Synthetic lethality and cancer

NJ O'Neil, ML Bailey, P Hieter - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017‏ - nature.com
A synthetic lethal interaction occurs between two genes when the perturbation of either gene
alone is viable but the perturbation of both genes simultaneously results in the loss of …

Synthetic lethal therapies for cancer: what's next after PARP inhibitors?

A Ashworth, CJ Lord - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2018‏ - nature.com
The genetic concept of synthetic lethality has now been validated clinically through the
demonstrated efficacy of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for the treatment of …

Paralog knockout profiling identifies DUSP4 and DUSP6 as a digenic dependence in MAPK pathway-driven cancers

T Ito, MJ Young, R Li, S Jain, A Wernitznig… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Although single-gene perturbation screens have revealed a number of new targets,
vulnerabilities specific to frequently altered drivers have not been uncovered. An important …

Gene essentiality and synthetic lethality in haploid human cells

VA Blomen, P Májek, LT Jae, JW Bigenzahn… - Science, 2015‏ - science.org
Although the genes essential for life have been identified in less complex model organisms,
their elucidation in human cells has been hindered by technical barriers. We used extensive …

A highly characterized yeast toolkit for modular, multipart assembly

ME Lee, WC DeLoache, B Cervantes… - ACS synthetic …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an increasingly attractive host for synthetic biology because of
its long history in industrial fermentations. However, until recently, most synthetic biology …

CRISPRi and CRISPRa screens in mammalian cells for precision biology and medicine

M Kampmann - ACS chemical biology, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have led to a massive accumulation of
genomic and transcriptomic data from patients and healthy individuals. The major challenge …

Map** the genetic landscape of human cells

MA Horlbeck, A Xu, M Wang, NK Bennett, CY Park… - Cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Seminal yeast studies have established the value of comprehensively map** genetic
interactions (GIs) for inferring gene function. Efforts in human cells using focused gene sets …

Systematic analysis of complex genetic interactions

E Kuzmin, B VanderSluis, W Wang, G Tan… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION Genetic interactions occur when mutations in different genes combine to
result in a phenotype that is different from expectation based on those of the individual …

Identification and characterization of essential genes in the human genome

T Wang, K Birsoy, NW Hughes, KM Krupczak, Y Post… - Science, 2015‏ - science.org
Large-scale genetic analysis of lethal phenotypes has elucidated the molecular
underpinnings of many biological processes. Using the bacterial clustered regularly …

Orthologous CRISPR–Cas9 enzymes for combinatorial genetic screens

FJ Najm, C Strand, KF Donovan, M Hegde… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Combinatorial genetic screening using CRISPR–Cas9 is a useful approach to uncover
redundant genes and to explore complex gene networks. However, current methods suffer …