GENETIC APPROACHES TO ANNOTATE GENE FUNCTION IN THE LIVER

A Vazquez Salgado - 2024 - repository.upenn.edu
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent type of liver cancer and the third
leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Current therapies for advanced HCC, including …

Identifying drivers of liver cancer using CRISPR activation screening in vivo

AMV Salgado, S He, KJ Wangensteen - Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent type of liver cancer and the third
leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Drugs approved for first-and second-line therapy …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR activation screening in a mouse model for drivers of hepatocellular carcinoma growth and metastasis

B Zhang, Z Ren, H Zheng, M Lin, G Chen, OJ Luo… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a major cause of cancer-related mortality
worldwide. Here we described a genome-wide screen by CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) …

LXR agonism and sorafenib treatment as novel combination therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

ME Preziosi, AM Zahm, KH Kaestner… - The FASEB …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide.
Sorafenib is the only first‐line pharmaceutical approved for the treatment of HCC, and has …

In vivo screen identifies LXR agonism potentiates sorafenib killing of hepatocellular carcinoma

ME Preziosi, AM Zahm, AM Vázquez-Salgado… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Existing drug therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), including sorafenib, extend
patient survival by only three months. We sought to identify novel druggable targets for use …

[PDF][PDF] Combinatorial genetics in liver repopulation and carcinogenesis with a in vivo CRISPR activation platform

KJ Wangensteen, YJ Wang, Z Dou, AW Wang… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR‐associated 9
activation (CRISPRa) systems have enabled genetic screens in cultured cell lines to …

Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies regulators of mitogen-activated protein kinase as suppressors of liver tumors in mice

CQ Song, Y Li, H Mou, J Moore, A Park, Y Pomyen… - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Background & Aims It has been a challenge to identify liver tumor suppressors or oncogenes
due to the genetic heterogeneity of these tumors. We performed a genome-wide screen to …

Liver cancer gene discovery using gene targeting, sleeping beauty, and CRISPR/Cas9

JE Kieckhaefer, F Maina, RG Wells… - Seminars in liver …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a devastating and prevalent cancer with limited
treatment options. Technological advances have enabled genetic screens to be employed in …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic reactivation of tumor suppressor genes with CRISPRa technologies as precision therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

A Sgro, J Cursons, C Waryah, EA Woodward… - Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) is a key feature of
oncogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Liver-targeted delivery of CRISPR …

Mapping a functional cancer genome atlas of tumor suppressors in mouse liver using AAV-CRISPR–mediated direct in vivo screening

G Wang, RD Chow, L Ye, CD Guzman, X Dai… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Cancer genomics consortia have charted the landscapes of numerous human cancers.
Whereas some mutations were found in classical oncogenes and tumor suppressors, others …