The monothiol glutaredoxin GrxD is essential for sensing iron starvation in Aspergillus fumigatus.

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：:During nervous system development, neuronal cell bodies and their axodendritic projections are precisely positioned through transiently expressed patterning cues. We show here that two neuronally expressed, secreted immunoglobulin (Ig) domain-containing proteins, ZIG-5 and ZIG-8, have no detectable role during embryon...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bénard CY,Blanchette C,Recio J,Hobert O

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessels are vital to sustain life in all vertebrates. While it is known that mural cells (pericytes and smooth muscle cells) regulate vascular integrity, the contribution of other cell types to vascular stabilization has been largely unexplored. Using zebrafish, we identified sclerotome-derived perivascular fibr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rajan AM,Ma RC,Kocha KM,Zhang DJ,Huang P

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of tumor suppressor genes in stromal fibroblasts induces epithelial cancer development, suggesting an important role of stroma in epithelial homoeostasis. However, the underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated. Here we report that deletion of the gene encoding TGFβ receptor 2 (Tgfbr2) in the stromal fibro...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Achyut BR,Bader DA,Robles AI,Wangsa D,Harris CC,Ried T,Yang L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid regulation of transcription have been studied in detail, the global networks regulated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) remain unknown. To address this question, we performed an orthogonal analysis to identify direct targets of the GR. First, we analyzed the expressi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Phuc Le P,Friedman JR,Schug J,Brestelli JE,Parker JB,Bochkis IM,Kaestner KH

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular coloboma results from abnormal embryonic development and is often associated with additional ocular and systemic features. Coloboma is a highly heterogeneous disorder with many cases remaining unexplained. Whole exome sequencing from two cousins affected with dominant coloboma with microcornea, cataracts, and s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Deml B,Kariminejad A,Borujerdi RH,Muheisen S,Reis LM,Semina EV

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Because cohesion prevents sister-chromatid separation and spindle elongation, cohesion dissolution may trigger these two events simultaneously. However, the relatively normal spindle elongation kinetics in yeast cohesin mutants indicates an additional mechanism for the temporal control of spindle elongation. Here we s...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Liang F,Richmond D,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcript elongation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is accompanied by conserved patterns of histone modification. Whereas histone modifications have established roles in transcription initiation, their functions during elongation are not understood. Mono-ubiquitylation of histone H2B (H2Bub1) plays a key role in coord...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sansó M,Lee KM,Viladevall L,Jacques PÉ,Pagé V,Nagy S,Racine A,St Amour CV,Zhang C,Shokat KM,Schwer B,Robert F,Fisher RP,Tanny JC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology aims at (re-)programming living cells like computers to perform new functions for a variety of applications. Initial work rested on transcription factors, but regulatory RNAs have recently gained much attention due to their high programmability. However, functional circuits mainly implemented with re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rosado A,Cordero T,Rodrigo G

更新日期：2018-07-19 00:00:00

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：:Adaptive radiation is the rapid origination of multiple species from a single ancestor as the result of concurrent adaptation to disparate environments. This fundamental evolutionary process is considered to be responsible for the genesis of a great portion of the diversity of life. Bacteria have evolved enormous biol...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Engel P,Salzburger W,Liesch M,Chang CC,Maruyama S,Lanz C,Calteau A,Lajus A,Médigue C,Schuster SC,Dehio C

更新日期：2011-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2,2,7-trimethylguanosine (TMG) cap is one of the first identified modifications on eukaryotic RNAs. TMG, synthesized by the conserved Tgs1 enzyme, is abundantly present on snRNAs essential for pre-mRNA splicing. Results from ex vivo experiments in vertebrate cells suggested that TMG ensures nuclear localization of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cheng L,Zhang Y,Zhang Y,Chen T,Xu YZ,Rong YS

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in gene regulatory circuits often give rise to phenotypic differences among closely related organisms. In bacteria, these changes can result from alterations in the ancestral genome and/or be brought about by genes acquired by horizontal transfer. Here, we identify an allele of the ancestral transcription fact...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chen HD,Jewett MW,Groisman EA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative pre-mRNA splicing adjusts the transcriptional output of the genome by generating related mRNAs from a single primary transcript, thereby expanding protein diversity. A fundamental unanswered question is how splicing factors achieve specificity in the selection of target substrates despite the recognition o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dembowski JA,Grabowski PJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillorenal syndrome (PRS, also known as renal-coloboma syndrome) is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by potentially-blinding congenital optic nerve excavation and congenital kidney abnormalities. Many patients with PRS have mutations in the paired box transcription factor gene, PAX2. Although most mutatio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Alur RP,Vijayasarathy C,Brown JD,Mehtani M,Onojafe IF,Sergeev YV,Boobalan E,Jones M,Tang K,Liu H,Xia CH,Gong X,Brooks BP

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ku complex binds non-specifically to DNA breaks and ensures repair via NHEJ. However, Ku is also known to bind directly to telomeric DNA ends and its presence there is associated with telomere capping, but avoiding NHEJ. How the complex discriminates between a DNA break and a telomeric extremity remains unknown. O...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Larcher MV,Pasquier E,MacDonald RS,Wellinger RJ

