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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2024

Prime editing functionally corrects cystic fibrosis-causing CFTR mutations in human organoids and airway epithelial cells.

Mattijs Bulcaen, Phéline Kortleven, Ronald B Liu, Giulia Maule, Elise Dreano, Mairead Kelly, Marjolein M Ensinck, Sam Thierie, Maxime Smits, Matteo Ciciani and 10 more

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Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. CRISPR for cystic fibrosis: Advances and insights from a systematic review.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  7. Therapeutic Gene Editing of APOE4 in Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease via Prime Editor 7.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  13. Gene-sized editing for the therapy of genetic diseases.Functional & integrative genomics · 2026
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  14. Organoids for Metabolic Disease Modeling.Journal of inherited metabolic disease · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Mattijs BulcaenDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: mattijs.bulcaen@kuleuven.be.
Phéline KortlevenDepartment of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Ronald B LiuDepartment of Biosystems, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JL Edinburgh, UK.
Giulia MauleDepartment of CIBIO, University of Trento, 38123 Povo-Trento, Italy.
Elise DreanoINSERM, CNRS, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Cité, 75015 Paris, France.
Mairead KellyINSERM, CNRS, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Cité, 75015 Paris, France.
Marjolein M EnsinckDepartment of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Sam ThierieDepartment of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Maxime SmitsDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Viral Vector Core, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Matteo CicianiDepartment of CIBIO, University of Trento, 38123 Povo-Trento, Italy.
Aurelie HattonINSERM, CNRS, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Cité, 75015 Paris, France.
Benoit ChevalierINSERM, CNRS, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Cité, 75015 Paris, France.
Anabela S RamalhoDepartment of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Xavier Casadevall I SolvasDepartment of Biosystems, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Zeger DebyserDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Viral Vector Core, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
François VermeulenDepartment of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Pediatrics, UZ Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Rik GijsbersDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Viral Vector Core, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Isabelle Sermet-GaudelusINSERM, CNRS, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Cité, 75015 Paris, France; Cystic Fibrosis National Pediatric Reference Center, Pneumo-Allergologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), 75015 Paris, France; European Reference Network, ERN-Lung CF, 60596 Frankfurt am Mein, Germany.
Anna CeresetoDepartment of CIBIO, University of Trento, 38123 Povo-Trento, Italy.
Marianne S CarlonDepartment of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Viral Vector Core, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: marianne.carlon@kuleuven.be.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prime editing is a recent, CRISPR-derived genome editing technology capable of introducing precise nucleotide substitutions, insertions, and deletions. Here, we present prime editing approaches to correct L227R- and N1303K-CFTR, two mutations that cause cystic fibrosis and are not eligible for current market-approved modulator therapies. We show that, upon DNA correction of the CFTR gene, the complex glycosylation, localization, and, most importantly, function of the CFTR protein are restored in HEK293T and 16HBE cell lines. These findings were subsequently validated in patient-derived rectal organoids and human nasal epithelial cells. Through analysis of predicted and experimentally identified candidate off-target sites in primary stem cells, we confirm previous reports on the high prime editor (PE) specificity and its potential for a curative CF gene editing therapy. To facilitate future screening of genetic strategies in a translational CF model, a machine learning algorithm was developed for dynamic quantification of CFTR function in organoids (DETECTOR: "detection of targeted editing of CFTR in organoids").

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Cystic FibrosisCystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance RegulatorEpithelial CellsGene EditingMutationOrganoidsCRISPR-Cas SystemsHEK293 CellsHumansCFTR protein, humanCystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance RegulatorCRISPRcystic fibrosisDETECTORgene editinghuman nasal epithelial cellsmachine learningpatient-derived organoidsprime editing

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PMID38697102
PMCPMC11148721

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