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CRISPR correction of the Finnish ornithine delta-aminotransferase mutation restores metabolic homeostasis in iPSC from patients with gyrate atrophy.

ABSTRACT: Hyperornithinemia with gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina (HOGA) is a severe recessive inherited disease, causing muscular degeneration and retinochoroidal atrophy that progresses to blindness. HOGA arises from mutations in the ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) gene, and nearly one-third of the known patients worldwide are homozygous for the Finnish founder mutation OAT c.1205 T > C p.(Leu402Pro). We have corrected this loss-of-function OAT mutation in patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using CRISPR/Cas9. The correction restored OAT expression in stem cells and normalized the elevated ornithine levels in cell lysates and cell media. These results show an efficient recovery of OAT function in iPSC, encouraging the possibility of autologous cell therapy for the HOGA disease.

SUBMITTER: Maldonado R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9248217 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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CRISPR correction of the Finnish ornithine delta-aminotransferase mutation restores metabolic homeostasis in iPSC from patients with gyrate atrophy.

Maldonado Rocio R Jalil Sami S Keskinen Timo T Nieminen Anni I AI Hyvönen Mervi E ME Lapatto Risto R Wartiovaara Kirmo K

Molecular genetics and metabolism reports 20220401

Hyperornithinemia with gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina (HOGA) is a severe recessive inherited disease, causing muscular degeneration and retinochoroidal atrophy that progresses to blindness. HOGA arises from mutations in the ornithine aminotransferase <i>(OAT)</i> gene, and nearly one-third of the known patients worldwide are homozygous for the Finnish founder mutation OAT c.1205 T > C p.(Leu402Pro). We have corrected this loss-of-function <i>OAT</i> mutation in patient-derived induced ...[more]

PMID: 35782600

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Project description:Gene-corrected patient-specific induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells offer a novel approach to gene therapy. Yet it is unknown whether selective pressures during prolonged culture and multiple clonal events would introduce a mutational load incompatible with therapeutic use. Here we begin to assess whether the mutational load of gene-corrected iPS cells is compatible with use in the treatment of genetic causes of retinal degenerative disease. We isolated iPS cells free of transgene sequences from a patient with gyrate atrophy caused by a point mutation in the gene encoding ornithine-δ-aminotransferase (OAT) and used homologous recombination to correct the genetic defect. Cytogenetic analysis, array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH), and exome sequencing were performed to assess the genomic integrity of an iPS cell line after three sequential clonal events: initial reprogramming, gene targeting, and subsequent removal of a selection cassette. No abnormalities were detected following standard G-band metaphase analysis. However, aCGH and exome sequencing identified two deletions, one amplification, and nine point mutations in protein-coding regions in the initial iPS cell clone. Except for the targeted correction of the single nucleotide in the OAT locus and a single synonymous base pair change, no additional mutations or copy number variation were identified in iPS cells following the two subsequent clonal events. These findings confirm that iPS cells themselves may carry a significant mutational load at initial isolation, but that the clonal events and prolonged cultured required for correction of a genetic defect can be accomplished without a substantial increase in mutational burden. Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) were performed to assess the genomic integrity of an iPS cell line after three sequential clonal events: initial reprogramming, gene targeting, and subsequent removal of a selection cassette. Human CGH 2.1M Whole-Genome Tiling v2.0D Array plus 4633 custom-designed probes which cover the gene targeting construct and the reprogramming plasmid vectors. Comparison of patient iPS cell with full skin fibroblast cells was performed on this design.

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CRISPR correction of the Finnish ornithine delta-aminotransferase mutation restores metabolic homeostasis in iPSC from patients with gyrate atrophy.

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CRISPR correction of the Finnish ornithine delta-aminotransferase mutation restores metabolic homeostasis in iPSC from patients with gyrate atrophy.

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