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PAM-Expanded Streptococcus thermophilus Cas9 C-to-T and C-to-G Base Editors for Programmable Base Editing in Mycobacteria

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ENGINEERING
卷 15, 期 -, 页码 67-77

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DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2022.02.013

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CRISPR; Cas9; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Genome editing; Base editing

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21922705, 91753127, 2207783]
  2. Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology [19QA1406000]
  3. Emergency Key Program of Guangzhou Laboratory [EKPG21-18]
  4. General Program of Jiangsu Health Committee Foundation [M2020019]

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This study identified that the Streptococcus thermophilus CRISPR associated protein 9 (St1Cas9) cytosine base editor is active in mycobacteria, allowing for C-to-T or C-to-G conversions with enhanced editing product purity and multiplexed editing capacity. Engineering improvements were made to the base editor to broaden its targeting scope and reduce efforts and time needed for precise genetic manipulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related organisms.
New therapeutic strategies for the rapid and effective treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis are highly desirable, and their development can be drastically accelerated by facile genetic manipulation methods in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) base editors allow for rapid, robust, and programmed single-base substitutions and gene inac-tivation, yet no such systems are currently available in M. tuberculosis. By screening distinct CRISPR base editors, we discovered that only the unusual Streptococcus thermophilus CRISPR associated protein 9 (St1Cas9) cytosine base editor (CBE)-but not the widely used Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) or Lachnospiraceae bacterium Cpf1 (LbCpf1) CBEs-is active in mycobacteria. Despite the notable C-to-T con-versions, a high proportion of undesired byproducts exists with St1Cas9 CBE. We therefore engineered St1Cas9 CBE by means of uracil DNA glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) or uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG) fusion, yielding two new base editors (CTBE and CGBE) capable of C-to-T or C-to-G conversions with dramatically enhanced editing product purity and multiplexed editing capacity in Mycobacterium smegmatis (M. smeg-matis). Because wild-type St1Cas9 recognizes a relatively strict protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequence for DNA targeting, we engineered a PAM-expanded St1Cas9 variant by means of structure -guided protein engineering for the base editors, substantially broadening the targeting scope. We first developed and characterized CTBE and CGBE in M. smegmatis, and then applied CTBE for genome editing in M. tuberculosis. Our approaches significantly reduce the efforts and time needed for precise genetic manipulation and will facilitate functional genomics, antibiotic-resistant mechanism study, and drug -target exploration in M. tuberculosis and related organisms.(c) 2022 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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