Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Regulation of neuroendocrine plasticity by the RNA-binding protein ZFP36L1

  • Hsiao-Yun Chen,
  • Yavuz T. Durmaz,
  • Yixiang Li,
  • Amin H. Sabet,
  • Amir Vajdi,
  • Thomas Denize,
  • Emily Walton,
  • Yasmin Nabil Laimon,
  • John G. Doench,
  • Navin R. Mahadevan,
  • Julie-Aurore Losman,
  • David A. Barbie,
  • Michael Y. Tolstorukov,
  • Charles M. Rudin,
  • Triparna Sen,
  • Sabina Signoretti,
  • Matthew G. Oser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31998-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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LSD1 inhibition blocks the neuroendocrine phenotype of some small cell lung cancers (SCLCs). Here, a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 LSD1 inhibitor resistance screen identifies the mRNA-binding protein ZFP36L1 as a gene repressed by LSD1 that when restored inhibits SCLC neuroendocrine differentiation.