Genetic exchanges are more frequent in bacteria encoding capsules.

abstract：:Genetic disruption of the dystrophin complex produces muscular dystrophy characterized by a fragile muscle plasma membrane leading to excessive muscle degeneration. Two genetic modifiers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy implicate the transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) pathway, osteopontin encoded by the SPP1 gene and l...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Quattrocelli M,Capote J,Ohiri JC,Warner JL,Vo AH,Earley JU,Hadhazy M,Demonbreun AR,Spencer MJ,McNally EM

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in normal cellular differentiation and oncogenesis. microRNA93 (mir-93), a member of the mir106b-25 cluster, located in intron 13 of the MCM7 gene, although frequently overexpressed in human malignancies may also function as a tumor suppressor gene. Using a series of breast canc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liu S,Patel SH,Ginestier C,Ibarra I,Martin-Trevino R,Bai S,McDermott SP,Shang L,Ke J,Ou SJ,Heath A,Zhang KJ,Korkaya H,Clouthier SG,Charafe-Jauffret E,Birnbaum D,Hannon GJ,Wicha MS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripartite Motif (TRIM) ubiquitin ligases act in the innate immune response against viruses. One of the best characterized members of this family, TRIM5α, serves as a potent retroviral restriction factor with activity against HIV. Here, we characterize what are likely to be the youngest TRIM genes in the human genome....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Han K,Lou DI,Sawyer SL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although multiple environmental cues regulate the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana, previous studies have suggested that wild A. thaliana accessions fall primarily into two classes, distinguished by their requirement for vernalization (extended winter-like temperatures), which enables rapid flowering un...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lempe J,Balasubramanian S,Sureshkumar S,Singh A,Schmid M,Weigel D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect cuticle is composed mainly of structural proteins and the polysaccharide chitin. The CPR family is the largest family of cuticle proteins (CPs), which can be further divided into three subgroups based on the presence of one of the three presumptive chitin-binding sequence motifs denoted as Rebers-Riddiford (R&R...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Noh MY,Muthukrishnan S,Kramer KJ,Arakane Y

更新日期：2015-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoters are structurally and functionally diverse gene regulatory regions. The presence or absence of sequence motifs and the spacing between the motifs defines the properties of promoters. Recent alternative promoter usage analyses in Drosophila melanogaster revealed that transposable elements significantly contrib...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Merenciano M,Ullastres A,de Cara MA,Barrón MG,González J

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of yeast telomerase, Est2p, is a telomere associated throughout most of the cell cycle, while the Est1p subunit binds only in late S/G2 phase, the time of telomerase action. Est2p binding in G1/early S phase requires a specific interaction between telomerase RNA (TLC1) and Ku80p. Here, we show th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chan A,Boulé JB,Zakian VA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi-interacting RNAs are a diverse class of small non-coding RNAs implicated in the silencing of transposable elements and the safeguarding of genome integrity. In mammals, male germ cells express two genetically and developmentally distinct populations of piRNAs at the pre-pachytene and pachytene stages of meiosis, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zheng K,Wang PJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bases within DNA are frequently damaged, producing obstacles to efficient and accurate DNA replication by replicative polymerases. Translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerases, via their ability to catalyze nucleotide additions to growing DNA chains across DNA lesions, promote replication of damaged DNA, thus preventing ch...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： van Bostelen I,van Schendel R,Romeijn R,Tijsterman M

更新日期：2020-04-24 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：:The integration of expression profiling with linkage analysis has increasingly been used to identify genes underlying complex phenotypes. The effects of gender on the regulation of many physiological traits are well documented; however, "genetical genomic" analyses have not yet addressed the degree to which their conc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang S,Yehya N,Schadt EE,Wang H,Drake TA,Lusis AJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-altitude hypoxia (reduced inspired oxygen tension due to decreased barometric pressure) exerts severe physiological stress on the human body. Two high-altitude regions where humans have lived for millennia are the Andean Altiplano and the Tibetan Plateau. Populations living in these regions exhibit unique circula...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bigham A,Bauchet M,Pinto D,Mao X,Akey JM,Mei R,Scherer SW,Julian CG,Wilson MJ,López Herráez D,Brutsaert T,Parra EJ,Moore LG,Shriver MD

更新日期：2010-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphotoxin-alpha (LTA) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in the immune system and local inflammatory response. LTA is expressed in atherosclerotic plaques and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD). Polymorphisms in the gene encoding lymph...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Clarke R,Xu P,Bennett D,Lewington S,Zondervan K,Parish S,Palmer A,Clark S,Cardon L,Peto R,Lathrop M,Collins R,International Study of Infarct Survival (ISIS) Collaborators.

