Noncanonical open reading frames encode functional proteins essential for cancer cell survival
Prensner J, Enache O, Luria V, Krug K, Clauser K, Dempster J, Karger A, Wang L, Stumbraite K, Wang V, Botta G, Lyons N, Goodale A, Kalani Z, Fritchman B, Brown A, Alan D, Green T, Yang X, Jaffe J, Roth J, Piccioni F, Kirschner M, Ji Z, Root D, Golub T. Noncanonical open reading frames encode functional proteins essential for cancer cell survival. Nature Biotechnology 2021, 39: 697-704. PMID: 33510483, PMCID: PMC8195866, DOI: 10.1038/s41587-020-00806-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCancer cell linesOpen reading framePotential therapeutic targetCell linesGrowth inhibitory effectsCancer cell survivalInduced gene expression changesBreast cancerTherapeutic targetHuman cancer cell linesReading frameProtein expressionActive proteinProtein 1Gene expression changesCell survivalBiological effectsExpression changesViability defectsHuman genomeGenomic analysisCodon mutagenesisEctopic expressionFunctional proteinsKnockout