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Synthetic lethal interaction between oncogenic KRAS dependency and STK33 suppression in human cancer cells.
Cell - 29 May 2009
Scholl Claudia, Fröhling Stefan, Dunn Ian F, Schinzel Anna C, Barbie David A, Kim So Young, Silver Serena J, Tamayo Pablo, Wadlow Raymond C, Ramaswamy Sridhar, Döhner Konstanze, Bullinger Lars, Sandy Peter, Boehm Jesse S, Root David E, Jacks Tyler, Hahn William C, Gilliland D Gary
Abstract excerpt
An alternative to therapeutic targeting of oncogenes is to perform "synthetic lethality" screens for genes that are essential only in the context of specific cancer-causing mutations. We used high-throughput RNA interference (RNAi) to identify synthetic lethal interactions in cancer cells harboring mutant KRAS, the most commonly mutated human oncogene. We find that cells that are dependent on mutant KRAS exhibit...
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