Suppressor mutations reveal an NtrC-like response regulator, NmpR, for modulation of Type-IV Pili-dependent motility in Myxococcus xanthus.

abstract：:DNA sequence polymorphism in a regulatory protein can have a widespread transcriptional effect. Here we present a computational approach for analyzing modules of genes with a common regulation that are affected by specific DNA polymorphisms. We identify such regulatory-linkage modules by integrating genotypic and expr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gat-Viks I,Meller R,Kupiec M,Shamir R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important goal in molecular evolution is to understand the genetic and physical mechanisms by which protein functions evolve and, in turn, to characterize how a protein's physical architecture influences its evolution. Here we dissect the mechanisms for an evolutionary shift in function in the mollusk ortholog of t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bridgham JT,Keay J,Ortlund EA,Thornton JW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic recombination is essential for the repair of programmed double strand breaks (DSBs) to generate crossovers (COs) during meiosis. The efficient processing of meiotic recombination intermediates not only needs various resolvases but also requires proper meiotic chromosome structure. The Smc5/6 complex belongs to...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hong Y,Sonneville R,Agostinho A,Meier B,Wang B,Blow JJ,Gartner A

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more prevalent in African Americans than in Europeans. However, little is known about the genetic risk in African Americans despite the recent identification of more than 70 T2D loci primarily by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry. In order to investigat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ng MC,Shriner D,Chen BH,Li J,Chen WM,Guo X,Liu J,Bielinski SJ,Yanek LR,Nalls MA,Comeau ME,Rasmussen-Torvik LJ,Jensen RA,Evans DS,Sun YV,An P,Patel SR,Lu Y,Long J,Armstrong LL,Wagenknecht L,Yang L,Snively BM,

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous genetic studies have suggested a history of sub-Saharan African gene flow into some West Eurasian populations after the initial dispersal out of Africa that occurred at least 45,000 years ago. However, there has been no accurate characterization of the proportion of mixture, or of its date. We analyze genome-...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Moorjani P,Patterson N,Hirschhorn JN,Keinan A,Hao L,Atzmon G,Burns E,Ostrer H,Price AL,Reich D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have now been conducted for hundreds of phenotypes of relevance to human health. Many such GWAS involve multiple closely-related phenotypes collected on the same samples. However, the vast majority of these GWAS have been analyzed using simple univariate analyses, which consider ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Turchin MC,Stephens M

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in fruit weight of cultivated vegetables and fruits accompanied the domestication of these crops. Here we report on the positional cloning of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) controlling fruit weight in tomato. The derived allele of Cell Size Regulator (CSR-D) increases fruit weight predominantly through enl...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mu Q,Huang Z,Chakrabarti M,Illa-Berenguer E,Liu X,Wang Y,Ramos A,van der Knaap E

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last two decades, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) have been extensively used in order to measure the maternally and paternally inherited genetic structure of human populations, and to infer sex-specific demography and history. Most studies converge towards the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ségurel L,Martínez-Cruz B,Quintana-Murci L,Balaresque P,Georges M,Hegay T,Aldashev A,Nasyrova F,Jobling MA,Heyer E,Vitalis R

更新日期：2008-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:During development of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells (NSCs) divide symmetrically to proliferate and asymmetrically to generate neurons. Although faithful segregation of mitotic chromosomes is critical for NSC divisions, its fundamental mechanism remains unclear. A class of evolutionarily conserved protein comp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nishide K,Hirano T

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonallelic homologous recombination (NAHR) between highly similar duplicated sequences generates chromosomal deletions, duplications and inversions, which can cause diverse genetic disorders. Little is known about interindividual variation in NAHR rates and the factors that influence this. We estimated the rate of del...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： MacArthur JA,Spector TD,Lindsay SJ,Mangino M,Gill R,Small KS,Hurles ME

更新日期：2014-03-06 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：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are rare quiescent cells that continuously replenish the cellular components of the peripheral blood. Observing that the ataxia-associated gene Ataxin-1-like (Atxn1L) was highly expressed in HSCs, we examined its role in HSC function through in vitro and in vivo assays. Mice lacking Atx...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kahle JJ,Souroullas GP,Yu P,Zohren F,Lee Y,Shaw CA,Zoghbi HY,Goodell MA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shifts between epigenetic states of transcriptional activity are typically correlated with changes in epigenetic marks. However, exceptions to this rule suggest the existence of additional, as yet uncharacterized, layers of epigenetic regulation. MOM1, a protein of 2,001 amino acids that acts as a transcriptional sile...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nishimura T,Molinard G,Petty TJ,Broger L,Gabus C,Halazonetis TD,Thore S,Paszkowski J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary justification for dedicating substantial amounts of research funding to large-scale cancer genomics projects of both somatic and germline DNA is that the biological insights will lead to new treatment targets and strategies for cancer therapy. While it is too early to judge the success of these projects in t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Brennan P,Wild CP

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphthamide is a highly modified histidine residue in eukaryal translation elongation factor 2 (eEF2) that is the target for irreversible ADP ribosylation by diphtheria toxin (DT). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the initial steps of diphthamide biosynthesis are well characterized and require the DPH1-DPH5 genes. However...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Uthman S,Bär C,Scheidt V,Liu S,ten Have S,Giorgini F,Stark MJ,Schaffrath R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary outcomes depend not only on the selective forces acting upon a species, but also on the genetic background. However, large timescales and uncertain historical selection pressures can make it difficult to discern such important background differences between species. Experimental evolution is one tool to c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sanchez MR,Miller AW,Liachko I,Sunshine AB,Lynch B,Huang M,Alcantara E,DeSevo CG,Pai DA,Tucker CM,Hoang ML,Dunham MJ

