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A flexible split prime editor using truncated reverse transcriptase improves dual-AAV delivery in mouse liver.


ABSTRACT: Prime editor (PE) has tremendous promise for gene therapy. However, it remains a challenge to deliver PE (>6.3 kb) in vivo. Although PE can be split into two fragments and delivered using dual adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), choice of split sites within Cas9-which affects editing efficiency-is limited due to the large size of PE. Furthermore, overexpressing reverse transcriptase in mammalian cells might disrupt translation termination via its RNase H domain. Here, we developed a compact PE without the RNase H domain that showed editing comparable with full-length PE. With compact PE, we used a Cas9 split site (Glu 573) that supported robust editing in cells (up to 93% of full-length PE) and in mouse liver. We then demonstrated that split-cPE573 delivered by dual-AAV8 efficiently mediated a 3-bp TGA insertion in the Pcsk9 gene in mouse liver. Compact PE without the RNase H domain abolished its binding to peptidyl release factor 1 (eRF1) and mitigated the stop codon readthrough effect observed with full-length PE. This study identifies a compact PE with a flexible split design to advance utility of prime editing in vivo.

SUBMITTER: Zheng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8899602 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A flexible split prime editor using truncated reverse transcriptase improves dual-AAV delivery in mouse liver.

Zheng Chunwei C   Liang Shun-Qing SQ   Liu Bin B   Liu Pengpeng P   Kwan Suet-Yan SY   Wolfe Scot A SA   Xue Wen W  

Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 20220105 3


Prime editor (PE) has tremendous promise for gene therapy. However, it remains a challenge to deliver PE (>6.3 kb) in vivo. Although PE can be split into two fragments and delivered using dual adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), choice of split sites within Cas9-which affects editing efficiency-is limited due to the large size of PE. Furthermore, overexpressing reverse transcriptase in mammalian cells might disrupt translation termination via its RNase H domain. Here, we developed a compact PE with  ...[more]

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