Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Multiplexed single-cell transcriptional response profiling to define cancer vulnerabilities and therapeutic mechanism of action

  • James M. McFarland,
  • Brenton R. Paolella,
  • Allison Warren,
  • Kathryn Geiger-Schuller,
  • Tsukasa Shibue,
  • Michael Rothberg,
  • Olena Kuksenko,
  • William N. Colgan,
  • Andrew Jones,
  • Emily Chambers,
  • Danielle Dionne,
  • Samantha Bender,
  • Brian M. Wolpin,
  • Mahmoud Ghandi,
  • Itay Tirosh,
  • Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen,
  • Jennifer A. Roth,
  • Todd R. Golub,
  • Aviv Regev,
  • Andrew J. Aguirre,
  • Francisca Vazquez,
  • Aviad Tsherniak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17440-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Large-scale screens of chemical and genetic vulnerabilities in cancer are typically limited to simple readouts of cell viability. Here, the authors develop a method for profiling post-perturbation transcriptional responses across large pools of cancer cell lines, enabling deep characterization of shared and context-specific responses.