Precise therapeutic gene correction by a simple nuclease-induced double-stranded break
Authors
Iyer, SukanyaSuresh, Sneha
Guo, Dongsheng
Daman, Katelyn
Chen, Jennifer C. J.
Zieger, Marina
Luk, Kevin
Roscoe, Benjamin P.
Mueller, Christian
King, Oliver D.
Emerson, Charles P. Jr.
Wolfe, Scot A.
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyLi Weibo Institute for Rare Diseases Research
Horae Gene Therapy Center
Emerson Lab
King Lab
Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Program
Department of Neurology
Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2019-04-03Keywords
UMCCTS fundingComputational Biology
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Enzymes and Coenzymes
Genetic Phenomena
Genetics and Genomics
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Therapeutics
Translational Medical Research
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Current programmable nuclease-based methods (for example, CRISPR-Cas9) for the precise correction of a disease-causing genetic mutation harness the homology-directed repair pathway. However, this repair process requires the co-delivery of an exogenous DNA donor to recode the sequence and can be inefficient in many cell types. Here we show that disease-causing frameshift mutations that result from microduplications can be efficiently reverted to the wild-type sequence simply by generating a DNA double-stranded break near the centre of the duplication. We demonstrate this in patient-derived cell lines for two diseases: limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2G (LGMD2G)(1) and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 1 (HPS1)(2). Clonal analysis of inducible pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from the LGMD2G cell line, which contains a mutation in TCAP, treated with the Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) nuclease revealed that about 80% contained at least one wild-type TCAP allele; this correction also restored TCAP expression in LGMD2G iPS cell-derived myotubes. SpCas9 also efficiently corrected the genotype of an HPS1 patient-derived B-lymphoblastoid cell line. Inhibition of polyADP-ribose polymerase 1 (PARP-1) suppressed the nuclease-mediated collapse of the microduplication to the wild-type sequence, confirming that precise correction is mediated by the microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) pathway. Analysis of editing by SpCas9 and Lachnospiraceae bacterium ND2006 Cas12a (LbCas12a) at non-pathogenic 4-36-base-pair microduplications within the genome indicates that the correction strategy is broadly applicable to a wide range of microduplication lengths and can be initiated by a variety of nucleases. The simplicity, reliability and efficacy of this MMEJ-based therapeutic strategy should permit the development of nuclease-based gene correction therapies for a variety of diseases that are associated with microduplications.Source
Nature. 2019 Apr;568(7753):561-565. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1076-8. Epub 2019 Apr 3. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1038/s41586-019-1076-8Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/50375PubMed ID
30944467Related Resources
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10.1038/s41586-019-1076-8