Ever wonder if nature already 'invented' RNA-guided transcription factors like CRISPRi/a? Then look no further... we found many examples of domesticated, nuclease-dead TnpBs that use guide RNAs to repress genes! In bacteria AND phage! A wonderful team effort led by Tanner Wiegand
Interested in understanding how and why IDRs matter for cellular function?
@BBKrage and I took a deep dive into this question and – with excellent feedback and critiques from colleagues & our amazing editor – put together our perspective on this: https://t.co/kmaC3Zhp3R
Pattern recognition in the landscape of seemingly random chimeric transcripts.
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
Published October 17, 2023.
=> https://t.co/xNgjFhfPRF
To all Drosophila friends interested in metabolism - I'm working on a proposal with @steven_flybase and @PerrimonLab to build new resources for the fly community. We'd like to hear your opinion on what is needed. If you are interested in taking a short survey, email or DM me.
Did you know there are lots of similarities between the innate immune systems of animals/plants and the phage defense systems in bacteria? Check out our new study by the amazing trio Alex (Linyi) Gao, @maxewilkinson, and @thestrecker. Congratulations! https://t.co/jLPdHShE1t.
Thrilled to present our latest contribution to TFs and chromatin dynamics. Fantastic collaboration with Arpita Upadhyaya (@arpcomplex ), the Hager lab, @VillePaakinaho, @susmandrup, and many others
Now out in @NatureSMB: my paper on the sequence determinants of RNAPII elongation potential! I'm so happy to see it in its final form! 🤩
Find it here: https://t.co/RSHwO0B9Qd
Or view with this link, if you don't have a subscription: https://t.co/gSiVHrr5M3
We are thrilled to share our new paper finding a functional role for the 3D genome in the localization of human replication origins (Published: https://t.co/BQtd04hHMr; Original BioRxiv: https://t.co/e59ajwkoEM) @ALCook_PhD @Olivia_Camel. 1/n
Extremely smart, talented, with a great sense of humor (and how to catch someone's attention) friend of mine finally did it. I expect to see more people interested in gravity! https://t.co/jJpO08wbRe
A new study led by Yoshimura: Cell cycle-regulated phosphorylation of Ki-67 and NPM1 modulate alternating charge blocks in these proteins, which defines their propensity for #LiquidLiquidPhaseSeparation at chromatin.
PDF: https://t.co/xx9Cp9k1h3
https://t.co/H8ZkkzTIcM
TADs might be only needed for chromosome packaging during mitosis. Then this is not surprising that they are almost random during interphase. Look for factor stabilizing them during mitosis...
https://t.co/mBU7Vxm58e
In this journal club article, I write about the discovery of enhancers by Banerji et al, 1981. Using simple but yet powerful assays, they elegantly revealed the distal nature of gene regulation @NCBS_Bangalore @EMBO_YIP https://t.co/fMWe6pFthn