Nidhi Sahni

TL;DR: The map uncovers significant interconnectivity between known and candidate cancer gene products, providing unbiased evidence for an expanded functional cancer landscape, while demonstrating how high-quality interactome models will help "connect the dots" of the genomic revolution.

TL;DR: This work functionally profile several thousand missense mutations across a spectrum of Mendelian disorders using various interaction assays, suggesting that disease-associated alleles that perturb distinct protein activities rather than grossly affecting folding and stability are relatively widespread.

TL;DR: This work cloned full-length open reading frames of alternatively spliced transcripts for a large number of human genes and used protein-protein interaction profiling to functionally compare hundreds of protein isoform pairs, revealing a widespread expansion of protein interaction capabilities through alternative splicing and suggesting that many alternative "isoforms" are functionally divergent (i.e., "functional alloforms").

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a second signal, N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), a monosaccharide produced primarily by gastrointestinal tract bacteria, also serves as a potent inducer of white to opaque switching and functions primarily through the Ras1/cAMP pathway and phosphorylated Wor1, the gene product of the master switch locus.

TL;DR: A moderate-throughput functional genomic platform consisting of efficient mutant generation, sensitive viability assays using two growth factor-dependent cell models, and functional proteomic profiling of signaling effects for select aberrations is reported.