Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Combinatorial CRISPR screen identifies fitness effects of gene paralogues

  • Nicola A. Thompson,
  • Marco Ranzani,
  • Louise van der Weyden,
  • Vivek Iyer,
  • Victoria Offord,
  • Alastair Droop,
  • Fiona Behan,
  • Emanuel Gonçalves,
  • Anneliese Speak,
  • Francesco Iorio,
  • James Hewinson,
  • Victoria Harle,
  • Holly Robertson,
  • Elizabeth Anderson,
  • Beiyuan Fu,
  • Fengtang Yang,
  • Guido Zagnoli-Vieira,
  • Phil Chapman,
  • Martin Del Castillo Velasco-Herrera,
  • Mathew J. Garnett,
  • Stephen P. Jackson,
  • David J. Adams

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21478-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Systematic screens for synthetic lethal gene pairs represent a powerful approach to define interactions that may be exploited in the clinic. Here, the authors use a dual-guide CRISPR screening approach to screen a curated selection of gene pairs across three cell lines and validate the Fam50a/Fam50b synthetic lethality was in isogenic cell models as well as in an in vivo setting.