ATM, ATR, and DNA-PK: The Trinity at the Heart of the DNA Damage Response

AN Blackford, SP Jackson - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
In vertebrate cells, the DNA damage response is controlled by three related kinases: ATM,
ATR, and DNA-PK. It has been 20 years since the cloning of ATR, the last of the three to be …

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 …

Identification and characterization of essential genes in the human genome

T Wang, K Birsoy, NW Hughes, KM Krupczak, Y Post… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Large-scale genetic analysis of lethal phenotypes has elucidated the molecular
underpinnings of many biological processes. Using the bacterial clustered regularly …

Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library

H Koike-Yusa, Y Li, EP Tan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Identification of genes influencing a phenotype of interest is frequently achieved through
genetic screening by RNA interference (RNAi) or knockouts. However, RNAi may only …

Gene essentiality and synthetic lethality in haploid human cells

VA Blomen, P Májek, LT Jae, JW Bigenzahn… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Although the genes essential for life have been identified in less complex model organisms,
their elucidation in human cells has been hindered by technical barriers. We used extensive …

Ebola virus entry requires the cholesterol transporter Niemann–Pick C1

JE Carette, M Raaben, AC Wong, AS Herbert… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Infections by the Ebola and Marburg filoviruses cause a rapidly fatal haemorrhagic fever in
humans for which no approved antivirals are available. Filovirus entry is mediated by the …

The BioGRID interaction database: 2015 update

A Chatr-Aryamontri, BJ Breitkreutz… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID:
http://thebiogrid. org) is an open access database that houses genetic and protein …

Human haploid cell genetics reveals roles for lipid metabolism genes in nonapoptotic cell death

SJ Dixon, GE Winter, LS Musavi, ED Lee… - ACS chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Little is known about the regulation of nonapoptotic cell death. Using massive insertional
mutagenesis of haploid KBM7 cells we identified nine genes involved in small-molecule …

Gene regulation by the act of long non-coding RNA transcription

AE Kornienko, PM Guenzl, DP Barlow, FM Pauler - BMC biology, 2013 - Springer
Long non-protein-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are proposed to be the largest transcript class in
the mouse and human transcriptomes. Two important questions are whether all lncRNAs are …

Exposure of phosphatidylserine on the cell surface

S Nagata, J Suzuki, K Segawa, T Fujii - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2016 - nature.com
Phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) is a phospholipid that is abundant in eukaryotic plasma
membranes. An ATP-dependent enzyme called flippase normally keeps PtdSer inside the …