Journal
BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY
Volume 152, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.113243
Keywords
HepaRG; CRISPR; Cas9; Knock-in; Differentiation
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31871292]
- Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Fundation [2019A1515010619]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC0910201]
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CRISPR/Cas9 was used to generate a CYP3A4-T2A-luciferase knock-in HepaRG subclone, and optimized differentiation procedures were found to promote differentiation and improve the expression of hepatocyte-specific genes.
CRISPR/Cas9 has allowed development of better and easier-to-use ADME models than traditional methods by complete knockout or knock-in of genes. However, gene editing in HepaRG cells remains challenging because long-term monoclonal cultivation may alter their differentiation capacity to a large extent. Here, CRISPR/Cas9 was used to generate a CYP3A4-T2A-luciferase knock-in HepaRG subclone by Cas9-mediated homologous recombination and monoclonal cultivation. The knock-in HepaRG-#9 subclone retained a similar differentiation potential to wildtype HepaRG cells (HepaRG-WT). To further improve differentiation and expand the applications of knock-in HepaRG cells, two optimized differentiation procedures were evaluated by comparison with the standard differentiation procedure using the knock-in HepaRG-#9 subclone and HepaRG-WT. The results indicated that addition of forskolin (an adenylate cyclase activator) and SB431542 (a TGF-beta pathway inhibitor) to the first optimized differentiation procedure led to better differentiation consequence in terms of not only the initiation time for differentiation and morphological characterization, but also the mRNA levels of hepatocytespecific genes. These data may contribute to more extensive applications of genetically modified HepaRG cells in ADME studies.
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