Double-edged sword: The evolutionary consequences of the epigenetic silencing of transposable elements.

abstract：:Understanding how axon guidance receptors are activated by their extracellular ligands to regulate growth cone motility is critical to learning how proper wiring is established during development. Roundabout (Robo) is one such guidance receptor that mediates repulsion from its ligand Slit in both invertebrates and ver...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Chance RK,Bashaw GJ

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Size control is essential for all proliferating cells, and is thought to be regulated by checkpoints that couple cell size to cell cycle progression. The aberrant cell-size phenotypes caused by mutations in the retinoblastoma (RB) tumor suppressor pathway are consistent with a role in size checkpoint control, but indi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Fang SC,de los Reyes C,Umen JG

更新日期：2006-10-13 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：:Knowledge of biological relatedness between samples is important for many genetic studies. In large-scale human genetic association studies, the estimated kinship is used to remove cryptic relatedness, control for family structure, and estimate trait heritability. However, estimation of kinship is challenging for spar...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Dou J,Sun B,Sim X,Hughes JD,Reilly DF,Tai ES,Liu J,Wang C

更新日期：2017-09-29 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：:Colicins are plasmid-encoded narrow spectrum antibiotics that are synthesized by strains of Escherichia coli and govern intraspecies competition. In a previous report, we demonstrated that the global transcriptional factor IscR, co dependently with the master regulator of the DNA damage response, LexA, delays inductio...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Kamenšek S,Browning DF,Podlesek Z,Busby SJ,Žgur-Bertok D,Butala M

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammation promotes oncogenic transformation and tumor progression. Many inflammatory agents also generate a toxic microenvironment, implying that adaptive mechanisms must be deployed for cells to survive and undergo transformation in such unfavorable contexts. A paradigmatic case is represented by cancers o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Collino A,Termanini A,Nicoli P,Diaferia G,Polletti S,Recordati C,Castiglioni V,Caruso D,Mitro N,Natoli G,Ghisletti S

更新日期：2018-05-07 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：:Type-III protein secretion systems are utilized by gram-negative pathogens to secrete building blocks of the bacterial flagellum, virulence effectors from the cytoplasm into host cells, and structural subunits of the needle complex. The flagellar type-III secretion apparatus utilizes both the energy of the proton moti...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Erhardt M,Mertens ME,Fabiani FD,Hughes KT

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism, the conversion of nutrients into usable energy and biochemical building blocks, is an essential feature of all cells. The genetic factors responsible for inter-individual metabolic variability remain poorly understood. To investigate genetic causes of metabolome variation, we measured the concentrations of...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Breunig JS,Hackett SR,Rabinowitz JD,Kruglyak L

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Both genetic and epigenetic alterations contribute to Facio-Scapulo-Humeral Dystrophy (FSHD), which is linked to the shortening of the array of D4Z4 repeats at the 4q35 locus. The consequence of this rearrangement remains enigmatic, but deletion of this 3.3-kb macrosatellite element might affect the expression of the ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ottaviani A,Rival-Gervier S,Boussouar A,Foerster AM,Rondier D,Sacconi S,Desnuelle C,Gilson E,Magdinier F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic surveillance of malaria parasites supports malaria control programmes, treatment guidelines and elimination strategies. Surveillance studies often pose questions about malaria parasite ancestry (e.g. how antimalarial resistance has spread) and employ statistical methods that characterise parasite population st...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Watson JA,Taylor AR,Ashley EA,Dondorp A,Buckee CO,White NJ,Holmes CC

更新日期：2020-10-09 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：:Fragile X syndrome, a common form of inherited mental retardation, is caused by the loss of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). We have previously demonstrated that dFmr1, the Drosophila ortholog of the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene, plays a role in the proper maintenance of germline stem cells in Droso...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang Y,Xu S,Xia L,Wang J,Wen S,Jin P,Chen D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterochromatin-enriched HP1 proteins play a critical role in regulation of transcription. These proteins contain two related domains known as the chromo- and the chromoshadow-domain. The chromo-domain binds histone H3 tails methylated on lysine 9. However, in vivo and in vitro experiments have shown that the affi...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Lavigne M,Eskeland R,Azebi S,Saint-André V,Jang SM,Batsché E,Fan HY,Kingston RE,Imhof A,Muchardt C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons between diverse vertebrate genomes have uncovered thousands of highly conserved non-coding sequences, an increasing number of which have been shown to function as enhancers during early development. Despite their extreme conservation over 500 million years from humans to cartilaginous fish, these elements ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： McEwen GK,Goode DK,Parker HJ,Woolfe A,Callaway H,Elgar G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004936.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Feng B,Liu C,de Oliveira MV,Intorne AC,Li B,Babilonia K,de Souza Filho GA,Shan L,He P

