Dosage Rescue

A genetic interaction is inferred when over expression or increased dosage of one gene rescues the lethality or growth defect of a strain that is mutated or deleted for another gene.

Publication

A synthetic interaction screen identifies factors selectively required for proliferation and TERT transcription in p53-deficient human cancer cells.

Xie L, Gazin C, Park SM, Zhu LJ, Debily MA, Kittler EL, Zapp ML, Lapointe D, Gobeil S, Virbasius CM, Green MR

Numerous genetic and epigenetic alterations render cancer cells selectively dependent on specific genes and regulatory pathways, and represent potential vulnerabilities that can be therapeutically exploited. Here we describe an RNA interference (RNAi)-based synthetic interaction screen to identify genes preferentially required for proliferation of p53-deficient (p53-) human cancer cells. We find that compared to p53-competent (p53+) human cancer cell lines, diverse ... [more]

PLoS Genet. Jan. 04, 2013; 8(12);e1003151 [Pubmed: 23284306]

Throughput

  • Low Throughput

Ontology Terms

  • phenotype: growth abnormality (HP:0001507) [hct-116 cell (BTO:0001109)]

Additional Notes

  • ectopic expression of TERT counteracted the large decrease in proliferation that occurred following knockdown of ETV1 or ATR in p53-HCT116 cells
  • genetic complex
  • shRNA

Curated By

  • BioGRID