The gene regulatory basis of genetic compensation during neural crest induction.

abstract：:Although endocrine changes are known to modulate the timing of major developmental transitions, the genetic mechanisms underlying these changes remain poorly understood. In insects, two developmental hormones, juvenile hormone (JH) and ecdysteroids, are coordinated with each other to induce developmental changes assoc...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cheng C,Ko A,Chaieb L,Koyama T,Sarwar P,Mirth CK,Smith WA,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary life history theory seeks to explain how reproductive and survival traits are shaped by selection through allocations of an individual's resources to competing life functions. Although life-history traits evolve rapidly, little is known about the genetic and cellular mechanisms that control and couple the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Large EE,Xu W,Zhao Y,Brady SC,Long L,Butcher RA,Andersen EC,McGrath PT

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) complex, termed cohesin, is essential for sister chromatid cohesion. Cohesin is also important for chromosome condensation, DNA repair, and gene expression. Cohesin is comprised of Scc3, Mcd1, Smc1, and Smc3. Scc3 also binds Pds5 and Wpl1, cohesin-associated proteins that...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Orgil O,Matityahu A,Eng T,Guacci V,Koshland D,Onn I

更新日期：2015-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenesis of mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes requires a concerted maturation of both the small (SSU) and large subunit (LSU). We demonstrate here that the m(5)C methyltransferase NSUN4, which forms a complex with MTERF4, is essential in mitochondrial ribosomal biogenesis as mitochondrial translation is abolished in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Metodiev MD,Spåhr H,Loguercio Polosa P,Meharg C,Becker C,Altmueller J,Habermann B,Larsson NG,Ruzzenente B

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Molybdenum (Mo) is an essential micronutrient for plants, serving as a cofactor for enzymes involved in nitrate assimilation, sulfite detoxification, abscisic acid biosynthesis, and purine degradation. Here we show that natural variation in shoot Mo content across 92 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions is controlled by va...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baxter I,Muthukumar B,Park HC,Buchner P,Lahner B,Danku J,Zhao K,Lee J,Hawkesford MJ,Guerinot ML,Salt DE

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most powerful techniques for studying the function of a gene is to disrupt the expression of that gene using genetic engineering strategies such as targeted recombination or viral integration of gene trap cassettes. The tremendous utility of these tools was recognized this year with the awarding of the Nobe...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Osokine I,Hsu R,Loeb GB,McManus MT

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions are present in both vertebrates and invertebrates from nematodes to mammals. Although the importance of gap junctions has been documented in many biological processes, the molecular mechanisms underlying gap junction dynamics remain unclear. Here, using the C. elegans PLM neurons as a model, we show that...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Meng L,Chen CH,Yan D

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between neoplastic cells and cells of their microenvironment is critical to cancer progression. To investigate the role of cytoneme-mediated signaling as a mechanism for distributing growth factor signaling proteins between tumor and tumor-associated cells, we analyzed EGFR and RET Drosophila tumor model...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fereres S,Hatori R,Hatori M,Kornberg TB

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt stress is an important environmental factor that significantly limits crop productivity worldwide. Studies on responses of plants to salt stress in recent years have identified novel signaling pathways and have been at the forefront of plant stress biology and plant biology in general. Thus far, research on salt ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Guan Q,Wu J,Yue X,Zhang Y,Zhu J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost 60 years ago, Severo Ochoa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the enzymatic synthesis of RNA by polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase). Although this discovery provided an important tool for deciphering the genetic code, subsequent work revealed that the predominant functi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cameron TA,Matz LM,De Lay NR

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient adaptation to iron starvation is an essential virulence determinant of the most common human mold pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus. Here, we demonstrate that the cytosolic monothiol glutaredoxin GrxD plays an essential role in iron sensing in this fungus. Our studies revealed that (i) GrxD is essential for gr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Misslinger M,Scheven MT,Hortschansky P,López-Berges MS,Heiss K,Beckmann N,Heigl T,Hermann M,Krüger T,Kniemeyer O,Brakhage AA,Haas H

更新日期：2019-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma (pRb) is a multifunctional regulator, which was likely present in the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes. The Arabidopsis pRb homolog RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED 1 (RBR1), similar to its animal counterparts, controls not only cell proliferation but is also implicated in developmental decisions, stress re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bouyer D,Heese M,Chen P,Harashima H,Roudier F,Grüttner C,Schnittger A

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is a major energy source and is a key regulator of metabolism but excessive dietary glucose is linked to several disorders including type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiac dysfunction. Dietary intake greatly influences organismal survival but whether the effects of nutritional status are transmitted to the offsp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tauffenberger A,Parker JA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past four decades, the predominant view of molecular evolution saw little connection between natural selection and genome evolution, assuming that the functionally constrained fraction of the genome is relatively small and that adaptation is sufficiently infrequent to play little role in shaping patterns of v...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sella G,Petrov DA,Przeworski M,Andolfatto P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, multiple detached tissues are capable of forming a pluripotent cell mass, termed callus, when cultured on media containing appropriate plant hormones. Recent studies demonstrated that callus resembles the root-tip meristem, even if it is derived from aerial organs. This finding improves our understanding of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： He C,Chen X,Huang H,Xu L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous lines of evidence point to a genetic basis for facial morphology in humans, yet little is known about how specific genetic variants relate to the phenotypic expression of many common facial features. We conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses of 20 quantitative facial measurements derived from the 3D ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shaffer JR,Orlova E,Lee MK,Leslie EJ,Raffensperger ZD,Heike CL,Cunningham ML,Hecht JT,Kau CH,Nidey NL,Moreno LM,Wehby GL,Murray JC,Laurie CA,Laurie CC,Cole J,Ferrara T,Santorico S,Klein O,Mio W,Feingold E,Hallgr

