A genome-wide optical pooled screen reveals regulators of cellular antiviral responses

RJ Carlson, MD Leiken, A Guna… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The infection of mammalian cells by viruses and innate immune responses to infection are
spatiotemporally organized processes. Cytosolic RNA sensors trigger nuclear translocation …

Functional genomic strategies for elucidating human–virus interactions: will CRISPR knockout RNAi and haploid cells?

JM Perreira, P Meraner, AL Brass - Advances in virus research, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the last several years a wealth of transformative human–virus interaction discoveries
have been produced using loss-of-function functional genomics. These insights have greatly …

Genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screening for high-throughput functional genomics in human cells

S Zhu, Y Zhou, W Wei - Innate Antiviral Immunity: Methods and Protocols, 2017 - Springer
It is highly desirable to identify gene's function in a high-throughput fashion, and the
CRISPR/Cas9 system has been harnessed to meet such a need. Here, we describe a …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous CRISPR screening and spatial transcriptomics reveals intracellular, intercellular, and functional transcriptional circuits

L Binan, S Danquah, V Valakh, B Simonton, J Bezney… - Biorxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pooled optical screens have enabled the study of cellular interactions, morphology, or
dynamics at massive scale, but have not yet leveraged the power of highly-plexed single …

Unique signatures of long noncoding RNA expression in response to virus infection and altered innate immune signaling

X Peng, L Gralinski, CD Armour, MT Ferris, MJ Thomas… - MBio, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Studies of the host response to virus infection typically focus on protein-coding genes.
However, non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are transcribed in mammalian cells, and the …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout screens and target identification via whole-genome sequencing uncover host genes required for picornavirus infection

HS Kim, K Lee, S Bae, J Park, CK Lee, M Kim… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
Several groups have used genome-wide libraries of lentiviruses encoding small guide
RNAs (sgRNAs) for genetic screens. In most cases, sgRNA expression cassettes are …

Pathogen-driven CRISPR screens identify TREX1 as a regulator of DNA self-sensing during influenza virus infection

CR King, Y Liu, KA Amato, GA Schaack, C Mickelson… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Host: pathogen interactions dictate the outcome of infection, yet the limitations of current
approaches leave large regions of this interface unexplored. Here, we develop a novel …

Parallel shRNA and CRISPR-Cas9 screens enable antiviral drug target identification

RM Deans, DW Morgens, A Ökesli, S Pillay… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
Broad-spectrum antiviral drugs targeting host processes could potentially treat a wide range
of viruses while reducing the likelihood of emergent resistance. Despite great promise as …

Single-cell RNA-sequencing of herpes simplex virus 1-infected cells connects NRF2 activation to an antiviral program

E Wyler, V Franke, J Menegatti, C Kocks… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Herpesvirus infection initiates a range of perturbations in the host cell, which remain poorly
understood at the level of individual cells. Here, we quantify the transcriptome of single …

Functional single-cell genomics of human cytomegalovirus infection

MY Hein, JS Weissman - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding how viral and host factors interact and how perturbations impact infection is
the basis for designing antiviral interventions. Here we define the functional contribution of …