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TY - JOUR
T1 - A high-fidelity Cas9 mutant delivered as a ribonucleoprotein complex enables efficient gene editing in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
AU - Vakulskas, Christopher A
AU - Dever, Daniel P
AU - Rettig, Garrett R
AU - Turk, Rolf
AU - Jacobi, Ashley M
AU - Collingwood, Michael A
AU - Bode, Nicole M
AU - McNeill, Matthew S
AU - Yan, Shuqi
AU - Camarena, Joab
AU - Lee, Ciaran M
AU - Park, So Hyun
AU - Wiebking, Volker
AU - Bak, Rasmus O
AU - Gomez-Ospina, Natalia
AU - Pavel-Dinu, Mara
AU - Sun, Wenchao
AU - Bao, Gang
AU - Porteus, Matthew H
AU - Behlke, Mark A
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Translation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system to human therapeutics holds high promise. However, specificity remains a concern especially when modifying stem cell populations. We show that existing rationally engineered Cas9 high-fidelity variants have reduced on-target activity when using the therapeutically relevant ribonucleoprotein (RNP) delivery method. Therefore, we devised an unbiased bacterial screen to isolate variants that retain activity in the RNP format. Introduction of a single point mutation, p.R691A, in Cas9 (high-fidelity (HiFi) Cas9) retained the high on-target activity of Cas9 while reducing off-target editing. HiFi Cas9 induces robust AAV6-mediated gene targeting at five therapeutically relevant loci (HBB, IL2RG, CCR5, HEXB, and TRAC) in human CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) as well as primary T cells. We also show that HiFi Cas9 mediates high-level correction of the sickle cell disease (SCD)-causing p.E6V mutation in HSPCs derived from patients with SCD. We anticipate that HiFi Cas9 will have wide utility for both basic science and therapeutic genome-editing applications.
AB - Translation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system to human therapeutics holds high promise. However, specificity remains a concern especially when modifying stem cell populations. We show that existing rationally engineered Cas9 high-fidelity variants have reduced on-target activity when using the therapeutically relevant ribonucleoprotein (RNP) delivery method. Therefore, we devised an unbiased bacterial screen to isolate variants that retain activity in the RNP format. Introduction of a single point mutation, p.R691A, in Cas9 (high-fidelity (HiFi) Cas9) retained the high on-target activity of Cas9 while reducing off-target editing. HiFi Cas9 induces robust AAV6-mediated gene targeting at five therapeutically relevant loci (HBB, IL2RG, CCR5, HEXB, and TRAC) in human CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) as well as primary T cells. We also show that HiFi Cas9 mediates high-level correction of the sickle cell disease (SCD)-causing p.E6V mutation in HSPCs derived from patients with SCD. We anticipate that HiFi Cas9 will have wide utility for both basic science and therapeutic genome-editing applications.
KW - BONE-MARROW
KW - CRISPR-CAS9 NUCLEASES
KW - GENOME
KW - GUIDE RNA
KW - HUMAN T-CELLS
KW - IN-VIVO
KW - MAMMALIAN-CELLS
KW - MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
KW - MESSENGER-RNA
KW - OFF-TARGET
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051279904&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41591-018-0137-0
DO - 10.1038/s41591-018-0137-0
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 30082871
VL - 24
SP - 1216
EP - 1224
JO - Nature Medicine
JF - Nature Medicine
SN - 1078-8956
IS - 8
ER -