Nature Communications (May 2020)

Integration of multiple biological contexts reveals principles of synthetic lethality that affect reproducibility

  • Angel A. Ku,
  • Hsien-Ming Hu,
  • Xin Zhao,
  • Khyati N. Shah,
  • Sameera Kongara,
  • Di Wu,
  • Frank McCormick,
  • Allan Balmain,
  • Sourav Bandyopadhyay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16078-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Defining robust, penetrant synthetic lethal targets for cancer therapeutics is a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate how pathway, genetic and cellular context dictates dependence on cancer targets.