The genetic architecture of the maize progenitor, teosinte, and how it was altered during maize domestication.

abstract：:Retinoblastoma (pRb) is a multifunctional regulator, which was likely present in the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes. The Arabidopsis pRb homolog RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED 1 (RBR1), similar to its animal counterparts, controls not only cell proliferation but is also implicated in developmental decisions, stress re...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bouyer D,Heese M,Chen P,Harashima H,Roudier F,Grüttner C,Schnittger A

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic mutations in the nuclear genome are required for tumor formation, but the functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are less understood. Here we identify somatic mtDNA mutations across 527 tumors and 14 cancer types, using an approach that takes advantage of evidence from both geno...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Stewart JB,Alaei-Mahabadi B,Sabarinathan R,Samuelsson T,Gorodkin J,Gustafsson CM,Larsson E

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive Transcription Elongation Factor b (P-TEFb) is a kinase consisting of Cdk9 and Cyclin T that releases RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) into active elongation. It can assemble into a larger Super Elongation Complex (SEC) consisting of additional elongation factors. Here, we use a miRNA-based approach to knock down th...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dahlberg O,Shilkova O,Tang M,Holmqvist PH,Mannervik M

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:rs143383 is a C to T transition SNP located in the 5'untranslated region (5'UTR) of the growth differentiation factor 5 gene GDF5. The T allele of the SNP is associated with increased risk of osteoarthritis (OA) in Europeans and in Asians. This susceptibility is mediated by the T allele producing less GDF5 transcript ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Syddall CM,Reynard LN,Young DA,Loughlin J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006425.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mitra I,Tsang K,Ladd-Acosta C,Croen LA,Aldinger KA,Hendren RL,Traglia M,Lavillaureix A,Zaitlen N,Oldham MC,Levitt P,Nelson S,Amaral DG,Hertz-Picciotto I,Fallin MD,Weiss LA

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome reduction has been observed in many bacterial lineages that have adapted to specialized environments. The extreme genome degradation seen for obligate pathogens and symbionts appears to be dominated by genetic drift. In contrast, for free-living organisms with reduced genomes, the dominant force is proposed to ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lee MC,Marx CJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Zygotic gene expression programs control cell differentiation in vertebrate development. In Xenopus, these programs are initiated by local induction of regulatory genes through maternal signaling activities in the wake of zygotic genome activation (ZGA) at the midblastula transition (MBT). These programs lay down the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wagner G,Singhal N,Nicetto D,Straub T,Kremmer E,Rupp RAW

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular genetic mechanisms of sex determination are not known for most vertebrates, including zebrafish. We identified a mutation in the zebrafish fancl gene that causes homozygous mutants to develop as fertile males due to female-to-male sex reversal. Fancl is a member of the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA DNA repair path...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Rodríguez-Marí A,Cañestro C,Bremiller RA,Nguyen-Johnson A,Asakawa K,Kawakami K,Postlethwait JH

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This work analyses the genetic variation and evolutionary patterns of recessive resistance loci involved in matching-allele (MA) host-pathogen interactions, focusing on the pvr2 resistance gene to potyviruses of the wild pepper Capsicum annuum glabriusculum (chiltepin). Chiltepin grows in a variety of wild habitats in...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Poulicard N,Pacios LF,Gallois JL,Piñero D,García-Arenal F

更新日期：2016-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006940.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nakanishi M,Nomura J,Ji X,Tamada K,Arai T,Takahashi E,Bućan M,Takumi T

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the medical effect of an ever-growing number of human variants detected is a long term challenge in genetic counseling. Functional assays, based on in vitro or in vivo evaluations of the variant effects, provide essential information, but they require robust statistical validation, as well as adapted out...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Thouvenot P,Ben Yamin B,Fourrière L,Lescure A,Boudier T,Del Nery E,Chauchereau A,Goldgar DE,Houdayer C,Stoppa-Lyonnet D,Nicolas A,Millot GA

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We resequenced and phased 27 kb of DNA within 580 kb of the MHC class II region in 158 population chromosomes, most of which were conserved extended haplotypes (CEHs) of European descent or contained their centromeric fragments. We determined the single nucleotide polymorphism and deletion-insertion polymorphism allel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Larsen CE,Alford DR,Trautwein MR,Jalloh YK,Tarnacki JL,Kunnenkeri SK,Fici DA,Yunis EJ,Awdeh ZL,Alper CA

