CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2024.0010
Allison Sharrar, Zuriah Meacham, Johanna Staples-Ager, Luisa Arake de Tacca, David Rabuka, Trevor Collingwood, Michael Schelle
{"title":"Viral Delivery of Compact CRISPR-Cas12f for Gene Editing Applications.","authors":"Allison Sharrar, Zuriah Meacham, Johanna Staples-Ager, Luisa Arake de Tacca, David Rabuka, Trevor Collingwood, Michael Schelle","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0010","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Treating human genetic conditions <i>in vivo</i> requires efficient delivery of the CRISPR gene editing machinery to the affected cells and organs. The gene editing field has seen clinical advances with <i>ex vivo</i> therapies and with <i>in vivo</i> delivery to the liver using lipid nanoparticle technology. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes have been discovered and engineered to deliver genetic material to nearly every organ in the body. However, the large size of most CRISPR-Cas systems limits packaging into the viral genome and reduces drug development flexibility and manufacturing efficiency. Here, we demonstrate efficient CRISPR gene editing using a miniature CRISPR-Cas12f system with expanded genome targeting packaged into AAV particles. We identified efficient guides for four therapeutic gene targets and encoded the guides and the Cas12f nuclease into a single AAV. We then demonstrate editing in multiple cell lines, patient fibroblasts, and primary hepatocytes. We then screened the cells for off-target editing, demonstrating the safety of the therapeutics. These results represent an important step in applying CRISPR editing to diverse genetic sequences and organs in the body.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140864386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2024.0002
Ali Mertcan Kose, Ozan Kocadagli, Cihan Taştan, Cagdas Aktan, Onur Mert Ünaldı, Elanur Güzenge, Hamza Emir Erdil
{"title":"Unveiling Off-Target Mutations in CRISPR Guide RNAs: Implications for Gene Region Specificity.","authors":"Ali Mertcan Kose, Ozan Kocadagli, Cihan Taştan, Cagdas Aktan, Onur Mert Ünaldı, Elanur Güzenge, Hamza Emir Erdil","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2024.0002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized genetic engineering, and it holds immense potential for therapeutic interventions. However, the presence of off-target mutations and mismatch capacity poses significant challenges to its safe and precise implementation. In this study, we explore the implications of off-target effects on critical gene regions, including exons, introns, and intergenic regions. Leveraging a benchmark dataset and using innovative data preprocessing techniques, we have put forth the advantages of categorical encoding over one-hot encoding in training machine learning classifiers. Crucially, we use latent class analysis (LCA) to uncover subclasses within the off-target range, revealing distinct patterns of gene region disruption. Our comprehensive approach not only highlights the critical role of model complexity in CRISPR applications but also offers a transformative off-target scoring procedure based on ML classifiers and LCA. By bridging the gap between traditional target-off scoring and comprehensive model analysis, our study advances the understanding of off-target effects and opens new avenues for precision genome editing in diverse biological contexts. This work represents a crucial step toward ensuring the safety and efficacy of CRISPR-based therapies, underscoring the importance of responsible genetic manipulation for future therapeutic applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141452154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2024.0012
Bethany K Redel, Junchul Yoon, Emily Reese, Hong An, Kyungjun Uh, Paula R Chen, Randall S Prather, Kiho Lee
{"title":"Novel off-Targeting Events Identified after Genome Wide Analysis of CRISPR-Cas Edited Pigs.","authors":"Bethany K Redel, Junchul Yoon, Emily Reese, Hong An, Kyungjun Uh, Paula R Chen, Randall S Prather, Kiho Lee","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0012","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CRISPR-Cas technology has transformed our ability to introduce targeted modifications, allowing unconventional animal models such as pigs to model human diseases and improve its value for food production. The main concern with using the technology is the possibility of introducing unwanted modifications in the genome. In this study, we illustrate a pipeline to comprehensively identify off-targeting events on a global scale in the genome of three different gene-edited pig models. Whole genome sequencing paired with an off-targeting prediction software tool filtered off-targeting events amongst natural variations present in gene-edited pigs. This pipeline confirmed two known off-targeting events in <i>IGH</i> knockout pigs, <i>AR</i> and <i>RBFOX1</i>, and identified other presumably off-targeted loci. Independent validation of the off-targeting events using other gene-edited DNA confirmed two novel off-targeting events in <i>RAG2/IL2RG</i> knockout pig models. This unique strategy offers a novel tool to detect off-targeting events in genetically heterogeneous species after genome editing.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302191/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2024.0043
