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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Mutations primarily alter the inclusion of alternatively spliced exons

    Pablo Baeza-Centurion, Belén Miñana ... Ben Lehner
    Deep mutagenesis reveals that mutations rarely alter the inclusion of highly-included exons.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The genetic landscape for amyloid beta fibril nucleation accurately discriminates familial Alzheimer’s disease mutations

    Mireia Seuma, Andre J Faure ... Benedetta Bolognesi
    A massively parallel analysis of the effects of mutations on amyloid beta nucleation provide the first comprehensive atlas of how mutations alter the formation of amyloid fibrils.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Allosteric communication in DNA polymerase clamp loaders relies on a critical hydrogen-bonded junction

    Subu Subramanian, Kent Gorday ... John Kuriyan
    Deep mutagenesis of a clamp-loader complex reveals a critical hydrogen-bonded junction that is important for allosteric communication in oligomeric AAA+ ATPases.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    An electrostatic selection mechanism controls sequential kinase signaling downstream of the T cell receptor

    Neel H Shah, Qi Wang ... John Kuriyan
    A high-throughput technique to characterize the substrate specificities of tyrosine kinases identifies the key features of kinases and substrates that enforce accurate signaling from T cell receptors.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A saturation-mutagenesis analysis of the interplay between stability and activation in Ras

    Frank Hidalgo, Laura M Nocka ... John Kuriyan
    Deep mutagenesis experiments demonstrate that while cancer-causing mutations in Ras selectively alter regulatory interactions with GTPase-activating proteins, Ras is also activated by many mutations that decrease protein stability.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Coevolution-based inference of amino acid interactions underlying protein function

    Victor H Salinas, Rama Ranganathan
    A deep mutational coupling study demonstrates the ability of sequence coevolution methods to reveal the pattern of amino acid interactions underlying protein function.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Antigenic evolution of human influenza H3N2 neuraminidase is constrained by charge balancing

    Yiquan Wang, Ruipeng Lei ... Nicholas C Wu
    The local fitness landscape of an antigenic region in influenza neuraminidase was determined by combinatorial mutagenesis and next-generation sequencing.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Alzheimer’s Disease: Exploring the origins of nucleation

    Katarzyna Marta Zoltowska, Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez
    An approach called deep mutational scanning is improving our understanding of amyloid beta aggregation.
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Residue proximity information and protein model discrimination using saturation-suppressor mutagenesis

    Anusmita Sahoo, Shruti Khare ... Raghavan Varadarajan
    Experimental determination of residue contacts from mutational data allows model discrimination and identification of in vivo functional conformations of proteins.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Programmed genome editing of the omega-1 ribonuclease of the blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni

    Wannaporn Ittiprasert, Victoria H Mann ... Paul J Brindley
    Gene knock-out of the omega-1 ribonuclease of Schistosoma mansoni eggs resulted in immunologically impaired phenotype, showcasing the novel application of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing and utility for functional genomics in schistosomes.

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