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Berent Aldikacti
University of Massachusetts AmherstORCID 0000-0002-8916-8007Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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2022-2026 · peak 2/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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Stress testing reveals selective vulnerabilities in protein homeostasis
Berent Aldikacti, Hidayet Putun, Vishal Sarsani, Rilee Zeinert, Patrick Flaherty, Peter Chien
The paper uses transposon sequencing to identify stress-specific vulnerabilities in protein homeostasis by analyzing gene fitness under proteotoxic stresses in bacteria.
Cell Reports · Jan 22, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology
Discovering Genetic Modulators of the Protein Homeostasis System through Multilevel Analysis
Vishal Sarsani, Berent Aldikacti, Tingting Zhao, Shai He, Peter Chien, Patrick Flaherty
The paper uses transposon mutagenesis and computational analysis to identify genetic modulators of protein homeostasis in Caulobacter crescentus, finding limited overlap in essential genes across environmental and genetic perturbations.
PNAS Nexus · Dec 23, 2024Peer-reviewedSystems Biology
ATP hydrolysis tunes specificity of a AAA+ protease
Samar A. Mahmoud, Berent Aldikacti, Peter Chien
The paper shows that ATP hydrolysis rates alter substrate specificity of the AAA+ protease ClpX, affecting its ability to degrade different substrates.
Cell Reports · Sep 1, 2022Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology
Model-based identification of conditionally-essential genes from transposon-insertion sequencing data
Vishal Sarsani, Berent Aldikacti, Shai He, Rilee Zeinert, Peter Chien, Patrick Flaherty
The paper introduces a model-based method to identify conditionally-essential genes using transposon-insertion sequencing data, finding a set of genes essential under specific stress conditions in Caulobacter crescentus.
PLoS Computational Biology · Mar 7, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics