| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| CCLE | Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia |
| CDDP | cisplatin |
| gRNA | guide RNA |
| CRISPR | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| DMEM | Dulbecco’s modified eagle medium |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| GISTs | gastrointestinal stromal tumors |
| HCC | hepatocellular carcinoma |
| IACUC | the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee |
| IC50 | half maximal inhibitory concentration |
| JCRB | Japanese Cancer Research Resource Bank |
| MOI | multiplicity of infection |
| NOG | NOD/Shi-scid/IL-2Rγnull |
| siRNA | small interfering RNA |
| shRNA | small hairpin RNA |
| WB | western blot |