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Screening of CRISPR/Cas base editors to target the AMD high-risk Y402H complement factor H variant
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Nguyen Tran, MP and Mohd Khalid, MKN and Pebay, A and Cook, AL and Liang, HH and Wong, RCB and Craig, JE and Liu, G-S and Hung, SS and Hewitt, AW, Screening of CRISPR/Cas base editors to target the AMD high-risk Y402H complement factor H variant, Molecular Vision, 25 pp. 174-182. ISSN 1090-0535 (2019) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of using a CRISPR/Cas-mediated strategy to correct a common high-risk allele that is associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD; rs1061170; NM_000186.3:c.1204T>C; NP_000177.2:p.His402Tyr) in the complement factor H (CFH) gene.
Methods: A human embryonic kidney cell line (HEK293A) was engineered to contain the pathogenic risk variant for AMD (HEK293A-CFH). Several different base editor constructs (BE3, SaBE3, SaKKH-BE3, VQR-BE3, and Target-AID) and their respective single-guide RNA (sgRNA) expression cassettes targeting either the pathogenic risk variant allele in the CFH locus or the LacZ gene, as a negative control, were evaluated head-to-head for the incidence of a cytosine-to-thymine nucleotide correction. The base editor construct that showed appreciable editing activity was selected for further assessment in which the base-edited region was subjected to next-generation deep sequencing to quantify on-target and off-target editing efficacy.
Results: The tandem use of the Target-AID base editor and its respective sgRNA demonstrated a base editing efficiency of facilitating a cytosine-to-thymine nucleotide correction in 21.5% of the total sequencing reads. Additionally, the incidence of insertions and deletions (indels) was detected in only 0.15% of the sequencing reads with virtually no off-target effects evident across the top 11 predicted off-target sites containing at least one cytosine in the activity window (n = 3, pooled amplicons).
Conclusions: CRISPR-mediated base editing can be used to facilitate a permanent and stably inherited cytosine-to-thymine nucleotide correction of the rs1061170 SNP in the CFH gene with minimal off-target effects.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
Research Group: | Ophthalmology and optometry |
Research Field: | Vision science |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Clinical health |
Objective Field: | Clinical health not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Nguyen Tran, MP (Mr Minh Thuan Nguyen Tran) |
UTAS Author: | Mohd Khalid, MKN (Mr Mohd Mohd Khalid) |
UTAS Author: | Cook, AL (Associate Professor Tony Cook) |
UTAS Author: | Liu, G-S (Associate Professor Guei-Sheung Liu) |
UTAS Author: | Hewitt, AW (Professor Alex Hewitt) |
ID Code: | 132604 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Funding Support: | National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT1103329) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
Deposited By: | Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre |
Deposited On: | 2019-05-15 |
Last Modified: | 2022-08-26 |
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