1. Hacking the Cancer Genome: Profiling Therapeutically Actionable Long Non-coding RNAs Using CRISPR-Cas9 Screening.
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Esposito R, Bosch N, Lanzós A, Polidori T, Pulido-Quetglas C, and Johnson R
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- Animals, Antineoplastic Agents therapeutic use, Biomarkers, Tumor metabolism, CRISPR-Associated Protein 9 metabolism, Cell Proliferation drug effects, Cell Proliferation genetics, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Humans, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Neoplasms drug therapy, Neoplasms metabolism, Neoplasms pathology, RNA, Long Noncoding metabolism, Biomarkers, Tumor genetics, CRISPR-Associated Protein 9 genetics, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing methods, Neoplasms genetics, RNA, Long Noncoding genetics
- Abstract
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent a huge reservoir of potential cancer targets. Such "onco-lncRNAs" have resisted traditional RNAi methods, but CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing now promises functional screens at high throughput and low cost. The unique biology of lncRNAs demands screening strategies distinct from protein-coding genes. The first such screens have identified hundreds of onco-lncRNAs promoting cell proliferation and drug resistance. Ongoing developments will further improve screen performance and translational relevance. This Review aims to highlight the potential of CRISPR screening technology for discovering new onco-lncRNAs, and to guide molecular oncologists wishing to apply it to their cancer of interest., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2019
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