Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) is a plant virus with potent anti-tumor efficacy. Intratumoral CPMV, but not cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV), reprograms the tumor microenvironment priming durable, systemic anti-tumor ...
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Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) is a plant virus with potent anti-tumor efficacy. Intratumoral CPMV, but not cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV), reprograms the tumor microenvironment priming durable, systemic anti-tumor immunity. Here, we performed a side-by-side mechanism of action comparison between CPMV and CCMV. Through immune-multiplexing and trafficking studies we observed that CPMV and CCMV are taken up by innate immune cells at similar rates but are processed differently. While CCMV induces proinflammatory interleukins 22, 23, and 27, CPMV is a strong inducer of type I, II, and III interferons, which contribute to the activation and enhancement of immune cell function. We observed that CPMV RNAs activate Toll-like receptor (TLR) 7 upon delivery—and not CCMV RNAs; CPMV RNAs persist longer within cells compared with CCMV. Taken together, this work identifies determinants for CPMV’s unique mechanism for intratumoral immunotherapy. It also broadens our understanding of the utility of plant viruses for biomedical applications.
Iterative Bleaching Extends multipleXity (IBEX) is a versatile method for highly multiplexed imaging of diverse tissues. Based on open science principles, we created the IBEX Knowledge-Base, a resource for reagents, p...
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The advancement of biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) and biomedical relation extraction (BRE) researches promotes the development of text mining in biological domains. As a cornerstone of BRE, robust BNER sys...
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A genomic database of all Earth’s eukaryotic species could contribute to many scientific discoveries;however, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. In 2018, scientists across the world u...
engineering and characterizing proteins can be time-consuming and cumbersome, motivating the development of generalist CRISPR-Cas enzymes to enable diverse genome editing applications. However, such enzymes have cavea...
engineering and characterizing proteins can be time-consuming and cumbersome, motivating the development of generalist CRISPR-Cas enzymes to enable diverse genome editing applications. However, such enzymes have caveats such as an increased risk of off-target editing. To enable scalable reprogramming of Cas9 enzymes, here we combined high-throughput protein engineering with machine learning (ML) to derive bespoke editors more uniquely suited to specific targets. Via structure/function-informed saturation mutagenesis and bacterial selections, we obtained nearly 1,000 engineered SpCas9 enzymes and characterized their protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) requirements to train a neural network that relates amino acid sequence to PAM specificity. By utilizing the resulting PAM ML algorithm (PAMmla) to predict the PAMs of 64 million SpCas9 enzymes, we identified efficacious and specific enzymes that outperform evolution-based and engineered SpCas9 enzymes as nucleases and base editors in human cells while reducing off-targets. An in silico directed evolution method enables user-directed Cas9 enzyme design, including for allele-selective targeting of the RHO P23H allele in human cells and mice. Together, PAMmla integrates ML and protein engineering to curate a catalog of SpCas9 enzymes with distinct PAM requirements, and motivates the use of efficient and safe bespoke Cas9 enzymes instead of generalist enzymes for various applications.
Genome-scale stoichiometric modeling of metabolism has become a standard systems biology tool for modeling cellular physiology and growth. Extensions of this approach are also emerging as a valuable avenue for predict...
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The emergence of SARS-CoV in 2002 and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 led to increased sampling of sarbecoviruses circulating in horseshoe bats. Employing phylogenetic inference while accounting for recombination of bat sarbecovir...
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