Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon.

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：:Fusion proteins composed of the histone methyltransferase mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) and a variety of unrelated fusion partners are highly leukemogenic. Despite their prevalence, particularly in pediatric acute leukemia, many molecular details of their transforming mechanism are unknown. Here, we provide mechanistic...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Mueller D,García-Cuéllar MP,Bach C,Buhl S,Maethner E,Slany RK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the timing of neuronal activity in the olfactory bulb (OB) relative to sniffing has been the object of many studies, the behavioral relevance of timing information generated by patterned activation within the bulbar response has not been explored. Here we show, using sniff-triggered, dynamic, 2-D, optogenetic st...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rebello MR,McTavish TS,Willhite DC,Short SM,Shepherd GM,Verhagen JV

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasite transmission requires differentiation of male and female gametocytes into gametes within a mosquito following a blood meal. A mosquito-derived molecule, xanthurenic acid (XA), can trigger gametogenesis, but the signalling events controlling this process in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falcipa...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McRobert L,Taylor CJ,Deng W,Fivelman QL,Cummings RM,Polley SD,Billker O,Baker DA

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep science is entering a new era, thanks to new data-driven analysis approaches that, combined with mouse gene-editing technologies, show a promise in functional genomics and translational research. However, the investigation of sleep is time consuming and not suitable for large-scale phenotypic datasets, mainly du...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Katsageorgiou VM,Sona D,Zanotto M,Lassi G,Garcia-Garcia C,Tucci V,Murino V

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal influenza virus infections can cause significant morbidity and mortality, but the threat from the emergence of a new pandemic influenza strain might have potentially even more devastating consequences. As such, there is intense interest in isolating and characterizing potent neutralizing antibodies that targe...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Turner HL,Pallesen J,Lang S,Bangaru S,Urata S,Li S,Cottrell CA,Bowman CA,Crowe JE Jr,Wilson IA,Ward AB

更新日期：2019-02-04 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：:Although psychological and computational models of time estimation have postulated the existence of neural representations tuned for specific durations, empirical evidence of this notion has been lacking. Here, using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) adaptation paradigm, we show that the inferior parietal...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hayashi MJ,Ditye T,Harada T,Hashiguchi M,Sadato N,Carlson S,Walsh V,Kanai R

更新日期：2015-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative regulation of receptor signaling is essential for controlling cell activation and differentiation. In B-lymphocytes, the down-regulation of B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signaling is critical for suppressing the activation of self-reactive B cells; however, the mechanism underlying the negative regulation of ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Liu C,Bai X,Wu J,Sharma S,Upadhyaya A,Dahlberg CI,Westerberg LS,Snapper SB,Zhao X,Song W

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus proliferation involves gene replication inside infected cells and transmission to new target cells. Once positive-strand RNA virus has infected a cell, the viral genome serves as a template for copying ("stay-strategy") or is packaged into a progeny virion that will be released extracellularly ("leave-strategy")...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Iwanami S,Kitagawa K,Ohashi H,Asai Y,Shionoya K,Saso W,Nishioka K,Inaba H,Nakaoka S,Wakita T,Diekmann O,Iwami S,Watashi K

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:How should funding agencies enable researchers to explore high-risk but potentially high-reward science? One model that appears to work is the NSF-funded synthesis center, an incubator for community-led, innovative science. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rodrigo A,Alberts S,Cranston K,Kingsolver J,Lapp H,McClain C,Smith R,Vision T,Weintraub J,Wiegmann B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations can originate from the chance misincorporation of nucleotides during DNA replication or from DNA lesions that arise between replication cycles and are not repaired correctly. We introduce a model that relates the source of mutations to their accumulation with cell divisions, providing a framework for underst...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gao Z,Wyman MJ,Sella G,Przeworski M

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecologically significant shift in developmental strategy from planktotrophic (feeding) to lecithotrophic (nonfeeding) development in the sea urchin genus Heliocidaris is one of the most comprehensively studied life history transitions in any animal. Although the evolution of lecithotrophy involved substantial chan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Israel JW,Martik ML,Byrne M,Raff EC,Raff RA,McClay DR,Wray GA

更新日期：2016-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A ubiquitous feature of the nervous system is the processing of simultaneously arriving sensory inputs from different modalities. Yet, because of the difficulties of monitoring large populations of neurons with the single resolution required to determine their sensory responses, the cellular mechanisms of how populati...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Follmann R,Goldsmith CJ,Stein W

更新日期：2018-10-15 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：:Here, we present the use of ethoscopes, which are machines for high-throughput analysis of behavior in Drosophila and other animals. Ethoscopes provide a software and hardware solution that is reproducible and easily scalable. They perform, in real-time, tracking and profiling of behavior by using a supervised machine...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Geissmann Q,Garcia Rodriguez L,Beckwith EJ,French AS,Jamasb AR,Gilestro GF

