A decade of advances in transposon-insertion sequencing

AK Cain, L Barquist, AL Goodman, IT Paulsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
It has been 10 years since the introduction of modern transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS)
methods, which combine genome-wide transposon mutagenesis with high-throughput …

Revisiting IL-2: Biology and therapeutic prospects

AK Abbas, E Trotta, D R. Simeonov, A Marson… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Interleukin-2 (IL-2), the first cytokine that was molecularly cloned, was shown to be a T cell
growth factor essential for the proliferation of T cells and the generation of effector and …

Evolutionary routes and KRAS dosage define pancreatic cancer phenotypes

S Mueller, T Engleitner, R Maresch, M Zukowska… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The poor correlation of mutational landscapes with phenotypes limits our understanding of
the pathogenesis and metastasis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Here we …

Stromal biology and therapy in pancreatic cancer: ready for clinical translation?

A Neesse, CA Bauer, D Öhlund, M Lauth, M Buchholz… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is notoriously aggressive and hard to treat. The
tumour microenvironment (TME) in PDA is highly dynamic and has been found to promote …

Pancreatic cancer

J Kleeff, M Korc, M Apte, C La Vecchia… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a major cause of cancer-associated mortality, with a dismal overall
prognosis that has remained virtually unchanged for many decades. Currently, prevention or …

PD-1 is a haploinsufficient suppressor of T cell lymphomagenesis

T Wartewig, Z Kurgyis, S Keppler, K Pechloff… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
T cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas are a heterogeneous group of highly aggressive
malignancies with poor clinical outcomes. T cell lymphomas originate from peripheral T cells …

The TraDIS toolkit: sequencing and analysis for dense transposon mutant libraries

L Barquist, M Mayho, C Cummins, AK Cain… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Transposon insertion sequencing is a high-throughput technique for assaying large libraries
of otherwise isogenic transposon mutants providing insight into gene essentiality, gene …

Multiplexed pancreatic genome engineering and cancer induction by transfection-based CRISPR/Cas9 delivery in mice

R Maresch, S Mueller, C Veltkamp, R Öllinger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Mouse transgenesis has provided fundamental insights into pancreatic cancer, but is limited
by the long duration of allele/model generation. Here we show transfection-based …

piggyBac-ing models and new therapeutic strategies

LE Woodard, MH Wilson - Trends in biotechnology, 2015 - cell.com
DNA transposons offer an efficient nonviral method of permanently modifying the genomes
of mammalian cells. The piggyBac transposon system has proven effective in genomic …

In vivo functional screening for systems-level integrative cancer genomics

J Weber, CJ Braun, D Saur, R Rad - Nature reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
With the genetic portraits of all major human malignancies now available, we next face the
challenge of characterizing the function of mutated genes, their downstream targets …