Sweeney Colin L, Choi Uimook, Liu Chengyu, Koontz Sherry, Ha Seung-Kwon, Malech Harry L
1 Laboratory of Host Defenses, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
2 Transgenic Core, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland.
Hum Gene Ther. 2017 Jul;28(7):565-575. doi: 10.1089/hum.2017.005. Epub 2017 Mar 6.
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is characterized by defects in the production of microbicidal reactive oxygen species (ROS) by phagocytes. Testing of gene and cell therapies for the treatment of CGD in human hematopoietic cells requires preclinical transplant models. The use of the lymphocyte-deficient NOD.Cg-Prkdc Il2rgSzJ (NSG) mouse strain for human hematopoietic cell xenografts to test CGD therapies is complicated by the presence of functional mouse granulocytes capable of producing ROS for subsequent bacterial and fungal killing. To establish a phagocyte-defective mouse model of X-linked CGD (X-CGD) in NSG mice, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 was utilized for targeted knockout of mouse Cybb on the X-chromosome by microinjection of NSG mouse zygotes with Cas9 mRNA and CRISPR single-guide RNA targeting Cybb exon 1 or exon 3. This resulted in a high incidence of indel formation at the CRISPR target site, with all mice exhibiting deletions in at least one Cybb allele based on sequence analysis of tail snip DNA. A female mouse heterozygous for a 235-bp deletion in Cybb exon 1 was bred to an NSG male to establish the X-CGD NSG mouse strain, NSG.Cybb[KO]. Resulting male offspring with the 235 bp deletion were found to be defective for production of ROS by neutrophils and other phagocytes, and demonstrated increased susceptibility to spontaneous bacterial and fungal infections with granulomatous inflammation. The establishment of the phagocyte-defective NSG.Cybb[KO] mouse model enables the in vivo assessment of gene and cell therapy strategies for treating CGD in human hematopoietic cell transplants without obfuscation by functional mouse phagocytes, and may also be useful for modeling other phagocyte disorders in humanized NSG mouse xenografts.
慢性肉芽肿病(CGD)的特征是吞噬细胞产生杀菌性活性氧(ROS)存在缺陷。在人类造血细胞中测试用于治疗CGD的基因疗法和细胞疗法需要临床前移植模型。将淋巴细胞缺陷的NOD.Cg-Prkdc Il2rgSzJ(NSG)小鼠品系用于人类造血细胞异种移植以测试CGD疗法时,由于存在能够产生活性氧以随后杀灭细菌和真菌的功能性小鼠粒细胞,情况变得复杂。为了在NSG小鼠中建立X连锁慢性肉芽肿病(X-CGD)的吞噬细胞缺陷小鼠模型,通过向NSG小鼠受精卵显微注射Cas9 mRNA和靶向Cybb外显子1或外显子3的CRISPR单导向RNA,利用成簇规律间隔短回文重复序列(CRISPR)/Cas9对X染色体上的小鼠Cybb进行靶向敲除。这导致CRISPR靶位点出现高频率的插入缺失形成,根据尾尖DNA的序列分析,所有小鼠至少有一个Cybb等位基因发生缺失。将一只Cybb外显子1中存在235 bp缺失的杂合雌性小鼠与一只NSG雄性小鼠杂交,以建立X-CGD NSG小鼠品系NSG.Cybb[KO]。发现具有235 bp缺失的雄性后代中性粒细胞和其他吞噬细胞产生活性氧存在缺陷,并表现出对自发性细菌和真菌感染及肉芽肿性炎症的易感性增加。吞噬细胞缺陷的NSG.Cybb[KO]小鼠模型的建立使得能够在体内评估用于人类造血细胞移植中治疗CGD的基因疗法和细胞疗法策略,而不会被功能性小鼠吞噬细胞干扰,并且也可能有助于在人源化NSG小鼠异种移植中模拟其他吞噬细胞疾病。