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CELL METABOLISM
Volume 33, Issue 6, Pages 1248-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2021.02.005
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- NIH [T32HG002760, F31CA228241-01, T32GM008349, R01CA103866, R37AI047389, K22CA225864]
- Koch Institute (Frontier Research Grant)
- Morgridge Institute for Research
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This study used CRISPR-based screens to reveal the impact of medium composition on gene essentiality in human cells, highlighting variations in essential gene sets in different media and suggesting strategies for using genetic screens to uncover new cancer vulnerabilities and gene-nutrient interactions in human plasma-like medium.
Forward genetic screens across hundreds of cancer cell lines have started to define the genetic dependencies of proliferating human cells and how these vary by genotype and lineage. Most screens, however, have been carried out in culture media that poorly reflect metabolite availability in human blood. Here, we performed CRISPR-based screens in traditional versus human plasma-like medium (HPLM). Sets of conditionally essential genes in human cancer cell lines span several cellular processes and vary with both natural cell-intrinsic diversity and the combination of basal and serum components that comprise typical media. Notably, we traced the causes for each of three conditional CRISPR phenotypes to the availability of metabolites uniquely defined in HPLM versus conventional media. Our findings reveal the profound impact of medium composition on gene essentiality in human cells, and also suggest general strategies for using genetic screens in HPLM to uncover new cancer vulnerabilities and gene-nutrient interactions.
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