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide O-antigen structure expressed by the European Helicobacter pylori model strain G27 encompasses a trisaccharide, an intervening glucan-heptan and distal Lewis antigens that promote immune escape. However, several gaps still remain in the corresponding biosynthetic pathway. Here, systematic mutage...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Li H,Marceau M,Yang T,Liao T,Tang X,Hu R,Xie Y,Tang H,Tay A,Shi Y,Shen Y,Yang T,Pi X,Lamichhane B,Luo Y,Debowski AW,Nilsson HO,Haslam SM,Mulloy B,Dell A,Stubbs KA,Marshall BJ,Benghezal M

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA- and RNA-processing pathways are integrated and interconnected in the eukaryotic nucleus to allow efficient gene expression and to maintain genomic stability. The recruitment of DNA Topoisomerase I (Topo I), an enzyme controlling DNA supercoiling and acting as a specific kinase for the SR-protein family of splicin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Juge F,Fernando C,Fic W,Tazi J

更新日期：2010-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation in DNA methylation is being increasingly associated with health and disease outcomes. Although DNA methylation is hypothesized to be a mechanism by which both genetic and non-genetic factors can influence the regulation of gene expression, little is known about the extent to which DNA methylation at specific...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hannon E,Knox O,Sugden K,Burrage J,Wong CCY,Belsky DW,Corcoran DL,Arseneault L,Moffitt TE,Caspi A,Mill J

更新日期：2018-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural features of genomes, including the three-dimensional arrangement of DNA in the nucleus, are increasingly seen as key contributors to the regulation of gene expression. However, studies on how genome structure and nuclear organisation influence transcription have so far been limited to a handful of model spe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Winter DJ,Ganley ARD,Young CA,Liachko I,Schardl CL,Dupont PY,Berry D,Ram A,Scott B,Cox MP

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chromosome 15q25 is involved in several disease-associated structural rearrangements, including microdeletions and chromosomal markers with inverted duplications. Using comparative fluorescence in situ hybridization, strand-sequencing, single-molecule, real-time sequencing and Bionano optical mapping analyses, w...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Maggiolini FAM,Cantsilieris S,D'Addabbo P,Manganelli M,Coe BP,Dumont BL,Sanders AD,Pang AWC,Vollger MR,Palumbo O,Palumbo P,Accadia M,Carella M,Eichler EE,Antonacci F

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA4) is a negative regulator of T-cell proliferation. Polymorphisms in CTLA4 have been inconsistently associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of European ancestry but have not been examined in African Americans. The prevalence of RA in m...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kelley JM,Hughes LB,Faggard JD,Danila MI,Crawford MH,Edberg Y,Padilla MA,Tiwari HK,Westfall AO,Alarcón GS,Conn DL,Jonas BL,Callahan LF,Smith EA,Brasington RD,Allison DB,Kimberly RP,Moreland LW,Edberg JC,Bridges SL J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominant mutations in the alpha-B crystallin (CryAB) gene are responsible for a number of inherited human disorders, including cardiomyopathy, skeletal muscle myopathy, and cataracts. The cellular mechanisms of disease pathology for these disorders are not well understood. Among recent advances is that the disease sta...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xie HB,Cammarato A,Rajasekaran NS,Zhang H,Suggs JA,Lin HC,Bernstein SI,Benjamin IJ,Golic KG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic variation within an isogenic bacterial population is thought to ensure the survival of a subset of cells in adverse conditions. The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa variably expresses several phenotypes, including antibiotic resistance, biofilm formation, and the production of CupA fimbriae. He...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Turner KH,Vallet-Gely I,Dove SL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication forks stall at different DNA obstacles such as those originated by transcription. Fork stalling can lead to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) that will be preferentially repaired by homologous recombination when the sister chromatid is available. The Rrm3 helicase is a replisome component that promotes repli...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Muñoz-Galván S,García-Rubio M,Ortega P,Ruiz JF,Jimeno S,Pardo B,Gómez-González B,Aguilera A

更新日期：2017-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylcytosine-binding proteins decipher the epigenetic information encoded by DNA methylation and provide a link between DNA methylation, modification of chromatin structure, and gene silencing. VARIANT IN METHYLATION 1 (VIM1) encodes an SRA (SET- and RING-associated) domain methylcytosine-binding protein in Arabidop...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Woo HR,Dittmer TA,Richards EJ

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-microfilament interactions are important for cytokinesis and subcellular localization of proteins and mRNAs. In the early zebrafish embryo, astral microtubule-microfilament interactions also facilitate a stereotypic segregation pattern of germ plasm ribonucleoparticles (GP RNPs), which is critical for thei...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nair S,Marlow F,Abrams E,Kapp L,Mullins MC,Pelegri F

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monospermic fertilization is mediated by the extracellular zona pellucida composed of ZP1, ZP2 and ZP3. Sperm bind to the N-terminus of ZP2 which is cleaved after fertilization by ovastacin (encoded by Astl) exocytosed from egg cortical granules to prevent sperm binding. AstlNull mice lack the post-fertilization block...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xiong B,Zhao Y,Beall S,Sadusky AB,Dean J

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human growth has an estimated heritability of about 80%-90%. Nevertheless, the underlying cause of shortness of stature remains unknown in the majority of individuals. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) showed that both common single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants (CNVs) contribute to height var...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zahnleiter D,Uebe S,Ekici AB,Hoyer J,Wiesener A,Wieczorek D,Kunstmann E,Reis A,Doerr HG,Rauch A,Thiel CT

更新日期：2013-01-01 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