Multilevel regulation of the glass locus during Drosophila eye development.

abstract：:We previously reported that TR2 and TR4 orphan nuclear receptors bind to direct repeat (DR) elements in the ε- and γ-globin promoters, and act as molecular anchors for the recruitment of epigenetic corepressors of the multifaceted DRED complex, thereby leading to ε- and γ-globin transcriptional repression during defin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shi L,Sierant MC,Gurdziel K,Zhu F,Cui S,Kolodziej KE,Strouboulis J,Guan Y,Tanabe O,Lim KC,Engel JD

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy refers to losses and/or gains of individual chromosomes from the normal chromosome set. The resulting gene dosage imbalance has a noticeable affect on the phenotype, as illustrated by aneuploid syndromes, including Down syndrome in humans, and by human solid tumor cells, which are highly aneuploid. Although...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Huettel B,Kreil DP,Matzke M,Matzke AJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the genetic mechanisms leading to phenotypic differentiation, it is important to identify genomic regions under selection. We scanned the genome of two chicken lines from a single trait selection experiment, where 50 generations of selection have resulted in a 9-fold difference in body weight. Analyses o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Johansson AM,Pettersson ME,Siegel PB,Carlborg O

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic gene silencing plays a critical role in regulating gene expression and contributes to organismal development and cell fate acquisition in eukaryotes. In fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, heterochromatin-associated gene silencing is known to be mediated by RNA processing pathways including RNA interf...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Tucker JF,Ohle C,Schermann G,Bendrin K,Zhang W,Fischer T,Zhang K

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimivirus and Megavirus are the best characterized representatives of an expanding new family of giant viruses infecting Acanthamoeba. Their most distinctive features, megabase-sized genomes carried in particles of size comparable to that of small bacteria, fill the gap between the viral and cellular worlds. These gia...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jeudy S,Abergel C,Claverie JM,Legendre M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of ribosomal RNA by RNA polymerase I (RNA pol I) is an elemental biological process and is key for cellular homeostasis. In a forward genetic screen in C. elegans designed to identify DNA damage-response factors, we isolated a point mutation of RNA pol I, rpoa-2(op259), that leads to altered rRNA synthesis a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eberhard R,Stergiou L,Hofmann ER,Hofmann J,Haenni S,Teo Y,Furger A,Hengartner MO

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:The Caenorhabditis elegans class A and B synthetic multivulva (synMuv) genes redundantly antagonize an EGF/Ras pathway to prevent ectopic vulval induction. We identify a class A synMuv mutation in the promoter of the lin-3 EGF gene, establishing that lin-3 is the key biological target of the class A synMuv genes in vu...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Saffer AM,Kim DH,van Oudenaarden A,Horvitz HR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of pathologies are associated with exposure to supraphysiological concentrations of essential metals and to non-essential metals and metalloids. The molecular mechanisms linking metal exposure to human pathologies have not been clearly defined. To address these gaps in our understanding of the molecular biol...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jin YH,Dunlap PE,McBride SJ,Al-Refai H,Bushel PR,Freedman JH

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons between diverse vertebrate genomes have uncovered thousands of highly conserved non-coding sequences, an increasing number of which have been shown to function as enhancers during early development. Despite their extreme conservation over 500 million years from humans to cartilaginous fish, these elements ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： McEwen GK,Goode DK,Parker HJ,Woolfe A,Callaway H,Elgar G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous systems have the ability to select appropriate actions and action sequences in response to sensory cues. The circuit mechanisms by which nervous systems achieve choice, stability and transitions between behaviors are still incompletely understood. To identify neurons and brain areas involved in controlling the...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Masson JB,Laurent F,Cardona A,Barré C,Skatchkovsky N,Zlatic M,Jovanic T

更新日期：2020-02-14 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：:The genetic basis of floral symmetry is a topic of great interest because of its effect on pollinator behavior and, consequently, plant diversification. The Asteraceae, which is the largest family of flowering plants, is an ideal system in which to study this trait, as many species within the family exhibit a compound...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chapman MA,Tang S,Draeger D,Nambeesan S,Shaffer H,Barb JG,Knapp SJ,Burke JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone modifiers are critical regulators of chromatin-based processes in eukaryotes. The histone methyltransferase Set1, a component of the Set1C/COMPASS complex, catalyzes the methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3 (H3K4me), a hallmark of euchromatin. Here, we show that the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Set...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mikheyeva IV,Grady PJ,Tamburini FB,Lorenz DR,Cam HP

