菌体辅助进化和蛋白质工程产生了紧,高效的原始编辑器
Jordan L Doman1, Smriti Pandey1, Monica E Neugebauer1
1Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Cell
|September 1, 2023
概括
研究人员为精确的基因组编辑设计了更小,更高效的原始编辑工具. 这些先进的原始编辑器在细胞中显示了改善的治疗编辑,并使得体内更长的DNA插入成为可能.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学
- 基因组工程
- 蛋白质工程
背景情况:
- 主编辑是活细胞精确基因组修改的一种多功能技术.
- 目前主要编辑器面临大小和效率的限制,影响其治疗应用.
研究的目的:
- 通过蛋白质进化和工程来开发更小,更有效的原始编辑系统.
- 增强治疗应用和体内基因编辑的主要编辑器的性能.
主要方法:
- 利用菌体辅助进化来提高反转录酶的效率.
- 设计新的Cas9域来增强主要编辑功能.
- 在患者衍生纤维细胞和人类T细胞中测试了主要编辑器变异.
- 在小鼠大脑模型中使用双AAV传递评估体内编辑效率.
主要成果:
- 在编辑效率上实现了22倍的改进.
- 开发了比PEmax小的516-810个基对的编辑器.
- 确定了不同编辑类型的逆转录酶专业化.
- 在患者细胞和T细胞中证明了增强的治疗编辑.
- 在小鼠大脑皮层中实现了40%的loxP插入,这是体内长时间插入的24倍改善.
结论:
- 工程总编辑器 (PE6变种) 显示显著提高效率和缩小尺寸.
- 这些进步扩大了用于治疗和体内基因组工程的原始编辑潜力.
- 开发的工具为各种细胞类型和生物体的精确和高效基因修饰提供了增强的能力.
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