Yeast systems biology: model organism and cell factory

J Nielsen - Biotechnology journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
For thousands of years, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) has served as a
cell factory for the production of bread, beer, and wine. In more recent years, this yeast has …

Epistasis in protein evolution

TN Starr, JW Thornton - Protein science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The structure, function, and evolution of proteins depend on physical and genetic
interactions among amino acids. Recent studies have used new strategies to explore the …

APOE4 disrupts intracellular lipid homeostasis in human iPSC-derived glia

G Sienski, P Narayan, JM Bonner, N Kory… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
The E4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) has been established as a genetic risk
factor for many diseases including cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

An Atlas of Variant Effects to understand the genome at nucleotide resolution

DM Fowler, DJ Adams, AL Gloyn, WC Hahn, DS Marks… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Sequencing has revealed hundreds of millions of human genetic variants, and continued
efforts will only add to this variant avalanche. Insufficient information exists to interpret the …

eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses

J Huerta-Cepas, D Szklarczyk, D Heller… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract eggNOG is a public database of orthology relationships, gene evolutionary histories
and functional annotations. Here, we present version 5.0, featuring a major update of the …

eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms

A Hernández-Plaza, D Szklarczyk, J Botas… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The eggNOG (evolutionary gene genealogy Non-supervised Orthologous Groups) database
is a bioinformatics resource providing orthology data and comprehensive functional …

Mutation effects predicted from sequence co-variation

TA Hopf, JB Ingraham, FJ Poelwijk, CPI Schärfe… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Many high-throughput experimental technologies have been developed to assess the
effects of large numbers of mutations (variation) on phenotypes. However, designing …

[HTML][HTML] A human interactome in three quantitative dimensions organized by stoichiometries and abundances

MY Hein, NC Hubner, I Poser, J Cox, N Nagaraj… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The organization of a cell emerges from the interactions in protein networks. The
interactome is critically dependent on the strengths of interactions and the cellular …

Emerging and evolving concepts in gene essentiality

G Rancati, J Moffat, A Typas, N Pavelka - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Gene essentiality is a founding concept of genetics with important implications in both
fundamental and applied research. Multiple screens have been performed over the years in …

Widespread expansion of protein interaction capabilities by alternative splicing

X Yang, J Coulombe-Huntington, S Kang… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
While alternative splicing is known to diversify the functional characteristics of some genes,
the extent to which protein isoforms globally contribute to functional complexity on a …