Targeted, homology-driven gene insertion in stem cells by ZFN-loaded ‘all-in-one’ lentiviral vectors

  1. Yujia Cai
  2. Anders Laustsen
  3. Yan Zhou
  4. Chenglong Sun
  5. Mads Valdemar Anderson
  6. Shengting Li
  7. Niels Uldbjerg
  8. Yonglun Luo
  9. Martin R Jakobsen
  10. Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen  Is a corresponding author
  1. Aarhus University, Denmark
  2. Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  3. Beijing Genomics Institute, China
3 figures and 3 additional files

Figures

Figure 1 with 1 supplement
Proof-of-efficacy studies and characterization of ZFN-loaded IDLVs carrying a transgene flanked by homology arms facilitating insertion by homologous recombination.

(A) Schematic illustration of the production, transduction and integration of IDLVs carrying ZFNs and transgene. Enrichment of ZFN-fused viral polypeptides and donor-carried viral RNAs at the cell …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.002
Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Characterization of protein delivery by ZFN-loaded IDLVs.

(AC) Immunostaining and confocal microscopy of producer cells and virions. Green, eGFP or HA-tagged ZFN; blue, nuclei; red, p24; scale bar represents 5 μm. (A) HEK293T cells co-transfected with …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.003
Figure 2 with 1 supplement
Targeted gene integration mediated by IDLV-ZFN(AAVS1)/egfp in CD34+ cells.

(A) Schematic illustration of protocols used for IDLV-ZFN(AAVS1)/egfp transduction in CD34+ cells. (B) Flow cytometry analysis showing the percentage of eGFP+ cells after transduction using protocol …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.004
Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Allelic disruption and gene insertion after lentiviral ZFN delivery in human CD34+ cells.

(A) Allelic disruption at the AAVS1 locus in CD34+ cells by LP-ZFN(AAVS1) transduction at a dose of 500 ng p24 per 105 cells.LP entry was facilitated by RetroNectin. (B) Flow cytometry analysis of …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.005
Figure 3 with 1 supplement
Targeted gene integration in iPSCs by IDLV-ZFN(AAVS1)/puro and IDLV-ZFN(CCR5)/puro.

(A) Gene disruption mediated by transduction of LP-ZFN(AAVS1) and LP-ZFN(CCR5) in iPSCs. (B) Puromycin-resistant iPSC clones appearing after transduction with IDLV-ZFN(AAVS1)/puro. Clones were …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.006
Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Deep sequencing analysis of cleavage frequencies at the on-target and top ranking off-target loci of AAVS1 (A) and CCR5 (B) in pools of iPSC clones.

Error bars indicate 95% Wilson score intervals. For this analysis, HiSeq reads were trimmed with Sickle, merged with FLASH, and mapped to the amplicons using bowtie2 (described in Material and …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.007

Additional files

Supplementary file 1

(A) Sanger sequencing of donor-genome junctions and the AAVS1 locus. The PCR products of 5’ junction and 3’ junction sites as well as the AAVS1 locus from 8 analyzed iPSC clones were Sanger sequenced. The black letters represent genomic DNA at the AAVS1 locus, whereas blue letters represent donor-derived sequences. WT indicates wild-type sequence; indel (+1bp) indicates 1-bp insertion; N.A., not available. (B) Sanger sequencing of PROGNOS-predicted off-target site 1, 2 and 3. The blue sequence indicates the predicted binding site of the right ZFN; the green sequence indicates predicted binding site of the left ZFN; letters highlighted in red indicate mismatches.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.008
Supplementary file 2

(A) Primers used for molecular cloning and PCR amplification of junction sites. (B) Primers used to amplify PROGNOS-predicted off-target sites.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.009
Supplementary file 3

Donor sequences.

Homology arms and transgene expression cassettes in pLV/AAVS1-donor-egfp-PGK, pLV/AAVS1-donor-fluc-PGK, pLV/AAVS1-donor-puro-PGK and pLV/CCR5-donor-puro-PGK are provided. For each transgene expression cassette, sequences are annotated as listed below the sequence and indicated with different colors.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12213.010

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