A CRISPR toolbox to study virus–host interactions

AS Puschnik, K Majzoub, YS Ooi… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Viruses depend on their hosts to complete their replication cycles; they exploit cellular
receptors for entry and hijack cellular functions to replicate their genome, assemble progeny …

Proteome-scale human interactomics

K Luck, GM Sheynkman, I Zhang, M Vidal - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Cellular functions are mediated by complex interactome networks of physical, biochemical,
and functional interactions between DNA sequences, RNA molecules, proteins, lipids, and …

A reference map of the human binary protein interactome

K Luck, DK Kim, L Lambourne, K Spirohn, BE Begg… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Global insights into cellular organization and genome function require comprehensive
understanding of the interactome networks that mediate genotype–phenotype relationships …

Orthogonally induced differentiation of stem cells for the programmatic patterning of vascularized organoids and bioprinted tissues

MA Skylar-Scott, JY Huang, A Lu, AHM Ng… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The generation of organoids and tissues with programmable cellular complexity,
architecture and function would benefit from the simultaneous differentiation of human …

Inferring the molecular and phenotypic impact of amino acid variants with MutPred2

V Pejaver, J Urresti, J Lugo-Martinez, KA Pagel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying pathogenic variants and underlying functional alterations is challenging. To this
end, we introduce MutPred2, a tool that improves the prioritization of pathogenic amino acid …

A comprehensive library of human transcription factors for cell fate engineering

AHM Ng, P Khoshakhlagh, JE Rojo Arias… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer an unprecedented opportunity to model diverse
cell types and tissues. To enable systematic exploration of the programming landscape …

A central chaperone-like role for 14-3-3 proteins in human cells

D Segal, S Maier, GJ Mastromarco, WW Qian… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
3-3 proteins are highly conserved regulatory proteins that interact with hundreds of
structurally diverse clients and act as central hubs of signaling networks. However, how 14-3 …

A proteome-scale map of the SARS-CoV-2–human contactome

DK Kim, B Weller, CW Lin, D Sheykhkarimli… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanisms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease severity
to efficiently design therapies for emerging virus variants remains an urgent challenge of the …

Systematic discovery of protein interaction interfaces using AlphaFold and experimental validation

CY Lee, D Hubrich, JK Varga, C Schäfer… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
Structural resolution of protein interactions enables mechanistic and functional studies as
well as interpretation of disease variants. However, structural data is still missing for most …

Identification and functional characterization of transcriptional activators in human cells

N Alerasool, H Leng, ZY Lin, AC Gingras, M Taipale - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Transcription is orchestrated by thousands of transcription factors (TFs) and chromatin-
associated proteins, but how these are causally connected to transcriptional activation is …