Perspectives on glycosylation and its congenital disorders

BG Ng, HH Freeze - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are a rapidly expanding group of metabolic
disorders that result from abnormal protein or lipid glycosylation. They are often difficult to …

STRING v9. 1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration

A Franceschini, D Szklarczyk, S Frankild… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Complete knowledge of all direct and indirect interactions between proteins in a given cell
would represent an important milestone towards a comprehensive description of cellular …

Shiga toxins

J Bergan, ABD Lingelem, R Simm, T Skotland… - Toxicon, 2012 - Elsevier
Shiga toxins are virulence factors produced by the bacteria Shigella dysenteriae and certain
strains of Escherichia coli. There is currently no available treatment for disease caused by …

Synergistic drug combinations for cancer identified in a CRISPR screen for pairwise genetic interactions

K Han, EE Jeng, GT Hess, DW Morgens, A Li… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Identification of effective combination therapies is critical to address the emergence of drug-
resistant cancers, but direct screening of all possible drug combinations is infeasible. Here …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic mammalian genetic interaction map reveals pathways underlying ricin susceptibility

MC Bassik, M Kampmann, RJ Lebbink, S Wang… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Genetic interaction (GI) maps, comprising pairwise measures of how strongly the function of
one gene depends on the presence of a second, have enabled the systematic exploration of …

Immunotoxins: The Role of the Toxin

A Antignani, D FitzGerald - Toxins, 2013 - mdpi.com
Immunotoxins are antibody-toxin bifunctional molecules that rely on intracellular toxin action
to kill target cells. Target specificity is determined via the binding attributes of the chosen …

WLS retrograde transport to the endoplasmic reticulum during Wnt secretion

J Yu, J Chia, CA Canning, CM Jones, FA Bard… - Developmental cell, 2014 - cell.com
Wnts are transported to the cell surface by the integral membrane protein WLS (also known
as Wntless, Evi, and GPR177). Previous studies of WLS trafficking have emphasized WLS …

EARP is a multisubunit tethering complex involved in endocytic recycling

C Schindler, Y Chen, J Pu, X Guo, JS Bonifacino - Nature cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Recycling of endocytic receptors to the cell surface involves passage through a series of
membrane-bound compartments by mechanisms that are poorly understood. In particular, it …

Genome-wide CRISPR screens for Shiga toxins and ricin reveal Golgi proteins critical for glycosylation

S Tian, K Muneeruddin, MY Choi, L Tao… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Glycosylation is a fundamental modification of proteins and membrane lipids. Toxins that
utilize glycans as their receptors have served as powerful tools to identify key players in …

Immunotoxins for leukemia

AS Wayne, DJ FitzGerald, RJ Kreitman… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
Unconjugated monoclonal antibodies that target hematopoietic differentiation antigens have
been developed to treat hematologic malignancies. Although some of these have activity …