A genomic overview of the population structure of Salmonella.

abstract：:Mutations in the human LMNA gene cause muscular dystrophy by mechanisms that are incompletely understood. The LMNA gene encodes A-type lamins, intermediate filaments that form a network underlying the inner nuclear membrane, providing structural support for the nucleus and organizing the genome. To better understand t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dialynas G,Shrestha OK,Ponce JM,Zwerger M,Thiemann DA,Young GH,Moore SA,Yu L,Lammerding J,Wallrath LL

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 3p21-22 harbors two clusters of chemokine receptor genes, several of which serve as major or minor coreceptors of HIV-1. Although the genetic association of CCR5 and CCR2 variants with HIV-1 pathogenesis is well known, the role of variation in other nearby chemokine receptor genes remain unresolved. We geno...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： An P,Li R,Wang JM,Yoshimura T,Takahashi M,Samudralal R,O'Brien SJ,Phair J,Goedert JJ,Kirk GD,Troyer JL,Sezgin E,Buchbinder SP,Donfield S,Nelson GW,Winkler CA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia is a causal and modifiable risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. A critical pathway regulating cholesterol homeostasis involves the receptor-mediated endocytosis of low-density lipoproteins into hepatocytes, mediated by the LDL receptor. We applied genome-scale CRISPR screening t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Emmer BT,Sherman EJ,Lascuna PJ,Graham SE,Willer CJ,Ginsburg D

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance to high levels of ethanol is an ecologically and industrially relevant phenotype of microbes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this complex trait remain largely unknown. Here, we use long-term experimental evolution of isogenic yeast populations of different initial ploidy to study adaptation to incre...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Voordeckers K,Kominek J,Das A,Espinosa-Cantú A,De Maeyer D,Arslan A,Van Pee M,van der Zande E,Meert W,Yang Y,Zhu B,Marchal K,DeLuna A,Van Noort V,Jelier R,Verstrepen KJ

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The hallmark of canonical Wnt signaling is the transcriptional induction of Wnt target genes by the beta-catenin/TCF complex. Several studies have proposed alternative interaction partners for beta-catenin or TCF, but the relevance of potential bifurcations in the distal Wnt pathway remains unclear. Here we study on a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Franz A,Shlyueva D,Brunner E,Stark A,Basler K

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the somatic cells of adult metazoans, including mammals, do not undergo continuous cycles of replication. Instead, they are quiescent and devote most of their metabolic activity to gene expression. The mutagenic consequences of exposure to DNA-damaging agents are well documented, but less is known about the im...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brégeon D,Peignon PA,Sarasin A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species barriers, expressed as hybrid inviability and sterility, are often due to epistatic interactions between divergent loci from two lineages. Theoretical models indicate that the strength, direction, and complexity of these genetic interactions can strongly affect the expression of interspecific reproductive isol...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Guerrero RF,Muir CD,Josway S,Moyle LC

更新日期：2017-06-12 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：:The metabolic capabilities and regulatory networks of bacteria have been optimized by evolution in response to selective pressures present in each species' native ecological niche. In a new environment, however, the same bacteria may grow poorly due to regulatory constraints or biochemical deficiencies. Adaptation to ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hottes AK,Freddolino PL,Khare A,Donnell ZN,Liu JC,Tavazoie S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central questions in regenerative biology include how stem cells are maintained and how they transition from self-renewal to differentiation. Germline stem cells (GSCs) in Caeno-rhabditis elegans provide a tractable in vivo model to address these questions. In this system, Notch signaling and PUF RNA binding proteins,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shin H,Haupt KA,Kershner AM,Kroll-Conner P,Wickens M,Kimble J

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The appropriate development of conidia and appressoria is critical in the disease cycle of many fungal pathogens, including Magnaporthe oryzae. A total of eight genes (MoHOX1 to MoHOX8) encoding putative homeobox transcription factors (TFs) were identified from the M. oryzae genome. Knockout mutants for each MoHOX gen...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim S,Park SY,Kim KS,Rho HS,Chi MH,Choi J,Park J,Kong S,Park J,Goh J,Lee YH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolific sheep have proven to be a valuable model to identify genes and mutations implicated in female fertility. In the Lacaune sheep breed, large variation in litter size is genetically determined by the segregation of a fecundity major gene influencing ovulation rate, named FecL and its prolific allele FecL(L) . Ou...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Drouilhet L,Mansanet C,Sarry J,Tabet K,Bardou P,Woloszyn F,Lluch J,Harichaux G,Viguié C,Monniaux D,Bodin L,Mulsant P,Fabre S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Viruses have exerted a constant and potent selective pressure on human genes throughout evolution. We utilized the marks left by selection on allele frequency to identify viral infection-associated allelic variants. Virus diversity (the number of different viruses in a geographic region) was used to measure virus-driv...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fumagalli M,Pozzoli U,Cagliani R,Comi GP,Bresolin N,Clerici M,Sironi M

更新日期：2010-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdenum (Mo) is an essential micronutrient for plants, serving as a cofactor for enzymes involved in nitrate assimilation, sulfite detoxification, abscisic acid biosynthesis, and purine degradation. Here we show that natural variation in shoot Mo content across 92 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions is controlled by va...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baxter I,Muthukumar B,Park HC,Buchner P,Lahner B,Danku J,Zhao K,Lee J,Hawkesford MJ,Guerinot ML,Salt DE

