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Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2015 Jun 4;30:66–72. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.04.007

Table 1.

Sleeping Beauty (SB) based screens for cancer genes in vivo published to date. Beginning with the oldest papers, the first author, year of publication and title are shown as well as primary tissue/cancer type targeted in the work. References [9••,10••,11••,13••,14,16•,17,18,19•,20,21,23,2747]

Author/year Year Cancer Type Title
Dupuy et al., 2005 Blood Mammalian mutagenesis using a highly mobile somatic Sleeping Beauty transposon
system.
Collier et al., 2009 Blood Whole-body sleeping beauty mutagenesis can cause penetrant leukemia/lymphoma
and rare high-grade glioma without associated embryonic lethality.
Keng et al., 2009 Liver A conditional transposon-based insertional mutagenesis screen for genes
associated with mouse hepatocellular carcinoma.
Starr et al., 2009 Colorectal A transposon-based genetic screen in mice identifies genes altered in colorectal
cancer.
Berquam-Vrieze et al., 2011 Blood Cell of origin strongly influences genetic selection in a mouse model of T-ALL.
Collier et al., 2011 Sarcoma Cancer gene discovery in solid tumors using transposon-based somatic
mutagenesis in the mouse.
Karreth et al., 2011 Skin In vivo identification of tumor-suppressive PTEN ceRNAs in an oncogenic BRAF-
induced mouse model of melanoma.
Koudijs et al., 2011 Blood High-throughput semiquantitative analysis of insertional mutations in heterogeneous
tumors.
March et al., 2011 Colorectal Insertional mutagenesis identifies multiple networks of cooperating genes driving
intestinal tumorigenesis.
Starr et al., 2011 Colorectal A Sleeping Beauty transposon-mediated screen identifies murine susceptibility
genes for adenomatous polyposis coli (Apc)-dependent intestinal tumorigenesis.
van der Weyden et al., 2011 Blood Modeling the evolution of ETV6-RUNX1-induced B-cell precursor acute
lymphoblastic leukemia in mice.
Keng et al., 2012 Liver Sex bias occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma in Poly7 molecular subclass is
associated with EGFR.
Koso et al., 2012 Nervous system Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes that transform neural stem cells into
glioma-initiating cells.
Mann et al., 2012 Pancreas Sleeping Beauty mutagenesis reveals cooperating mutations and pathways in
pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
O’Donnell et al., 2012 Liver A Sleeping Beauty mutagenesis screen reveals a tumor suppressor role for Ncoa2/
Src-2 in liver cancer.
Pérez-Mancera et al., 2012 Pancreas The deubiquitinase USP9X suppresses pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
van der Weyden et al., 2012 Blood Increased tumorigenesis associated with loss of the tumor suppressor gene Cadm1.
Wu et al., 2012 Nervous system Clonal selection drives genetic divergence of metastatic medulloblastoma.
Genovesi et al., 2013 Nervous system Sleeping Beauty mutagenesis in a mouse medulloblastoma model defines networks
that discriminate between human molecular subgroups.
Lastowska et al., 2013 Nervous system Identification of a neuronal transcription factor network involved in medulloblastoma
development.
Quintana et al., 2013 Skin A transposon-based analysis of gene mutations related to skin cancer development.
Rahrmann et al., 2013 Nervous system Forward genetic screen for malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor formation
identifies new genes and pathways driving tumorigenesis.
Tang et al., 2013 Blood Transposon mutagenesis reveals cooperation of ETS family transcription factors
with signaling pathways in erythro-megakaryocytic leukemia.
van der Weyden et al., 2013 Blood Jdp2 downregulates Trp53 transcription to promote leukaemogenesis in the context
of Trp53 heterozygosity.
Zanesi et al., 2013 Blood A Sleeping Beauty screen reveals NF-kB activation in CLL mouse model.
Rogers et al., 2013 Mixed Adaptive immunity does not strongly suppress spontaneous tumors in a Sleeping
Beauty model of cancer.
Bard-Chapeau et al., 2014 Liver Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes driving hepatocellular carcinoma in a
chronic hepatitis B mouse model.
Been et al., 2014 Sarcoma Genetic signature of histiocytic sarcoma revealed by a sleeping beauty transposon
genetic screen in mice.
Vyazunova et al., 2014 Nervous system Sleeping Beauty Mouse Models Identify Candidate Genes Involved in
Gliomagenesis
Koso et al., 2014 Nervous system Identification of FoxR2 as an oncogene in medulloblastoma.
Takeda et al., 2015 Colorectal Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes and evolutionary forces driving
gastrointestinal tract tumor progression.
Perna et al., 2015 Skin BRAF inhibitor resistance mediated by the AKT pathway in an oncogenic BRAF
mouse melanoma model.
Mann et al., 2015 Skin Transposon mutagenesis identifies genetic drivers of BrafV600E melanoma.
Moriarity et al., 2015 Bone A Sleeping Beauty Forward Genetic Screen Identifies New Genes and Pathways
driving Osteosarcoma Development and Metastasis.

Sleeping Beauty mouse Models Identify Candidate Genes Involved in Gliomagenesis, PLoS One 2014 (Pubmed ID: 25423036).