CRISPR JournalPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0039
Erin R Burnight, Luke A Wiley, Nathaniel K Mullin, Malavika K Adur, Mallory J Lang, Cathryn M Cranston, Chunhua Jiao, Stephen R Russell, Elliot H Sohn, Ian C Han, Jason W Ross, Edwin M Stone, Robert F Mullins, Budd A Tucker
{"title":"CRISPRi-Mediated Treatment of Dominant Rhodopsin-Associated Retinitis Pigmentosa.","authors":"Erin R Burnight, Luke A Wiley, Nathaniel K Mullin, Malavika K Adur, Mallory J Lang, Cathryn M Cranston, Chunhua Jiao, Stephen R Russell, Elliot H Sohn, Ian C Han, Jason W Ross, Edwin M Stone, Robert F Mullins, Budd A Tucker","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0039","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rhodopsin (<i>RHO</i>) mutations such as Pro23His are the leading cause of dominantly inherited retinitis pigmentosa in North America. As with other dominant retinal dystrophies, these mutations lead to production of a toxic protein product, and treatment will require knockdown of the mutant allele. The purpose of this study was to develop a CRISPR-Cas9-mediated transcriptional repression strategy using catalytically inactive <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Cas9 (dCas9) fused to the Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) transcriptional repressor domain. Using a reporter construct carrying green fluorescent protein (GFP) cloned downstream of the <i>RHO</i> promoter fragment (nucleotides -1403 to +73), we demonstrate a ∼74-84% reduction in <i>RHO</i> promoter activity in <i>RHOp</i>CRISPRi-treated versus plasmid-only controls. After subretinal transduction of human retinal explants and transgenic Pro23His mutant pigs, significant knockdown of rhodopsin protein was achieved. Suppression of mutant transgene <i>in vivo</i> was associated with a reduction in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and apoptosis markers and preservation of photoreceptor cell layer thickness.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":"6 6","pages":"502-513"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11304754/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138807791","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 : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0048
Zexiang Chen, Suet-Yan Kwan, Aamir Mir, Max Hazeltine, Minwook Shin, Shun-Qing Liang, Io Long Chan, Karen Kelly, Krishna S Ghanta, Nicholas Gaston, Yueying Cao, Jun Xie, Guangping Gao, Wen Xue, Erik J Sontheimer, Jonathan K Watts
{"title":"A Fluorescent Reporter Mouse for <i>In Vivo</i> Assessment of Genome Editing with Diverse Cas Nucleases and Prime Editors.","authors":"Zexiang Chen, Suet-Yan Kwan, Aamir Mir, Max Hazeltine, Minwook Shin, Shun-Qing Liang, Io Long Chan, Karen Kelly, Krishna S Ghanta, Nicholas Gaston, Yueying Cao, Jun Xie, Guangping Gao, Wen Xue, Erik J Sontheimer, Jonathan K Watts","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0048","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CRISPR-based genome-editing technologies, including nuclease editing, base editing, and prime editing, have recently revolutionized the development of therapeutics targeting disease-causing mutations. To advance the assessment and development of genome editing tools, a robust mouse model is valuable, particularly for evaluating <i>in vivo</i> activity and delivery strategies. In this study, we successfully generated a knock-in mouse line carrying the Traffic Light Reporter design known as TLR-multi-Cas variant 1 (TLR-MCV1). We comprehensively validated the functionality of this mouse model for both <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> nuclease and prime editing. The TLR-MCV1 reporter mouse represents a versatile and powerful tool for expediting the development of editing technologies and their therapeutic applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":"6 6","pages":"570-582"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10753986/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138807670","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 : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0027.correx
{"title":"Correction to: <i>APOBEC Reporter Systems for Evaluating diNucleotide Editing Levels</i> by Rieffer et al. <i>The CRISPR Journal</i>, 2023;6(5):430-446; DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0027.","authors":"","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0027.correx","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0027.correx","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":" ","pages":"583"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10771869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71523374","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 : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0062
Raffaella De Paolo, Uday Munagala, Francesco Cucco, Samanta Sarti, Letizia Pitto, Filippo Martignano, Silvestro G Conticello, Laura Poliseno
{"title":"Modified Cas9-Guided Oxford Nanopore Technology Sequencing Uncovers Single and Multiple Transgene Insertion Sites in a Zebrafish Melanoma Model.","authors":"Raffaella De Paolo, Uday Munagala, Francesco Cucco, Samanta Sarti, Letizia Pitto, Filippo Martignano, Silvestro G Conticello, Laura Poliseno","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0062","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":"6 6","pages":"489-492"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138808140","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 : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0047
Lydia Angelopoulou, Electra Stylianopoulou, Konstantinos Tegopoulos, Ioanna Farmakioti, Maria Grigoriou, George Skavdis
{"title":"A PCR-Induced Mutagenesis-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Method for the Detection of CRISPR-Induced Indels.","authors":"Lydia Angelopoulou, Electra Stylianopoulou, Konstantinos Tegopoulos, Ioanna Farmakioti, Maria Grigoriou, George Skavdis","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0047","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As CRISPR-based technologies are widely used for knocking out genes in cell lines and organisms, there is a need for the development of reliable, cost-effective, and fast methods that identify fully mutated clones. In this context, we present a novel strategy named PCR-induced mutagenesis-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PIM-RFLP), which is based on the well-documented robustness and simplicity of the classical PCR-RFLP approach. PIM-RFLP allows the assessment of the editing efficiency in pools of edited cells and the effective identification of fully mutated single-cell clones. It is based on the creation by mutagenic PCR of a restriction enzyme degenerate cleavage site in the PCR product of the wild-type allele, which can then be distinguished from the indel-containing alleles following the standard RFLP procedure. PIM-RFLP is highly accessible, can be executed in a single day, and appears to outperform Sanger sequencing deconvolution algorithms in the detection of fully mutated clones.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":" ","pages":"514-526"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138489100","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 : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0022
