Attenuation of chronic antiviral T-cell responses through constitutive COX2-dependent prostanoid synthesis by lymph node fibroblasts.

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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002436.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： PLOS Biology Staff.

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cells surround neuronal endings to create enclosed compartments required for neuronal function. This architecture is seen at excitatory synapses and at sensory neuron receptive endings. Despite the prevalence and importance of these compartments, how they form is not known. We used the main sensory organ of C. e...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Oikonomou G,Perens EA,Lu Y,Watanabe S,Jorgensen EM,Shaham S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In photosynthetic organisms, feedback dissipation of excess absorbed light energy balances harvesting of light with metabolic energy consumption. This mechanism prevents photodamage caused by reactive oxygen species produced by the reaction of chlorophyll (Chl) triplet states with O₂. Plants have been found to perform...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bonente G,Ballottari M,Truong TB,Morosinotto T,Ahn TK,Fleming GR,Niyogi KK,Bassi R

更新日期：2011-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Open Science Prize was established with the following objectives: first, to encourage the crowdsourcing of open data to make breakthroughs that are of biomedical significance; second, to illustrate that funders can indeed work together when scientific interests are aligned; and finally, to encourage international ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kittrie E,Atienza AA,Kiley R,Carr D,MacFarlane A,Pai V,Couch J,Bajkowski J,Bonner JF,Mietchen D,Bourne PE

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:With the ability to measure thousands of related phenotypes from a single biological sample, it is now feasible to genetically dissect systems-level biological phenomena. The genetics of transcriptional regulation and protein abundance are likely to be complex, meaning that genetic variation at multiple loci will infl...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Storey JD,Akey JM,Kruglyak L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large fraction of genome variation between individuals is comprised of submicroscopic copy number variation of genomic DNA segments. We assessed the relative contribution of structural changes and gene dosage alterations on phenotypic outcomes with mouse models of Smith-Magenis and Potocki-Lupski syndromes. We pheno...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ricard G,Molina J,Chrast J,Gu W,Gheldof N,Pradervand S,Schütz F,Young JI,Lupski JR,Reymond A,Walz K

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines were developed to address the lack of reproducibility in biomedical animal studies and improve the communication of research findings. While intended to guide the preparation of peer-reviewed manuscripts, the principles of transparent reporting ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Karp NA,Meehan TF,Morgan H,Mason JC,Blake A,Kurbatova N,Smedley D,Jacobsen J,Mott RF,Iyer V,Matthews P,Melvin DG,Wells S,Flenniken AM,Masuya H,Wakana S,White JK,Lloyd KC,Reynolds CL,Paylor R,West DB,Svenson KL,

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal migration during embryonic development contributes to functional brain circuitry. Many neurons migrate in morphologically distinct stages that coincide with differentiation, requiring tight spatial regulation. It had been proposed that neurotransmitter-mediated activity could exert this control. Here, we demo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Theisen U,Hennig C,Ring T,Schnabel R,Köster RW

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of altruism is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology. In a seminal paper Hamilton showed that altruism can be selected for when rb - c > 0, where c is the fitness cost to the altruist, b is the fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and r is their genetic relatedness. While many studies have provided...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Waibel M,Floreano D,Keller L

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of neuronal networks relies on selective assembly of synaptic connections during development. We examined how synaptic specificity emerges in the pontocerebellar projection. Analysis of axon-target interactions with correlated light-electron microscopy revealed that developing pontine mossy fibers elabora...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kalinovsky A,Boukhtouche F,Blazeski R,Bornmann C,Suzuki N,Mason CA,Scheiffele P

更新日期：2011-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult humans possess a sophisticated repertoire of mathematical faculties. Many of these capacities are rooted in symbolic language and are therefore unlikely to be shared with nonhuman animals. However, a subset of these skills is shared with other animals, and this set is considered a cognitive vestige of our common...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Cantlon JF,Brannon EM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Better understanding of feeding behaviour will be vital in reducing obesity and metabolic syndrome, but we lack a standard model that captures the complexity of feeding behaviour. We construct an accurate stochastic model of rodent feeding at the bout level in order to perform quantitative behavioural analysis. Analys...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McGrath TM,Spreckley E,Rodriguez AF,Viscomi C,Alamshah A,Akalestou E,Murphy KG,Jones NS

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional consequences of long-range nuclear reorganization were studied in a cell-by-cell analysis of gene expression and long-range chromosomal interactions in the Drosophila eye and eye imaginal disk. Position-effect variegation was used to stochastically perturb gene expression and probe nuclear reorganizatio...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Harmon B,Sedat J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p75 neurotrophin receptor, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, is required as a co-receptor for the Nogo receptor (NgR) to mediate the activity of myelin-associated inhibitors such as Nogo, MAG, and OMgp. p45/NRH2/PLAIDD is a p75 homologue and contains a death domain (DD). Here we report th...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Vilar M,Sung TC,Chen Z,García-Carpio I,Fernandez EM,Xu J,Riek R,Lee KF

