Division of Integrated Sciences for Life, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan.
Drug Discovery Laboratory, Wakunaga Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 1624 Shimokotachi, Koda-Cho, Akitakata-Shi, Hiroshima, 739-1195, Japan.
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim. 2024 Aug;60(7):697-707. doi: 10.1007/s11626-024-00850-1. Epub 2024 Feb 9.
A variety of CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing technologies have been developed, including gene insertion and gene replacement, and applied to the study and treatment of diseases. While numerous studies have been conducted to improve the efficiency of gene insertion and to expand the system in various ways, there have been relatively few reports on gene replacement technology; therefore, further improvements are still needed in this context. Here, we developed the REMOVER-PITCh system to establish an efficient long-range gene replacement method and demonstrated its utility at two genomic loci in human cultured cells. REMOVER-PITCh depends on microhomology-assisted gene insertion technology called PITCh with highly multiplexed CRISPR-Cas9. First, we achieved gene replacement of about 20-kb GUSB locus using this system. Second, by applying the previously established knock-in-enhancing platform, the LoAD system, along with REMOVER-PITCh, we achieved the replacement of a longer gene region of about 200 kb at the ARSB locus. Our REMOVER-PITCh system will make it possible to remove and incorporate a variety of sequences from and into the genome, respectively, which will facilitate the generation of various disease and humanized models.
已经开发了多种基于 CRISPR-Cas9 的基因编辑技术,包括基因插入和基因替换,并将其应用于疾病的研究和治疗。虽然已经进行了大量研究来提高基因插入的效率,并以各种方式扩展该系统,但关于基因替换技术的报道相对较少;因此,在这方面仍需要进一步改进。在这里,我们开发了 REMOVER-PITCh 系统,以建立一种高效的长距离基因替换方法,并在人培养细胞中的两个基因组座上证明了其效用。REMOVER-PITCh 依赖于称为 PITCh 的具有高度多重化的 CRISPR-Cas9 的微同源辅助基因插入技术。首先,我们使用该系统实现了约 20-kb GUSB 基因座的基因替换。其次,通过应用先前建立的基因敲入增强平台 LoAD 系统以及 REMOVER-PITCh,我们实现了大约 200kb 的较长基因区域在 ARSB 基因座的替换。我们的 REMOVER-PITCh 系统将能够分别从基因组中去除和掺入各种序列,这将有助于生成各种疾病和人类模型。
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