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Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9
The emergence of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized both basic and translational biomedical research. For Cas9 nuclease to exert genome editing activity, nuclear localization signal (NLS) derived from simian virus 40 (SV40) T antigen is commonly installed as genetic fusion to direct the intra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8869684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9020083 |
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author | Shui, Sailan Wang, Shaojie Liu, Jia |
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description | The emergence of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized both basic and translational biomedical research. For Cas9 nuclease to exert genome editing activity, nuclear localization signal (NLS) derived from simian virus 40 (SV40) T antigen is commonly installed as genetic fusion to direct the intracellular Cas9 proteins to the nucleus of cells. Notably, previous studies have shown that multiple SV40 NLS fusion can improve the targeting activity of Cas9-derived genome-editing and base-editing tools. In addition, the multi-NLS fusion can increase the intracellular activity of Cas9 in the forms of both constitutive expression and directly delivered Cas9-guide RNA ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex. However, the relationship between NLS fusion and intracellular Cas9 activity has not been fully understood, including the dependency of activity on the number or organization of NLS fusion. In the present study, we constructed and purified a set of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) variants containing one to four NLS repeats at the N- or C-terminus of the proteins and systematically analyzed the effects of multi-NLS fusion on the activity of SpCas9 RNPs. It was found that multi-NLS fusion could improve the intracellular activity as lipofected or nucleofected Cas9 RNPs. Importantly, multi-NLS fusion could enhance the genome-editing activity of SpCas9 RNPs in primary and stem/progenitor cells and mouse embryos. |
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spelling | pubmed-88696842022-02-25 Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9 Shui, Sailan Wang, Shaojie Liu, Jia Bioengineering (Basel) Article The emergence of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized both basic and translational biomedical research. For Cas9 nuclease to exert genome editing activity, nuclear localization signal (NLS) derived from simian virus 40 (SV40) T antigen is commonly installed as genetic fusion to direct the intracellular Cas9 proteins to the nucleus of cells. Notably, previous studies have shown that multiple SV40 NLS fusion can improve the targeting activity of Cas9-derived genome-editing and base-editing tools. In addition, the multi-NLS fusion can increase the intracellular activity of Cas9 in the forms of both constitutive expression and directly delivered Cas9-guide RNA ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex. However, the relationship between NLS fusion and intracellular Cas9 activity has not been fully understood, including the dependency of activity on the number or organization of NLS fusion. In the present study, we constructed and purified a set of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) variants containing one to four NLS repeats at the N- or C-terminus of the proteins and systematically analyzed the effects of multi-NLS fusion on the activity of SpCas9 RNPs. It was found that multi-NLS fusion could improve the intracellular activity as lipofected or nucleofected Cas9 RNPs. Importantly, multi-NLS fusion could enhance the genome-editing activity of SpCas9 RNPs in primary and stem/progenitor cells and mouse embryos. MDPI 2022-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8869684/ /pubmed/35200436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9020083 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Shui, Sailan Wang, Shaojie Liu, Jia Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9 |
title | Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9 |
title_full | Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9 |
title_fullStr | Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9 |
title_full_unstemmed | Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9 |
title_short | Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Multiple SV40 Nuclear Localization Signal Fusion on the Genome Editing Activity of Purified SpCas9 |
title_sort | systematic investigation of the effects of multiple sv40 nuclear localization signal fusion on the genome editing activity of purified spcas9 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8869684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9020083 |
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