Transcriptome and epigenome diversity and plasticity of muscle stem cells following transplantation.

abstract：:Patients with heritable cancer syndromes characterized by germline PTEN mutations (termed PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome, PHTS) benefit from PTEN-enabled cancer risk assessment and clinical management. PTEN-wildtype patients (~50%) remain at increased risk of developing certain cancers. Existence of germline mutations ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yehia L,Ni Y,Sesock K,Niazi F,Fletcher B,Chen HJL,LaFramboise T,Eng C

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, proper differentiation and final organ size rely on the control of territorial specification and cell proliferation. Although many regulators of these processes have been identified, how both are coordinated remains largely unknown. The homeodomain Iroquois/Irx proteins play a key, evolutionarily c...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Barrios N,González-Pérez E,Hernández R,Campuzano S

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is a pivotal centre for the integration and processing of motor and sensory information. Its extended development into the postnatal period makes this structure vulnerable to a variety of pathologies, including neoplasia. These properties have prompted intensive investigations that reveal not only devel...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： van Essen MJ,Nayler S,Becker EBE,Jacob J

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational systems can respond promptly to sudden environmental changes to provide rapid adaptations to environmental stress. Unlike the well-studied translational responses to oxidative stress in eukaryotic systems, little is known regarding how prokaryotes respond rapidly to oxidative stress in terms of translati...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Zhong J,Xiao C,Gu W,Du G,Sun X,He QY,Zhang G

更新日期：2015-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant interest has emerged in mapping genetic susceptibility for complex traits through whole-genome association studies. These studies rely on the extent of association, i.e., linkage disequilibrium (LD), between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the human genome. LD describes the nonrandom associat...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Eberle MA,Rieder MJ,Kruglyak L,Nickerson DA

更新日期：2006-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies in population of European ancestry have shown that 30% ~ 50% of heritability for human complex traits such as height and body mass index, and common diseases such as schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis, can be captured by common SNPs and that genetic variation attributed to chromosomes are in proport...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Yang J,Lee T,Kim J,Cho MC,Han BG,Lee JY,Lee HJ,Cho S,Kim H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome assembly cofactors are widely conserved across all domains of life. One such group, the ribosome-associated GTPases (RA-GTPase), act as molecular switches to coordinate ribosome assembly. We previously identified the Staphylococcus aureus RA-GTPase Era as a target for the stringent response alarmone (p)ppGpp,...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wood A,Irving SE,Bennison DJ,Corrigan RM

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of specific neurons to regenerate their axons after injury is governed by cell-intrinsic regeneration pathways. However, the signaling pathways that orchestrate axon regeneration are not well understood. In Caenorhabditis elegans, initiation of axon regeneration is positively regulated by SVH-2 Met-like gr...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hisamoto N,Nagamori Y,Shimizu T,Pastuhov SI,Matsumoto K

更新日期：2016-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yorkie/Yap transcriptional coactivator is a well-known regulator of cellular proliferation in both invertebrates and mammals. As a coactivator, Yorkie (Yki) lacks a DNA binding domain and must partner with sequence-specific DNA binding proteins in the nucleus to regulate gene expression; in Drosophila, the develop...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Slattery M,Voutev R,Ma L,Nègre N,White KP,Mann RS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic characterization of ẖybrid incompatibility (HI) between related species remains the key to understanding speciation. The genetic basis of HI has been intensively studied in Drosophila species, but remains largely unknown in other species, including nematodes, which is mainly due to the lack of a sister spec...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bi Y,Ren X,Yan C,Shao J,Xie D,Zhao Z

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sister centromere fusion is a process unique to meiosis that promotes co-orientation of the sister kinetochores, ensuring they attach to microtubules from the same pole during metaphase I. We have found that the kinetochore protein SPC105R/KNL1 and Protein Phosphatase 1 (PP1-87B) regulate sister centromere fusion in D...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wang LI,Das A,McKim KS

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] damages DNA and causes cancer, but it is unclear which DNA damage responses (DDRs) most critically protect cells from chromate toxicity. Here, genome-wide quantitative functional profiling, DDR measurements and genetic interaction assays in Schizosaccharomyces pombe reveal a chromate toxic...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Ganguly A,Guo L,Sun L,Suo F,Du LL,Russell P

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies have identified substantial non-African admixture in the Horn of Africa (HOA). In the most recent genomic studies, this non-African ancestry has been attributed to admixture with Middle Eastern populations during the last few thousand years. However, mitochondrial and Y chromosome data are suggestive o...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Hodgson JA,Mulligan CJ,Al-Meeri A,Raaum RL

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene conversion, the non-reciprocal exchange of genetic information, is one of the potential products of meiotic recombination. It can shape genome structure by acting on repetitive DNA elements, influence allele frequencies at the population level, and is known to be implicated in human disease. But gene conversion i...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Sun Y,Ambrose JH,Haughey BS,Webster TD,Pierrie SN,Muñoz DF,Wellman EC,Cherian S,Lewis SM,Berchowitz LE,Copenhaver GP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 3p21-22 harbors two clusters of chemokine receptor genes, several of which serve as major or minor coreceptors of HIV-1. Although the genetic association of CCR5 and CCR2 variants with HIV-1 pathogenesis is well known, the role of variation in other nearby chemokine receptor genes remain unresolved. We geno...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： An P,Li R,Wang JM,Yoshimura T,Takahashi M,Samudralal R,O'Brien SJ,Phair J,Goedert JJ,Kirk GD,Troyer JL,Sezgin E,Buchbinder SP,Donfield S,Nelson GW,Winkler CA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins (B-lps) are essential for the transport of hydrophobic dietary and endogenous lipids through the circulation in vertebrates. Zebrafish embryos produce large numbers of B-lps in the yolk syncytial layer (YSL) to move lipids from yolk to growing tissues. Disruptions in B-lp produ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Wilson MH,Rajan S,Danoff A,White RJ,Hensley MR,Quinlivan VH,Recacha R,Thierer JH,Tan FJ,Busch-Nentwich EM,Ruddock L,Hussain MM,Farber SA

