Neuroinflammation in the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) of the multiple sclerosis brain causes abnormalities at the nodes of Ranvier.

abstract：:Commensal microbes, whether they are beneficial or pathogenic, are sensitive to host processes that starve or swamp the prokaryote with large fluctuations in local zinc concentration. To understand how microorganisms coordinate a dynamic response to changes in zinc availability at the molecular level, we evaluated the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gilston BA,Wang S,Marcus MD,Canalizo-Hernández MA,Swindell EP,Xue Y,Mondragón A,O'Halloran TV

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002436.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： PLOS Biology Staff.

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage modulation of microbial populations impacts critical processes in ocean, soil, and animal ecosystems. However, the role of bacteriophages with RNA genomes (RNA bacteriophages) in these processes is poorly understood, in part because of the limited number of known RNA bacteriophage species. Here, we ident...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krishnamurthy SR,Janowski AB,Zhao G,Barouch D,Wang D

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to use stored information in a highly flexible manner is a defining feature of the declarative memory system. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying this flexibility are poorly understood. To address this question, we recorded single-unit activity from the hippocampus of 2 nonhuman primates performing...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Yang C,Naya Y

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:While multiple studies have reported the accelerated evolution of brain gene expression in the human lineage, the mechanisms underlying such changes are unknown. Here, we address this issue from a developmental perspective, by analyzing mRNA and microRNA (miRNA) expression in two brain regions within macaques, chimpan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Somel M,Liu X,Tang L,Yan Z,Hu H,Guo S,Jiang X,Zhang X,Xu G,Xie G,Li N,Hu Y,Chen W,Pääbo S,Khaitovich P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of pluripotency and specification of cellular lineages during embryonic development are controlled by transcriptional regulatory networks, which coordinate specific sets of genes through both activation and repression. The transcriptional repressor RE1-silencing transcription factor (REST) plays import...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johnson R,Teh CH,Kunarso G,Wong KY,Srinivasan G,Cooper ML,Volta M,Chan SS,Lipovich L,Pollard SM,Karuturi RK,Wei CL,Buckley NJ,Stanton LW

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Open Highlight, Senior Editor Lauren Richardson features exciting new Open Access research into how species evolve their characteristic traits. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Richardson LA

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently a demand for new highly efficient and specific drugs to treat osteoporosis, a chronic bone disease affecting millions of people worldwide. We have developed a combinatorial strategy for engineering bispecific inhibitors that simultaneously target the unique combination of c-FMS and αvβ3 integrin, wh...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Zur Y,Rosenfeld L,Keshelman CA,Dalal N,Guterman-Ram G,Orenbuch A,Einav Y,Levaot N,Papo N

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut harbours a large and genetically diverse population of symbiotic microbes that both feed and protect the host. Evolutionary theory, however, predicts that such genetic diversity can destabilise mutualistic partnerships. How then can the mutualism of the human microbiota be explained? Here we develop an i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schluter J,Foster KR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No organism lives in a constant environment. Based on classical studies in molecular biology, many have viewed microbes as following strict rules for shifting their metabolic activities when prevailing conditions change. For example, students learn that the bacterium Escherichia coli makes proteins for digesting lacto...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Siegal ML

更新日期：2015-02-17 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：:A large repertoire of natural object manipulation tasks require precisely coupled symmetrical opposing forces by both hands on a single object. We asked how the lateralized brain handles this basic problem of spatial and temporal coordination. We show that the brain consistently appoints one of the hands as prime acto...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Johansson RS,Theorin A,Westling G,Andersson M,Ohki Y,Nyberg L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental evolution, scientists evolve organisms in the lab, typically by challenging them to new environmental conditions. How best to evolve a desired trait? Should the challenge be applied abruptly, gradually, periodically, sporadically? Should one apply chemical mutagenesis, and do strains with high innate m...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kaminski Strauss S,Schirman D,Jona G,Brooks AN,Kunjapur AM,Nguyen Ba AN,Flint A,Solt A,Mershin A,Dixit A,Yona AH,Csörgő B,Busby BP,Hennig BP,Pál C,Schraivogel D,Schultz D,Wernick DG,Agashe D,Levi D,Zabezhinsky D,

更新日期：2019-03-29 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 key feature of most social relationships is that we like seeing good things happen to others. Research has implicated the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in attaching value to social outcomes. For example, single neurons in macaque ACC selectively code reward delivery to the self, a partner, both monkeys, or neither...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Basile BM,Schafroth JL,Karaskiewicz CL,Chang SWC,Murray EA

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Movements overtly sample sensory information, making sensory analysis an active-sensing process. In this study, we show that visual information sampling is not just locked to the (overt) movement dynamics but to the internal (covert) dynamics of cortico-motor control. We asked human participants to perform continuous ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Tomassini A,Maris E,Hilt P,Fadiga L,D'Ausilio A

