The population genetics of pathogenic Escherichia coli

E Denamur, O Clermont, S Bonacorsi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is a commensal of the vertebrate gut that is increasingly involved in various
intestinal and extra-intestinal infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Numerous pathotypes …

A new era in functional genomics screens

L Przybyla, LA Gilbert - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The past 25 years of genomics research first revealed which genes are encoded by the
human genome and then a detailed catalogue of human genome variation associated with …

Map** the energetic and allosteric landscapes of protein binding domains

AJ Faure, J Domingo, JM Schmiedel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Allosteric communication between distant sites in proteins is central to biological regulation
but still poorly characterized, limiting understanding, engineering and drug development …

Ongoing global and regional adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2

ND Rochman, YI Wolf, G Faure… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the trends in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) evolution is paramount to control the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed more than …

Exploring genetic interaction manifolds constructed from rich single-cell phenotypes

TM Norman, MA Horlbeck, JM Replogle, AY Ge, A Xu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
How cellular and organismal complexity emerges from combinatorial expression of genes is
a central question in biology. High-content phenoty** approaches such as Perturb-seq …

Epistasis and adaptation on fitness landscapes

C Bank - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Epistasis occurs when the effect of a mutation depends on its carrier's genetic background.
Despite increasing evidence that epistasis for fitness is common, its role during evolution is …

The simplicity of protein sequence-function relationships

Y Park, BPH Metzger, JW Thornton - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
How complex are the rules by which a protein's sequence determines its function? High-
order epistatic interactions among residues are thought to be pervasive, suggesting an …

The ecology of hybrid incompatibilities

KA Thompson, Y Brandvain… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Ecologically mediated selection against hybrids, caused by hybrid phenotypes fitting poorly
into available niches, is typically viewed as distinct from selection caused by epistatic …

Genetic modifiers and rare Mendelian disease

KMTH Rahit, M Tarailo-Graovac - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Despite advances in high-throughput sequencing that have revolutionized the discovery of
gene defects in rare Mendelian diseases, there are still gaps in translating individual …

Epistasis-driven identification of SLC25A51 as a regulator of human mitochondrial NAD import

E Girardi, G Agrimi, U Goldmann, G Fiume… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
About a thousand genes in the human genome encode for membrane transporters. Among
these, several solute carrier proteins (SLCs), representing the largest group of transporters …