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:PubMed is a free search engine for biomedical literature accessed by millions of users from around the world each day. With the rapid growth of biomedical literature-about two articles are added every minute on average-finding and retrieving the most relevant papers for a given query is increasingly challenging. We pr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Fiorini N,Canese K,Starchenko G,Kireev E,Kim W,Miller V,Osipov M,Kholodov M,Ismagilov R,Mohan S,Ostell J,Lu Z

更新日期：2018-08-28 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：:A recent report by the Institute of Medicine leaves few urgent reasons standing for the continued use of chimpanzees in biomedical research. It is high time to think about their retirement, Frans de Waal argues, without neglecting prospects for non-invasive research on behavior, cognition, and genetics. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： de Waal FB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hedgehog signaling is a determinant pathway for tumor progression. However, while inhibition of the Hedgehog canonical pathway-Patched-Smoothened-Gli-has proved efficient in human tumors with activating mutations in this pathway, recent clinical data have failed to show any benefit in other cancers, even though So...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Delloye-Bourgeois C,Gibert B,Rama N,Delcros JG,Gadot N,Scoazec JY,Krauss R,Bernet A,Mehlen P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box proteins are ubiquitous regulators of RNA biology. While commonly dubbed "helicases," their activities also include duplex annealing, adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent RNA binding, and RNA-protein complex remodeling. Rok1, an essential DEAD-box protein, and its cofactor Rrp5 are required for ribosome ass...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Khoshnevis S,Askenasy I,Johnson MC,Dattolo MD,Young-Erdos CL,Stroupe ME,Karbstein K

更新日期：2016-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cilia are lost during cancer development, but the mechanism regulating cilia degeneration is not determined. While transcription factor nuclear factor-erythroid 2-like 2 (NRF2) protects cells from oxidative, proteotoxic, and metabolic stress in normal cells, hyperactivation of NRF2 is oncogenic, although the d...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Liu P,Dodson M,Fang D,Chapman E,Zhang DD

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The segmentation gene network of Drosophila consists of maternal and zygotic factors that generate, by transcriptional (cross-) regulation, expression patterns of increasing complexity along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo. Using known binding site information for maternal and zygotic gap transcription facto...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schroeder MD,Pearce M,Fak J,Fan H,Unnerstall U,Emberly E,Rajewsky N,Siggia ED,Gaul U

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their competition for hosts, parasites with antigens that are novel to the host immune system will be at a competitive advantage. The resulting frequency-dependent selection can structure parasite populations into strains of limited genetic overlap. For the causative agent of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, the hig...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pilosof S,He Q,Tiedje KE,Ruybal-Pesántez S,Day KP,Pascual M

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The disc-large (DLG)-membrane-associated guanylate kinase (MAGUK) family of proteins forms a central signaling hub of the glutamate receptor complex. Among this family, some proteins regulate developmental maturation of glutamatergic synapses, a process vulnerable to aberrations, which may lead to neurodevelopmental d...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Favaro PD,Huang X,Hosang L,Stodieck S,Cui L,Liu YZ,Engelhardt KA,Schmitz F,Dong Y,Löwel S,Schlüter OM

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The source of symmetry breaking in vertebrate oocytes is unknown. Animal-vegetal oocyte polarity is established by the Balbiani body (Bb), a conserved structure found in all animals examined that contains an aggregate of specific mRNAs, proteins, and organelles. The Bb specifies the oocyte vegetal pole, which is key t...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Elkouby YM,Jamieson-Lucy A,Mullins MC

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Every instant of perception depends on a cascade of brain processes calibrated to the history of sensory and decisional events. In the present work, we show that human visual perception is constantly shaped by two contrasting forces exerted by sensory adaptation and past decisions. In a series of experiments, we used ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pascucci D,Mancuso G,Santandrea E,Della Libera C,Plomp G,Chelazzi L

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded, 21- to 23-nucleotide cellular RNAs that control the expression of cognate target genes. Primary miRNA (pri-miRNA) transcripts are transformed to mature miRNA by the successive actions of two RNase III endonucleases. Drosha converts pri-miRNA transcripts to precursor miRNA (pre-m...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Förstemann K,Tomari Y,Du T,Vagin VV,Denli AM,Bratu DP,Klattenhoff C,Theurkauf WE,Zamore PD

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) is a method to inhibit gene function by introduction of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). Recently, an RNAi library was constructed that consists of bacterial clones expressing dsRNA, corresponding to nearly 90% of the 19,427 predicted genes of C. elegans. Feeding of this RNAi library to th...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Simmer F,Moorman C,van der Linden AM,Kuijk E,van den Berghe PV,Kamath RS,Fraser AG,Ahringer J,Plasterk RH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum plays a fundamental role in motor learning and reward-related behaviors that are synergistically shaped by populations of D1 dopamine receptor (D1R)- and D2 dopamine receptor (D2R)-expressing medium spiny neurons (MSNs). How various neurotransmitter inputs converging on common intracellular pathways are p...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sutton LP,Muntean BS,Ostrovskaya O,Zucca S,Dao M,Orlandi C,Song C,Xie K,Martemyanov KA

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00