Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes: emerging mechanisms and therapeutic strategies

RC Centore, GJ Sandoval, LMM Soares, C Kadoch… - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
Small molecule-based targeting of chromatin regulatory factors has emerged as a promising
therapeutic strategy in recent years. The development and ongoing clinical evaluation of …

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 …

Polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis pathway determines ferroptosis sensitivity in gastric cancer

JY Lee, M Nam, HY Son, K Hyun, SY Jang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent regulated necrosis mediated by lipid peroxidation. Cancer
cells survive under metabolic stress conditions by altering lipid metabolism, which may alter …

[HTML][HTML] Defining a cancer dependency map

A Tsherniak, F Vazquez, PG Montgomery, BA Weir… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Most human epithelial tumors harbor numerous alterations, making it difficult to predict
which genes are required for tumor survival. To systematically identify cancer dependencies …

Project DRIVE: a compendium of cancer dependencies and synthetic lethal relationships uncovered by large-scale, deep RNAi screening

ER McDonald, A De Weck, MR Schlabach, E Billy… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Elucidation of the mutational landscape of human cancer has progressed rapidly and been
accompanied by the development of therapeutics targeting mutant oncogenes. However, a …

The harmonizome: a collection of processed datasets gathered to serve and mine knowledge about genes and proteins

AD Rouillard, GW Gundersen, NF Fernandez… - Database, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics efforts rapidly
generate a plethora of data on the activity and levels of biomolecules within mammalian …

Computational correction of copy number effect improves specificity of CRISPR–Cas9 essentiality screens in cancer cells

RM Meyers, JG Bryan, JM McFarland, BA Weir… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The CRISPR–Cas9 system has revolutionized gene editing both at single genes and in
multiplexed loss-of-function screens, thus enabling precise genome-scale identification of …

The adaptive immune system is a major driver of selection for tumor suppressor gene inactivation

TD Martin, RS Patel, DR Cook, MY Choi, A Patil… - Science, 2021 - science.org
During tumorigenesis, tumors must evolve to evade the immune system and do so by
disrupting the genes involved in antigen processing and presentation or up-regulating …

Gene essentiality profiling reveals gene networks and synthetic lethal interactions with oncogenic Ras

T Wang, H Yu, NW Hughes, B Liu, A Kendirli, K Klein… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The genetic dependencies of human cancers widely vary. Here, we catalog this
heterogeneity and use it to identify functional gene interactions and genotype-dependent …

Rethinking ovarian cancer II: reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

DD Bowtell, S Böhm, AA Ahmed, PJ Aspuria… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) accounts for 70–80% of ovarian cancer deaths,
and overall survival has not changed significantly for several decades. In this Opinion article …