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 …

CRISPR screens for functional interrogation of immunity

H Shi, JG Doench, H Chi - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-based technologies represent a major breakthrough in biomedical science as they
offer a powerful platform for unbiased screening and functional genomics in various fields …

FDX1 regulates cellular protein lipoylation through direct binding to LIAS

MB Dreishpoon, NR Bick, B Petrova, DM Warui… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Ferredoxins are a family of iron–sulfur (Fe-S) cluster proteins that serve as essential electron
donors in numerous cellular processes that are conserved through evolution. The …

Context-defined cancer co-dependency mapping identifies a functional interplay between PRC2 and MLL-MEN1 complex in lymphoma

X Chen, Y Li, F Zhu, X Xu, B Estrella, MA Pazos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Interplay between chromatin-associated complexes and modifications critically contribute to
the partitioning of epigenome into stable and functionally distinct domains. Yet there is a lack …

Hepatic SREBP signaling requires SPRING to govern systemic lipid metabolism in mice and humans

S Hendrix, J Kingma, R Ottenhoff, M Valiloo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs) are transcription factors that
govern cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. We recently identified SPRING as a post …

Key events in cancer: Dysregulation of SREBPs

Y Li, S Wu, X Zhao, S Hao, F Li, Y Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Lipid metabolism reprogramming is an important hallmark of tumor progression. Cancer
cells require high levels of lipid synthesis and uptake not only to support their continued …

Metabolic collateral lethal target identification reveals MTHFD2 paralogue dependency in ovarian cancer

A Achreja, T Yu, A Mittal, S Choppara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recurrent loss-of-function deletions cause frequent inactivation of tumour suppressor genes
but often also involve the collateral deletion of essential genes in chromosomal proximity …

Discovery of putative tumor suppressors from CRISPR screens reveals rewired lipid metabolism in acute myeloid leukemia cells

WF Lenoir, M Morgado, PC DeWeirdt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR knockout fitness screens in cancer cell lines reveal many genes whose loss of
function causes cell death or loss of fitness or, more rarely, the opposite phenotype of faster …

GCAF (TMEM251) regulates lysosome biogenesis by activating the mannose-6-phosphate pathway

W Zhang, X Yang, Y Li, L Yu, B Zhang, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The mannose-6-phosphate (M6P) biosynthetic pathway for lysosome biogenesis
has been studied for decades and is considered a well-understood topic. However, whether …

CRISPR screens for lipid regulators reveal a role for ER-bound SNX13 in lysosomal cholesterol export

A Lu, F Hsieh, BR Sharma, SR Vaughn, C Enrich… - Journal of Cell …, 2021 - rupress.org
We report here two genome-wide CRISPR screens performed to identify genes that, when
knocked out, alter levels of lysosomal cholesterol or bis (monoacylglycero) phosphate. In …