Project description:Drug efflux is a common resistance mechanism found in bacteria and cancer cells. Although several structures of drug efflux pumps are available, they provide only limited functional information on the phenomenon of drug efflux. Here, we performed deep mutational scanning (DMS) on the bacterial ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter EfrCD from Enterococcus faecalis to determine the drug efflux activity profile of more than 1400 single variants
2021-11-25 | GSE189399 | GEO
Project description:Deep mutational scanning of avian influenza PB2 to identify pimodivir resistance mutations
Project description:Here, we present a systematic and quantitative test of the hypothesis that the composition and activities of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) proteostasis network impact mutational tolerance of secretory pathway client proteins. We focus on influenza hemagluttinin (HA), a viral coat protein that folds in the host’s ER via a complex but well-characterized pathway. By integrating chemical methods to modulate the unfolded protein response with deep mutational scanning to assess mutational tolerance, we discover that upregulation of ER chaperones broadly enhances HA mutational tolerance across numerous sites and secondary/tertiary structure elements, including sites targeted by host antibodies. Remarkably, this host chaperone-enhanced mutational tolerance is observed at the same HA sites where mutational tolerance is most reduced by propagation at a fever-like temperature. Thus, host ER proteostasis mechanisms and temperature modulate HA mutational tolerance in opposite directions. This finding has important implications for influenza evolution, because influenza immune escape is contingent on HA possessing sufficient mutational tolerance to acquire antibody resistance while still maintaining the capacity to fold and function. More broadly, this work provides the first experimental evidence that the composition and activities of the ER proteostasis network critically define the mutational tolerance and, therefore, the evolution of secretory pathway client proteins.
Project description:To determine if the influenza B virus HA is under constraints that limit its antigenic variation, we performed a transposon screen to compare the mutational tolerance of the currently circulating influenza A virus HAs (H1 and H3 subtypes) and influenza B virus HAs (B/Victoria87 and B/Yamagata88 antigenic lineages). A library of insertional mutants for each HA was generated and deep sequenced after passaging to determine where insertions were tolerated in replicating viruses.
2018-06-05 | GSE113831 | GEO
Project description:VIM-2 deep mutational scanning
Project description:Influenza is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the emerging drug resistance poses an increasing challenge to the treatment of influenza virus infection. Therefore, the development of a novel antiviral drugs has become an urgent task to combat against the influenza viruses that are resistant to the current therapeutic treatment. Here, by screening a small molecule chemical compound library, we identified 3-anhydro-6-epi-ophiobolin A (named L435) as a potent anti-influenza agent. Mechanistically, L435 markedly reduced influenza virus replication in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, L435 treatment improved the survival of influenza-virus-infected mice, suggesting that L435 may be a novel therapeutic agent for treatment of influenza virus infections. This microarray experiment was carried out to explore gene expression changes in influenza-virus-infected A549 cells after L435 treatment, and find out why L435 could inhibit the replication of influenza A virus.
2015-11-05 | GSE58741 | GEO
Project description:Deep mutational scanning of CPEB3 ribozyme
| PRJNA515794 | ENA
Project description:Deep Mutational Scanning of alpha-Synuclein