Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Systematic mapping of BCL-2 gene dependencies in cancer reveals molecular determinants of BH3 mimetic sensitivity

  • Ryan S. Soderquist,
  • Lorin Crawford,
  • Esther Liu,
  • Min Lu,
  • Anika Agarwal,
  • Grace R. Anderson,
  • Kevin H. Lin,
  • Peter S. Winter,
  • Merve Cakir,
  • Kris C. Wood

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05815-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Dependency of diverse cancers on specific BCL-2 family members and their combinations is unknown. Here they perform drug screening and find most cell lines to be dependent on at least one combination of BCL-2 family members, and using a CRISPR screen find BCL-w and BFL-1 to mediate resistance to BH3 mimetics