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Chen L, Alexe G, Dharia NV, Ross L, Iniguez AB, Conway AS, Wang EJ, Veschi V, Lam N, Qi J, Gustafson WC, Nasholm N, Vazquez F, Weir BA, Cowley GS, Ali LD, Pantel S, Jiang G, Harrington WF, Lee Y, Goodale A, Lubonja R, Krill-Burger JM, Meyers RM, Tsherniak A, Root DE, Bradner JE, Golub TR, Roberts CW, Hahn WC, Weiss WA, Thiele CJ, Stegmaier K. CRISPR-Cas9 screen reveals a MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma dependency on EZH2. J Clin Invest 2017; 128:446-462. [PMID: 29202477 DOI: 10.1172/jci90793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Pharmacologically difficult targets, such as MYC transcription factors, represent a major challenge in cancer therapy. For the childhood cancer neuroblastoma, amplification of the oncogene MYCN is associated with high-risk disease and poor prognosis. Here, we deployed genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screening of MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma and found a preferential dependency on genes encoding the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) components EZH2, EED, and SUZ12. Genetic and pharmacological suppression of EZH2 inhibited neuroblastoma growth in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, compared with neuroblastomas without MYCN amplification, MYCN-amplified neuroblastomas expressed higher levels of EZH2. ChIP analysis showed that MYCN binds at the EZH2 promoter, thereby directly driving expression. Transcriptomic and epigenetic analysis, as well as genetic rescue experiments, revealed that EZH2 represses neuronal differentiation in neuroblastoma in a PRC2-dependent manner. Moreover, MYCN-amplified and high-risk primary tumors from patients with neuroblastoma exhibited strong repression of EZH2-regulated genes. Additionally, overexpression of IGFBP3, a direct EZH2 target, suppressed neuroblastoma growth in vitro and in vivo. We further observed strong synergy between histone deacetylase inhibitors and EZH2 inhibitors. Together, these observations demonstrate that MYCN upregulates EZH2, leading to inactivation of a tumor suppressor program in neuroblastoma, and support testing EZH2 inhibitors in patients with MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma.
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- Liying Chen
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cell and Molecular Biology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Cell and Molecular Biology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA.,Department of Neurology, Neurological Surgery, Brain Tumor Research Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Cell and Molecular Biology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Meyers RM, Bryan JG, McFarland JM, Weir BA, Sizemore AE, Xu H, Dharia NV, Montgomery PG, Cowley GS, Pantel S, Goodale A, Lee Y, Ali LD, Jiang G, Lubonja R, Harrington WF, Strickland M, Wu T, Hawes DC, Zhivich VA, Wyatt MR, Kalani Z, Chang JJ, Okamoto M, Stegmaier K, Golub TR, Boehm JS, Vazquez F, Root DE, Hahn WC, Tsherniak A. Computational correction of copy number effect improves specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens in cancer cells. Nat Genet 2017. [PMID: 29083409 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3984.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
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 genes essential for proliferation and survival of cancer cells. However, previous studies have reported that a gene-independent antiproliferative effect of Cas9-mediated DNA cleavage confounds such measurement of genetic dependency, thereby leading to false-positive results in copy number-amplified regions. We developed CERES, a computational method to estimate gene-dependency levels from CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens while accounting for the copy number-specific effect. In our efforts to define a cancer dependency map, we performed genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens across 342 cancer cell lines and applied CERES to this data set. We found that CERES decreased false-positive results and estimated sgRNA activity for both this data set and previously published screens performed with different sgRNA libraries. We further demonstrate the utility of this collection of screens, after CERES correction, for identifying cancer-type-specific vulnerabilities.
