Identification of Autophagy-Related Genes as Targets for Senescence Induction Using a Customizable CRISPR-Based Suicide Switch Screen

MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH(2021)

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Pro-senescence therapies are increasingly being considered for the treatment of cancer. Identifying additional targets to induce senescence in cancer cells could further enable such therapies. However, screening for targets whose suppression induces senescence on a genome-wide scale is challenging, as senescent cells become growth arrested, and senescence-associated features can take 1 to 2 weeks to develop. For a screen with a whole-genome CRISPR library, this would result in billions of undesirable proliferating cells by the time the senescent features emerge in the growth arrested cells. Here, we present a suicide switch system that allows genome-wide CRISPR screening in growth-arrested subpopulations by eliminating the proliferating cells during the screen through activation of a suicide switch in proliferating cells. Using this system, we identify in a genome-scale CRISPR screen several autophagyrelated proteins as targets for senescence induction. We show that inhibiting macroautophagy with a small molecule ULK1 inhibitor can induce senescence in cancer cell lines of different origin. Finally, we show that combining ULK1 inhibition with the senolytic drug ABT-263 leads to apoptosis in a panel of cancer cell lines.
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senescence induction,genes,suicide,autophagy-related,crispr-based
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