The genomic landscape of undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver is typified by C19MC structural rearrangement and overexpression combined with TP53 mutation or loss.

abstract：:The length of cilia is controlled by a poorly understood mechanism that involves members of the conserved RCK kinase group, and among them, the LF4/MOK kinases. The multiciliated protist model, Tetrahymena, carries two types of cilia (oral and locomotory) and the length of the locomotory cilia is dependent on their po...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jiang YY,Maier W,Baumeister R,Minevich G,Joachimiak E,Wloga D,Ruan Z,Kannan N,Bocarro S,Bahraini A,Vasudevan KK,Lechtreck K,Orias E,Gaertig J

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cleavage Factor 1A (CF1A) complex, which is required for the termination of transcription in budding yeast, occupies the 3' end of transcriptionally active genes. We recently demonstrated that CF1A subunits also crosslink to the 5' end of genes during transcription. The presence of CF1A complex at the promoter sug...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Al Husini N,Kudla P,Ansari A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana is successful at colonizing land that has recently undergone human-mediated disturbance. To investigate the prehistoric spread of A. thaliana, we applied approximate Bayesian computation and explicit spatial modeling to 76 European accessions sequenced at 876 nuclear loci. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： François O,Blum MG,Jakobsson M,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2008-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage observed during plant immune responses is reported to be an intrinsic component of plant immunity. However, other immune responses may suppress DNA damage to maintain host genome integrity. Here, we show that immunity-related DNA damage can be abrogated by preventing cell death triggered by Nucleotide-bindi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rodriguez E,Chevalier J,El Ghoul H,Voldum-Clausen K,Mundy J,Petersen M

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide transcription start site (TSS) profiles of the enterobacteria Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae were experimentally determined through modified 5' RACE followed by deep sequencing of intact primary mRNA. This identified 3,746 and 3,143 TSSs for E. coli and K. pneumoniae, respectively. Experimental...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kim D,Hong JS,Qiu Y,Nagarajan H,Seo JH,Cho BK,Tsai SF,Palsson BØ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine, approved by the FDA for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), is incorporated into the DNA of dividing cells where it specifically inhibits DNA methylation by forming covalent complexes with the DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs). In an effort to study the correlations between DNA methyl...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang X,Noushmehr H,Han H,Andreu-Vieyra C,Liang G,Jones PA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Third-generation cephalosporins are a class of β-lactam antibiotics that are often used for the treatment of human infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria, especially Escherichia coli. Worryingly, the incidence of human infections caused by third-generation cephalosporin-resistant E. coli is increasing worldwide. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： de Been M,Lanza VF,de Toro M,Scharringa J,Dohmen W,Du Y,Hu J,Lei Y,Li N,Tooming-Klunderud A,Heederik DJ,Fluit AC,Bonten MJ,Willems RJ,de la Cruz F,van Schaik W

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic disruption of the dystrophin complex produces muscular dystrophy characterized by a fragile muscle plasma membrane leading to excessive muscle degeneration. Two genetic modifiers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy implicate the transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) pathway, osteopontin encoded by the SPP1 gene and l...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Quattrocelli M,Capote J,Ohiri JC,Warner JL,Vo AH,Earley JU,Hadhazy M,Demonbreun AR,Spencer MJ,McNally EM

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver possesses a remarkable regenerative capacity based partly on the ability of hepatocytes to re-enter the cell cycle and divide to replace damaged cells. This capability is substantially reduced upon chronic damage, but it is not clear if this is a cause or consequence of liver disease. Here, we investigate wh...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dewhurst MR,Ow JR,Zafer G,van Hul NKM,Wollmann H,Bisteau X,Brough D,Choi H,Kaldis P

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing literature in human social genomics has begun to analyze how everyday life circumstances influence human gene expression. Social-environmental conditions such as urbanity, low socioeconomic status, social isolation, social threat, and low or unstable social status have been found to associate with differenti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cole SW

更新日期：2014-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Light is one of the most important environmental cues regulating multiple aspects of plant growth and development, and abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone that plays important roles during many phases of the plant life cycle and in plants' responses to various environmental stresses. How plants integrate the extern...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xu D,Li J,Gangappa SN,Hettiarachchi C,Lin F,Andersson MX,Jiang Y,Deng XW,Holm M

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more prevalent in African Americans than in Europeans. However, little is known about the genetic risk in African Americans despite the recent identification of more than 70 T2D loci primarily by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry. In order to investigat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ng MC,Shriner D,Chen BH,Li J,Chen WM,Guo X,Liu J,Bielinski SJ,Yanek LR,Nalls MA,Comeau ME,Rasmussen-Torvik LJ,Jensen RA,Evans DS,Sun YV,An P,Patel SR,Lu Y,Long J,Armstrong LL,Wagenknecht L,Yang L,Snively BM,

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance to high levels of ethanol is an ecologically and industrially relevant phenotype of microbes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this complex trait remain largely unknown. Here, we use long-term experimental evolution of isogenic yeast populations of different initial ploidy to study adaptation to incre...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Voordeckers K,Kominek J,Das A,Espinosa-Cantú A,De Maeyer D,Arslan A,Van Pee M,van der Zande E,Meert W,Yang Y,Zhu B,Marchal K,DeLuna A,Van Noort V,Jelier R,Verstrepen KJ

