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MOLECULAR THERAPY-NUCLEIC ACIDS
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages 775-789Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2019.12.021
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- National Science and Technology Major Project of China [2018ZX08010-09B, 2014ZX08010-09B]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31702099]
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homology-directed repair (HDR) can be leveraged to precisely engineer mammalian genomes. However, the inherently low efficiency of HDR often hampers to identify the desired modified cells. Here, we developed a novel universal surrogate reporter system that efficiently enriches for genetically modified cells arising from CRISPR/Cas9-induced HDR events (namely, the HDR-USR system). This episomally based reporter can be self-cleaved and self-repaired via HDR to create a functional puromycin selection cassette without compromising genome integrity. Co-transfection of the HDR-USR system into host cells and transient puromycin selection efficiently achieves enrichment of HDR-modified cells. We tested the system for precision point mutation at 16 loci in different human cell lines and one locus in two rodent cell lines. This system exhibited dramatic improvements in HDR efficiency at a single locus (up to 20.7-fold) and two loci at once (42% editing efficiency compared to zero in the control), as well as greatly improved knockin efficiency (8.9-fold) and biallelic deletion (35.9-fold) at test loci. Further increases were achieved by co-expression of yeast Rad52 and linear single-/double-stranded DNA donors. Taken together, our HDR-USR system provides a simple, robust and efficient surrogate reporter for the enrichment of CRISPR/Cas9-induced HDR-based precision genome editing across various targeting loci in different cell lines.
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