Copy-number and gene dependency analysis reveals partial copy loss of wild-type SF3B1 as a novel cancer vulnerability
2017
Genomic instabilityis a hallmark of human cancer, and results in widespread somatic
copynumber alterations. We used a genome-scale shRNA viability screen in human cancer cell lines to systematically identify genes that are essential in the context of particular
copy-number alterations (
copy-number associated gene dependencies). The most enriched class of
copy-number associated gene dependencies was
CYCLOPS(
Copy-number alterations Yielding Cancer Liabilities Owing to Partial losS) genes, and
spliceosomecomponents were the most prevalent. One of these, the pre-mRNA
splicing factorSF3B1, is also frequently mutated in cancer. We validated SF3B1 as a
CYCLOPSgene and found that human cancer cells harboring partial SF3B1
copy-loss lack a reservoir of SF3b complex that protects cells with normal SF3B1
copynumber from cell death upon partial SF3B1 suppression. These data provide a catalog of
copy-number associated gene dependencies and identify partial
copy-loss of wild-type SF3B1 as a novel, non-driver cancer gene dependency.
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