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The microrchidia (MORC) family proteins are chromatin-remodelling factors and function in diverse biological processes such as DNA damage response and transposon silencing. Here, we report that mouse Morc2b encodes a functional germ cell-specific member of the MORC protein family. Morc2b arose specifically in the rode...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shi B,Xue J,Zhou J,Kasowitz SD,Zhang Y,Liang G,Guan Y,Shi Q,Liu M,Sha J,Huang X,Wang PJ

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic models of ribosome dysfunction show selective organ failure, highlighting a gap in our understanding of cell-type specific responses to translation insufficiency. Translation defects underlie a growing list of inherited and acquired cancer-predisposition syndromes referred to as ribosomopathies. We sought to i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tourlakis ME,Zhang S,Ball HL,Gandhi R,Liu H,Zhong J,Yuan JS,Guidos CJ,Durie PR,Rommens JM

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:At the molecular level, the evolution of new traits can be broadly divided between changes in gene expression and changes in protein-coding sequence. For proteins, the evolution of novel functions is generally thought to proceed through sequential point mutations or recombination of whole functional units. In Saccharo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baker EP,Hittinger CT

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolific sheep have proven to be a valuable model to identify genes and mutations implicated in female fertility. In the Lacaune sheep breed, large variation in litter size is genetically determined by the segregation of a fecundity major gene influencing ovulation rate, named FecL and its prolific allele FecL(L) . Ou...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Drouilhet L,Mansanet C,Sarry J,Tabet K,Bardou P,Woloszyn F,Lluch J,Harichaux G,Viguié C,Monniaux D,Bodin L,Mulsant P,Fabre S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Massively parallel pyrosequencing of hypervariable regions from small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) genes can sample a microbial community two or three orders of magnitude more deeply per dollar and per hour than capillary sequencing of full-length SSU rRNA. As with full-length rRNA surveys, each sequence read is a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Huse SM,Dethlefsen L,Huber JA,Mark Welch D,Relman DA,Sogin ML

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooperative developmental system of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is susceptible to exploitation by cheaters-strains that make more than their fair share of spores in chimerae. Laboratory screens in Dictyostelium have shown that the genetic potential for facultative cheating is high, and field surveys...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Khare A,Shaulsky G

更新日期：2010-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromere sequences are not conserved between species, and there is compelling evidence for epigenetic regulation of centromere identity, with location being dictated by the presence of chromatin containing the histone H3 variant CENP-A. Paradoxically, in most organisms CENP-A chromatin generally occurs on particular...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Catania S,Pidoux AL,Allshire RC

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic parasites that selfishly replicate at the expense of host fitness. Fifty years of evolutionary studies of TEs have concentrated on the deleterious genetic effects of TEs, such as their effects on disrupting genes and regulatory sequences. However, a flurry of recent work suggest...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Choi JY,Lee YCG

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of whole genomes has revealed large and frequent changes in the size of gene families. These changes occur because of high rates of both gene gain (via duplication) and loss (via deletion or pseudogenization), as well as the evolution of entirely new genes. Here we use the genomes of 12 fully sequenced Dros...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hahn MW,Han MV,Han SG

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NF-κB is a key transcription factor regulating the expression of inflammatory responsive genes. How NF-κB binds to naked DNA templates is well documented, but how it interacts with chromatin is far from being clear. Here we used a combination of UV laser footprinting, hydroxyl footprinting and electrophoretic mobility...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lone IN,Shukla MS,Charles Richard JL,Peshev ZY,Dimitrov S,Angelov D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome (MSY) includes eight large inverted repeats (palindromes) in which arm-to-arm similarity exceeds 99.9%, due to gene conversion activity. Here, we studied one of these palindromes, P6, in order to illuminate the dynamics of the gene conversion process. We genotyped ten...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hallast P,Balaresque P,Bowden GR,Ballereau S,Jobling MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection and validation of the RNA degradation signals controlling transcriptome stability are essential steps for understanding how cells regulate gene expression. Here we present complete genomic and biochemical annotations of the signals required for RNA degradation by the dsRNA specific ribonuclease III (Rnt1p) a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gagnon J,Lavoie M,Catala M,Malenfant F,Elela SA

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian genomes harbor a larger than expected number of complex loci, in which multiple genes are coupled by shared transcribed regions in antisense orientation and/or by bidirectional core promoters. To determine the incidence, functional significance, and evolutionary context of mammalian complex loci, we identifi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Engström PG,Suzuki H,Ninomiya N,Akalin A,Sessa L,Lavorgna G,Brozzi A,Luzi L,Tan SL,Yang L,Kunarso G,Ng EL,Batalov S,Wahlestedt C,Kai C,Kawai J,Carninci P,Hayashizaki Y,Wells C,Bajic VB,Orlando V,Reid JF,Lenhar

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00