Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

In vivo inducible reverse genetics in patients’ tumors to identify individual therapeutic targets

  • Michela Carlet,
  • Kerstin Völse,
  • Jenny Vergalli,
  • Martin Becker,
  • Tobias Herold,
  • Anja Arner,
  • Daniela Senft,
  • Vindi Jurinovic,
  • Wen-Hsin Liu,
  • Yuqiao Gao,
  • Veronika Dill,
  • Boris Fehse,
  • Claudia D. Baldus,
  • Lorenz Bastian,
  • Lennart Lenk,
  • Denis M. Schewe,
  • Johannes W. Bagnoli,
  • Binje Vick,
  • Jan Philipp Schmid,
  • Alexander Wilhelm,
  • Rolf Marschalek,
  • Philipp J. Jost,
  • Cornelius Miething,
  • Kristoffer Riecken,
  • Marc Schmidt-Supprian,
  • Vera Binder,
  • Irmela Jeremias

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25963-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Preclinical molecular models are useful that mimic a patient´s response to targeted therapy. Here, the authors establish an in vivo inducible RNAi-mediated gene silencing system in patient-derived xenograft models of acute leukemia to identify individual vulnerabilities and therapeutic targets.