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GenomePAM directs PAM characterization and engineering of CRISPR-Cas nucleases using mammalian genome repeats.

Zongli Zheng, Miao Yu, Limei Ai, Bang Wang, Shifeng Lian, James Liu, Linxian Li, Shengdar Tsai, Benjamin Kleinstiver, Lawrence Ip

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10 authors.

Zongli ZhengKarolinska Institutet.ORCID 0000-0003-4849-4903
Miao YuKarolinska Institutet.ORCID 0000-0003-1600-7859
Limei AiKarolinska Institutet.
Bang WangKarolinska Institutet.
Shifeng LianKarolinska Institutet.
James LiuGenEditBio.ORCID 0009-0009-8620-5624
Linxian LiKarolinska Institutet.
Shengdar TsaiSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital.ORCID 0000-0001-9161-3993
Benjamin KleinstiverMassachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.ORCID 0000-0002-5469-0655
Lawrence IpGenEditBio Ltd.

Funding

Scalable Development of Custom Genome Editing TechnologiesDP2CA281401 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KLEINSTIVER, BENJAMIN PETER · 2022 to 2025
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS DP2 CA281401
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Abstract

Characterizing the protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) requirements of different Cas enzymes is a bottleneck in the discovery of Cas proteins and their engineered variants in mammalian cell contexts. To overcome this challenge and to enable more scalable characterization of PAM preferences, we develop a method named GenomePAM that allows for direct PAM characterization in mammalian cells. GenomePAM leverages genomic repetitive sequences as target sites and does not require protein purification or synthetic oligos. GenomePAM uses a 20-nt protospacer that occurs ~16,942 times in every human diploid cell and is flanked by nearly random sequences. We demonstrate that GenomePAM can accurately characterize the PAM requirement of type II and type V nucleases, including the minimal PAM requirement of the near-PAMless SpRY and extended PAM for CjCas9. Beyond PAM characterization, GenomePAM allows for simultaneous comparison of activities and fidelities among different Cas nucleases on thousands of match and mismatch sites across the genome using a single gRNA and provides insight into the genome-wide chromatin accessibility profiles in different cell types.

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