Transient inhibition of 53BP1 increases the frequency of targeted integration in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells Journal Article


Authors: Baik, R.; Cromer, M. K.; Glenn, S. E.; Vakulskas, C. A.; Chmielewski, K. O.; Dudek, A. M.; Feist, W. N.; Klermund, J.; Shipp, S.; Cathomen, T.; Dever, D. P.; Porteus, M. H.
Article Title: Transient inhibition of 53BP1 increases the frequency of targeted integration in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
Abstract: Genome editing by homology directed repair (HDR) is leveraged to precisely modify the genome of therapeutically relevant hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Here, we present a new approach to increasing the frequency of HDR in human HSPCs by the delivery of an inhibitor of 53BP1 (named “i53”) as a recombinant peptide. We show that the use of i53 peptide effectively increases the frequency of HDR-mediated genome editing at a variety of therapeutically relevant loci in HSPCs as well as other primary human cell types. We show that incorporating the use of i53 recombinant protein allows high frequencies of HDR while lowering the amounts of AAV6 needed by 8-fold. HDR edited HSPCs were capable of long-term and bi-lineage hematopoietic reconstitution in NSG mice, suggesting that i53 recombinant protein might be safely integrated into the standard CRISPR/AAV6-mediated genome editing protocol to gain greater numbers of edited cells for transplantation of clinically meaningful cell populations. © 2024, The Author(s).
Keywords: mouse; animal; metabolism; animals; mice; protein; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; peptide; inhibitor; recombinant proteins; recombinant protein; peptides; hematopoietic stem cells; genome; hematopoietic stem cell; inhibition; cell; homology; procedures; humans; human; crispr cas system; gene editing; crispr-cas systems
Journal Title: Nature Communications
Volume: 15
ISSN: 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group  
Date Published: 2024-01-02
Start Page: 111
Language: English
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43413-w
PUBMED: 38169468
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC10762240
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