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain is a debilitating problem, and insights in the neurobiology of chronic pain are needed for the development of novel pain therapies. A genome-wide association study implicated the 5p15.2 region in chronic widespread pain. This region includes the coding region for FAM173B, a functionally uncharacterized pr...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Willemen HLDM,Kavelaars A,Prado J,Maas M,Versteeg S,Nellissen LJJ,Tromp J,Gonzalez Cano R,Zhou W,Jakobsson ME,Małecki J,Posthuma G,Habib AM,Heijnen CJ,Falnes PØ,Eijkelkamp N

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in eukaryotes is controlled by DNA sequences at promoter and enhancer regions, whose accessibility for binding by regulatory proteins dictates their specific patterns of activity. Here, we identify the protein Zbtb7a as a factor required for inducible changes in accessibility driven by transcription fa...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ramos Pittol JM,Oruba A,Mittler G,Saccani S,van Essen D

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box helicase proteins accelerate folding and rearrangements of highly structured RNAs and RNA-protein complexes (RNPs) in many essential cellular processes. Although DEAD-box proteins have been shown to use ATP to unwind short RNA helices, it is not known how they disrupt RNA tertiary structure. Here, we use sing...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Pan C,Potratz JP,Cannon B,Simpson ZB,Ziehr JL,Tijerina P,Russell R

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Independently evolving populations may adapt to similar selection pressures via different genetic changes. The interactions between such changes, such as in a hybrid individual, can inform us about what course adaptation may follow and allow us to determine whether gene flow would be facilitated or hampered following ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ono J,Gerstein AC,Otto SP

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial dysbiosis in the upper digestive tract is linked to an increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Overabundance of Porphyromonas gingivalis is associated with shorter survival of ESCC patients. We investigated the molecular mechanisms driving aggressive progression of ESCC by P. gingivalis....

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Qi YJ,Jiao YL,Chen P,Kong JY,Gu BL,Liu K,Feng DD,Zhu YF,Ruan HJ,Lan ZJ,Liu QW,Mi YJ,Guo XQ,Wang M,Liang GF,Lamont RJ,Wang H,Zhou FY,Feng XS,Gao SG

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements comprise a huge portion of most animal genomes. Unlike many pathogens, these elements leave a mark of their impact via their insertion into host genomes. With proper teasing, these sequences can relay information about the evolutionary history of transposons and their hosts. In a new publication,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McLaughlin RN Jr

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Health 2035 report notes that the "grand convergence"--closure of the infectious, maternal, and child mortality gap between rich and poor countries--is dependent on research and development (R&D) of new drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and other health tools. However, this convergence (and the R&D underpinning...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moran M

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:With the ability to measure thousands of related phenotypes from a single biological sample, it is now feasible to genetically dissect systems-level biological phenomena. The genetics of transcriptional regulation and protein abundance are likely to be complex, meaning that genetic variation at multiple loci will infl...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Storey JD,Akey JM,Kruglyak L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which genes control organ shape are poorly understood. In principle, genes may control shape by modifying local rates and/or orientations of deformation. Distinguishing between these possibilities has been difficult because of interactions between patterns, orientations, and mechanical constraints du...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Green AA,Kennaway JR,Hanna AI,Bangham JA,Coen E

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic reprogramming to fulfill the biosynthetic and bioenergetic demands of cancer cells has aroused great interest in recent years. However, metabolic reprogramming for cancer metastasis has not been well elucidated. Here, we screened a subpopulation of breast cancer cells with highly metastatic capacity to the l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lv Y,Wang X,Li X,Xu G,Bai Y,Wu J,Piao Y,Shi Y,Xiang R,Wang L

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The wing of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, with its simple, two-dimensional structure, is a model organ well suited for a systems biology approach. The wing arises from an epithelial sac referred to as the wing imaginal disc, which undergoes a phase of massive growth and concomitant patterning during larval s...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Hamaratoglu F,de Lachapelle AM,Pyrowolakis G,Bergmann S,Affolter M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are generated from somatic cells by genetic manipulation. Reprogramming entails multiple transgene integrations and occurs apparently stochastically in rare cells over many days. Tissue stem cells may be subject to less-stringent epigenetic restrictions than other cells and might t...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Silva J,Barrandon O,Nichols J,Kawaguchi J,Theunissen TW,Smith A

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common cystic fibrosis (CF) causing mutation, deletion of phenylalanine 508 (ΔF508 or Phe508del), results in functional expression defect of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) at the apical plasma membrane (PM) of secretory epithelia, which is attributed to the degradation of the misfolded chan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Veit G,Oliver K,Apaja PM,Perdomo D,Bidaud-Meynard A,Lin ST,Guo J,Icyuz M,Sorscher EJ,Hartman JL IV,Lukacs GL

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Modeling the processes of neuronal progenitor proliferation and differentiation to produce mature cortical neuron subtypes is essential for the study of human brain development and the search for potential cell therapies. We demonstrated a novel paradigm for the generation of vascularized organoids (vOrganoids) consis...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Shi Y,Sun L,Wang M,Liu J,Zhong S,Li R,Li P,Guo L,Fang A,Chen R,Ge WP,Wu Q,Wang X

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00