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with changes in the plasma lipids. Although simple lipid quantification is routinely used, plasma lipids are rarely investigated at the level of individual molecules. We aimed at predicting different measures of obesity based on the plasma lipidome in a large population cohort using advanced mach...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gerl MJ,Klose C,Surma MA,Fernandez C,Melander O,Männistö S,Borodulin K,Havulinna AS,Salomaa V,Ikonen E,Cannistraci CV,Simons K

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell differentiation is remarkably stable but can be reversed by somatic cell nuclear transfer, cell fusion, and iPS. Nuclear transfer to amphibian oocytes provides a special opportunity to test transcriptional reprogramming without cell division. We show here that, after nuclear transfer to amphibian oocytes, mitotic...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Halley-Stott RP,Jullien J,Pasque V,Gurdon J

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:What explains why some groups of organisms, like birds, are so species rich? And what explains their extraordinary ecological diversity, ranging from large, flightless birds to small migratory species that fly thousand of kilometers every year? These and similar questions have spurred great interest in adaptive radiat...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moen D,Morlon H

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked chromatin remodeler (ATRX), a DAXX (death domain-associated protein) interacting protein, is often lost in cells using the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) pathway, but it is not known how ATRX loss leads to ALT. We report that ATRX deletion from mouse c...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lovejoy CA,Takai K,Huh MS,Picketts DJ,de Lange T

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) belongs to the AGC superfamily of related serine/threonine protein kinases. It is a key regulator downstream of various growth factors and hormones and is involved in malignant transformation and chemo-resistance. Full-length PKB protein has not been crystallised, thus studying the molecular...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Calleja V,Laguerre M,Parker PJ,Larijani B

更新日期：2009-01-20 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：:Rapamycin (Rap) and its derivatives, called rapalogs, are being explored in clinical trials targeting cancer and neurodegeneration. The underlying mechanisms of Rap actions, however, are not well understood. Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), a lysosome-localized protein kinase that acts as a critical regulator o...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zhang X,Chen W,Gao Q,Yang J,Yan X,Zhao H,Su L,Yang M,Gao C,Yao Y,Inoki K,Li D,Shao R,Wang S,Sahoo N,Kudo F,Eguchi T,Ruan B,Xu H

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In neurons polarized trafficking of vesicle-bound membrane proteins gives rise to the distinct molecular composition and functional properties of axons and dendrites. Despite their central role in shaping neuronal form and function, surprisingly little is known about the molecular processes that mediate polarized targ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lewis TL Jr,Mao T,Arnold DB

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained precatalytic (enzyme-substrate complex) and postcatalytic (enzyme-product complex) crystal structures of an active full-length hammerhead RNA that cleaves in the crystal. Using the natural satellite tobacco ringspot virus hammerhead RNA sequence, the self-cleavage reaction was modulated by substitutin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chi YI,Martick M,Lares M,Kim R,Scott WG,Kim SH

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene GAD2 encoding the glutamic acid decarboxylase enzyme (GAD65) is a positional candidate gene for obesity on Chromosome 10p11-12, a susceptibility locus for morbid obesity in four independent ethnic populations. GAD65 catalyzes the formation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which interacts with neuropeptide Y...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Boutin P,Dina C,Vasseur F,Dubois S,Corset L,Séron K,Bekris L,Cabellon J,Neve B,Vasseur-Delannoy V,Chikri M,Charles MA,Clement K,Lernmark A,Froguel P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Formal Comment, the authors of the recent publication "Large-scale investigation of the reasons why potentially important genes are ignored" maintain that it can be read as an opportunity to explore the unknown. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stoeger T,Gerlach M,Morimoto RI,Amaral LAN

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional (3D) structural information on many length scales is of central importance in biological research. Excellent methods exist to obtain structures of molecules at atomic, organelles at electron microscopic, and tissue at light-microscopic resolution. A gap exists, however, when 3D tissue structure needs...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Denk W,Horstmann H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Science communication and outreach are essential for training the next generation of scientists and raising public awareness for science. Providing effective science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational outreach to students in classrooms is challenging because of the need to form partnerships w...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kompella P,Gracia B,LeBlanc L,Engelman S,Kulkarni C,Desai N,June V,March S,Pattengale S,Rodriguez-Rivera G,Ryu SW,Strohkendl I,Mandke P,Clark G

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The improper activation of the Abl tyrosine kinase results in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The recognition of an inactive conformation of Abl, in which a catalytically important Asp-Phe-Gly (DFG) motif is flipped by approximately 180 degrees with respect to the active conformation, underlies the specificity of the ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Levinson NM,Kuchment O,Shen K,Young MA,Koldobskiy M,Karplus M,Cole PA,Kuriyan J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00