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 …

Transcriptional regulation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway in colorectal cancer

J Bian, M Dannappel, C Wan, R Firestein - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway exerts integral roles in embryogenesis and adult
homeostasis. Aberrant activation of the pathway is implicated in growth-associated diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Defining a cancer dependency map

A Tsherniak, F Vazquez, PG Montgomery, BA Weir… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Most human epithelial tumors harbor numerous alterations, making it difficult to predict
which genes are required for tumor survival. To systematically identify cancer dependencies …

Mass spectrometry‐based protein–protein interaction networks for the study of human diseases

AL Richards, M Eckhardt, NJ Krogan - Molecular systems biology, 2021 - embopress.org
A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying disease is key for
expediting the development of novel therapeutic interventions. Disease mechanisms are …

A scored human protein–protein interaction network to catalyze genomic interpretation

T Li, R Wernersson, RB Hansen, H Horn, J Mercer… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-scale human protein–protein interaction networks are critical to understanding cell
biology and interpreting genomic data, but challenging to produce experimentally. Through …

CRISPRi and CRISPRa screens in mammalian cells for precision biology and medicine

M Kampmann - ACS chemical biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have led to a massive accumulation of
genomic and transcriptomic data from patients and healthy individuals. The major challenge …

Mapping the genetic landscape of human cells

MA Horlbeck, A Xu, M Wang, NK Bennett, CY Park… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Seminal yeast studies have established the value of comprehensively mapping genetic
interactions (GIs) for inferring gene function. Efforts in human cells using focused gene sets …

A genome-wide atlas of co-essential modules assigns function to uncharacterized genes

M Wainberg, RA Kamber, A Balsubramani… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A central question in the post-genomic era is how genes interact to form biological
pathways. Measurements of gene dependency across hundreds of cell lines have been …

Cryo-EM reveals integrin-mediated TGF-β activation without release from latent TGF-β

MG Campbell, A Cormier, S Ito, RI Seed… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Integrin αvβ8 binds with exquisite specificity to latent transforming growth factor-β (L-TGF-β).
This binding is essential for activating L-TGF-β presented by a variety of cell types. Inhibiting …

RNAi/CRISPR screens: from a pool to a valid hit

A Schuster, H Erasimus, S Fritah, PV Nazarov… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
High-throughput genetic screens interfering with gene expression are invaluable tools to
identify gene function and phenotype-to-genotype interactions. Implementing such screens …