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Identification of a novel NAMPT inhibitor by CRISPR/Cas9 chemogenomic profiling in mammalian cells

  • Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 16;7:42728. doi: 10.1038/srep42728.
David Estoppey 1 Jeffrey W Hewett 2 Chantale T Guy 2 Edmund Harrington 2 Jason R Thomas 2 Markus Schirle 2 Rachel Cuttat 1 Annick Waldt 1 Bertran Gerrits 1 Zinger Yang 2 Sven Schuierer 1 Xuewen Pan 2 Kevin Xie 2 Walter Carbone 1 Judith Knehr 1 Alicia Lindeman 2 Carsten Russ 2 Elizabeth Frias 2 Gregory R Hoffman 2 Malini Varadarajan 2 Nadire Ramadan 2 John S Reece-Hoyes 2 Qiong Wang 2 Xin Chen 2 Gregory McAllister 2 Guglielmo Roma 1 Tewis Bouwmeester 1 Dominic Hoepfner 1
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Affiliations

  • 1 Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Forum 1 Novartis Campus, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
  • 2 Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, 250 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Abstract

Chemogenomic profiling is a powerful and unbiased approach to elucidate pharmacological targets and the mechanism of bioactive compounds. Until recently, genome-wide, high-resolution experiments of this nature have been limited to Fungal systems due to lack of mammalian genome-wide deletion collections. With the example of a novel nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) inhibitor, we demonstrate that the CRISPR/Cas9 system enables the generation of transient homo- and heterozygous deletion libraries and allows for the identification of efficacy targets and pathways mediating hypersensitivity and resistance relevant to the compound mechanism of action.

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