2020
Massively parallel discovery of human-specific substitutions that alter enhancer activity
Uebbing S, Gockley J, Reilly SK, Kocher AA, Geller E, Gandotra N, Scharfe C, Cotney J, Noonan JP. Massively parallel discovery of human-specific substitutions that alter enhancer activity. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2020, 118: e2007049118. PMID: 33372131, PMCID: PMC7812811, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2007049118.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman-specific substitutionsHuman-gained enhancersGenetic changesEnhancer functionEnhancer activityHuman-specific genetic changesHuman evolutionGene regulatory elementsBackground genetic variationAncestral functionRegulatory evolutionEnhancer assaysGenetic variationRegulatory elementsNeural stem cellsHuman traitsNovel activityNonadditive wayRegulatory activityStem cellsFunctional impactDifferential activityParallel discoveryEnhancerEvolution
2002
Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network
Fraser HB, Hirsh AE, Steinmetz LM, Scharfe C, Feldman MW. Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network. Science 2002, 296: 750-752. PMID: 11976460, DOI: 10.1126/science.1068696.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProtein interaction networksInteraction networksMost cellular functionsRate of evolutionHigh-throughput screenMolecular evolutionEvolutionary ratesYeast SaccharomycesCellular functionsEvolutionary changeSelection pressureProtein resultsProteinMore interactorsInteractorsFundamental questionsSaccharomycesCoevolutionEvolutionOrganismsReciprocal changesFunctionSimilar ratesGreater proportionScreen