Aberrant RNA splicing in cancer; expression changes and driver mutations of splicing factor genes

A Sveen, S Kilpinen, A Ruusulehto, RA Lothe… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a widespread process contributing to structural transcript variation and
proteome diversity. In cancer, the splicing process is commonly disrupted, resulting in both …

Precision oncology: the road ahead

D Senft, MDM Leiserson, E Ruppin, AR Ze'ev - Trends in molecular …, 2017 - cell.com
Current efforts in precision oncology largely focus on the benefit of genomics-guided
therapy. Yet, advances in sequencing techniques provide an unprecedented view of the …

Predicting cancer-specific vulnerability via data-driven detection of synthetic lethality

L Jerby-Arnon, N Pfetzer, YY Waldman, L McGarry… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Synthetic lethality occurs when the inhibition of two genes is lethal while the inhibition of
each single gene is not. It can be harnessed to selectively treat cancer by identifying inactive …

Harnessing synthetic lethality to predict the response to cancer treatment

JS Lee, A Das, L Jerby-Arnon, R Arafeh… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
While synthetic lethality (SL) holds promise in developing effective cancer therapies, SL
candidates found via experimental screens often have limited translational value. Here we …

SynLethDB: synthetic lethality database toward discovery of selective and sensitive anticancer drug targets

J Guo, H Liu, J Zheng - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic lethality (SL) is a type of genetic interaction between two genes such that
simultaneous perturbations of the two genes result in cell death or a dramatic decrease of …

A systematic approach to identify novel cancer drug targets using machine learning, inhibitor design and high-throughput screening

J Jeon, S Nim, J Teyra, A Datti, JL Wrana, SS Sidhu… - Genome medicine, 2014 - Springer
We present an integrated approach that predicts and validates novel anti-cancer drug
targets. We first built a classifier that integrates a variety of genomic and systematic datasets …

Arc requires PSD95 for assembly into postsynaptic complexes involved with neural dysfunction and intelligence

E Fernandez, MO Collins, RAW Frank, F Zhu… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Arc is an activity-regulated neuronal protein, but little is known about its interactions,
assembly into multiprotein complexes, and role in human disease and cognition. We applied …

High-resolution network biology: connecting sequence with function

CJ Ryan, P Cimermančič, ZA Szpiech, A Sali… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Proteins are not monolithic entities; rather, they can contain multiple domains that mediate
distinct interactions, and their functionality can be regulated through post-translational …

Adaptive evolution of complex innovations through stepwise metabolic niche expansion

B Szappanos, J Fritzemeier, B Csörgő, V Lázár… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A central challenge in evolutionary biology concerns the mechanisms by which complex
metabolic innovations requiring multiple mutations arise. Here, we propose that metabolic …

Predicting synthetic lethal interactions using heterogeneous data sources

H Liany, A Jeyasekharan, V Rajan - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation A synthetic lethal (SL) interaction is a relationship between two functional entities
where the loss of either one of the entities is viable but the loss of both entities is lethal to the …