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma (Rb), the most common pediatric intraocular neoplasm, results from inactivation of both alleles of the RB1 tumor suppressor gene. The second allele is most commonly lost, as demonstrated by loss of heterozygosity studies. RB1 germline carriers usually develop bilateral tumors, but some Rb families displ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eloy P,Dehainault C,Sefta M,Aerts I,Doz F,Cassoux N,Lumbroso le Rouic L,Stoppa-Lyonnet D,Radvanyi F,Millot GA,Gauthier-Villars M,Houdayer C

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcript elongation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is accompanied by conserved patterns of histone modification. Whereas histone modifications have established roles in transcription initiation, their functions during elongation are not understood. Mono-ubiquitylation of histone H2B (H2Bub1) plays a key role in coord...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sansó M,Lee KM,Viladevall L,Jacques PÉ,Pagé V,Nagy S,Racine A,St Amour CV,Zhang C,Shokat KM,Schwer B,Robert F,Fisher RP,Tanny JC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide transcription start site (TSS) profiles of the enterobacteria Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae were experimentally determined through modified 5' RACE followed by deep sequencing of intact primary mRNA. This identified 3,746 and 3,143 TSSs for E. coli and K. pneumoniae, respectively. Experimental...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim D,Hong JS,Qiu Y,Nagarajan H,Seo JH,Cho BK,Tsai SF,Palsson BØ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep is a nearly universal behavior that is regulated by diverse environmental stimuli and physiological states. A defining feature of sleep is a homeostatic rebound following deprivation, where animals compensate for lost sleep by increasing sleep duration and/or sleep depth. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brown EB,Shah KD,Faville R,Kottler B,Keene AC

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated nuclear entry of clock proteins is a conserved feature of eukaryotic circadian clocks and serves to separate the phase of mRNA activation from mRNA repression in the molecular feedback loop. In Drosophila, nuclear entry of the clock proteins, PERIOD (PER) and TIMELESS (TIM), is tightly controlled, and impair...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jang AR,Moravcevic K,Saez L,Young MW,Sehgal A

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:While there have been studies exploring regulatory variation in one or more tissues, the complexity of tissue-specificity in multiple primary tissues is not yet well understood. We explore in depth the role of cis-regulatory variation in three human tissues: lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCL), skin, and fat. The samples ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nica AC,Parts L,Glass D,Nisbet J,Barrett A,Sekowska M,Travers M,Potter S,Grundberg E,Small K,Hedman AK,Bataille V,Tzenova Bell J,Surdulescu G,Dimas AS,Ingle C,Nestle FO,di Meglio P,Min JL,Wilk A,Hammond CJ,Hassa

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome duplications are important evolutionary events that impact the rate and spectrum of beneficial mutations and thus the rate of adaptation. Laboratory evolution experiments initiated with haploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultures repeatedly experience whole-genome duplication (WGD). We report recurrent genome dup...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fisher KJ,Buskirk SW,Vignogna RC,Marad DA,Lang GI

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a genome-scale chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-chip comparison of two modifications (trimethylation of lysine 9 [H3me3K9] and trimethylation of lysine 27 [H3me3K27]) of histone H3 in Ntera2 testicular carcinoma cells and in three different anatomical sources of primary human fibroblasts. We found tha...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： O'Geen H,Squazzo SL,Iyengar S,Blahnik K,Rinn JL,Chang HY,Green R,Farnham PJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the ~670 Mb genome assembly of the Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer), a tropical marine teleost. We used long-read sequencing augmented by transcriptomics, optical and genetic mapping along with shared synteny from closely related fish species to derive a chromosome-level assembly with a contig N50 size ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Vij S,Kuhl H,Kuznetsova IS,Komissarov A,Yurchenko AA,Van Heusden P,Singh S,Thevasagayam NM,Prakki SR,Purushothaman K,Saju JM,Jiang J,Mbandi SK,Jonas M,Hin Yan Tong A,Mwangi S,Lau D,Ngoh SY,Liew WC,Shen X,Hon LS,

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest (NC) is a vertebrate-specific cell population that exhibits remarkable multipotency. Although derived from the neural plate border (NPB) ectoderm, cranial NC (CNC) cells contribute not only to the peripheral nervous system but also to the ectomesenchymal precursors of the head skeleton. To date, the d...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cox SG,Kim H,Garnett AT,Medeiros DM,An W,Crump JG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying immune system recognition of different types of pathogens has been extensively studied over the past few decades; however, the mechanism by which healthy self-tissue evades an attack by its own immune system is less well-understood. Here, we established an autoimmune model of melanotic mass fo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim MJ,Choe KM

更新日期：2014-10-16 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005131.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： PLOS Genetics Staff.

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel statistical framework for integrating the result from molecular quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping into genome-wide genetic association analysis of complex traits, with the primary objectives of quantitatively assessing the enrichment of the molecular QTLs in complex trait-associated genetic vari...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wen X,Pique-Regi R,Luca F

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We resequenced and phased 27 kb of DNA within 580 kb of the MHC class II region in 158 population chromosomes, most of which were conserved extended haplotypes (CEHs) of European descent or contained their centromeric fragments. We determined the single nucleotide polymorphism and deletion-insertion polymorphism allel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Larsen CE,Alford DR,Trautwein MR,Jalloh YK,Tarnacki JL,Kunnenkeri SK,Fici DA,Yunis EJ,Awdeh ZL,Alper CA

更新日期：2014-10-09 00:00:00