itoh J,Nagato Y,Ono A,Ishiwata A,Sato Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal cargos are differentially targeted to either axons or dendrites, and this polarized cargo targeting critically depends on the interaction between microtubules and molecular motors. From a forward mutagenesis screen, we identified a gain-of-function mutation in the C. elegans α-tubulin gene mec-12 that trigger...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hsu JM,Chen CH,Chen YC,McDonald KL,Gurling M,Lee A,Garriga G,Pan CL

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The coordination of growth with nutritional status is essential for proper development and physiology. Nutritional information is mostly perceived by peripheral organs before being relayed to the brain, which modulates physiological responses. Hormonal signaling ensures this organ-to-organ communication, and the failu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sano H,Nakamura A,Texada MJ,Truman JW,Ishimoto H,Kamikouchi A,Nibu Y,Kume K,Ida T,Kojima M

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from primates, we show that molecular clocks in sites that have been part of a CpG dinucleotide in recent past (CpG sites) and non-CpG sites are of markedly different nature, reflecting differences in their molecular origins. Notably, single nucleotide substitutions at non-CpG sites show clear generation-ti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim SH,Elango N,Warden C,Vigoda E,Yi SV

更新日期：2006-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic background of complex diseases is proposed to consist of several low-penetrance risk loci. Addressing this complexity likely requires both large sample size and simultaneous analysis of different predisposing variants. We investigated the role of four thrombosis genes: coagulation factor V (F5), intercellu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Auro K,Alanne M,Kristiansson K,Silander K,Kuulasmaa K,Salomaa V,Peltonen L,Perola M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a functional musculoskeletal system requires coordinated generation of muscles, bones, and tendons. However, how axial tendon cells (tenocytes) are generated during embryo development is still poorly understood. Here, we show that axial tenocytes arise from the sclerotome in zebrafish. In contrast to mo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ma RC,Jacobs CT,Sharma P,Kocha KM,Huang P

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Sister centromere fusion is a process unique to meiosis that promotes co-orientation of the sister kinetochores, ensuring they attach to microtubules from the same pole during metaphase I. We have found that the kinetochore protein SPC105R/KNL1 and Protein Phosphatase 1 (PP1-87B) regulate sister centromere fusion in D...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang LI,Das A,McKim KS

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past four decades, the predominant view of molecular evolution saw little connection between natural selection and genome evolution, assuming that the functionally constrained fraction of the genome is relatively small and that adaptation is sufficiently infrequent to play little role in shaping patterns of v...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sella G,Petrov DA,Przeworski M,Andolfatto P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mating-type switching is a complex mechanism that promotes sexual reproduction in Saccharomycotina. In the model species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching is initiated by the Ho endonuclease that performs a site-specific double-strand break (DSB) at MAT, repaired by homologous recombination (HR) using on...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Maroc L,Zhou-Li Y,Boisnard S,Fairhead C

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent comparative genomic analysis of alternative splicing has shown that protein modularity is an important criterion for functional alternative splicing events. Exons that are alternatively spliced in multiple organisms are much more likely to be an exact multiple of 3 nt in length, representing a class of "modular...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xing Y,Lee CJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the oldest domesticated crop species in the world, having fed more people than any other plant in human history. We report the patterns of DNA sequence variation in rice and its wild ancestor, O. rufipogon, across 111 randomly chosen gene fragments, and use these to inf...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Caicedo AL,Williamson SH,Hernandez RD,Boyko A,Fledel-Alon A,York TL,Polato NR,Olsen KM,Nielsen R,McCouch SR,Bustamante CD,Purugganan MD

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent phenotypic evolution is often caused by recurrent changes at particular nodes in the underlying gene regulatory networks (GRNs). The genes at such evolutionary 'hotspots' are thought to maximally affect the phenotype with minimal pleiotropic consequences. This has led to the suggestion that if a GRN is unde...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kittelmann S,Buffry AD,Franke FA,Almudi I,Yoth M,Sabaris G,Couso JP,Nunes MDS,Frankel N,Gómez-Skarmeta JL,Pueyo-Marques J,Arif S,McGregor AP

更新日期：2018-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the genetic mechanisms leading to phenotypic differentiation, it is important to identify genomic regions under selection. We scanned the genome of two chicken lines from a single trait selection experiment, where 50 generations of selection have resulted in a 9-fold difference in body weight. Analyses o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Johansson AM,Pettersson ME,Siegel PB,Carlborg O

更新日期：2010-11-04 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