The slings and arrows of comparative linguistics.

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate how dendrites target different neurons to establish connections with specific cell types remain largely unknown. In particular, the formation of cell-type-specific connectivity during postnatal neurogenesis could be either determined by the local environment of the mature neuronal circuit ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kelsch W,Mosley CP,Lin CW,Lois C

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001326.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lu W,Hu Y,Chen G,Chen Z,Zhang H,Wang F,Feng L,Pelicano H,Wang H,Keating MJ,Liu J,McKeehan W,Wang H,Luo Y,Huang P

更新日期：2017-12-11 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：:Commensal microbes, whether they are beneficial or pathogenic, are sensitive to host processes that starve or swamp the prokaryote with large fluctuations in local zinc concentration. To understand how microorganisms coordinate a dynamic response to changes in zinc availability at the molecular level, we evaluated the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gilston BA,Wang S,Marcus MD,Canalizo-Hernández MA,Swindell EP,Xue Y,Mondragón A,O'Halloran TV

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimivirus is the largest known virus whose genome and physical size are comparable to some small bacteria, blurring the boundary between a virus and a cell. Structural studies of Mimivirus have been difficult because of its size and long surface fibers. Here we report the use of enzymatic digestions to remove the surf...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Xiao C,Kuznetsov YG,Sun S,Hafenstein SL,Kostyuchenko VA,Chipman PR,Suzan-Monti M,Raoult D,McPherson A,Rossmann MG

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements comprise a huge portion of most animal genomes. Unlike many pathogens, these elements leave a mark of their impact via their insertion into host genomes. With proper teasing, these sequences can relay information about the evolutionary history of transposons and their hosts. In a new publication,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McLaughlin RN Jr

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-incompatibility (SI) is the flowering plant reproductive system in which self pollen tube growth is inhibited, thereby preventing self-fertilization. SI has evolved independently in several different flowering plant lineages. In all Brassicaceae species in which the molecular basis of SI has been investigated in ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chantha SC,Herman AC,Platts AE,Vekemans X,Schoen DJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strategies have been pursued to increase the extent of exon 7 inclusion during splicing of SMN2 (survival of motor neuron 2) transcripts, for eventual therapeutic use in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disease. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that target an exon or its flanking splice ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hua Y,Vickers TA,Baker BF,Bennett CF,Krainer AR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional consequences of long-range nuclear reorganization were studied in a cell-by-cell analysis of gene expression and long-range chromosomal interactions in the Drosophila eye and eye imaginal disk. Position-effect variegation was used to stochastically perturb gene expression and probe nuclear reorganizatio...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Harmon B,Sedat J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every year, ovarian cancer kills approximately 14,000 women in the United States and more than 140,000 women worldwide. Most of these deaths are caused by tumors of the serous histological type, which is rarely diagnosed before it has disseminated. By deep paired-end sequencing of mRNA from serous ovarian cancers, fol...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Salzman J,Marinelli RJ,Wang PL,Green AE,Nielsen JS,Nelson BH,Drescher CW,Brown PO

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms by which floral homeotic genes act as major developmental switches to specify the identity of floral organs are still largely unknown. Floral homeotic genes encode transcription factors of the MADS-box family, which are supposed to assemble in a combinatorial fashion into organ-specific multim...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kaufmann K,Muiño JM,Jauregui R,Airoldi CA,Smaczniak C,Krajewski P,Angenent GC

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 20 years ago, alterations to the protein myocilin were confirmed to be linked to a heritable form of the prevalent eye disease, glaucoma, and 10 years ago, my lab set out to develop a deeper understanding of myocilin in its normal and diseased state. We have made strides in understanding how genetic mutations in ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lieberman RL

更新日期：2019-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is the mechanism by which cellular material is delivered to lysosomes and degraded. This process has become a major focus of biological and biomedical research with thousands of papers published each year and rapidly growing appreciation that autophagy affects many normal and pathological processes. However,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Thorburn A

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:From bacteria to humans, individual cells within isogenic populations can show significant variation in stress tolerance, but the nature of this heterogeneity is not clear. To investigate this, we used single-cell RNA sequencing to quantify transcript heterogeneity in single Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells treated with...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gasch AP,Yu FB,Hose J,Escalante LE,Place M,Bacher R,Kanbar J,Ciobanu D,Sandor L,Grigoriev IV,Kendziorski C,Quake SR,McClean MN