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive proteins are among the fastest evolving in the proteome, often due to the consequences of positive selection, and their rapid evolution is frequently attributed to a coevolutionary process between interacting female and male proteins. Such a process could leave characteristic signatures at coevolving gene...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Clark NL,Gasper J,Sekino M,Springer SA,Aquadro CF,Swanson WJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative transfer of the integrative and conjugative element ICEclc in the bacterium Pseudomonas knackmussii is the consequence of a bistable decision taken in some 3% of cells in a population during stationary phase. Here we study the possible control exerted by the stationary phase sigma factor RpoS on the bistab...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Miyazaki R,Minoia M,Pradervand N,Sulser S,Reinhard F,van der Meer JR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic capabilities and regulatory networks of bacteria have been optimized by evolution in response to selective pressures present in each species' native ecological niche. In a new environment, however, the same bacteria may grow poorly due to regulatory constraints or biochemical deficiencies. Adaptation to ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hottes AK,Freddolino PL,Khare A,Donnell ZN,Liu JC,Tavazoie S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhox cluster on the mouse X chromosome contains reproduction-related homeobox genes expressed in a sexually dimorphic manner. We report that two members of the Rhox cluster, Rhox6 and 9, are regulated by de-methylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 by KDM6A, a histone demethylase with female-biased expression. Consis...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Berletch JB,Deng X,Nguyen DK,Disteche CM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian meiosis, homologous chromosome synapsis is coupled with recombination. As in most eukaryotes, mammalian meiocytes have checkpoints that monitor the fidelity of these processes. We report that the mouse ortholog (Trip13) of pachytene checkpoint 2 (PCH2), an essential component of the synapsis checkpoint in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Li XC,Schimenti JC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodalis glossinidius, a maternally inherited endosymbiont of the tsetse fly, maintains genes encoding homologues of the PhoP-PhoQ two-component regulatory system. This two-component system has been extensively studied in facultative bacterial pathogens and is known to serve as an environmental magnesium sensor and a r...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Pontes MH,Smith KL,De Vooght L,Van Den Abbeele J,Dale C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms perceive changes in their dietary environment and enact a suite of behavioral and metabolic adaptations that can impact motivational behavior, disease resistance, and longevity. However, the precise nature and mechanism of these dietary responses is not known. We have uncovered a novel link between dietary f...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Linford NJ,Chan TP,Pletcher SD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpreting the impact of human genome variation on phenotype is challenging. The functional effect of protein-coding variants is often predicted using sequence conservation and population frequency data, however other factors are likely relevant. We hypothesized that variants in protein post-translational modificati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Reimand J,Wagih O,Bader GD

更新日期：2015-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An important goal in molecular evolution is to understand the genetic and physical mechanisms by which protein functions evolve and, in turn, to characterize how a protein's physical architecture influences its evolution. Here we dissect the mechanisms for an evolutionary shift in function in the mollusk ortholog of t...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bridgham JT,Keay J,Ortlund EA,Thornton JW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-cell gene expression noise is thought to be an important mechanism for generating phenotypic diversity. Furthermore, telomeric regions are major sites for gene amplification, which is thought to drive genetic diversity. Here we found that individual subtelomeric TLO genes exhibit increased variation in transcr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Anderson MZ,Gerstein AC,Wigen L,Baller JA,Berman J

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A universal Tree of Life (TOL) has long been a goal of molecular phylogeneticists, but reticulation at the level of genes and possibly at the levels of cells and species renders any simple interpretation of such a TOL, especially as applied to prokaryotes, problematic. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Doolittle WF,Brunet TD

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) are among the most toxic types of damage to a cell. For this reason, many ICL-inducing agents are effective therapeutic agents. For example, cisplatin and nitrogen mustards are used for treating cancer and psoralen plus UVA (PUVA) is useful for treating psoriasis. However, repair mech...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wu Q,Vasquez KM

更新日期：2008-09-12 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：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the conserved phosphatase Cdc14 is required for the exit from mitosis. It is anchored on nucleolar chromatin by the Cfi1/Net1 protein until early anaphase, at which time it is released into the nucleoplasm. Two poorly understood, redundant pathways promote Cdc14 release, the FEAR (Cdc four...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hwang WW,Madhani HD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans is characterized by widespread physiological and molecular changes, but the mechanisms that determine the rate at which these changes occur are not well understood. In this study, we identify a novel link between reproductive aging and somatic aging in C. elegans. By measuring global ag...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zimmerman SM,Hinkson IV,Elias JE,Kim SK

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and microRNAs (miRNAs) are key external and internal signals for plant development, respectively. However, the relationship between the light signaling and miRNA biogenesis pathways remains unknown. Here we found that miRNA processer proteins DCL1 and HYL1 interact with a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcript...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sun Z,Li M,Zhou Y,Guo T,Liu Y,Zhang H,Fang Y

更新日期：2018-03-09 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