The present and future of the Cancer Dependency Map

R Arafeh, T Shibue, JM Dempster, WC Hahn… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite tremendous progress in the past decade, the complex and heterogeneous nature of
cancer complicates efforts to identify new therapies and therapeutic combinations that …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding PROTACtable genome universe of E3 ligases

Y Liu, J Yang, T Wang, M Luo, Y Chen, C Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) and other targeted protein degradation (TPD)
molecules that induce degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) offer new …

Current advances in comprehensive omics data mining for oncology and cancer research

E Jeong, S Yoon - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2024 - Elsevier
The availability of a large amount of multiomics data enables data-driven discovery studies
on cancers. High-throughput data on mutations, gene/protein expression, immune scores …

Selective CK1α degraders exert antiproliferative activity against a broad range of human cancer cell lines

G Nishiguchi, LG Mascibroda, SM Young… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Molecular-glue degraders are small molecules that induce a specific interaction between an
E3 ligase and a target protein, resulting in the target proteolysis. The discovery of molecular …

Weakened APC/C activity at mitotic exit drives cancer vulnerability to KIF18A inhibition

CR Gliech, ZY Yeow, D Tapias-Gomez, Y Yang… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
The efficacy of current antimitotic cancer drugs is limited by toxicity in highly proliferative
healthy tissues. A cancer-specific dependency on the microtubule motor protein KIF18A …

Addressing transcriptional dysregulation in cancer through CDK9 inhibition

MA Toure, AN Koehler - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Undermining transcriptional addiction, the dependence of cancers on selected
transcriptional programs, is critically important for addressing cancers with high unmet …

Genome-scale pan-cancer interrogation of lncRNA dependencies using CasRx

JJ Montero, R Trozzo, M Sugden, R Öllinger, A Belka… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) dominate the transcriptome, their functions are
largely unexplored. The extensive overlap of lncRNAs with coding and regulatory …

Network biology-inspired machine learning features predict cancer gene targets and reveal target coordinating mechanisms

TM Weiskittel, A Cao, K Meng-Lin, Z Lehmann, B Feng… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Anticipating and understanding cancers' need for specific gene activities is key for novel
therapeutic development. Here we utilized DepMap, a cancer gene dependency screen, to …

In silico RNA isoform screening to identify potential cancer driver exons with therapeutic applications

M Anglada-Girotto, L Ciampi, S Bonnal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is crucial for cancer progression and can be targeted pharmacologically,
yet identifying driver exons genome-wide remains challenging. We propose identifying such …

A CRISPR-drug perturbational map for identifying compounds to combine with commonly used chemotherapeutics

HM Lee, WC Wright, M Pan, J Low, D Currier… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Combination chemotherapy is crucial for successfully treating cancer. However, the
enormous number of possible drug combinations means discovering safe and effective …