Genome-wide CRISPR Screen in a Mouse Model of Tumor Growth and Metastasis
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Lee, Kyungheon; Song, Jun; Weissleder, Ralph; Lee, Hakho; Chen, Sidi; Sanjana, Neville E; Zheng, Kaijie; Shalem, Ophir; Shi, Xi; Scott, David Arthur; Pan, Jennifer Q.; Zhang, Feng; Sharp, Phillip A.; ... Show more Show less![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/111184/Zhang_Genome-wide.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
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Genetic screens are powerful tools for identifying genes responsible for diverse phenotypes. Here we describe a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9-mediated loss-of-function screen in tumor growth and metastasis. We mutagenized a non-metastatic mouse cancer cell line using a genome-scale library with 67,405 single-guide RNAs (sgRNAs). The mutant cell pool rapidly generates metastases when transplanted into immunocompromised mice. Enriched sgRNAs in lung metastases and late-stage primary tumors were found to target a small set of genes, suggesting that specific loss-of-function mutations drive tumor growth and metastasis. Individual sgRNAs and a small pool of 624 sgRNAs targeting the top-scoring genes from the primary screen dramatically accelerate metastasis. In all of these experiments, the effect of mutations on primary tumor growth positively correlates with the development of metastases. Our study demonstrates Cas9-based screening as a robust method to systematically assay gene phenotypes in cancer evolution in vivo.
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2015-03Department
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MITJournal
Cell
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Elsevier
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Chen, Sidi et al. “Genome-Wide CRISPR Screen in a Mouse Model of Tumor Growth and Metastasis.” Cell 160, 6 (March 2015): 1246–1260 © 2015 Elsevier Inc
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0092-8674
1097-4172