- Amen, Alexandra M;
- Loughran, Ryan M;
- Huang, Chun-Hao;
- Lew, Rachel J;
- Ravi, Archna;
- Guan, Yuanzhe;
- Schatoff, Emma M;
- Dow, Lukas E;
- Emerling, Brooke M;
- Fellmann, Christof
We present Multi-miR, a microRNA-embedded shRNA system modeled after endogenous microRNA clusters that enables simultaneous expression of up to three or four short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) from a single promoter without loss of activity, enabling robust combinatorial RNA interference (RNAi). We further developed complementary all-in-one vectors that are over one log-scale more sensitive to doxycycline-mediated activation in vitro than previous methods and resistant to shRNA inactivation in vivo. We demonstrate the utility of this system for intracranial expression of shRNAs in a glioblastoma model. Additionally, we leverage this platform to target the redundant RAF signaling node in a mouse model of KRAS-mutant cancer and show that robust combinatorial synthetic lethality efficiently abolishes tumor growth.