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Genome Editing in Mammalian Cell Lines using CRISPR-Cas
Published on: April 11, 2019
Evaluation of gene editing in CHO cells using the Cas-CLOVER system
Tiffany McLamarrah1, Efecan Aral1, Michael Hoffman1
1Mammalian Platform, Global CMC Development, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
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Recent advances in gene editing technologies have transformed the genetic engineering of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) hosts, enabling the development of cell lines with improved stability and productivity. In this study, we employed the programmable nuclease (PN) Cas-CLOVER to precisely target the Glutamine synthetase (GS) locus in CHO cells. A total of 30 unique serum-free, suspension-adapted CHO-K1 candidate host cell lines were subjected to Cas-CLOVER-mediated gene editing, generating over one hundred potential GS knockout (GSKO) clones. A subset of the GSKO clones was subsequently validated using three orthogonal methods to confirm complete knockout of the GS gene in 98 clones. Randomly selected GSKO clones were utilized to produce standard monoclonal antibodies. The resulting pools demonstrated enhanced productivity, with up to a 14.5-fold increase in titer compared to their wild-type parental hosts. These findings highlight the potential of gene editing approaches to significantly improve recombinant protein production in CHO expression systems, offering valuable insights for biopharmaceutical manufacturing applications.
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