Sydney N Newsom, Duen-Shian Wang, Saadi Rostami, Isabelle Schuster, Hari Priya Parameshwaran, Yadin G Joseph, Peter Z Qin, Jin Liu, Rakhi Rajan
{"title":"Differential Divalent Metal Binding by SpyCas9's RuvC Active Site Contributes to Nonspecific DNA Cleavage.","authors":"Sydney N Newsom, Duen-Shian Wang, Saadi Rostami, Isabelle Schuster, Hari Priya Parameshwaran, Yadin G Joseph, Peter Z Qin, Jin Liu, Rakhi Rajan","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0022","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To protect against mobile genetic elements (MGEs), some bacteria and archaea have clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR associated (CRISPR-Cas) adaptive immune systems. CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) bound to Cas nucleases hybridize to MGEs based on sequence complementarity to guide the nucleases to cleave the MGEs. This programmable DNA cleavage has been harnessed for gene editing. Safety concerns include off-target and guide RNA (gRNA)-free DNA cleavages, both of which are observed in the Cas nuclease commonly used for gene editing, <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> Cas9 (SpyCas9). We developed a SpyCas9 variant (SpyCas9<sup>H982A</sup>) devoid of gRNA-free DNA cleavage activity that is more selective for on-target cleavage. The H982A substitution in the metal-dependent RuvC active site reduces Mn<sup>2+</sup>-dependent gRNA-free DNA cleavage by ∼167-fold. Mechanistic molecular dynamics analysis shows that Mn<sup>2+</sup>, but not Mg<sup>2+</sup>, produces a gRNA-free DNA cleavage competent state that is disrupted by the H982A substitution. Our study demonstrates the feasibility of modulating cation:protein interactions to engineer safer gene editing tools.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":"6 6","pages":"527-542"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10753984/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138807848","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 : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0036
Ryan R Richardson, Marilyn Steyert, Saovleak N Khim, Garrett W Crutcher, Cheryl Brandenburg, Colin D Robertson, Andrea J Romanowski, Jeffrey Inen, Bekir Altas, Alexandros Poulopoulos
{"title":"Enhancing Precision and Efficiency of Cas9-Mediated Knockin Through Combinatorial Fusions of DNA Repair Proteins.","authors":"Ryan R Richardson, Marilyn Steyert, Saovleak N Khim, Garrett W Crutcher, Cheryl Brandenburg, Colin D Robertson, Andrea J Romanowski, Jeffrey Inen, Bekir Altas, Alexandros Poulopoulos","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0036","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cas9 targets genomic loci with high specificity. For knockin with double-strand break repair, however, Cas9 often leads to unintended on-target knockout rather than intended edits. This imprecision is a barrier for direct <i>in vivo</i> editing where clonal selection is not feasible. In this study, we demonstrate a high-throughput workflow to comparatively assess on-target efficiency and precision of editing outcomes. Using this workflow, we screened combinations of donor DNA and Cas9 variants, as well as fusions to DNA repair proteins. This yielded novel high-performance double-strand break repair editing agents and combinatorial optimizations, yielding increases in knockin efficiency and precision. Cas9-RC, a novel fusion Cas9 flanked by eRad18 and CtIP<sup>[HE]</sup>, increased knockin performance <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> in the developing mouse brain. Continued comparative assessment of editing efficiency and precision with this framework will further the development of high-performance editing agents for <i>in vivo</i> knockin and future genome therapeutics.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":" ","pages":"447-461"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10609434","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 : 2023-10-01Epub Date: 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0027
Amanda E Rieffer, Yanjun Chen, Daniel J Salamango, Sofia N Moraes, Reuben S Harris
{"title":"APOBEC Reporter Systems for Evaluating diNucleotide Editing Levels.","authors":"Amanda E Rieffer, Yanjun Chen, Daniel J Salamango, Sofia N Moraes, Reuben S Harris","doi":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0027","DOIUrl":"10.1089/crispr.2023.0027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Precision genome editing has become a reality with the discovery of base editors. Cytosine base editor (CBE) technologies are improving rapidly but are mostly optimized for T<u>C</u> dinucleotide targets. Here, we report the development and implementation of APOBEC Reporter Systems for Evaluating diNucleotide Editing Levels (ARSENEL) in living cells. The ARSENEL panel is comprised of four constructs that quantitatively report editing of each of the four dinucleotide motifs (A<u>C</u>/C<u>C</u>/G<u>C</u>/T<u>C</u>) through real-time accumulation of eGFP fluorescence. Editing rates of APOBEC3Bctd and AIDΔC CBEs reflect established mechanistic preferences with intrinsic biases to T<u>C</u> and G<u>C</u>, respectively. Twelve different (new and established) base editors are tested here using this system with a full-length APOBEC3B CBE showing the greatest on-target T<u>C</u> specificity and an APOBEC3A construct showing the highest editing efficiency. In addition, ARSENEL enables real-time assessment of natural and synthetic APOBEC inhibitors with the most potent to-date being the large subunit of the Epstein-Barr virus ribonucleotide reductase. These reporters have the potential to play important roles in research and development as precision genome engineering technologies progress toward achieving maximal specificity and efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":54232,"journal":{"name":"CRISPR Journal","volume":" ","pages":"430-446"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10168892","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}