更新日期：2014-10-09 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：:Phenotypes extracted from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are increasingly prevalent in genetic studies. EHRs contain hundreds of distinct clinical laboratory test results, providing a trove of health data beyond diagnoses. Such lab data is complex and lacks a ubiquitous coding scheme, making it more challenging than...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Goldstein JA,Weinstock JS,Bastarache LA,Larach DB,Fritsche LG,Schmidt EM,Brummett CM,Kheterpal S,Abecasis GR,Denny JC,Zawistowski M

更新日期：2020-11-11 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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that play essential roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. We conducted a genome-wide survey of maize miRNA genes, characterizing their structure, expression, and evolution. Computational approaches based on homology and secondary structure modeling ident...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhang L,Chia JM,Kumari S,Stein JC,Liu Z,Narechania A,Maher CA,Guill K,McMullen MD,Ware D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While several studies have investigated general properties of the genetic architecture of natural variation in gene expression, few of these have considered natural, outbreeding populations. In parallel, systems biology has established that a general feature of biological networks is that they are scale-free, renderin...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mähler N,Wang J,Terebieniec BK,Ingvarsson PK,Street NR,Hvidsten TR

更新日期：2017-04-13 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：:Regulated nuclear entry of clock proteins is a conserved feature of eukaryotic circadian clocks and serves to separate the phase of mRNA activation from mRNA repression in the molecular feedback loop. In Drosophila, nuclear entry of the clock proteins, PERIOD (PER) and TIMELESS (TIM), is tightly controlled, and impair...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Jang AR,Moravcevic K,Saez L,Young MW,Sehgal A

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Opportunistic infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa can be acute or chronic. While acute infections often spread rapidly and can cause tissue damage and sepsis with high mortality rates, chronic infections can persist for weeks, months, or years in the face of intensive clinical intervention. Remarkably, this di...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Turner KH,Everett J,Trivedi U,Rumbaugh KP,Whiteley M

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria have been increasingly recognized as a central regulatory nexus for multiple metabolic pathways, in addition to ATP production via oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Here we show that inducing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) stress in Drosophila using a mitochondrially-targeted Type I restriction endonuclease ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bahhir D,Yalgin C,Ots L,Järvinen S,George J,Naudí A,Krama T,Krams I,Tamm M,Andjelković A,Dufour E,González de Cózar JM,Gerards M,Parhiala M,Pamplona R,Jacobs HT,Jõers P

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylketonuria (PKU), one of the most common inherited diseases of amino acid metabolism, is caused by mutations in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene. Recently, PAH exon 11 was identified as a vulnerable exon due to a weak 3' splice site, with different exonic mutations affecting exon 11 splicing through disru...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Martínez-Pizarro A,Dembic M,Pérez B,Andresen BS,Desviat LR

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulator or enhancer-blocking elements are proposed to play an important role in the regulation of transcription by preventing inappropriate enhancer/promoter interaction. The zinc-finger protein CTCF is well studied in vertebrates as an enhancer blocking factor, but Drosophila CTCF has only been characterised recent...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Holohan EE,Kwong C,Adryan B,Bartkuhn M,Herold M,Renkawitz R,Russell S,White R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate change, increasingly erratic weather and a burgeoning global population are significant threats to the sustainability of future crop production. There is an urgent need for the development of robust measures that enable crops to withstand the uncertainty of climate change whilst still producing maximum ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Williams B,Njaci I,Moghaddam L,Long H,Dickman MB,Zhang X,Mundree S

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial cell wall, which is comprised of a mesh of polysaccharide strands crosslinked via peptide bridges (peptidoglycan, PG), is critical for maintenance of cell shape and survival. PG assembly is mediated by a variety of Penicillin Binding Proteins (PBP) whose fundamental activities have been characterized in ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dörr T,Lam H,Alvarez L,Cava F,Davis BM,Waldor MK

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：:Hydrolysis of ATP by partition ATPases, although considered a key step in the segregation mechanism that assures stable inheritance of plasmids, is intrinsically very weak. The cognate centromere-binding protein (CBP), together with DNA, stimulates the ATPase to hydrolyse ATP and to undertake the relocation that incit...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ah-Seng Y,Rech J,Lane D,Bouet JY

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Cdc6p is an essential component of the pre-replicative complex (pre-RC), which binds to DNA replication origins to promote initiation of DNA replication. Only once per cell cycle does DNA replication take place. After initiation, the pre-RC components are disassembled in order to prevent re-replication. It has been sh...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ikui AE,Rossio V,Schroeder L,Yoshida S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00