Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Synthetic lethality between HER2 and transaldolase in intrinsically resistant HER2-positive breast cancers

  • Yi Ding,
  • Chang Gong,
  • De Huang,
  • Rui Chen,
  • Pinpin Sui,
  • Kevin H. Lin,
  • Gehao Liang,
  • Lifeng Yuan,
  • Handan Xiang,
  • Junying Chen,
  • Tao Yin,
  • Peter B. Alexander,
  • Qian-Fei Wang,
  • Er-Wei Song,
  • Qi-Jing Li,
  • Kris C. Wood,
  • Xiao-Fan Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06651-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Resistance to anti-HER2 therapy in breast cancer remains a major obstacle in the clinic. Here the authors performed a CRISPR-selective vulnerability screen to identify transaldoloase as a target that is synthetically lethal with HER2 inhibition in breast cancer cells.