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ArticlePloS one2020

Sensitive and reliable evaluation of single-cut sgRNAs to restore dystrophin by a GFP-reporter assay.

Pin Lyu, Kyung Whan Yoo, Manish Kumar Yadav, Anthony Atala, Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Maaike van Putten, Dongsheng Duan, Baisong Lu

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Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Pin LyuWake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America.
Kyung Whan YooWake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America.
Manish Kumar YadavWake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America.
Anthony AtalaWake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America.
Annemieke Aartsma-RusLeiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1565-654X
Maaike van PuttenLeiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Dongsheng DuanDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America.
Baisong LuWake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8218-4859
Forest Institute · USLeiden University Medical Center · NLUniversity of Missouri · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) cases are caused by deletions or duplications of one or more exons that disrupt the reading frame of DMD mRNA. Restoring the reading frame allows the production of partially functional dystrophin proteins, and result in less severe symptoms. Antisense oligonucleotide mediated exon skipping has been approved for DMD, but this strategy needs repeated treatment. CRISPR/Cas9 can also restore dystrophin reading frame. Although recent in vivo studies showed the efficacy of the single-cut reframing/exon skipping strategy, methods to find the most efficient single-cut sgRNAs for a specific mutation are lacking. Here we show that the insertion/deletion (INDEL) generating efficiency and the INDEL profiles both contribute to the reading frame restoring efficiency of a single-cut sgRNA, thus assays only examining INDEL frequency are not able to find the best sgRNAs. We therefore developed a GFP-reporter assay to evaluate single-cut reframing efficiency, reporting the combined effects of both aspects. We show that the GFP-reporter assay can reliably predict the performance of sgRNAs in myoblasts. This GFP-reporter assay makes it possible to efficiently and reliably find the most efficient single-cut sgRNA for restoring dystrophin expression.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsDystrophinExonsGenes, ReporterGenetic TherapyHumansINDEL MutationMuscular Dystrophy, DuchenneOligonucleotides, AntisenseReading FramesRNA, MessengerDMD protein, humanDystrophinOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNA, Messenger

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PMID32970732
PMCPMC7514106
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