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  • An analysis of 24,202 critical cases of COVID-19 identifies potentially druggable targets in inflammatory signalling (JAK1), monocyte–macrophage activation and endothelial permeability (PDE4A), immunometabolism (SLC2A5 and AK5), and host factors required for viral entry and replication (TMPRSS2 and RAB2A).

    • Erola Pairo-Castineira
    • Konrad Rawlik
    • J. Kenneth Baillie
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 617, P: 764-768
  • Using single-cell transcriptomic data, Joanito et al. reveal that colorectal cancers can be defined by the presence of one of two major intrinsic epithelial subtypes, and present a refined molecular classification system for these cancers.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 495
  • Finding sex differences in the response of patients with melanoma to BRAF/MEK-targeted therapy, Vellano et al. show that this effect is mediated by androgen receptor expression and demonstrate that androgen receptor blockers can enhance treatment response.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 494-495
  • Seki et al. show that exposure to cold suppresses tumour growth in mice through increasing glucose uptake and thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 547
  • Wright et al. reveal how methotrexate binds to the human reduced folate carrier and outline key features that will aid the rational design of targeted antifolate therapeutics.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 608
  • In mice, a subset of neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus control sympathetic nervous system signalling to adipose tissue and are dysregulated with age; activating these neurons prolongs lifespan and slows the decline in physical activity associated with ageing.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Neuroscience
    Volume: 25, P: 141
  • Whole-genome sequencing, transcriptome-wide association and fine-mapping analyses in over 7,000 individuals with critical COVID-19 are used to identify 16 independent variants that are associated with severe illness in COVID-19.

    • Athanasios Kousathanas
    • Erola Pairo-Castineira
    • J. Kenneth Baillie
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 607, P: 97-103
  • A global network of researchers was formed to investigate the role of human genetics in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity; this paper reports 13 genome-wide significant loci and potentially actionable mechanisms in response to infection.

    • Mari E. K. Niemi
    • Juha Karjalainen
    • Chloe Donohue
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 600, P: 472-477
  • Luo et al. uncover strong associations between the tumour microbiome and race, a finding that further emphasises the need for race diversity in cancer studies.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 608
  • Zhang et al. demonstrate that the adenosine deaminase ADAR1 prevents responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) through acting on cellular Z-nucleic acids, and show inducing Z-nucleic acid formation can induce tumour sensitivity to ICB.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 433
  • Juliusdottir et al. use pedigree data to dissect the contributions of parental and fetal genomes to fetal growth and adult disease.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Genetics
    Volume: 22, P: 624-625
  • In cells exposed to stiff extracellular matrix, sequestration of the ubiquitin ligase TRIM21 by actin stress fibres can prevent the ubiquitination and breakdown of the glycolytic enzyme PFK, directly linking mechanical sensing to metabolic regulation.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
    Volume: 21, P: 180
  • Research Highlights
    Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
    Volume: 29, P: 1147
  • Two studies co-published in Nature Genetics describe induced pluripotent stem cell-based resources for identifying novel, disease-related genetic variants.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Genetics
    Volume: 22, P: 265
  • Sartori et al. show that disruption of BMP pathway activation is involved in promoting cancer cachexia.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 21, P: 612
  • Wozniak and colleagues reveal that cleavage of the lysosomal protein RILP following activation of the inflammasome enhances exosome release and regulates the trafficking of miRNAs into exosomes by FMR1.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
    Volume: 21, P: 658-659
  • Nutrient status is uncoupled from the control of autophagy during mitosis through a switch from mTORC1- to CDK1-mediated inhibition of autophagy regulators.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
    Volume: 21, P: 4-5
  • A study in Cell identifies a mechanism by which exon splicing can increase gene expression through the activation of weak upstream promoters.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Genetics
    Volume: 21, P: 68-69
  • A new study in Molecular Cell shows that human mitochondrial DNA is enriched for the DNA modification N6-methyldeoxyadenosine, which can repress mitochondrial gene expression and regulate the transcriptional response to mitochondrial stress.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
    Volume: 21, P: 252-253
  • In a study in Nature, Wang et al. describe how circadian rhythms can impact tumour suppression through their effects on dendritic cells, a finding that could help to optimize clinical trials of cancer immunotherapies.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 23, P: 55
  • Hakon Hakonarson and colleagues report the identification of two new susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). One variant is near a gene encoding tumor necrosis factor receptor subfamily member 6B and is associated with increased levels of this protein in serum from individuals with IBD.

    • Subra Kugathasan
    • Robert N Baldassano
    • Hakon Hakonarson
    Research
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 40, P: 1211-1215
  • Female embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are the ideal model to study X chromosome inactivation (XCI) establishment; however, these cells are challenging to keep in culture. Here the authors create fluorescent ‘Xmas’ reporter mice as a renewable source of ESCs and show nucleosome remodelers Smarcc1 and Smarca4 create a nucleosome-free promoter region prior to the establishment of silencing.

    • Andrew Keniry
    • Natasha Jansz
    • Marnie E. Blewitt
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-15
  • In two studies published concurrently, Pal et al. and Shi et al. reveal that certain gliomas rely on the de novo synthesis of pyrimidines. These studies go on to demonstrate the effectiveness of brain-penetrant inhibitors of de novo pyrimidine synthesis in preclinical models of glioma.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 606-607
  • Notarangelo et al. reveal that the oncometabolite d-2-hydroxyglutarate, which is released in high quantities by tumour cells, is taken up by CD8+ T cells in the tumour microenvironment and blocks their proliferation and cytotoxicity by inhibition of lactate dehydrogenase and metabolic reprogramming.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 22, P: 657
  • A study in Cell describes how non-coding RNAs can drive the formation of higher-order RNA-chromatin structures in the nucleus, with a role in mediating chromatin conformation and gene expression.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Genetics
    Volume: 23, P: 1
  • A genome-wide association study of critically ill patients with COVID-19 identifies genetic signals that relate to important host antiviral defence mechanisms and mediators of inflammatory organ damage that may be targeted by repurposing drug treatments.

    • Erola Pairo-Castineira
    • Sara Clohisey
    • J. Kenneth Baillie
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 591, P: 92-98
  • A study in Nature reveals an epigenetic mechanism that supports the idea of a ‘default’ path of cell differentiation during gastrulation.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Genetics
    Volume: 21, P: 134-135
  • Catalytically inactive caspase 8 can activate pyroptosis when apoptosis and necroptosis are blocked, a potential line of defence against viruses that inhibit cell death.

    • Joseph Willson
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
    Volume: 21, P: 63