Parallel genome-scale loss of function screens in 216 cancer cell lines for the identification of context-specific genetic dependencies Journal Article


Authors: Cowley, G. S.; Weir, B. A.; Vazquez, F.; Tamayo, P.; Scott, J. A.; Rusin, S.; East-Seletsky, A.; Ali, L. D.; Gerath, W. F. J.; Pantel, S. E.; Lizotte, P. H.; Jiang, G.; Hsiao, J.; Tsherniak, A.; Dwinell, E.; Aoyama, S.; Okamoto, M.; Harrington, W.; Gelfand, E.; Green, T. M.; Tomko, M. J.; Gopal, S.; Wong, T. C.; Li, H.; Howell, S.; Stransky, N.; Liefeld, T.; Jang, D.; Bistline, J.; Meyers, B. H.; Armstrong, S. A.; Anderson, K. C.; Stegmaier, K.; Reich, M.; Pellman, D.; Boehm, J. S.; Mesirov, J. P.; Golub, T. R.; Root, D. E.; Hahn, W. C.
Article Title: Parallel genome-scale loss of function screens in 216 cancer cell lines for the identification of context-specific genetic dependencies
Abstract: Using a genome-scale, lentivirally delivered shRNA library, we performed massively parallel pooled shRNA screens in 216 cancer cell lines to identify genes that are required for cell proliferation and/or viability. Cell line dependencies on 11,000 genes were interrogated by 5 shRNAs per gene. The proliferation effect of each shRNA in each cell line was assessed by transducing a population of 11M cells with one shRNA-virus per cell and determining the relative enrichment or depletion of each of the 54,000 shRNAs after 16 population doublings using Next Generation Sequencing. All the cell lines were screened using standardized conditions to best assess differential genetic dependencies across cell lines. When combined with genomic characterization of these cell lines, this dataset facilitates the linkage of genetic dependencies with specific cellular contexts (e.g., gene mutations or cell lineage). To enable such comparisons, we developed and provided a bioinformatics tool to identify linear and nonlinear correlations between these features.
Keywords: genetics; mutation; neoplasm; neoplasms; cell proliferation; small interfering rna; rna, small interfering; pathology; cell line, tumor; cell lineage; gene expression regulation; gene expression regulation, neoplastic; dna; tumor cell line; dna, neoplasm; genomics; humans; human
Journal Title: Scientific Data
Volume: 1
ISSN: 2052-4463
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group  
Date Published: 2014-09-30
Start Page: 140035
Language: English
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2014.35
PUBMED: 25984343
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC4432652
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Notes: Article -- Export Date: 5 June 2017 -- Source: Scopus
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