更新日期：2016-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasion of epithelial cells by Salmonella enterica requires expression of genes located in the pathogenicity island I (SPI-1). The expression of SPI-1 genes is very tightly regulated and activated only under specific conditions. Most studies have focused on the regulatory pathways that induce SPI-1 expression. Here, ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： El Mouali Y,Gaviria-Cantin T,Sánchez-Romero MA,Gibert M,Westermann AJ,Vogel J,Balsalobre C

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encodes proteins essential for ATP production. Mutant variants of the mtDNA polymerase cause mutagenesis that contributes to aging, genetic diseases, and sensitivity to environmental agents. We interrogated mtDNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with disease-associated mutation...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Stumpf JD,Copeland WC

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The intra-S phase checkpoint kinase of metazoa and yeast, ATR/MEC1, protects chromosomes from DNA damage and replication stress by phosphorylating subunits of the replicative helicase, MCM2-7. Here we describe an unprecedented ATR-dependent pathway in Tetrahymena thermophila in which the essential pre-replicative comp...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sandoval PY,Lee PH,Meng X,Kapler GM

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophilin B (CyPB), encoded by PPIB, is an ER-resident peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPIase) that functions independently and as a component of the collagen prolyl 3-hydroxylation complex. CyPB is proposed to be the major PPIase catalyzing the rate-limiting step in collagen folding. Mutations in PPIB cause re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cabral WA,Perdivara I,Weis M,Terajima M,Blissett AR,Chang W,Perosky JE,Makareeva EN,Mertz EL,Leikin S,Tomer KB,Kozloff KM,Eyre DR,Yamauchi M,Marini JC

更新日期：2014-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Generally, the second messenger bis-(3'-5')-cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) regulates the switch between motile and sessile lifestyles in bacteria. Here, we show that c-di-GMP is an essential regulator of multicellular development in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. In response to starvation, M. xanthus initiate...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Skotnicka D,Smaldone GT,Petters T,Trampari E,Liang J,Kaever V,Malone JG,Singer M,Søgaard-Andersen L

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression can be highly heterogeneous in isogenic cell populations. An extreme type of heterogeneity is the so-called bistable or bimodal expression, whereby a cell can differentiate into two alternative expression states. Stochastic fluctuations of protein levels, also referred to as noise, provide the necessar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gamba P,Jonker MJ,Hamoen LW

更新日期：2015-06-25 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：:Prostate cancer incidence is increasing in younger men. We investigated whether men diagnosed with Gleason 7 (3+4) T2 prostate cancer at younger ages (≤ 45 years, young cohort) had different mRNA and miRNA expression profiles than men diagnosed at older ages (71-74 years, older cohort). We identified differentially ex...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ding Y,Wu H,Warden C,Steele L,Liu X,Iterson MV,Wu X,Nelson R,Liu Z,Yuan YC,Neuhausen SL

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells in tissues reside in and receive signals from local microenvironments called niches. Understanding how multiple signals within niches integrate to control stem cell function is challenging. The Drosophila testis stem cell niche consists of somatic hub cells that maintain both germline stem cells and somatic...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Stine RR,Greenspan LJ,Ramachandran KV,Matunis EL

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) is a mitochondrial kinase, and pink1 mutations cause early onset Parkinson's disease (PD) in humans. Loss of pink1 in Drosophila leads to defects in mitochondrial function, and genetic data suggest that another PD-related gene product, Parkin, acts with pink1 to regulate the clearance...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Esposito G,Vos M,Vilain S,Swerts J,De Sousa Valadas J,Van Meensel S,Schaap O,Verstreken P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assimilation of nitrate, a most important soil nitrogen source, is tightly regulated in microorganisms and plants. In Aspergillus nidulans, during the transcriptional activation process of nitrate assimilatory genes, the interaction between the pathway-specific transcription factor NirA and the exportin KapK/CRM1 ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gallmetzer A,Silvestrini L,Schinko T,Gesslbauer B,Hortschansky P,Dattenböck C,Muro-Pastor MI,Kungl A,Brakhage AA,Scazzocchio C,Strauss J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress occurs when misfolded proteins accumulate in the ER. The cellular response to ER stress involves complex transcriptional and translational changes, important to the survival of the cell. ER stress is a primary cause and a modifier of many human diseases. A first step to understanding ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chow CY,Wang X,Riccardi D,Wolfner MF,Clark AG

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin pigment patterns of vertebrates are a classic system for understanding fundamental mechanisms of morphogenesis, differentiation, and pattern formation, and recent studies of zebrafish have started to elucidate the cellular interactions and molecular mechanisms underlying these processes. In this species, horizont...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Patterson LB,Parichy DM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across phylogeny, glutamate (Glu) signaling plays a critical role in regulating neural excitability, thus supporting many complex behaviors. Perturbed synaptic and extrasynaptic Glu homeostasis in the human brain has been implicated in multiple neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's dis...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gibson CL,Balbona JT,Niedzwiecki A,Rodriguez P,Nguyen KCQ,Hall DH,Blakely RD

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00