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Long-Term Effects of In Vivo Genome Editing in the Mouse Retina Using Campylobacter jejuni Cas9 Expressed via Adeno-Associated Virus.


ABSTRACT: Genome editing with CRISPR systems provides an unprecedented opportunity to modulate cellular responses in pathological conditions by inactivating undruggable targets, such as transcription factors. Previously, we demonstrated that the smallest Cas9 ortholog characterized to date, from Campylobacter jejuni (CjCas9) targeted to Hif1a and delivered in an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, effectively suppressed pathological choroidal neovascularization in the mouse retina. Before implementation of CjCas9 as an in vivo therapeutic modality, it is essential to investigate the long-term effects of target gene disruption via AAV-mediated delivery of CjCas9 in vivo. In this study, histologic and electroretinographic analyses demonstrated that CjCas9 targeted to Hif1a did not induce any definite toxicity in the retina, although the target gene was mutated with a frequency ranging from 45% to 79% in retinal or retinal pigment epithelial cells. Importantly, at 14 months after injection, no indels were detected at potential off-target sites identified using Digenome-seq and Cas-OFFinder, suggesting that long-term expression of CjCas9 does not aggravate off-target effects. Taken together, our results show that intravitreal injection of AAV encoding CjCas9 targeted to Hif1a effectively induced and maintained mutations in retinal tissues for more than 1 year and did not affect retinal histologic integrity or functions.

SUBMITTER: Jo DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318782 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Long-Term Effects of In Vivo Genome Editing in the Mouse Retina Using Campylobacter jejuni Cas9 Expressed via Adeno-Associated Virus.

Jo Dong Hyun DH   Koo Taeyoung T   Cho Chang Sik CS   Kim Jin Hyoung JH   Kim Jin-Soo JS   Kim Jeong Hun JH  

Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 20181017 1


Genome editing with CRISPR systems provides an unprecedented opportunity to modulate cellular responses in pathological conditions by inactivating undruggable targets, such as transcription factors. Previously, we demonstrated that the smallest Cas9 ortholog characterized to date, from Campylobacter jejuni (CjCas9) targeted to Hif1a and delivered in an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector, effectively suppressed pathological choroidal neovascularization in the mouse retina. Before implementation  ...[more]

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