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MOLECULAR THERAPY
卷 29, 期 5, 页码 1903-1917出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2021.01.024
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- Center for Innovative Medicine (CIMED), Sweden [3115]
- Vetenskapsradet (Swedish Research Council), Sweden [201702789]
- European Commission EU/FP7Health and the Understanding of Metabolism, Aging and Nutrition (HUMAN) [602757]
- Torsten och Ragnar Soderberg Stiftelse, Sweden [2013-1269]
- AstraZeneca, Sweden
- Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland [320030_176088]
The study demonstrated the efficacy and safety of ex vivo correction of primary human hepatocytes in restoring urea cycle and improving ammonia clearance and enzyme activity. Liver repopulation with genetically edited patient hepatocytes resulted in normal metabolic function and showed no specific off-target editing effects.
Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) is a monogenic disease of ammonia metabolism in hepatocytes. Severe disease is frequently treated by orthotopic liver transplantation. An attractive approach is the correction of a patient?s own cells to regenerate the liver with gene-repaired hepatocytes. This study investigates the efficacy and safety of ex vivo correction of primary human hepatocytes. Hepatocytes isolated from an OTCD patient were genetically corrected ex vivo, through the deletion of a mutant intronic splicing site achieving editing efficiencies >60% and the restoration of the urea cycle in vitro. The corrected hepatocytes were transplanted into the liver of FRGN mice and repopulated to high levels (>80%). Animals transplanted and liver repopulated with genetically edited patient hepatocytes displayed normal ammonia, enhanced clearance of an ammonia challenge and OTC enzyme activity, as well as lower urinary orotic acid when compared to mice repopulated with unedited patient hepatocytes. Gene expression was shown to be similar between mice transplanted with unedited or edited patient hepatocytes. Finally, a genome-wide screening by performing CIRCLE-seq and deep sequencing of >70 potential off-targets revealed no unspecific editing. Overall analysis of disease phenotype, gene expression, and possible off-target editing indicated that the gene editing of a severe genetic liver disease was safe and effective.
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