PUBLICATION
Enhanced Cas12a editing in mammalian cells and zebrafish
- Authors
- Liu, P., Luk, K., Shin, M., Idrizi, F., Kwok, S., Roscoe, B., Mintzer, E., Suresh, S., Morrison, K., Frazão, J.B., Bolukbasi, M.F., Ponnienselvan, K., Luban, J., Zhu, L.J., Lawson, N.D., Wolfe, S.A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190321-14
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- Nucleic acids research 47(8): 4169-4180 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Lawson, Nathan, Shin, Masahiro, Wolfe, Scot A.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- CRISPR-Cas Systems*
- DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferase 1/genetics
- DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferase 1/metabolism
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Endonucleases/genetics*
- Endonucleases/metabolism
- Gene Editing/methods*
- HEK293 Cells
- HeLa Cells
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
- Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism
- Humans
- Inverted Repeat Sequences
- Jurkat Cells
- K562 Cells
- Nuclear Localization Signals
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Plasmids/chemistry
- Plasmids/metabolism
- RNA, Guide, Kinetoplastida/genetics*
- RNA, Guide, Kinetoplastida/metabolism
- Ribonucleoproteins/genetics*
- Ribonucleoproteins/metabolism
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Transfection
- Zebrafish
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 30892626 Full text @ Nucleic Acids Res.
Citation
Liu, P., Luk, K., Shin, M., Idrizi, F., Kwok, S., Roscoe, B., Mintzer, E., Suresh, S., Morrison, K., Frazão, J.B., Bolukbasi, M.F., Ponnienselvan, K., Luban, J., Zhu, L.J., Lawson, N.D., Wolfe, S.A. (2019) Enhanced Cas12a editing in mammalian cells and zebrafish. Nucleic acids research. 47(8):4169-4180.
Abstract
Type V CRISPR-Cas12a systems provide an alternate nuclease platform to Cas9, with potential advantages for specific genome editing applications. Here we describe improvements to the Cas12a system that facilitate efficient targeted mutagenesis in mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos. We show that engineered variants of Cas12a with two different nuclear localization sequences (NLS) on the C terminus provide increased editing efficiency in mammalian cells. Additionally, we find that pre-crRNAs comprising a full-length direct repeat (full-DR-crRNA) sequence with specific stem-loop G-C base substitutions exhibit increased editing efficiencies compared with the standard mature crRNA framework. Finally, we demonstrate in zebrafish embryos that the improved LbCas12a and FnoCas12a nucleases in combination with these modified crRNAs display high mutagenesis efficiencies and low toxicity when delivered as ribonucleoprotein complexes at high concentration. Together, these results define a set of enhanced Cas12a components with broad utility in vertebrate systems.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping