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abstract：:Sleep science is entering a new era, thanks to new data-driven analysis approaches that, combined with mouse gene-editing technologies, show a promise in functional genomics and translational research. However, the investigation of sleep is time consuming and not suitable for large-scale phenotypic datasets, mainly du...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Katsageorgiou VM,Sona D,Zanotto M,Lassi G,Garcia-Garcia C,Tucci V,Murino V

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) structural information on many length scales is of central importance in biological research. Excellent methods exist to obtain structures of molecules at atomic, organelles at electron microscopic, and tissue at light-microscopic resolution. A gap exists, however, when 3D tissue structure needs...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Denk W,Horstmann H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilia play critical roles during embryonic development and adult homeostasis. Dysfunction of cilia leads to various human genetic diseases, including many caused by defects in transition zones (TZs), the "gates" of cilia. The evolutionarily conserved TZ component centrosomal protein 290 (CEP290) is the most frequently...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wu Z,Pang N,Zhang Y,Chen H,Peng Y,Fu J,Wei Q

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The sperm's crucial function is to locate and fuse with a mature oocyte. Under laboratory conditions, Caenorhabditis elegans sperm are very efficient at navigating the hermaphrodite reproductive tract and locating oocytes. Here, we identify chemosensory and oxygen-sensing circuits that affect the sperm's navigational ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hoang HD,Miller MA

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is triggered by double-stranded RNA that is processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) by Dicer enzyme. Endogenously, RNA interference triggers are created from small noncoding RNAs called microRNAs (miRNAs). RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISC) in human cells can be programmed by exogenously in...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chu CY,Rana TM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study neural correlates of a robust somatosensory illusion that can dissociate tactile perception from physical stimulation. Repeated rapid stimulation at the wrist, then near the elbow, can create the illusion of touches at intervening locations along the arm, a...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Blankenburg F,Ruff CC,Deichmann R,Rees G,Driver J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproducibility and transparency in biomedical sciences have been called into question, and scientists have been found wanting as a result. Putting aside deliberate fraud, there is evidence that a major contributor to lack of reproducibility is insufficient quality assurance of reagents used in preclinical research. C...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Capes-Davis A,Neve RM

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial function affects many aspects of cellular physiology, and, most recently, its role in epigenetics has been reported. Mechanistically, how mitochondrial function alters DNA methylation patterns in the nucleus remains ill defined. Using a cell culture model of induced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion, i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lozoya OA,Martinez-Reyes I,Wang T,Grenet D,Bushel P,Li J,Chandel N,Woychik RP,Santos JH

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the site of synthesis of secreted and membrane proteins. To exit the ER, proteins are packaged into COPII vesicles through direct interaction with the COPII coat or aided by specific cargo receptors. Despite the fundamental role of such cargo receptors in protein traffic, only a few h...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Herzig Y,Sharpe HJ,Elbaz Y,Munro S,Schuldiner M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, light exerts pervasive effects on physiology and behavior in two ways: indirectly through clock synchronization and the phase adjustment of circadian rhythms, and directly through the promotion of alertness and sleep, respectively, in diurnal and nocturnal species. A recent report by Pilorz and colleagues ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bourgin P,Hubbard J

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane bioenergetics are universal, yet the phospholipid membranes of archaea and bacteria-the deepest branches in the tree of life-are fundamentally different. This deep divergence in membrane chemistry is reflected in other stark differences between the two domains, including ion pumping and DNA replication. We re...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sojo V,Pomiankowski A,Lane N

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Choosing the right nutrients to consume is essential to health and wellbeing across species. However, the factors that influence these decisions are poorly understood. This is particularly true for dietary proteins, which are important determinants of lifespan and reproduction. We show that in Drosophila melanogaster,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Leitão-Gonçalves R,Carvalho-Santos Z,Francisco AP,Fioreze GT,Anjos M,Baltazar C,Elias AP,Itskov PM,Piper MDW,Ribeiro C

更新日期：2017-04-25 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：:In mammalian oocytes, three actin binding proteins, Formin 2 (Fmn2), Spire, and profilin, synergistically organize a dynamic cytoplasmic actin meshwork that mediates translocation of the spindle toward the cortex and is required for successful fertilization. Here we characterize Fmn2 and elucidate the molecular mechan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Montaville P,Jégou A,Pernier J,Compper C,Guichard B,Mogessie B,Schuh M,Romet-Lemonne G,Carlier MF

更新日期：2014-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Smallpox is unique among infectious diseases in the degree to which it devastated human populations, its long history of control interventions, and the fact that it has been successfully eradicated. Mortality from smallpox in London, England was carefully documented, weekly, for nearly 300 years, providing a rare and ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krylova O,Earn DJD

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Misalignment of the daily sleep-wake and fasting-feeding cycles with the endogenous circadian timing system is an inevitable consequence of night shift work and is associated with adverse metabolic health effects. However, a detailed characterisation of the effects of night shifts on 24-h rhythms in the metabolome is ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kervezee L,Cermakian N,Boivin DB

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, neuroscientists have increasingly turned their attention to the question of how the brain implements decisions between differently valued options. This emerging field, called neuroeconomics, has made quick progress in identifying a plethora of brain areas that track or are modulated by rewar...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stott JJ,Redish AD

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal influenza virus infections can cause significant morbidity and mortality, but the threat from the emergence of a new pandemic influenza strain might have potentially even more devastating consequences. As such, there is intense interest in isolating and characterizing potent neutralizing antibodies that targe...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Turner HL,Pallesen J,Lang S,Bangaru S,Urata S,Li S,Cottrell CA,Bowman CA,Crowe JE Jr,Wilson IA,Ward AB

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum uses glutamate decarboxylation to generate a transmembrane gradient of Na⁺. Here, we demonstrate that this ion-motive force is directly coupled to ATP synthesis, via an F₁F₀-ATP synthase with a novel Na⁺ recognition motif, shared by other human pathogens. Molecular model...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schulz S,Iglesias-Cans M,Krah A,Yildiz O,Leone V,Matthies D,Cook GM,Faraldo-Gómez JD,Meier T

更新日期：2013-01-01 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

abstract：:The ability to identify and react to novelty within the environment is fundamental to survival. Computational models emphasize the potential role of the hippocampus in novelty detection, its unique anatomical circuitry making it ideally suited to act as a comparator between past and present experience. The hippocampus...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kumaran D,Maguire EA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage modulation of microbial populations impacts critical processes in ocean, soil, and animal ecosystems. However, the role of bacteriophages with RNA genomes (RNA bacteriophages) in these processes is poorly understood, in part because of the limited number of known RNA bacteriophage species. Here, we ident...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krishnamurthy SR,Janowski AB,Zhao G,Barouch D,Wang D

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between hosts and parasites provide an ongoing source of selection that promotes the evolution of a variety of features in the interacting species. Here, we use a genetically explicit mathematical model to explore how patterns of gene expression evolve at genetic loci responsible for host resistance and p...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Nuismer SL,Otto SP

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MooSciTIC project is a capacity-building initiative targeting West African research scientists and higher education teachers. The project aimed to improve the self-reliance of researchers and upgrade research practices by providing on-site summer schools on trans-disciplinary topics such as scientific writing, com...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Atindehou M,Adéoti K,Loko LEY,Beulé T,Paradis E,Djedatin G,Tranchant-Dubreuil C,Sabot F,Lagnika L,Jaligot E

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Bax/Bak-mediated mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) is essential for "intrinsic" apoptotic cell death. Published studies used synthetic liposomes to reveal an intrinsic pore-forming activity of Bax, but it is unclear how other mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) proteins might facilitate this function...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kushnareva Y,Andreyev AY,Kuwana T,Newmeyer DD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes to the structure of nodes of Ranvier in the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) of multiple sclerosis (MS) brains are associated with chronic inflammation. We show that the paranodal domains in MS NAWM are longer on average than control, with Kv1.2 channels dislocated into the paranode. These pathological fea...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gallego-Delgado P,James R,Browne E,Meng J,Umashankar S,Tan L,Picon C,Mazarakis ND,Faisal AA,Howell OW,Reynolds R

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological development of fungi and their combined production of secondary metabolites are both acting in defence and protection. These processes are mainly coordinated by velvet regulators, which contain a yet functionally and structurally uncharacterized velvet domain. Here we demonstrate that the velvet domain o...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ahmed YL,Gerke J,Park HS,Bayram Ö,Neumann P,Ni M,Dickmanns A,Kim SC,Yu JH,Braus GH,Ficner R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological and personality factors, socioeconomic status, and brain properties all contribute to chronic pain but have essentially been studied independently. Here, we administered a broad battery of questionnaires to patients with chronic back pain (CBP) and collected repeated sessions of resting-state functional ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Vachon-Presseau E,Berger SE,Abdullah TB,Griffith JW,Schnitzer TJ,Apkarian AV

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic dogs exhibit tremendous phenotypic diversity, including a greater variation in body size than any other terrestrial mammal. Here, we generate a high density map of canine genetic variation by genotyping 915 dogs from 80 domestic dog breeds, 83 wild canids, and 10 outbred African shelter dogs across 60,968 sin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boyko AR,Quignon P,Li L,Schoenebeck JJ,Degenhardt JD,Lohmueller KE,Zhao K,Brisbin A,Parker HG,vonHoldt BM,Cargill M,Auton A,Reynolds A,Elkahloun AG,Castelhano M,Mosher DS,Sutter NB,Johnson GS,Novembre J,Hubisz MJ,

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Necroptosis is a regulated, nonapoptotic form of cell death initiated by receptor-interacting protein kinase-3 (RIPK3) and mixed lineage kinase domain-like (MLKL) proteins. It is considered to be a form of regulated necrosis, and, by lacking the "find me" and "eat me" signals that are a feature of apoptosis, necroptos...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zargarian S,Shlomovitz I,Erlich Z,Hourizadeh A,Ofir-Birin Y,Croker BA,Regev-Rudzki N,Edry-Botzer L,Gerlic M

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00