Artificial Virus Delivers CRISPR-Cas9 System for Genome Editing of Cells in Mice

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• 作者：Ling Li ; Linjiang Song ; Xiaowei Liu ; Xi Yang ; Xia Li ; Tao He ; Ning Wang ; Suleixin Yang ; Chuan Yu ; Tao Yin ; Yanzhu Wen ; Zhiyao He ; Xiawei Wei ; Weijun Su ; Qinjie Wu ; Shaohua Yao ; Changyang GongYuquan Wei
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 24, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：11
• 期：1
• 页码：95-111
• 全文大小：1422K
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

CRISPR-Cas9 has emerged as a versatile genome-editing platform. However, due to the large size of the commonly used CRISPR-Cas9 system, its effective delivery has been a challenge and limits its utility for basic research and therapeutic applications. Herein, a multifunctional nucleus-targeting “core-shell” artificial virus (RRPHC) was constructed for the delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 system. The artificial virus could efficiently load with the CRISPR-Cas9 system, accelerate the endosomal escape, and promote the penetration into the nucleus without additional nuclear-localization signal, thus enabling targeted gene disruption. Notably, the artificial virus is more efficient than SuperFect, Lipofectamine 2000, and Lipofectamine 3000. When loaded with a CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid, it induced higher targeted gene disruption efficacy than that of Lipofectamine 3000. Furthermore, the artificial virus effectively targets the ovarian cancer via dual-receptor-mediated endocytosis and had minimum side effects. When loaded with the Cas9-hMTH1 system targeting MTH1 gene, RRPHC showed effective disruption of MTH1 in vivo. This strategy could be adapted for delivering CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid or other functional nucleic acids in vivo.