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetrical segregation of differentiated sister chromatids is thought to be important for cellular differentiation in higher eukaryotes. Similarly, in fission yeast, cellular differentiation involves the asymmetrical segregation of a chromosomal imprint. This imprint has been shown to consist of two ribonucleotides ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sayrac S,Vengrova S,Godfrey EL,Dalgaard JZ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest (NC) is a vertebrate-specific cell population that exhibits remarkable multipotency. Although derived from the neural plate border (NPB) ectoderm, cranial NC (CNC) cells contribute not only to the peripheral nervous system but also to the ectomesenchymal precursors of the head skeleton. To date, the d...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cox SG,Kim H,Garnett AT,Medeiros DM,An W,Crump JG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified tens of thousands of genetic variants associated with various phenotypes, but together they explain only a fraction of heritability, suggesting many variants have yet to be discovered. Recently it has been recognized that incorporating functional info...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dong X,Su YR,Barfield R,Bien SA,He Q,Harrison TA,Huyghe JR,Keku TO,Lindor NM,Schafmayer C,Chan AT,Gruber SB,Jenkins MA,Kooperberg C,Peters U,Hsu L

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation of cells for the DNA building block dTTP is strikingly lethal (thymineless death, TLD), and this effect is observed in all organisms. The phenomenon, discovered some 60 years ago, is widely used to kill cells in anticancer therapies, but many questions regarding the precise underlying mechanisms have remain...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Itsko M,Schaaper RM

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with known genetic, epigenetic, and environmental risk factors. To assess the role of DNA methylation in SLE, we collected CD4+ T-cells, CD19+ B-cells, and CD14+ monocytes from 49 SLE patients and 58 controls, and performed genome-wide DNA methylation analysi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Absher DM,Li X,Waite LL,Gibson A,Roberts K,Edberg J,Chatham WW,Kimberly RP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) is a congenital disorder caused by mutations of the myotubularin gene, MTM1. Myotubularin belongs to a large family of conserved lipid phosphatases that include both catalytically active and inactive myotubularin-related proteins (i.e., "MTMRs"). Biochemically, catalytically inacti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gupta VA,Hnia K,Smith LL,Gundry SR,McIntire JE,Shimazu J,Bass JR,Talbot EA,Amoasii L,Goldman NE,Laporte J,Beggs AH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS), commonly caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 (chr21), occurs in approximately one out of 700 live births. Precisely how an extra chr21 causes over 80 clinically defined phenotypes is not yet clear. Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) analysis at single base resolution revealed D...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jin S,Lee YK,Lim YC,Zheng Z,Lin XM,Ng DP,Holbrook JD,Law HY,Kwek KY,Yeo GS,Ding C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a broader collaborative network of exome sequencing studies, we developed a jointly called data set of 5,685 Ashkenazi Jewish exomes. We make publicly available a resource of site and allele frequencies, which should serve as a reference for medical genetics in the Ashkenazim (hosted in part at https://ibd....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rivas MA,Avila BE,Koskela J,Huang H,Stevens C,Pirinen M,Haritunians T,Neale BM,Kurki M,Ganna A,Graham D,Glaser B,Peter I,Atzmon G,Barzilai N,Levine AP,Schiff E,Pontikos N,Weisburd B,Lek M,Karczewski KJ,Bloom J,

更新日期：2018-05-24 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：: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：:Spatial arrangement of neurite branching is instructed by both attractive and repulsive cues. Here we show that in C. elegans, the Wnt family of secreted glycoproteins specify neurite branching sites in the PLM mechanosensory neurons. Wnts function through MIG-1/Frizzled and the planar cell polarity protein (PCP) VANG...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chen CH,He CW,Liao CP,Pan CL

更新日期：2017-04-06 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：:Teleost fishes, thanks to their rapid evolution of sex determination mechanisms, provide remarkable opportunities to study the formation of sex chromosomes and the mechanisms driving the birth of new master sex determining (MSD) genes. However, the evolutionary interplay between the sex chromosomes and the MSD genes t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pan Q,Feron R,Yano A,Guyomard R,Jouanno E,Vigouroux E,Wen M,Busnel JM,Bobe J,Concordet JP,Parrinello H,Journot L,Klopp C,Lluch J,Roques C,Postlethwait J,Schartl M,Herpin A,Guiguen Y

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotype of the spontaneous mutant mouse hop-sterile (hop) is characterized by a hopping gait, polydactyly, hydrocephalus, and male sterility. Previous analyses of the hop mouse revealed a deficiency of inner dynein arms in motile cilia and a lack of sperm flagella, potentially accounting for the hydrocephalus an...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Swiderski RE,Nakano Y,Mullins RF,Seo S,Bánfi B

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In all sexually reproducing organisms, cells of the germ line must transition from mitosis to meiosis. In mice, retinoic acid (RA), the extrinsic signal for meiotic initiation, activates transcription of Stra8, which is required for meiotic DNA replication and the subsequent processes of meiotic prophase. Here we repo...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Koubova J,Hu YC,Bhattacharyya T,Soh YQ,Gill ME,Goodheart ML,Hogarth CA,Griswold MD,Page DC

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00