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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
Volume 140, Issue 10, Pages 1985-+Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.02.012
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End-joining-based gene editing is frequently used for efficient reframing and knockout of target genes. However, the associated random, unpredictable, and often heterogeneous repair outcomes limit its applicability for therapeutic approaches. This study revealed more precise and predictable outcomes simply on the basis of the sequence context at the CRISPR/Cas9 target site. The severe dystrophic form of the blistering skin disease epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) represents a suitable model platform to test these recent developments for the disruption and reframing of dominant and recessive alleles, respectively, both frequently seen in DEB. We delivered a CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease as ribonucleoprotein into primary wild-type and recessive DEB keratinocytes to introduce a precise predictable single adenine sense-strand insertion at the target site. We achieved type VII collagen knockout in more than 40% of ribonucleoprotein-treated primary wild-type keratinocytes and type VII collagen restoration in more than 70% of ribonucleoprotein-treated recessive DEB keratinocytes. Next-generation sequencing of the on-target site revealed the presence of the precise adenine insertion upstream of the pathogenic mutation in at least 17% of all analyzed COL7A1 alleles. This demonstrates that COL7A1 editing based on precise end-joining-mediated DNA repair is an efficient strategy to revert the disease-associated nature of DEB regardless of the mutational inheritance.
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