Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins

A Jassim, EP Rahrmann, BD Simons… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer has been a leading cause of death for decades. This dismal statistic has increased
efforts to prevent the disease or to detect it early, when treatment is less invasive, relatively …

Mechanisms and pathology of protein misfolding and aggregation

N Louros, J Schymkowitz, F Rousseau - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in machine learning-based protein structure prediction, we are still far
from fully understanding how proteins fold into their native conformation. The conventional …

Rare variant associations with plasma protein levels in the UK Biobank

RS Dhindsa, OS Burren, BB Sun, BP Prins, D Matelska… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Integrating human genomics and proteomics can help elucidate disease mechanisms,
identify clinical biomarkers and discover drug targets,,–. Because previous proteogenomic …

Aging is associated with a systemic length-associated transcriptome imbalance

T Stoeger, RA Grant, AC McQuattie-Pimentel… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Aging is among the most important risk factors for morbidity and mortality. To contribute
toward a molecular understanding of aging, we analyzed age-resolved transcriptomic data …

Translation and mRNA stability control

Q Wu, AA Bazzini - Annual review of biochemistry, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Messenger RNA (mRNA) stability and translational efficiency are two crucial aspects of the
post-transcriptional process that profoundly impact protein production in a cell. While it is …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic discovery of deleterious mutations facilitates hybrid potato breeding

Y Wu, D Li, Y Hu, H Li, GP Ramstein, S Zhou, X Zhang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Hybrid potato breeding will transform the crop from a clonally propagated tetraploid to a
seed-reproducing diploid. Historical accumulation of deleterious mutations in potato …

Is the mutation rate lower in genomic regions of stronger selective constraints?

H Liu, J Zhang - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A study of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana detected lower mutation rates in genomic regions
where mutations are more likely to be deleterious, challenging the principle that …

Codon language embeddings provide strong signals for use in protein engineering

C Outeiral, CM Deane - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024 - nature.com
Protein representations from deep language models have yielded state-of-the-art
performance across many tasks in computational protein engineering. In recent years …

A rugged yet easily navigable fitness landscape

A Papkou, L Garcia-Pastor, JA Escudero, A Wagner - Science, 2023 - science.org
Fitness landscape theory predicts that rugged landscapes with multiple peaks impair
Darwinian evolution, but experimental evidence is limited. In this study, we used genome …

Deep mutational scanning: A versatile tool in systematically mapping genotypes to phenotypes

H Wei, X Li - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Unveiling how genetic variations lead to phenotypic variations is one of the key questions in
evolutionary biology, genetics, and biomedical research. Deep mutational scanning (DMS) …