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Targeted Myostatin Gene Editing in Multiple Mammalian Species Directed by a Single Pair of TALE Nucleases.

ABSTRACT: Myostatin (MSTN) is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle mass. Strategies to block myostatin signaling pathway have been extensively pursued to increase muscle mass in various disease settings including muscular dystrophy. Here, we report a new class of reagents based on transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) to disrupt myostatin expression at the genome level. We designed a pair of MSTN TALENs to target a highly conserved sequence in the coding region of the myostatin gene. We demonstrate that codelivery of these MSTN TALENs induce highly specific and efficient gene disruption in a variety of human, cattle, and mouse cells. Based upon sequence analysis, this pair of TALENs is expected to be functional in many other mammalian species. Moreover, we demonstrate that these MSTN TALENs can facilitate targeted integration of a mCherry expression cassette or a larger muscular dystrophy gene (dysferlin) expression cassette into the MSTN locus in mouse or human cells. Therefore, targeted editing of the myostatin gene using our highly specific and efficient TALEN pair would facilitate cell engineering, allowing potential use in translational research for cell-based therapy.Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids (2013) 2, e112; doi:10.1038/mtna.2013.39; published online 30 July 2013.

SUBMITTER: Xu L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3731890 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Targeted Myostatin Gene Editing in Multiple Mammalian Species Directed by a Single Pair of TALE Nucleases.

Xu Li L Zhao Piming P Mariano Andrew A Han Renzhi R

Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids 20130730

Myostatin (MSTN) is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle mass. Strategies to block myostatin signaling pathway have been extensively pursued to increase muscle mass in various disease settings including muscular dystrophy. Here, we report a new class of reagents based on transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) to disrupt myostatin expression at the genome level. We designed a pair of MSTN TALENs to target a highly conserved sequence in the coding region of the myostatin gene. ...[more]

PMID: 23900226

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Non-human primate (NHP) models can closely mimic human physiological functions and are therefore highly valuable in biomedical research. Genome editing is now developing rapidly due to the precision and efficiency offered by engineered site-specific endonuclease-based systems, such as transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein-9 nuclease (Cas9) system. It has been demonstrated that these programmable nucleases can introduce genetic changes in embryos from many species including NHPs. In 2014, we reported the first genetic editing of macaques using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9. Subsequently, we characterized the phenotype of a methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2)-mutant cynomolgus monkey model of Rett syndrome generated using the TALEN approach. These efforts not only accelerated the advance of modeling genetic diseases in NHPs, but also encouraged us to develop specific gene knock-in monkeys. In this study, we assess the possibility of homologous recombination (HR)-mediated gene replacement using TALENs in monkeys, and generate preimplantation embryos carrying an EmGFP fluorescent reporter constructed in the OCT4 gene. RESULT:We assembled a pair of TALENs specific to the first exon of the OCT4 gene and constructed a donor vector consisting of the homology arms cloned from the monkey genome DNA, flanking an EmGFP cassette. Next, we co-injected the TALENs-coding plasmid and donor plasmid into the cytoplasm of 122 zygotes 6-8?h after fertilization. Sequencing and immunofluorescence revealed that the OCT4-EmGFP knock-in allele had been successfully generated by TALENs-mediated HR at an efficiency of 11.3% (7 out of 62) or 11.1% (1 out of 9), respectively, in monkey embryos. CONCLUSION:We have successfully, for the first time, obtained OCT4-EmGFP knock-in monkey embryos via HR mediated by TALENs. Our results suggest that gene targeting through TALEN-assisted HR is a useful approach to introduce precise genetic modification in NHPs.

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