更新日期：2020-08-06 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：:Magnetosomes of magnetotactic bacteria contain well-ordered nanocrystals for magnetic navigation and have recently emerged as the most sophisticated model system to study the formation of membrane bounded organelles in prokaryotes. Magnetosome biosynthesis is thought to begin with the formation of a dedicated compartm...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Raschdorf O,Forstner Y,Kolinko I,Uebe R,Plitzko JM,Schüler D

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone modifiers are critical regulators of chromatin-based processes in eukaryotes. The histone methyltransferase Set1, a component of the Set1C/COMPASS complex, catalyzes the methylation at lysine 4 of histone H3 (H3K4me), a hallmark of euchromatin. Here, we show that the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Set...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mikheyeva IV,Grady PJ,Tamburini FB,Lorenz DR,Cam HP

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulatory information guides development and shapes the course of evolution. To test conservation of gene regulation within the phylum Nematoda, we compared the functions of putative cis-regulatory sequences of four sets of orthologs (unc-47, unc-25, mec-3 and elt-2) from distantly-related nematode species. Thes...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gordon KL,Arthur RK,Ruvinsky I

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a devastating progeria most often caused by mutations in the CSB gene encoding a SWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling protein. Although all CSB mutations that cause CS are recessive, the complete absence of CSB protein does not cause CS. In addition, most CSB mutations are located beyond exon ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Newman JC,Bailey AD,Fan HY,Pavelitz T,Weiner AM

更新日期：2008-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter sp. strains are among the most frequently isolated, indigenous, aerobic bacterial genera found in soils. Member of the genus are metabolically and ecologically diverse and have the ability to survive in environmentally harsh conditions for extended periods of time. The genome of Arthrobacter aurescens str...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Mongodin EF,Shapir N,Daugherty SC,DeBoy RT,Emerson JB,Shvartzbeyn A,Radune D,Vamathevan J,Riggs F,Grinberg V,Khouri H,Wackett LP,Nelson KE,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dancing, which is integrally related to music, likely has its origins close to the birth of Homo sapiens, and throughout our history, dancing has been universally practiced in all societies. We hypothesized that there are differences among individuals in aptitude, propensity, and need for dancing that may partially be...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Bachner-Melman R,Dina C,Zohar AH,Constantini N,Lerer E,Hoch S,Sella S,Nemanov L,Gritsenko I,Lichtenberg P,Granot R,Ebstein RP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified thousands of loci for a range of human complex traits and diseases. The proportion of phenotypic variance explained by significant associations is, however, limited. Given the same dense SNP panels, mixed model analyses capture a greater proportion of phenot...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Xia C,Amador C,Huffman J,Trochet H,Campbell A,Porteous D,Generation Scotland.,Hastie ND,Hayward C,Vitart V,Navarro P,Haley CS

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008367.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Baker RL,Leong WF,Brock MT,Rubin MJ,Markelz RJC,Welch S,Maloof JN,Weinig C

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection and validation of the RNA degradation signals controlling transcriptome stability are essential steps for understanding how cells regulate gene expression. Here we present complete genomic and biochemical annotations of the signals required for RNA degradation by the dsRNA specific ribonuclease III (Rnt1p) a...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Gagnon J,Lavoie M,Catala M,Malenfant F,Elela SA

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary forces that shape regulatory networks remain poorly understood. In mammals, the Rb pathway is a classic example of species-specific gene regulation, as a germline mutation in one Rb allele promotes retinoblastoma in humans, but not in mice. Here we show that p53 transactivates the Retinoblastoma-like 2 (R...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Simeonova I,Lejour V,Bardot B,Bouarich-Bourimi R,Morin A,Fang M,Charbonnier L,Toledo F

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both anatomically modern humans and the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori originated in Africa, and both species have been associated for at least 100,000 years. Seven geographically distinct H. pylori populations exist, three of which are indigenous to Africa: hpAfrica1, hpAfrica2, and hpNEAfrica. The oldest and m...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Nell S,Eibach D,Montano V,Maady A,Nkwescheu A,Siri J,Elamin WF,Falush D,Linz B,Achtman M,Moodley Y,Suerbaum S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In understanding the etiology of breast cancer, the contributions of both genetic and environmental risk factors are further complicated by the impact of breast developmental stage. Specifically, the time period ranging from childhood to young adulthood represents a critical developmental window in a woman's life when...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Henning AN,Haag JD,Smits BM,Gould MN

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation of cells for the DNA building block dTTP is strikingly lethal (thymineless death, TLD), and this effect is observed in all organisms. The phenomenon, discovered some 60 years ago, is widely used to kill cells in anticancer therapies, but many questions regarding the precise underlying mechanisms have remain...

journal_title：PLoS genetics

authors： Itsko M,Schaaper RM

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00