Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Heterozygous deletion of chromosome 17p renders prostate cancer vulnerable to inhibition of RNA polymerase II

  • Yujing Li,
  • Yunhua Liu,
  • Hanchen Xu,
  • Guanglong Jiang,
  • Kevin Van der Jeught,
  • Yuanzhang Fang,
  • Zhuolong Zhou,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Michael Frieden,
  • Lifei Wang,
  • Zhenhua Luo,
  • Milan Radovich,
  • Bryan P. Schneider,
  • Yibin Deng,
  • Yunlong Liu,
  • Kun Huang,
  • Bin He,
  • Jin Wang,
  • Xiaoming He,
  • Xinna Zhang,
  • Guang Ji,
  • Xiongbin Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06811-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Heterozygous loss of chromosome 17p is a common genomic event in castration-resistant prostate cancers (CRPC). Here, the authors use CRISPR-based screen to identify RBX1 as a target gene for CRPC with 17p loss and targeting RBX1 sensitizes CRPC to the treatment of α-amanitin antibody conjugates.