[HTML][HTML] Advanced gene therapy system for the treatment of solid tumour: A review

Y Ma, J Liao, H Cheng, Q Yang, H Yang - Materials Today Bio, 2024 - Elsevier
In contrast to conventional therapies that require repeated dosing, gene therapy can treat
diseases by correcting defective genes after a single transfection and achieving cascade …

Engineered CRISPR-Cas12a for higher-order combinatorial chromatin perturbations

CCS Hsiung, CM Wilson, NA Sambold, R Dai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Multiplexed genetic perturbations are critical for testing functional interactions among coding
or non-coding genetic elements. Compared to double-stranded DNA cutting, repressive …

Mitoferrin2 is a synthetic lethal target for chromosome 8p deleted cancers

S Krieg, T Rohde, T Rausch, L Butthof, L Wendler-Link… - Genome Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background Somatic copy number alterations are a hallmark of cancer that offer unique
opportunities for therapeutic exploitation. Here, we focused on the identification of specific …

基因重复驱动的演化: 基因组学时代的回顾与展望[生物的演化与适应专刊]

沈洁宇, 苏天晗, 余大奇, 谭生军, 张勇 - 遗传, 2024 - chinagene.cn
基因重复指基因组中一个基因通过多样化的分子机制从一个基因拷贝形成两个或多个重复拷贝
的过程, 是新基因起源的重要途径之一, 对真核生物基因组贡献了约为一半的基因 …

HyperCas12a enables highly-multiplexed epigenome editing screens

SM Melore, MC Hamilton, TE Reddy - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Interactions between multiple genes or cis-regulatory elements (CREs) underlie a wide
range of biological processes in both health and disease. High-throughput screens using …

Paralog protein compensation preserves protein-protein interaction networks following gene loss in cancer

A Venkatesh, N Quinn, SR Upadhya, B De Kegel… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Proteins operate within dense interconnected networks, where interactions are necessary
both for stabilising proteins and for enabling them to execute their molecular functions …

Advancing the genetic engineering toolbox by combining AsCas12a knock-in mice with ultra-compact screening

W Jin, Y Deng, JE La Marca, EJ Lelliott, ST Diepstraten… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cas12a is a gene-editing tool that simplifies multiplexed gene targeting through its RNase
activity, enabling maturation of individual crRNAs from a pre-crRNA-encoding RNA. Here …

Comprehensive transcription factor perturbations recapitulate fibroblast transcriptional states

KM Southard, RC Ardy, A Tang, DD O'Sullivan… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cell atlas projects have nominated recurrent transcriptional states as drivers of biological
processes and disease, but their origins, regulation, and properties remain unclear. To …

BaCoN (Balanced Correlation Network) improves prediction of gene buffering

T Rohde, TY Demirtas, AH Shaw, M Billmann - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Buffering between genes is fundamental for robust cellular functions. While experimentally
testing all possible gene pairs is infeasible, gene buffering can be predicted genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal methods for analyzing targeted pairwise knockout screens

J Chou, NE Anvar, R Elghaish, J Chen, T Hart - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Synthetic lethality offers a promising strategy for cancer treatment by targeting
genetic vulnerabilities unique to tumor cells, leading to selective tumor cell death. However …