Applications of genome editing technology in the targeted therapy of human diseases: mechanisms, advances and prospects

H Li, Y Yang, W Hong, M Huang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Based on engineered or bacterial nucleases, the development of genome editing
technologies has opened up the possibility of directly targeting and modifying genomic …

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 …

Optimized libraries for CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screens with multiple modalities

KR Sanson, RE Hanna, M Hegde, KF Donovan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The creation of genome-wide libraries for CRISPR knockout (CRISPRko), interference
(CRISPRi), and activation (CRISPRa) has enabled the systematic interrogation of gene …

p53 inhibits CRISPR–Cas9 engineering in human pluripotent stem cells

RJ Ihry, KA Worringer, MR Salick, E Frias, D Ho… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized our ability to engineer genomes and conduct genome-
wide screens in human cells,–. Whereas some cell types are amenable to genome …

[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 …

Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening

J Joung, S Konermann, JS Gootenberg… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Forward genetic screens are powerful tools for the unbiased discovery and functional
characterization of specific genetic elements associated with a phenotype of interest …

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 …

Compact and highly active next-generation libraries for CRISPR-mediated gene repression and activation

MA Horlbeck, LA Gilbert, JE Villalta, B Adamson… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
We recently found that nucleosomes directly block access of CRISPR/Cas9 to DNA. Here,
we build on this observation with a comprehensive algorithm that incorporates chromatin …

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 …