A new era in functional genomics screens

L Przybyla, LA Gilbert - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The past 25 years of genomics research first revealed which genes are encoded by the
human genome and then a detailed catalogue of human genome variation associated with …

RBG motif bridge-like lipid transport proteins: structure, functions, and open questions

M Hanna, A Guillén-Samander… - Annual Review of Cell …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The life of eukaryotic cells requires the transport of lipids between membranes, which are
separated by the aqueous environment of the cytosol. Vesicle-mediated traffic along the …

Rab family of small GTPases: an updated view on their regulation and functions

Y Homma, S Hiragi, M Fukuda - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Rab family of small GTPases regulates intracellular membrane trafficking by
orchestrating the biogenesis, transport, tethering, and fusion of membrane‐bound …

Inter-cellular CRISPR screens reveal regulators of cancer cell phagocytosis

RA Kamber, Y Nishiga, B Morton, AM Banuelos… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibody therapies targeting tumour antigens drive cancer cell elimination in
large part by triggering macrophage phagocytosis of cancer cells,,,,,–. However, cancer cells …

A systems approach to infectious disease

M Eckhardt, JF Hultquist, RM Kaake… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Ongoing social, political and ecological changes in the 21st century have placed more
people at risk of life-threatening acute and chronic infections than ever before. The …

Ubiquitin‐targeted bacterial effectors: rule breakers of the ubiquitin system

CG Roberts, TG Franklin, JN Pruneda - The EMBO Journal, 2023 - embopress.org
Regulation through post‐translational ubiquitin signaling underlies a large portion of
eukaryotic biology. This has not gone unnoticed by invading pathogens, many of which have …

The Legionella Effector SdjA Is a Bifunctional Enzyme That Distinctly Regulates Phosphoribosyl Ubiquitination

L Song, Y Xie, C Li, L Wang, C He, Y Zhang, J Yuan… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Legionella pneumophila promotes its survival and replication in phagocytes by actively
modulating cellular processes using effectors injected into host cells by its Dot/Icm type IV …

The Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system and its effectors

DC Lockwood, H Amin, TRD Costa… - …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
To prevail in the interaction with eukaryotic hosts, many bacterial pathogens use protein
secretion systems to release virulence factors at the host–pathogen interface and/or deliver …

Legionella pneumophila: The Journey from the Environment to the Blood

V Iliadi, J Staykova, S Iliadis, I Konstantinidou… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
An outbreak of a potentially fatal form of pneumonia in 1976 and in the annual convention of
the American Legion was the first time that Legionella spp. was identified. Thereafter, the …

A conserved megaprotein-based molecular bridge critical for lipid trafficking and cold resilience

C Wang, B Wang, T Pandey, Y Long, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cells adapt to cold by increasing levels of unsaturated phospholipids and membrane fluidity
through conserved homeostatic mechanisms. Here we report an exceptionally large and …