Matthew H Porteus, Kevin Davies
{"title":"A Story of Perseverance: An Interview with Matthew Porteus.","authors":"Matthew H Porteus, Kevin Davies","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2024.0043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141452151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2024.0045
Rodolphe Barrangou
{"title":"Surveying the State of CRISPR and Gene Editing.","authors":"Rodolphe Barrangou","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2024.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141452153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Establishment of a Cleavage-Based Single-Plasmid Dual-Luciferase Surrogate Reporter for the Cleavage Efficiency Evaluation of CRISPR-Cas12a Systems and Its Primary Application.","authors":"Yaoqiang Shi, Qi Tan, Chunhui Yang, Shilin Li, Yujia Li, Baoren He, He Xie, Xiaoqiong Duan, Limin Chen","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2024.0038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CRISPR-Cas technology is a widely utilized gene-editing tool that involves gRNA-guided sequence recognition and Cas nuclease-mediated cleavage. The design and evaluation of gRNA are essential for enhancing CRISPR/Cas editing efficiency. Various assays such as single-strand annealing, <i>in vitro</i> cleavage, and T7 endonuclease I (T7EI) are commonly used to assess gRNA-mediated Cas protein cleavage activity. In this study, a firefly luciferase and Renilla luciferase co-expressed and a cleavage-based single-plasmid dual-luciferase surrogate reporter was built to evaluate the gRNA-mediated Cas12a cleavage efficiency. The cleavage activities of CRISPR-Cas12a can be quantitatively determined by the recovery degree of firefly luciferase activity. The cleavage efficiency of CRISPR-Cas12a can be quantitatively measured by the recovery of firefly luciferase activity. By using this system, the cleavage efficiency of CRISPR-Cas12a on hepatitis B virus (HBV)/D expression plasmid was evaluated, revealing a negative correlation between gRNA cleavage efficiency and HBV gene expression measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. This simple, efficient, and quantifiable system only requires the dual-luciferase vector and CRISPR-Cas12a vector, making it a valuable tool for selecting effective gRNAs for gene editing.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141452152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2024.0015
Guillaume Levrier
{"title":"Making the Search for Genome Editing Tortured Phrases a Collective Effort.","authors":"Guillaume Levrier","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0015","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2024.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140337649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0076
Leonardo Lima, Mateus Berni, Jamile Mota, Daniel Bressan, Alison Julio, Robson Cavalcante, Vanessa Macias, Zhiqian Li, Jason L Rasgon, Ethan Bier, Helena Araujo
{"title":"Gene Editing in the Chagas Disease Vector <i>Rhodnius prolixus</i> by Cas9-Mediated ReMOT Control.","authors":"Leonardo Lima, Mateus Berni, Jamile Mota, Daniel Bressan, Alison Julio, Robson Cavalcante, Vanessa Macias, Zhiqian Li, Jason L Rasgon, Ethan Bier, Helena Araujo","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0076","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Rhodnius prolixus</i> is currently the model vector of choice for studying Chagas disease transmission, a debilitating disease caused by <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> parasites. However, transgenesis and gene editing protocols to advance the field are still lacking. Here, we tested protocols for the maternal delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly spaced palindromic repeats/Cas-9 associated) elements to developing <i>R. prolixus</i> oocytes and strategies for the identification of insertions and deletions (indels) in target loci of resulting gene-edited generation zero (G0) nymphs. We demonstrate successful gene editing of the eye color markers <i>Rp-scarlet</i> and <i>Rp-white</i>, and the cuticle color marker <i>Rp-yellow,</i> with highest effectiveness obtained using Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo (ReMOT Control) with the ovary-targeting BtKV ligand. These results provide proof of concepts for generating somatic mutations in <i>R. prolixus</i> and potentially for generating germ line-edited lines in triatomines, laying the foundation for gene editing protocols that could lead to the development of novel control strategies for vectors of Chagas disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140337648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}