RAS synthetic lethal screens revisited: still seeking the elusive prize?

J Downward - Clinical Cancer Research, 2015 - AACR
The RAS genes are critical oncogenic drivers activated by point mutation in some 20% of
human malignancies. However, no pharmacologic approaches to targeting RAS proteins …

Cancer biomarker discovery: current status and future perspectives

K Mäbert, M Cojoc, C Peitzsch, I Kurth… - … journal of radiation …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Cancer is a multigene disease which arises as a result of mutational and
epigenetic changes coupled with activation of complex signaling networks. The use of …

Genome-wide and high-density CRISPR-Cas9 screens identify point mutations in PARP1 causing PARP inhibitor resistance

SJ Pettitt, DB Krastev, I Brandsma, A Dréan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Although PARP inhibitors (PARPi) target homologous recombination defective tumours,
drug resistance frequently emerges, often via poorly understood mechanisms. Here, using …

Genome-wide profiling of genetic synthetic lethality identifies CDK12 as a novel determinant of PARP1/2 inhibitor sensitivity

I Bajrami, JR Frankum, A Konde, RE Miller, FL Rehman… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
Small-molecule inhibitors of PARP1/2, such as olaparib, have been proposed to serve as a
synthetic lethal therapy for cancers that harbor BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. Indeed, in …

A pooled shRNA screen identifies Rbm15, Spen, and Wtap as factors required for Xist RNA-mediated silencing

B Moindrot, A Cerase, H Coker, O Masui, A Grijzenhout… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
X-chromosome inactivation is the process that evolved in mammals to equalize levels of X-
linked gene expression in XX females relative to XY males. Silencing of a single X …

Dissecting neural differentiation regulatory networks through epigenetic footprinting

MJ Ziller, R Edri, Y Yaffe, J Donaghey, R Pop… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Models derived from human pluripotent stem cells that accurately recapitulate
neural development in vitro and allow for the generation of specific neuronal subtypes are of …

Functional genomics identifies five distinct molecular subtypes with clinical relevance and pathways for growth control in epithelial ovarian cancer

TZ Tan, QH Miow, RYJ Huang, MK Wong… - EMBO molecular …, 2013 - embopress.org
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is hallmarked by a high degree of heterogeneity. To
address this heterogeneity, a classification scheme was developed based on gene …

Histone acetyltransferase p300 induces de novo super-enhancers to drive cellular senescence

P Sen, Y Lan, CY Li, S Sidoli, G Donahue, Z Dou… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Accumulation of senescent cells during aging contributes to chronic inflammation and age-
related diseases. While senescence is associated with profound alterations of the …

Genetic interactions of G-quadruplexes in humans

KG Zyner, DS Mulhearn, S Adhikari, S Martínez Cuesta… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
G-quadruplexes (G4) are alternative nucleic acid structures involved in transcription,
translation and replication. Aberrant G4 formation and stabilisation is linked to genome …

Highly multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq by DNA oligonucleotide tagging of cellular proteins

J Gehring, J Hwee Park, S Chen, M Thomson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We describe a universal sample multiplexing method for single-cell RNA sequencing in
which fixed cells are chemically labeled by attaching identifying DNA oligonucleotides to …