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Ruth E Hanna

PhD student, MIT Biology
Verified email at mit.edu
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[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal host factors critical for SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Wei, MM Alfajaro, PC DeWeirdt, RE Hanna… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Identification of host genes essential for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
infection may reveal novel therapeutic targets and inform our understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] Optimized libraries for CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screens with multiple modalities

KR Sanson, RE Hanna, M Hegde, KF Donovan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The creation of genome-wide libraries for CRISPR knockout (CRISPRko), interference (CRISPRi),
and activation (CRISPRa) has enabled the systematic interrogation of gene function. …

[PDF][PDF] Massively parallel assessment of human variants with base editor screens

RE Hanna, M Hegde, CR Fagre, PC DeWeirdt… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Understanding the functional consequences of single-nucleotide variants is critical to
uncovering the genetic underpinnings of diseases, but technologies to characterize variants are …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacological disruption of mSWI/SNF complex activity restricts SARS-CoV-2 infection

…, MS Strine, RB Filler, PC DeWeirdt, RE Hanna… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Identification of host determinants of coronavirus infection informs mechanisms of viral
pathogenesis and can provide new drug targets. Here we demonstrate that mammalian SWItch/…

Design and analysis of CRISPR–Cas experiments

RE Hanna, JG Doench - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
A large and ever-expanding set of CRISPR–Cas systems now enables the rapid and
flexible manipulation of genomes in both targeted and large-scale experiments. Numerous …

Optimization of AsCas12a for combinatorial genetic screens in human cells

…, KR Sanson, AK Sangree, M Hegde, RE Hanna… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cas12a RNA-guided endonucleases are promising tools for multiplexed genetic perturbations
because they can process multiple guide RNAs expressed as a single transcript, and …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic screens in isogenic mammalian cell lines without single cell cloning

PC DeWeirdt, AK Sangree, RE Hanna… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Isogenic pairs of cell lines, which differ by a single genetic modification, are powerful tools for
understanding gene function. Generating such pairs of mammalian cells, however, is labor-…

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals host genes that regulate SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Wei, MM Alfajaro, RE Hanna, PC DeWeirdt, MS Strine… - Biorxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Identification of host genes essential for SARS-CoV-2 infection may reveal novel therapeutic
targets and inform our understanding of COVID-19 pathogenesis. Here we performed a …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking of SpCas9 variants enables deeper base editor screens of BRCA1 and BCL2

…, PC DeWeirdt, M Hegde, AV McGee, RE Hanna… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Numerous rationally-designed and directed-evolution variants of SpCas9 have been reported
to expand the utility of CRISPR technology. Here, we assess the activity and specificity of …

[HTML][HTML] DYRK1A promotes viral entry of highly pathogenic human coronaviruses in a kinase-independent manner

…, CK Collings, PC DeWeirdt, RE Hanna… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Identifying host genes essential for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has the potential to reveal novel drug targets and further our understanding of …