Activation of temperature-sensitive TRPV1-like receptors in ARC POMC neurons reduces food intake.

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：:Molecular interactions between male and female factors during mating profoundly affect the reproductive behavior and physiology of female insects. In natural populations of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae, blood-fed females direct nutritional resources towards oogenesis only when inseminated. Here we show that ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Baldini F,Gabrieli P,South A,Valim C,Mancini F,Catteruccia F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After mitosis, mammalian chromosomes partially decondense to occupy distinct territories in the cell nucleus. Current models propose that territories are separated by an interchromatin domain, rich in soluble nuclear machinery, where only rare interchromosomal interactions can occur via extended chromatin loops. In co...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Branco MR,Pombo A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that gene duplication is a major driving force of evolutionary change and the key mechanism underlying the emergence of new genes and biological processes, this study sought to use a novel genome-wide approach to identify genes that have undergone lineage-specific duplications or contractions among several homin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fortna A,Kim Y,MacLaren E,Marshall K,Hahn G,Meltesen L,Brenton M,Hink R,Burgers S,Hernandez-Boussard T,Karimpour-Fard A,Glueck D,McGavran L,Berry R,Pollack J,Sikela JM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis allows bacteria to colonize their environment more efficiently and to find optimal growth conditions, and is consequently under strong evolutionary selection. Theoretical and experimental analyses of bacterial chemotaxis suggested that the pathway has been evolutionarily optimized to produce robust output u...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Løvdok L,Bentele K,Vladimirov N,Müller A,Pop FS,Lebiedz D,Kollmann M,Sourjik V

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a research perspective, the interest in biobanking continues to intensify. Governments and industry have invested heavily in biobanks, as exemplified by initiatives like the United Kingdom Biobank and United States' Precision Medicine Initiative. But despite this enthusiasm, many profound legal and ethical challe...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Caulfield T,Murdoch B

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Formal Comment, the authors of the recent publication "Large-scale investigation of the reasons why potentially important genes are ignored" maintain that it can be read as an opportunity to explore the unknown. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stoeger T,Gerlach M,Morimoto RI,Amaral LAN

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspiratory breathing movements depend on pre-Bötzinger complex (preBötC) interneurons that express calcium (Ca2+)-activated nonselective cationic current (ICAN) to generate robust neural bursts. Hypothesized to be rhythmogenic, reducing ICAN is predicted to slow down or stop breathing; its contributions to motor patt...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Picardo MCD,Sugimura YK,Dorst KE,Kallurkar PS,Akins VT,Ma X,Teruyama R,Guinamard R,Kam K,Saha MS,Del Negro CA

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:STEP (STriatal-Enriched protein tyrosine Phosphatase) is a neuron-specific phosphatase that regulates N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR) trafficking, as well as ERK1/2, p38, Fyn, and Pyk2 activity. STEP is overactive in several neuropsychiatr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Xu J,Chatterjee M,Baguley TD,Brouillette J,Kurup P,Ghosh D,Kanyo J,Zhang Y,Seyb K,Ononenyi C,Foscue E,Anderson GM,Gresack J,Cuny GD,Glicksman MA,Greengard P,Lam TT,Tautz L,Nairn AC,Ellman JA,Lombroso PJ

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene GAD2 encoding the glutamic acid decarboxylase enzyme (GAD65) is a positional candidate gene for obesity on Chromosome 10p11-12, a susceptibility locus for morbid obesity in four independent ethnic populations. GAD65 catalyzes the formation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which interacts with neuropeptide Y...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boutin P,Dina C,Vasseur F,Dubois S,Corset L,Séron K,Bekris L,Cabellon J,Neve B,Vasseur-Delannoy V,Chikri M,Charles MA,Clement K,Lernmark A,Froguel P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bacterial adhesins appear to promote a pathogen's extracellular lifestyle rather than its entry into host cells. However, little is known about the stimuli elicited upon such pathogen host-cell interactions. Here, we report that type IV pili (Tfp)-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (P(+)GC) induces an immediate r...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boettcher JP,Kirchner M,Churin Y,Kaushansky A,Pompaiah M,Thorn H,Brinkmann V,Macbeath G,Meyer TF

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus comprises two neural signals-place cells and θ oscillations-that contribute to facets of spatial navigation. Although their complementary relationship has been well established in rodents, their respective contributions in the primate brain during free navigation remains unclear. Here, we recorded neur...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Courellis HS,Nummela SU,Metke M,Diehl GW,Bussell R,Cauwenberghs G,Miller CT

更新日期：2019-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, the high-dose refuge (HDR) strategy, aimed at delaying the evolution of pest resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins produced by transgenic crops, became mandatory in the United States and is being discussed for Europe. However, precopulatory dispersal and the mating rate between residen...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Dalecky A,Ponsard S,Bailey RI,Pélissier C,Bourguet D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent report by the Institute of Medicine leaves few urgent reasons standing for the continued use of chimpanzees in biomedical research. It is high time to think about their retirement, Frans de Waal argues, without neglecting prospects for non-invasive research on behavior, cognition, and genetics. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： de Waal FB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all higher organisms, including plants, insects, and mammals, are colonized by complex microbial communities and harbor a microbiome. Emerging studies with plants reveal that these microbiomes are structured and form complex, interconnected microbial networks. Within these networks, different taxa have differen...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： van der Heijden MG,Hartmann M

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many prior studies demonstrating offline behavioral gains in motor skills after sleep, the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. To investigate the neurophysiological basis for offline gains, we performed single-unit recordings in motor cortex as rats learned a skilled upper-limb task. We foun...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ramanathan DS,Gulati T,Ganguly K

