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Nature geneticsJul 2025 |
57
(
7
),
1672-1683
DOI:
10.1038/s41588-025-02222-1

The synthetic lethal interaction between CDS1 and CDS2 is a vulnerability in uveal melanoma and across multiple tumor types

Chan, Pui Ying; Alexander, Diana; Mehta, Ishan; Matsuyama, Larissa Satiko Alcantara Sekimoto; Harle, Victoria; Olvera-León, Rebeca; Park, Jun Sung; Arriaga-González, Fernanda G; van der Weyden, Louise; Cheema, Saamin; Iyer, Vivek; Offord, Victoria; Barneda, David; Hawkins, Phillip T; Stephens, Len; Kozik, Zuza; Woods, Michael; Wong, Kim; Balmus, Gabriel; Vinceti, Alessandro; Thompson, Nicola A; Del Castillo Velasco-Herrera, Martin; Wessels, Lodewyk; van de Haar, Joris; Gonçalves, Emanuel; Sinha, Sanju; Vázquez-Cruz, Martha Estefania; Bisceglia, Luisa; Raimondi, Francesco; Choudhary, Jyoti; Patiyal, Sumeet; Venkatesh, Anjan; Iorio, Francesco; Ryan, Colm J; Adams, David J
Product Used
Variant Libraries
Abstract
Metastatic uveal melanoma is an aggressive disease with limited effective therapeutic options. To comprehensively map monogenic and digenic dependencies, we performed CRISPR-Cas9 screening in ten extensively profiled human uveal melanoma cell line models. Analysis involved genome-wide single-gene and combinatorial paired-gene CRISPR libraries. Among our 76 uveal melanoma-specific essential genes and 105 synthetic lethal gene pairs, we identified and validated the CDP-diacylglycerol synthase 2 gene (CDS2) as a genetic dependency in the context of low CDP-diacylglycerol synthase 1 gene (CDS1) expression. We further demonstrate that CDS1/CDS2 forms a synthetic lethal interaction in vivo and reveal that CDS2 knockout results in the disruption of phosphoinositide synthesis and increased cellular apoptosis and that re-expression of CDS1 rescues this cell fitness defect. We extend our analysis using pan-cancer data, confirming increased CDS2 essentiality in diverse tumor types with low CDS1 expression. Thus, the CDS1/CDS2 axis is a therapeutic target across a range of cancers.
Product Used
Variant Libraries

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