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ArticleBlood2023

Lipid nanoparticles allow efficient and harmless ex vivo gene editing of human hematopoietic cells.

Valentina Vavassori, Samuele Ferrari, Stefano Beretta, Claudia Asperti, Luisa Albano, Andrea Annoni, Chiara Gaddoni, Angelica Varesi, Monica Soldi, Alessandro Cuomo and 4 more

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Article in Blood, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56citing papers in PubMed
10.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Valentina VavassoriSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3805-0420
Samuele FerrariSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1122-1231
Stefano BerettaSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4375-004X
Claudia AspertiSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0009-0007-5337-4507
Luisa AlbanoSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0013-4741
Andrea AnnoniSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Chiara GaddoniSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0009-0002-6875-2033
Angelica VaresiSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1246-2320
Monica SoldiSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Alessandro CuomoDepartment of Molecular Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Tiziana BonaldiDepartment of Molecular Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3556-1265
Marina RadrizzaniSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0641-4805
Ivan MerelliSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Luigi NaldiniSan Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
The San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy · ITVita-Salute San Raffaele University · ITEuropean Institute of Oncology · ITUniversity of Milan · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ex vivo gene editing in T cells and hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) holds promise for treating diseases. Gene editing encompasses the delivery of a programmable editor RNA or ribonucleoprotein, often achieved ex vivo via electroporation, and when aiming for homology-driven correction of a DNA template, often provided by viral vectors together with a nuclease editor. Although HSPCs activate a robust p53-dependent DNA damage response upon nuclease-based editing, the responses triggered in T cells remain poorly characterized. Here, we performed comprehensive multiomics analyses and found that electroporation is the main culprit of cytotoxicity in T cells, causing death and cell cycle delay, perturbing metabolism, and inducing an inflammatory response. Nuclease RNA delivery using lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) nearly abolished cell death and ameliorated cell growth, improving tolerance to the procedure and yielding a higher number of edited cells compared with using electroporation. Transient transcriptomic changes upon LNP treatment were mostly caused by cellular loading with exogenous cholesterol, whose potentially detrimental impact could be overcome by limiting exposure. Notably, LNP-based HSPC editing dampened p53 pathway induction and supported higher clonogenic activity and similar or higher reconstitution by long-term repopulating HSPCs compared with electroporation, reaching comparable editing efficiencies. Overall, LNPs may allow efficient and harmless ex vivo gene editing in hematopoietic cells for the treatment of human diseases.

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Gene EditingTumor Suppressor Protein p53CRISPR-Cas SystemsHematopoietic Stem CellsHumansLiposomesNanoparticlesRNALipid NanoparticlesLiposomesRNATumor Suppressor Protein p53

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PMID37294917
PMCPMC10644071
OpenAlexW4380086369

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