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ArticleMolecular therapy. Advances2026

Overcoming lentiviral delivery limitations in hard-to-transduce suspension cells for genome-wide CRISPR screening.

Antonino Napoleone, Ivy Rose Sebastian, Federico De Marco, Alexander Molin, Mohamed Hussein, Lovro Kramer, Thomas Jostock, Thomas Kelly, Nicole Borth

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9 authors.

Antonino NapoleoneAustrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib GmbH), 8010 Graz, Austria.
Ivy Rose SebastianAustrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib GmbH), 8010 Graz, Austria.
Federico De MarcoAustrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib GmbH), 8010 Graz, Austria.
Alexander MolinAustrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib GmbH), 8010 Graz, Austria.
Mohamed HusseinAustrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib GmbH), 8010 Graz, Austria.
Lovro KramerBiologics Research Center, Novartis Pharmaceutical Manufacturing LLC, Mengeš, Slovenia.
Thomas JostockBiologics Research Center, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
Thomas KellyJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Spring House, PA 19477, USA.
Nicole BorthUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), 1190 Vienna, Austria.

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Abstract

Lentiviral vectors are a widely used delivery modality, combining broad cell-type versatility and stable transgene integration into the host genome for long-term genetic manipulation. These properties make them indispensable tools for delivering molecular components in functional genomics and genome engineering applications. However, challenges such as unpredictable integration profiles and variable cell susceptibility to transduction may introduce experimental biases. Considering the impact of intrinsic cell line properties and transduction methodology, we optimized lentiviral delivery specifically in suspension-adapted Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-K1 and human embryonic kidney (HEK)293-6E cells by systematically comparing two procedures: spinoculation and static transduction. We achieved significantly higher library delivery efficiencies by implementing a two-step static transduction protocol, while minimizing cellular stress, streamlining workflows, and eliminating scalability limitations encountered in large-scale applications like genome-wide CRISPR screening. To characterize the variation in lentiviral integration, we used droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) to quantify copy-number variation (CNV) both at the pooled-cell level and within individual clonal isolates. Our approach established a robust, enhanced lentiviral delivery strategy in difficult-to-transduce suspension cells and highlights the importance of modulating transduction rates to limit multiple integrations to ensure the consistency required for large-scale functional genomics applications.

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CHO-K1copy-number variationCRISPRgenome-wide screenhard-to-transduce cellsHEK293lentivirusMOIspinoculationtransduction

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