Genetic and pharmacological interrogation of cancer vulnerability using a multiplexed cell line screening platform

Commun Biol. 2021 Jul 2;4(1):834. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02352-2.

Abstract

The multiplexed cancer cell line screening platform PRISM demonstrated its utility in testing hundreds of cell lines in a single run, possessing the potential to speed up anti-cancer drug discovery, validation and optimization. Here we described the development and implementation of a next-generation PRISM platform combining Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9-mediated gene editing, cell line DNA barcoding and next-generation sequencing to enable genetic and/or pharmacological assessment of target addiction in hundreds of cell lines simultaneously. Both compound and CRISPR-knockout PRISM screens well recapitulated the results from individual assays and showed high consistency with a public database.

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology*
  • CRISPR-Cas Systems*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Proliferation / drug effects
  • Cell Proliferation / genetics
  • Cell Survival / drug effects
  • Cell Survival / genetics
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor / methods
  • Early Detection of Cancer / methods*
  • Gene Editing / methods*
  • HEK293 Cells
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods*
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Neoplasms / genetics*

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents