Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors

AB Dohlman, J Klug, M Mesko, IH Gao, SM Lipkin… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fungal microorganisms (mycobiota) comprise a small but immunoreactive component of the
human microbiome, yet little is known about their role in human cancers. Pan-cancer …

RNA polymerase II dynamics shape enhancer–promoter interactions

G Barshad, JJ Lewis, AG Chivu, A Abuhashem… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How enhancers control target gene expression over long genomic distances remains an
important unsolved problem. Here we investigated enhancer–promoter communication by …

A genome-scale screen for synthetic drivers of T cell proliferation

M Legut, Z Gajic, M Guarino, Z Daniloski, JA Rahman… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The engineering of autologous patient T cells for adoptive cell therapies has revolutionized
the treatment of several types of cancer. However, further improvements are needed to …

A compendium of genetic regulatory effects across pig tissues

J Teng, Y Gao, H Yin, Z Bai, S Liu, H Zeng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) project has been
established to develop a public resource of genetic regulatory variants in livestock, which is …

CRISPR screens decode cancer cell pathways that trigger γδ T cell detection

MR Mamedov, S Vedova, JW Freimer, AD Sahu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract γδ T cells are potent anticancer effectors with the potential to target tumours
broadly, independent of patient-specific neoantigens or human leukocyte antigen …

Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution

PG Hofstatter, G Thangavel, T Lux, P Neumann… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The centromere represents a single region in most eukaryotic chromosomes. However,
several plant and animal lineages assemble holocentromeres along the entire chromosome …

TCR-independent CD137 (4-1BB) signaling promotes CD8+-exhausted T cell proliferation and terminal differentiation

AC Pichler, N Carrié, M Cuisinier, S Ghazali, A Voisin… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Summary CD137 (4-1BB)-activating receptor represents a promising cancer
immunotherapeutic target. Yet, the cellular program driven by CD137 and its role in cancer …

Pan-evolutionary and regulatory genome architecture delineated by an integrated macro-and microsynteny approach

H Yu, Y Li, W Han, L Bao, F Liu, Y Ma, Z Pu, Q Zeng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The forthcoming massive genome data generated by the Earth BioGenome Project will open
up a new era of comparative genomics, for which genome synteny analysis provides an …

FAN-C: a feature-rich framework for the analysis and visualisation of chromosome conformation capture data

K Kruse, CB Hug, JM Vaquerizas - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Chromosome conformation capture data, particularly from high-throughput approaches such
as Hi-C, are typically very complex to analyse. Existing analysis tools are often single …