Genetic screens in isogenic mammalian cell lines without single cell cloning
2019
Isogenic pairs of cell lines, which differ by a single genetic modification, are powerful tools for understanding gene
function.
Generatingsuch pairs for mammalian cells, however, is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and impossible in some cell types. Here we present an approach to create isogenic pairs of cells and screen them with genome-wide
CRISPR-
Cas9libraries to generate genetic interaction maps. We queried the anti-apoptotic genes BCL2L1 and
MCL1, and the DNA damage repair gene
PARP1, via 25 genome-wide screens across 4 cell lines. For all three genes, we identify a rich set of both expected and novel buffering and
synthetic lethalinteractions. Further, we compare the interactions observed in genetic space to those found when targeting these genes with small molecules and identify hits that may inform the clinical uses for these inhibitors. We anticipate that this methodology will be broadly useful to comprehensively study genes of interest across many cell types.
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