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lethal recessive alleles cause pre- or postnatal death in homozygous affected individuals, reducing fertility. Especially in small size domestic and wild populations, those alleles might be exposed by inbreeding, caused by matings between related parents that inherited the same recessive lethal allele from a common an...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Derks MFL,Gjuvsland AB,Bosse M,Lopes MS,van Son M,Harlizius B,Tan BF,Hamland H,Grindflek E,Groenen MAM,Megens HJ

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The deluge of data generated by genome sequencing has led to an increasing reliance on bioinformatic predictions, since the traditional experimental approach of characterizing gene function one at a time cannot possibly keep pace with the sequence-based discovery of novel genes. We have utilized Biolog phenotype Micro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Johnson DA,Tetu SG,Phillippy K,Chen J,Ren Q,Paulsen IT

更新日期：2008-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yorkie/Yap transcriptional coactivator is a well-known regulator of cellular proliferation in both invertebrates and mammals. As a coactivator, Yorkie (Yki) lacks a DNA binding domain and must partner with sequence-specific DNA binding proteins in the nucleus to regulate gene expression; in Drosophila, the develop...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Slattery M,Voutev R,Ma L,Nègre N,White KP,Mann RS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During transcription, the nascent pre-mRNA undergoes a series of processing steps before being exported to the cytoplasm. The 3'-end processing machinery involves different proteins, this function being crucial to cell growth and viability in eukaryotes. Here, we found that the rna14-1, rna15-1, and hrp1-5 alleles of ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gaillard H,Aguilera A

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis is a specialized cell division used by diploid organisms to form haploid gametes for sexual reproduction. Central to this reductive division is repair of endogenous DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by the meiosis-specific enzyme Spo11. These DSBs are repaired in a process called homologous recombination...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lilienthal I,Kanno T,Sjögren C

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mollicutes is a class of parasitic bacteria that have evolved from a common Firmicutes ancestor mostly by massive genome reduction. With genomes under 1 Mbp in size, most Mollicutes species retain the capacity to replicate and grow autonomously. The major goal of this work was to identify the minimal set of proteins t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Grosjean H,Breton M,Sirand-Pugnet P,Tardy F,Thiaucourt F,Citti C,Barré A,Yoshizawa S,Fourmy D,de Crécy-Lagard V,Blanchard A

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a considerable proportion of serum lipids loci identified in European ancestry individuals (EA) replicate in African Americans (AA), interethnic differences in the distribution of serum lipids suggest that some genetic determinants differ by ethnicity. We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of five lipid can...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bentley AR,Chen G,Shriner D,Doumatey AP,Zhou J,Huang H,Mullikin JC,Blakesley RW,Hansen NF,Bouffard GG,Cherukuri PF,Maskeri B,Young AC,Adeyemo A,Rotimi CN

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic origin of human skin pigmentation remains an open question in biology. Several skin disorders and diseases originate from mutations in conserved pigmentation genes, including albinism, vitiligo, and melanoma. Teleosts possess the capacity to modify their pigmentation to adapt to their environmental backgro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Madelaine R,Ngo KJ,Skariah G,Mourrain P

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary rescue occurs when a population that is threatened with extinction by an environmental change adapts to the change sufficiently rapidly to survive. Here we extend the mathematical theory of evolutionary rescue. In particular, we model evolutionary rescue to a sudden environmental change when adaptation in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Orr HA,Unckless RL

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to stress and injury a coordinated activation of conserved signalling modules, such as JNK and JAK/STAT, is critical to trigger regenerative tissue restoration. While these pathways rebuild homeostasis and promote faithful organ recovery, it is intriguing that they also become activated in various tumour c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Beira JV,Torres J,Paro R

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis is the primary causative agent of bacterial meningitis. The genome is rich in repetitive DNA and almost 2% is occupied by a diminutive transposon called the Correia element. Here we report a bioinformatic analysis defining eight subtypes of the element with four distinct types of ends. Transcrip...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Siddique A,Buisine N,Chalmers R

更新日期：2011-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is a progressive muscular dystrophy caused by decreased epigenetic repression of the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeats and ectopic expression of DUX4, a retrogene encoding a germline transcription factor encoded in each repeat. Unaffected individuals generally have more than 10 repeats a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Krom YD,Thijssen PE,Young JM,den Hamer B,Balog J,Yao Z,Maves L,Snider L,Knopp P,Zammit PS,Rijkers T,van Engelen BG,Padberg GW,Frants RR,Tawil R,Tapscott SJ,van der Maarel SM

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Pregnancy-induced noncoding RNA (PINC) and retinoblastoma-associated protein 46 (RbAp46) are upregulated in alveolar cells of the mammary gland during pregnancy and persist in alveolar cells that remain in the regressed lobules following involution. The cells that survive involution are thought to function as alveolar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shore AN,Kabotyanski EB,Roarty K,Smith MA,Zhang Y,Creighton CJ,Dinger ME,Rosen JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila genes spalt major (salm) and spalt-related (salr) encode Zn-finger transcription factors regulated by the Decapentaplegic (Dpp) signalling pathway in the wing imaginal disc. The function of these genes is required for cell survival and proliferation in the central region of the wing disc, and also for v...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Organista MF,Martín M,de Celis JM,Barrio R,López-Varea A,Esteban N,Casado M,de Celis JF

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00