Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Discovery of putative tumor suppressors from CRISPR screens reveals rewired lipid metabolism in acute myeloid leukemia cells

  • W. Frank Lenoir,
  • Micaela Morgado,
  • Peter C. DeWeirdt,
  • Megan McLaughlin,
  • Audrey L. Griffith,
  • Annabel K. Sangree,
  • Marissa N. Feeley,
  • Nazanin Esmaeili Anvar,
  • Eiru Kim,
  • Lori L. Bertolet,
  • Medina Colic,
  • Merve Dede,
  • John G. Doench,
  • Traver Hart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26867-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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CRISPR-based knockout screens in cancer cells have suggested the existence of proliferation suppressor genes (PSG). Here, the authors develop an approach to systematically identify them, and reveal a PSG module involved in fatty acid synthesis and tumour suppression in acute myeloid leukemia cell lines.