{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zhao Y"],"funding":["National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences","NIEHS NIH HHS"],"pagination":["128701"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7904579"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["269"],"pubmed_abstract":["Formaldehyde (FA), a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, is classified as a Group I human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Previously, we reported that FA induced hematotoxicity and chromosomal aneuploidy in exposed workers and toxicity in bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cells of experimental animals. Using functional toxicogenomic profiling in yeast, we identified genes and cellular processes modulating eukaryotic FA cytotoxicity. Although we validated some of these findings in yeast, many specific genes, pathways and mechanisms of action of FA in human cells are not known. In the current study, we applied genome-wide, loss-of-function CRISPR screening to identify modulators of FA toxicity in the human hematopoietic K562 cell line. We assessed the cellular"],"journal":["Chemosphere"],"pubmed_title":["Applying genome-wide CRISPR to identify known and novel genes and pathways that modulate formaldehyde toxicity."],"pmcid":["PMC7904579"],"funding_grant_id":["P42 ES004705"],"pubmed_authors":["McHale CM","Loguinov A","Tagmount A","Hubbard A","Chang CJ","Zhang L","Vulpe CD","Zhao Y","Wei L","Sobh A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Applying genome-wide CRISPR to identify known and novel genes and pathways that modulate formaldehyde toxicity.","description":"Formaldehyde (FA), a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, is classified as a Group I human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Previously, we reported that FA induced hematotoxicity and chromosomal aneuploidy in exposed workers and toxicity in bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cells of experimental animals. Using functional toxicogenomic profiling in yeast, we identified genes and cellular processes modulating eukaryotic FA cytotoxicity. Although we validated some of these findings in yeast, many specific genes, pathways and mechanisms of action of FA in human cells are not known. In the current study, we applied genome-wide, loss-of-function CRISPR screening to identify modulators of FA toxicity in the human hematopoietic K562 cell line. We assessed the cellular","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Apr","modification":"2025-04-22T12:42:02.228Z","creation":"2024-11-15T21:02:23.506Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7904579","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33189395"],"doi":["10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128701"]}}