Applied Stem Cell Laboratory, Medicine/Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane National Primate Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Department of Surgery, Tulane University Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
CRISPR J. 2021 Feb;4(1):92-103. doi: 10.1089/crispr.2020.0019.
CCR5 is a coreceptor of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells homozygous for a 32-bp deletion in CCR5 resulted in a loss of detectable HIV-1 in two patients, suggesting that genetic strategies to knockout CCR5 expression would be a promising gene therapy approach for HIV-1-infected patients. In this study, we targeted by CRISPR-Cas9 with a single-guide (sgRNA) and observed 35% indel frequency. When we expressed hCas9 and two gRNAs, the Surveyor assay showed that Cas9-mediated cleavage was increased by 10% with two sgRNAs. Genotype analysis on individual clones showed 11 of 13 carried biallelic mutations, where 4 clones had frameshift (FS) mutations. Taken together, these results indicate that the efficiency of biallelic FS mutations and the knockout of the necessary to prevent viral replication were significantly increased with two sgRNAs. These studies demonstrate the knockout of CCR5 and the potential for translational development.
CCR5 是人类免疫缺陷病毒 1 型(HIV-1)的核心受体。移植 CCR5 中 32 个碱基对缺失的纯合造血干细胞导致两名患者体内可检测到的 HIV-1 丢失,这表明敲除 CCR5 表达的基因治疗策略可能是 HIV-1 感染患者的一种有前途的治疗方法。在这项研究中,我们使用单指导 RNA(sgRNA)靶向 CRISPR-Cas9,并观察到 35%的插入缺失频率。当我们表达 hCas9 和两个 gRNA 时,Surveyor 测定显示 Cas9 介导的切割增加了 10%,有两个 sgRNA。对单个克隆的基因型分析表明,13 个克隆中有 11 个携带双等位基因突变,其中 4 个克隆有移码突变。总之,这些结果表明,双等位基因 FS 突变的效率和阻止病毒复制所需的 的敲除均显著提高,这得益于两个 sgRNA 的应用。这些研究表明 CCR5 的敲除和潜在的转化发展。