Systematic illumination of druggable genes in cancer genomes

作者：Junjie Jiang, Jiao Yuan, Zhongyi Hu, Youyou Zhang, Tianli Zhang, Mu Xu, Meixiao Long, Yi Fan, János L. Tanyi, Kathleen T. Montone, Omid Tavana, Robert H. Vonderheide, Ho Man Chan, Xiaowen Hu, Lin Zhang · 发表于：Cell Reports · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110400 · 被引用次数：51 · 研究领域：Protein Degradation and Inhibitors、Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks、Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

By combining 6 druggable genome resources, we identify 6,083 genes as potential druggable genes (PDGs). We characterize their expression, recurrent genomic alterations, cancer dependencies, and therapeutic potentials by integrating genome, functionome, and druggome profiles across cancers. 81.5% of PDGs are reliably expressed in major adult cancers, 46.9% show selective expression patterns, and 39.1% exhibit at least one recurrent genomic alteration. We annotate a total of 784 PDGs as dependent genes for cancer cell growth. We further quantify 16 cancer-related features and estimate a PDG cancer drug target score (PCDT score). PDGs with higher PCDT scores are significantly enriched for genes encoding kinases and histone modification enzymes. Importantly, we find that a considerable portion of high PCDT score PDGs are understudied genes, providing unexplored opportunities for drug development in oncology. By integrating the druggable genome and the cancer genome, our study thus generates a comprehensive blueprint of potential druggable genes across cancers.