更新日期：2015-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The demonstration of association between common genetic variants and chronic human diseases such as obesity could have profound implications for the prediction, prevention, and treatment of these conditions. Unequivocal proof of such an association, however, requires independent replication of initial positive finding...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Swarbrick MM,Waldenmaier B,Pennacchio LA,Lind DL,Cavazos MM,Geller F,Merriman R,Ustaszewska A,Malloy M,Scherag A,Hsueh WC,Rief W,Mauvais-Jarvis F,Pullinger CR,Kane JP,Dent R,McPherson R,Kwok PY,Hinney A,Hebebrand J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From early dinosaurs with as many as nine wrist bones, modern birds evolved to develop only four ossifications. Their identity is uncertain, with different labels used in palaeontology and developmental biology. We examined embryos of several species and studied chicken embryos in detail through a new technique allowi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Botelho JF,Ossa-Fuentes L,Soto-Acuña S,Smith-Paredes D,Nuñez-León D,Salinas-Saavedra M,Ruiz-Flores M,Vargas AO

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The prospects for the success of malaria control depend, in part, on the basic reproductive number for malaria, R0. Here, we estimate R0 in a novel way for 121 African populations, and thereby increase the number of R0 estimates for malaria by an order of magnitude. The estimates range from around one to more than 3,0...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Smith DL,McKenzie FE,Snow RW,Hay SI

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flight speed is expected to increase with mass and wing loading among flying animals and aircraft for fundamental aerodynamic reasons. Assuming geometrical and dynamical similarity, cruising flight speed is predicted to vary as (body mass)(1/6) and (wing loading)(1/2) among bird species. To test these scaling rules an...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Alerstam T,Rosén M,Bäckman J,Ericson PG,Hellgren O

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that some cancer cells rely upon fatty acid oxidation (FAO) for energy. Here we show that when FAO was reduced approximately 90% by pharmacological inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT1) with low concentrations of etomoxir, the proliferation rate of various cancer cells was unaffec...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yao CH,Liu GY,Wang R,Moon SH,Gross RW,Patti GJ

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common cystic fibrosis (CF) causing mutation, deletion of phenylalanine 508 (ΔF508 or Phe508del), results in functional expression defect of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) at the apical plasma membrane (PM) of secretory epithelia, which is attributed to the degradation of the misfolded chan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Veit G,Oliver K,Apaja PM,Perdomo D,Bidaud-Meynard A,Lin ST,Guo J,Icyuz M,Sorscher EJ,Hartman JL IV,Lukacs GL

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In Amazonian tropical forests, recent studies have reported increases in aboveground biomass and in primary productivity, as well as shifts in plant species composition favouring fast-growing species over slow-growing ones. This pervasive alteration of mature tropical forests was attributed to global environmental cha...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chave J,Condit R,Muller-Landau HC,Thomas SC,Ashton PS,Bunyavejchewin S,Co LL,Dattaraja HS,Davies SJ,Esufali S,Ewango CE,Feeley KJ,Foster RB,Gunatilleke N,Gunatilleke S,Hall P,Hart TB,Hernández C,Hubbell SP,Itoh A,

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper (Cu) has emerged as an important modifier of body lipid metabolism. However, how Cu contributes to the physiology of fat cells remains largely unknown. We found that adipocytes require Cu to establish a balance between main metabolic fuels. Differentiating adipocytes increase their Cu uptake along with the ATP7...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yang H,Ralle M,Wolfgang MJ,Dhawan N,Burkhead JL,Rodriguez S,Kaplan JH,Wong GW,Haughey N,Lutsenko S

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using DNA sequences 5' to open reading frames, we have constructed green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions and generated spatial and temporal tissue expression profiles for 1,886 specific genes in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. This effort encompasses about 10% of all genes identified in this organism. GFP-expre...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hunt-Newbury R,Viveiros R,Johnsen R,Mah A,Anastas D,Fang L,Halfnight E,Lee D,Lin J,Lorch A,McKay S,Okada HM,Pan J,Schulz AK,Tu D,Wong K,Zhao Z,Alexeyenko A,Burglin T,Sonnhammer E,Schnabel R,Jones SJ,Marra MA,

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum plays a fundamental role in motor learning and reward-related behaviors that are synergistically shaped by populations of D1 dopamine receptor (D1R)- and D2 dopamine receptor (D2R)-expressing medium spiny neurons (MSNs). How various neurotransmitter inputs converging on common intracellular pathways are p...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sutton LP,Muntean BS,Ostrovskaya O,Zucca S,Dao M,Orlandi C,Song C,Xie K,Martemyanov KA

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental transition from a vegetative to a reproductive phase (i.e., flowering) is timed by the seasonal cue day length or photoperiod in many plant species. Through the photoperiod pathway, inductive day lengths trigger the production of a systemic flowering signal, florigen, to provoke the floral transition...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gu X,Wang Y,He Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:The catalytic activity of GDP/GTP exchange factors (GEFs) is considered critical to maintain the typically high activity of Rho GTPases found in cancer cells. However, the large number of them has made it difficult to pinpoint those playing proactive, nonredundant roles in tumors. In this work, we have investigated wh...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Menacho-Márquez M,García-Escudero R,Ojeda V,Abad A,Delgado P,Costa C,Ruiz S,Alarcón B,Paramio JM,Bustelo XR

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain is a debilitating problem, and insights in the neurobiology of chronic pain are needed for the development of novel pain therapies. A genome-wide association study implicated the 5p15.2 region in chronic widespread pain. This region includes the coding region for FAM173B, a functionally uncharacterized pr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Willemen HLDM,Kavelaars A,Prado J,Maas M,Versteeg S,Nellissen LJJ,Tromp J,Gonzalez Cano R,Zhou W,Jakobsson ME,Małecki J,Posthuma G,Habib AM,Heijnen CJ,Falnes PØ,Eijkelkamp N

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00