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- Robin M Meyers
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Meyers RM, Bryan JG, McFarland JM, Weir BA, Sizemore AE, Xu H, Dharia NV, Montgomery PG, Cowley GS, Pantel S, Goodale A, Lee Y, Ali LD, Jiang G, Lubonja R, Harrington WF, Strickland M, Wu T, Hawes DC, Zhivich VA, Wyatt MR, Kalani Z, Chang JJ, Okamoto M, Stegmaier K, Golub TR, Boehm JS, Vazquez F, Root DE, Hahn WC, Tsherniak A. Computational correction of copy number effect improves specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens in cancer cells. Nat Genet 2017; 49:1779-1784. [PMID: 29083409 PMCID: PMC5709193 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1097] [Impact Index Per Article: 156.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has revolutionized gene editing both on single genes and in multiplexed loss-of-function screens, enabling precise genome-scale identification of genes essential to proliferation and survival of cancer cells1,2. However, previous studies reported that a gene-independent anti-proliferative effect of Cas9-mediated DNA cleavage confounds such measurement of genetic dependency, leading to false positive results in copy number amplified regions3,4. We developed CERES, a computational method to estimate gene dependency levels from CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens while accounting for the copy-number-specific effect. As part of our efforts to define a cancer dependency map, we performed genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens across 342 cancer cell lines and applied CERES to this dataset. We found that CERES reduced false positive results and estimated sgRNA activity for both this dataset and previously published screens performed with different sgRNA libraries. Here, we demonstrate the utility of this collection of screens, upon CERES correction, in revealing cancer-type-specific vulnerabilities.
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- Robin M Meyers
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Kim E, Ilic N, Shrestha Y, Zou L, Kamburov A, Zhu C, Yang X, Lubonja R, Tran N, Nguyen C, Lawrence MS, Piccioni F, Bagul M, Doench JG, Chouinard CR, Wu X, Hogstrom L, Natoli T, Tamayo P, Horn H, Corsello SM, Lage K, Root DE, Subramanian A, Golub TR, Getz G, Boehm JS, Hahn WC. Systematic Functional Interrogation of Rare Cancer Variants Identifies Oncogenic Alleles. Cancer Discov 2016; 6:714-26. [PMID: 27147599 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-16-0160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
UNLABELLED Cancer genome characterization efforts now provide an initial view of the somatic alterations in primary tumors. However, most point mutations occur at low frequency, and the function of these alleles remains undefined. We have developed a scalable systematic approach to interrogate the function of cancer-associated gene variants. We subjected 474 mutant alleles curated from 5,338 tumors to pooled in vivo tumor formation assays and gene expression profiling. We identified 12 transforming alleles, including two in genes (PIK3CB, POT1) that have not been shown to be tumorigenic. One rare KRAS allele, D33E, displayed tumorigenicity and constitutive activation of known RAS effector pathways. By comparing gene expression changes induced upon expression of wild-type and mutant alleles, we inferred the activity of specific alleles. Because alleles found to be mutated only once in 5,338 tumors rendered cells tumorigenic, these observations underscore the value of integrating genomic information with functional studies. SIGNIFICANCE Experimentally inferring the functional status of cancer-associated mutations facilitates the interpretation of genomic information in cancer. Pooled in vivo screen and gene expression profiling identified functional variants and demonstrated that expression of rare variants induced tumorigenesis. Variant phenotyping through functional studies will facilitate defining key somatic events in cancer. Cancer Discov; 6(7); 714-26. ©2016 AACR.See related commentary by Cho and Collisson, p. 694This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 681.
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- Eejung Kim
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Yang X, Boehm JS, Yang X, Salehi-Ashtiani K, Hao T, Shen Y, Lubonja R, Thomas SR, Alkan O, Bhimdi T, Green TM, Johannessen CM, Silver S, Nguyen C, Murray RR, Hieronymus H, Balcha D, Fan C, Lin C, Ghamsari L, Vidal M, Hahn WC, Hill DE, Root DE. A public genome-scale lentiviral expression library of human ORFs. Nat Methods 2011; 8:659-61. [PMID: 21706014 PMCID: PMC3234135 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 392] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2010] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
Functional characterization of the human genome requires tools for systematically modulating gene expression in both loss-of-function and gain-of-function experiments. We describe the production of a sequence-confirmed, clonal collection of over 16,100 human open-reading frames (ORFs) encoded in a versatile Gateway vector system. Using this ORFeome resource, we created a genome-scale expression collection in a lentiviral vector, thereby enabling both targeted experiments and high-throughput screens in diverse cell types.
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- Xiaoping Yang
- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Center for Cancer Genome Discovery (CCGD), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Center for Cancer Genome Discovery (CCGD), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- RNAi Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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