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Munc18-1, a protein essential for regulated exocytosis in neurons and neuroendocrine cells, belongs to the family of Sec1/Munc18-like (SM) proteins. In vitro, Munc18-1 forms a tight complex with the SNARE syntaxin 1, in which syntaxin is stabilized in a closed conformation. Since closed syntaxin is unable to interact ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zilly FE,Sørensen JB,Jahn R,Lang T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analyses of the fossil record and molecular phylogenies suggest that there are fundamental limits to biodiversity, possibly arising from constraints in the availability of space, resources, or ecological niches. Under this hypothesis, speciation rates decay over time and biodiversity eventually saturates, with ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Morlon H,Potts MD,Plotkin JB

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1960, magnetic fields have been discussed as Zeitgebers for circadian clocks, but the mechanism by which clocks perceive and process magnetic information has remained unknown. Recently, the radical-pair model involving light-activated photoreceptors as magnetic field sensors has gained considerable support, and ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yoshii T,Ahmad M,Helfrich-Förster C

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The illusion of apparent motion can be induced when visual stimuli are successively presented at different locations. It has been shown in previous studies that motion-sensitive regions in extrastriate cortex are relevant for the processing of apparent motion, but it is unclear whether primary visual cortex (V1) is al...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Muckli L,Kohler A,Kriegeskorte N,Singer W

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric cell division and apoptosis (programmed cell death) are two fundamental processes that are important for the development and function of multicellular organisms. We have found that the processes of asymmetric cell division and apoptosis can be functionally linked. Specifically, we show that asymmetric cell ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hatzold J,Conradt B

更新日期：2008-04-08 00:00:00

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：:The relative contributions to modern European populations of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers from the Near East have been intensely debated. Haplogroup R1b1b2 (R-M269) is the commonest European Y-chromosomal lineage, increasing in frequency from east to west, and carried by 110 million European men....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Balaresque P,Bowden GR,Adams SM,Leung HY,King TE,Rosser ZH,Goodwin J,Moisan JP,Richard C,Millward A,Demaine AG,Barbujani G,Previderè C,Wilson IJ,Tyler-Smith C,Jobling MA

更新日期：2010-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC) respond to numerous hormonal and neural signals, resulting in changes in food intake. Here, we demonstrate that ARC POMC neurons express capsaicin-sensitive transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 receptor (TRPV1)-like receptors. To s...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jeong JH,Lee DK,Liu SM,Chua SC Jr,Schwartz GJ,Jo YH

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:CellProfiler has enabled the scientific research community to create flexible, modular image analysis pipelines since its release in 2005. Here, we describe CellProfiler 3.0, a new version of the software supporting both whole-volume and plane-wise analysis of three-dimensional (3D) image stacks, increasingly common i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McQuin C,Goodman A,Chernyshev V,Kamentsky L,Cimini BA,Karhohs KW,Doan M,Ding L,Rafelski SM,Thirstrup D,Wiegraebe W,Singh S,Becker T,Caicedo JC,Carpenter AE

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Most models of cancer cell population expansion assume exponential growth kinetics at low cell densities, with deviations to account for observed slowing of growth rate only at higher densities due to limited resources such as space and nutrients. However, recent preclinical and clinical observations of tumor initiati...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johnson KE,Howard G,Mo W,Strasser MK,Lima EABF,Huang S,Brock A

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The signals that initiate cell invasion are not well understood, but there is increasing evidence that extracellular physical signals play an important role. Here we show that epithelial cell invasion in the intestine of zebrafish meltdown (mlt) mutants arises in response to unregulated contractile tone in the surroun...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Seiler C,Davuluri G,Abrams J,Byfield FJ,Janmey PA,Pack M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to use stored information in a highly flexible manner is a defining feature of the declarative memory system. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying this flexibility are poorly understood. To address this question, we recorded single-unit activity from the hippocampus of 2 nonhuman primates performing...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yang C,Naya Y

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, embalmed cadavers have played an important role in teaching anatomy to the scientists and doctors of the future. Most anatomy departments use a traditional formaldehyde-based embalming method, but formalin embalming makes the bodies very rigid, which limits their usefulness for procedures other than disse...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Eisma R,Wilkinson T

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Planarians display remarkable plasticity in maintenance of their germline, with the ability to develop or dismantle reproductive tissues in response to systemic and environmental cues. Here, we investigated the role of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in this dynamic germline regulation. By genome-enabled receptor ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Saberi A,Jamal A,Beets I,Schoofs L,Newmark PA

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cilia are lost during cancer development, but the mechanism regulating cilia degeneration is not determined. While transcription factor nuclear factor-erythroid 2-like 2 (NRF2) protects cells from oxidative, proteotoxic, and metabolic stress in normal cells, hyperactivation of NRF2 is oncogenic, although the d...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Liu P,Dodson M,Fang D,Chapman E,Zhang DD

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00