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Unexplained cardiac arrest (UCA) with documented ventricular fibrillation (VF) is a major cause of sudden cardiac death. Abnormal sympathetic innervations have been shown to be a trigger of ventricular fibrillation. Further, adequate expression of SEMA3A was reported to be critical for normal patterning of cardiac sym...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nakano Y,Chayama K,Ochi H,Toshishige M,Hayashida Y,Miki D,Hayes CN,Suzuki H,Tokuyama T,Oda N,Suenari K,Uchimura-Makita Y,Kajihara K,Sairaku A,Motoda C,Fujiwara M,Watanabe Y,Yoshida Y,Ohkubo K,Watanabe I,Nogami A,

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of MEF2 TFs to the tumorigenic process is still mysterious. Here we clarify that MEF2 can support both pro-oncogenic or tumor suppressive activities depending on the interaction with co-activators or co-repressors partners. Through these interactions MEF2 supervise histone modifications associated wit...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Di Giorgio E,Franforte E,Cefalù S,Rossi S,Dei Tos AP,Brenca M,Polano M,Maestro R,Paluvai H,Picco R,Brancolini C

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymyxin is the last line of defense against severe infections caused by carbapenem-resistant gram-negative pathogens. The emergence of transferable MCR-1/2 polymyxin resistance greatly challenges the renewed interest in colistin (polymyxin E) for clinical treatments. Recent studies have suggested that Moraxella spec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wei W,Srinivas S,Lin J,Tang Z,Wang S,Ullah S,Kota VG,Feng Y

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In metazoans, apoptotic cells are swiftly engulfed by phagocytes and degraded inside phagosomes. Multiple small GTPases in the Rab family are known to function in phagosome maturation by regulating vesicle trafficking. We discovered rab-35 as a new gene important for apoptotic cell clearance from a genetic screen targ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Haley R,Wang Y,Zhou Z

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb group (PcG) proteins act as evolutionary conserved epigenetic mediators of cell identity because they repress transcriptional programs that are not required at particular developmental stages. Each tissue is likely to have a specific epigenetic profile, which acts as a blueprint for its developmental fate. A ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Weinhofer I,Hehenberger E,Roszak P,Hennig L,Köhler C

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:New systems genetics approaches are needed to rapidly identify host genes and genetic networks that regulate complex disease outcomes. Using genetically diverse animals from incipient lines of the Collaborative Cross mouse panel, we demonstrate a greatly expanded range of phenotypes relative to classical mouse models ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gralinski LE,Ferris MT,Aylor DL,Whitmore AC,Green R,Frieman MB,Deming D,Menachery VD,Miller DR,Buus RJ,Bell TA,Churchill GA,Threadgill DW,Katze MG,McMillan L,Valdar W,Heise MT,Pardo-Manuel de Villena F,Baric RS

更新日期：2015-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated T-DNA integration is a common tool for plant genome manipulation. However, there is controversy regarding whether T-DNA integration is biased towards genes or randomly distributed throughout the genome. In order to address this question, we performed high-throughput mapping of T-DNA-...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Shilo S,Tripathi P,Melamed-Bessudo C,Tzfadia O,Muth TR,Levy AA

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of gene regulation by sequence variation in non-coding regions of the genome is now recognised as a significant cause of human disease and disease susceptibility. Sequence variants in cis-regulatory elements (CREs), the primary determinants of spatio-temporal gene regulation, can alter transcription factor ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bhatia S,Gordon CT,Foster RG,Melin L,Abadie V,Baujat G,Vazquez MP,Amiel J,Lyonnet S,van Heyningen V,Kleinjan DA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that hypomorphic Mre11 complex mouse mutants exhibit defects in the repair of meiotic double strand breaks (DSBs). This is associated with perturbation of synaptonemal complex morphogenesis, repair and regulation of crossover formation. To further assess the Mre11 complex's role in meiotic progr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Adelman CA,Petrini JH

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants utilize an innate immune system to protect themselves from disease. While many molecular components of plant innate immunity resemble the innate immunity of animals, plants also have evolved a number of truly unique defense mechanisms, particularly at the physiological level. Plant's flexible developmental prog...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Patharkar OR,Gassmann W,Walker JC

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:H1 linker histones facilitate higher-order chromatin folding and are essential for mammalian development. To achieve high-resolution mapping of H1 variants H1d and H1c in embryonic stem cells (ESCs), we have established a knock-in system and shown that the N-terminally tagged H1 proteins are functionally interchangeab...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Cao K,Lailler N,Zhang Y,Kumar A,Uppal K,Liu Z,Lee EK,Wu H,Medrzycki M,Pan C,Ho PY,Cooper GP Jr,Dong X,Bock C,Bouhassira EE,Fan Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human genome-wide association studies have linked single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 9p21.3 near the INK4/ARF (CDKN2a/b) locus with susceptibility to atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASVD). Although this locus encodes three well-characterized tumor suppressors, p16(INK4a), p15(INK4b), and ARF, the S...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Burd CE,Jeck WR,Liu Y,Sanoff HK,Wang Z,Sharpless NE

更新日期：2010-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tripartite Motif (TRIM) ubiquitin ligases act in the innate immune response against viruses. One of the best characterized members of this family, TRIM5α, serves as a potent retroviral restriction factor with activity against HIV. Here, we characterize what are likely to be the youngest TRIM genes in the human genome....

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Han K,Lou DI,Sawyer SL

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00