Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
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Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
Abstract
Most genetic variants that contribute to disease1 are challenging to correct efficiently and without excess byproducts2-5. Here we describe prime editing, a versatile and precise genome editing method that directly writes new genetic information into a specified DNA site using a catalytically impaired Cas9 endonuclease fused to an engineered reverse transcriptase, programmed with a prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) that both specifies the target site and encodes the desired edit. We performed more than 175 edits in human cells, including targeted insertions, deletions, and all 12 types of point mutation, without requiring double-strand breaks or donor DNA templates. We used prime editing in human cells to correct, efficiently and with few byproducts, the primary genetic causes of sickle cell disease (requiring a transversion in HBB) and Tay-Sachs disease (requiring a deletion in HEXA); to install a protective transversion in PRNP; and to insert various tags and epitopes precisely into target loci. Four human cell lines and primary post-mitotic mouse cortical neurons support prime editing with varying efficiencies. Prime editing shows higher or similar efficiency and fewer byproducts than homology-directed repair, has complementary strengths and weaknesses compared to base editing, and induces much lower off-target editing than Cas9 nuclease at known Cas9 off-target sites. Prime editing substantially expands the scope and capabilities of genome editing, and in principle could correct up to 89% of known genetic variants associated with human diseases.
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Super-precise new CRISPR tool could tackle a plethora of genetic diseases.Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7779):464-465. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03164-5. Nature. 2019. PMID: 31641267 No abstract available.
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A prime alternative.Nat Rev Genet. 2020 Jan;21(1):3. doi: 10.1038/s41576-019-0191-6. Nat Rev Genet. 2020. PMID: 31649330 No abstract available.
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CRISPR-Cas in its prime.Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2019 Dec;20(12):718-719. doi: 10.1038/s41580-019-0194-3. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2019. PMID: 31685954 No abstract available.
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Human germline editing needs one message.Nature. 2019 Nov;575(7783):415-416. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03525-0. Nature. 2019. PMID: 31748735 No abstract available.
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Expanding the gene editing landscape.Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2019 Nov;18(12):904. doi: 10.1038/d41573-019-00178-6. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2019. PMID: 31780843 No abstract available.
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CRISPR tool modifies genes precisely by copying RNA into the genome.Nature. 2019 Dec;576(7785):48-49. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03392-9. Nature. 2019. PMID: 31792413 No abstract available.
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Uncut but Primed for Change.CRISPR J. 2019 Dec;2(6):352-354. doi: 10.1089/crispr.2019.29079.mji. CRISPR J. 2019. PMID: 31860347 No abstract available.
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