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ArticleHuman gene therapy2015

Adenovirus-Mediated Somatic Genome Editing of Pten by CRISPR/Cas9 in Mouse Liver in Spite of Cas9-Specific Immune Responses.

Dan Wang, Haiwei Mou, Shaoyong Li, Yingxiang Li, Soren Hough, Karen Tran, Jia Li, Hao Yin, Daniel G Anderson, Erik J Sontheimer and 3 more

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Article in Human gene therapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 199 papers.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

199 citing papers in PubMed, 337 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Dan Wang1 Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Haiwei Mou2 RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Shaoyong Li1 Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Yingxiang Li3 Department of Bioinformatics, School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University , Shanghai, P.R. China .
Soren Hough2 RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Karen Tran1 Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Jia Li1 Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Hao Yin4 David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Daniel G Anderson4 David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Erik J Sontheimer2 RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Zhiping Weng8 Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Guangping Gao1 Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
Wen Xue2 RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester, Massachusetts.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USTongji University · CN

Funding

Viral escape from AAV expressed transgenesP01AI100263 · NIAID · SCRIPPS FLORIDA · PI FARZAN, MICHAEL R. · 2012 to 2016
$11.9M
The Development of Clinical Grade, Targeted Magnetic NanoparticlesU54CA151884 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LANGER, ROBERT SAMUEL · 2010 to 2014
$11.3M
Oligodendrocyte-focused rAAV gene therapy strategies for Canavan disease and LeukodystrophiesR01NS076991 · NINDS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI Guangping Gao · 2012 to 2026
$5.7M
Investigating microRNA miR-34a in lung cancer development and therapyR00CA169512 · NCI · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI XUE, WEN · 2014 to 2016
$747k
NCI NIH HHS 5R00CA169512NCI NIH HHS 5-U54-CA151884-04NCI NIH HHS R00 CA169512NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI100263NIAID NIH HHS P01AI100263NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS076991NINDS NIH HHS R01NS076991
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR/Cas9 derived from the bacterial adaptive immunity pathway is a powerful tool for genome editing, but the safety profiles of in vivo delivered Cas9 (including host immune responses to the bacterial Cas9 protein) have not been comprehensively investigated in model organisms. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a prevalent human liver disease characterized by excessive fat accumulation in the liver. In this study, we used adenovirus (Ad) vector to deliver a Streptococcus pyogenes-derived Cas9 system (SpCas9) targeting Pten, a gene involved in NASH and a negative regulator of the PI3K-AKT pathway, in mouse liver. We found that the Ad vector mediated efficient Pten gene editing even in the presence of typical Ad vector-associated immunotoxicity in the liver. Four months after vector infusion, mice receiving the Pten gene-editing Ad vector showed massive hepatomegaly and features of NASH, consistent with the phenotypes following Cre-loxP-induced Pten deficiency in mouse liver. We also detected induction of humoral immunity against SpCas9 and the potential presence of an SpCas9-specific cellular immune response. Our findings provide a strategy to model human liver diseases in mice and highlight the importance considering Cas9-specific immune responses in future translational studies involving in vivo delivery of CRISPR/Cas9.

Indexed as

AdenoviridaeAnimalsBacterial ProteinsClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Associated Protein 9CRISPR-Cas SystemsDisease Models, AnimalEndonucleasesGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHumansMiceNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseBacterial ProteinsCas9 endonuclease Streptococcus pyogenesCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Endonucleases

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PMID26086867
PMCPMC4509492
OpenAlexW3020907828

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