RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 In vivo CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screen: TCEAL1 silencing enhances docetaxel efficacy in prostate cancer
JF Life Science Alliance
JO Life Sci. Alliance
FD Life Science Alliance LLC
SP e202000770
DO 10.26508/lsa.202000770
VO 3
IS 12
A1 Linda K Rushworth
A1 Victoria Harle
A1 Peter Repiscak
A1 William Clark
A1 Robin Shaw
A1 Holly Hall
A1 Martin Bushell
A1 Hing Y Leung
A1 Rachana Patel
YR 2020
UL https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/3/12/e202000770.abstract
AB Docetaxel chemotherapy in metastatic prostate cancer offers only a modest survival benefit because of emerging resistance. To identify candidate therapeutic gene targets, we applied a murine prostate cancer orthograft model that recapitulates clinical invasive prostate cancer in a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen under docetaxel treatment pressure. We identified 17 candidate genes whose suppression may enhance the efficacy of docetaxel, with transcription elongation factor A–like 1 (Tceal1) as the top candidate. TCEAL1 function is not fully characterised; it may modulate transcription in a promoter dependent fashion. Suppressed TCEAL1 expression in multiple human prostate cancer cell lines enhanced therapeutic response to docetaxel. Based on gene set enrichment analysis from transcriptomic data and flow cytometry, we confirmed that loss of TCEAL1 in combination with docetaxel leads to an altered cell cycle profile compared with docetaxel alone, with increased subG1 cell death and increased polyploidy. Here, we report the first in vivo genome-wide treatment sensitisation CRISPR screen in prostate cancer, and present proof of concept data on TCEAL1 as a candidate for a combinational strategy with the use of docetaxel.