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In vivo engineering of oncogenic chromosomal rearrangements with the CRISPR/Cas9 system

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Maddalo, Danilo, Manchado, Eusebio, Concepcion, Carla P., Bonetti, Ciro, Vidigal, Joana A., Han, Yoon-Chi, Ogrodowski, Paul, Crippa, Alessandra +4 more·2014·Nature

Abstract

Chromosomal rearrangements have a central role in the pathogenesis of human cancers and often result in the expression of therapeutically actionable gene fusions. A recently discovered example is a fusion between the genes echinoderm microtubule-associated protein like 4 (EML4) and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), generated by an inversion on the short arm of chromosome 2: inv(2)(p21p23). The EML4-ALK oncogene is detected in a subset of human non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) and is clinically relevant because it confers sensitivity to ALK inhibitors. Despite their importance, modelling such genetic events in mice has proven challenging and requires complex manipulation of the germ line. Here we describe an efficient method to induce specific chromosomal rearrangements in vivo using viral-mediated delivery of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to somatic cells of adult animals. We apply it to generate a mouse model of Eml4-Alk-driven lung cancer. The resulting tumours invariably harbour the Eml4-Alk inversion, express the Eml4-Alk fusion gene, display histopathological and molecular features typical of ALK(+) human NSCLCs, and respond to treatment with ALK inhibitors. The general strategy described here substantially expands our ability to model human cancers in mice and potentially in other organisms.

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  • These events occur at low frequency but could be significant in a clinical setting if rare translocations led to cancer.

    “Although these events occur at low frequency, they could be significant in a clinical setting if rare translocations led to cancer 97-99 .”

    From The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing (2020) · cites this paper as [98]

    The paper’s discussion of CRISPR caveats (section labeled Abstract; page unavailable) says induced rearrangements occur with relatively low efficiency. Its Abstract reports that engineered Eml4-Alk rearrangements produced lung tumors in mice. It does not assess whether rare translocations arising in a clinical setting would cause cancer, so that clinical-risk implication is not established by this source. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • CRISPR/Cas9 system has shown potentials in polygenetic diseases, such as cancer, by inhibiting oncogene expression or deactivating oncogenic virus.

    “In addition, CRISPR/Cas9 system has shown potentials in polygenetic diseases, such as cancer, by inhibiting oncogene expression or deactivating oncogenic virus [52–55].”

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Maddalo, D., Manchado, E., Concepcion, C. P., Bonetti, C., Vidigal, J. A., Han, Y.-C., Ogrodowski, P., Crippa, A., Rekhtman, N., de Stanchina, E., Lowe, S. W., & Ventura, A.
Affiliations
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo (IT)
Corresponding author
Ventura, Andrea
Venue
Nature
Published
2014-10-22
Volume
516
Issue
7531
Pages
423-427
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W1972759536
Cited by
640
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 61 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 68 · 2017: 65 · 2016: 81 · 2015: 63 · 2014: 2
FWCI
28.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Cancer Institute (P01CA129243, P01CA013106, P30CA008748)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
Keywords
EML4-ALK fusion, chromosomal rearrangements, non-small cell lung cancer, somatic genome editing, tumor suppressor, oncogene cooperation
MeSH terms
Crizotinib, Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Cells, Cultured, Disease Models, Animal, Genetic Engineering, Chromosome Inversion, Lung Neoplasms, Pyrazoles, Pyridines, Translocation, Genetic, Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, NIH 3T3 Cells, Protein Kinase Inhibitors, Mice, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR-Cas Systems, CRISPR-Associated Proteins

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