Cancer cells driven by mutations in KRAS or EGFR are dependent on DUSP6 to prevent ERK-induced cell death, creating a novel vulnerability for targeted therapy.
A geneome-scale shRNA screen identifies five genes whose suppression promotes cell death upon PI3K inhibition both in vitro and in vivo, thus suggesting potential combination therapies involving PI3K inhibition.
Simone Lieb, Silvia Blaha-Ostermann ... Simon Wöhrle
Targeting Werner syndrome helicase might constitute a novel opportunity for the treatment of a clinically defined subset of patients harboring MSI-H/MMR-deficient tumors.
Alisha Schlichter, Margaret M Kasten ... Bradley R Cairns
A SWI/SNF-family chromatin remodeling subcomplex from yeast is identified (RSC1) that is specialized to slide nucleosomes residing on DNA sequences that confer partial nucleosome unwrapping, with assistance from accessory factors.
Forcing protein associations across the proteome reveals the cell's tolerance for diverse protein interactions and reveals the interactions that affect growth.
Agnès H Michel, Riko Hatakeyama ... Benoît Kornmann
A new method maps functional and structural features of yeast genomes with unprecedented ease and throughput, which allows identification of protein domains at the genome scale.
Johanne Le Coq, Marta Camacho-Artacho ... Daniel Lietha
The SHIP2 inositol phosphatase is an important upstream regulator of the Akt signaling pathway, which requires a catalytic core formed by the phosphatase domain tightly packed to a C2 domain for its function.