Patent Grant
11268082
Targeted editing of nucleic acid sequences, for example, the targeted cleavage or the targeted introduction of a specific modification into genomic DNA, is a highly promising approach for the study of gene function and also has the potential to provide new therapies for human genetic diseases.1 An ideal nucleic acid editing technology possesses three characteristics: (1) high efficiency of installing the desired modification; (2) minimal off-target activity; and (3) the ability to be programmed to edit precisely any site in a given nucleic acid, e.g., any site within the human genome.2 Current genome engineering tools, including engineered zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs),3 transcription activator like effector nucleases (TALENs),4 and most recently, the RNA-guided DNA endonuclease Cas9,5 effect sequence-specific DNA cleavage in a genome. This programmable cleavage can result in mutation of the DNA at the cleavage site via non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or replacement of the DNA surrounding the cleavage site via homology-directed repair (HDR).6,7
One drawback to the current technologies is that both NHEJ and HDR are stochastic processes that typically result in modest gene editing efficiencies as well as unwanted gene alterations that can compete with the desired alteration.8 Since many genetic diseases in principle can be treated by effecting a specific nucleotide change at a specific location in the genome (for example, a C to T change in a specific codon of a gene associated with a disease),9 the development of a programmable way to achieve such precision gene editing would represent both a powerful new research tool, as well as a potential new approach to gene editing-based human therapeutics.
Nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins (napDNAbp), such as the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system is a recently discovered prokaryotic adaptive immune system10 that has been modified to enable robust and general genome engineering in a variety of organisms and cell lines.11 CRISPR-Cas (CRISPR associated) systems are protein-RNA complexes that use an RNA molecule (sgRNA) as a guide to localize the complex to a target DNA sequence via base-pairing.12 In the natural systems, a Cas protein then acts as an endonuclease to cleave the targeted DNA sequence.13 The target DNA sequence must be both complementary to the sgRNA, and also contain a “protospacer-adjacent motif” (PAM) at the 3′-end of the complementary region in order for the system to function.14
Among the known Cas proteins, S. pyogenes Cas9 has been mostly widely used as a tool for genome engineering.15 This Cas9 protein is a large, multi-domain protein containing two distinct nuclease domains. Point mutations can be introduced into Cas9 to abolish nuclease activity, resulting in a dead Cas9 (dCas9) that still retains its ability to bind DNA in a sgRNA-programmed manner.16 In principle, when fused to another protein or domain, dCas9 can target that protein or domain to virtually any DNA sequence simply by co-expression with an appropriate sgRNA.
The potential of the dCas9 complex for genome engineering purposes is immense. Its unique ability to bring proteins to specific sites in a genome programmed by the sgRNA in theory can be developed into a variety of site-specific genome engineering tools beyond nucleases, including deaminases (e.g., cytidine deamianses), transcriptional activators, transcriptional repressors, histone-modifying proteins, integrases, and recombinases.11 Some of these potential applications have recently been implemented through dCas9 fusions with transcriptional activators to afford RNA-guided transcriptional activators,17,18 transcriptional repressors, 16,19,20 and chromatin modification enzymes.21 Simple co-expression of these fusions with a variety of sgRNAs results in specific expression of the target genes. These seminal studies have paved the way for the design and construction of readily programmable sequence-specific effectors for the precise manipulation of genomes.
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that certain configurations of a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp), for example CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, or Argonaute protein, and a cytidine deaminase domain fused by a linker are useful for efficiently deaminating target cytidine residues. Other aspects of this disclosure relate to the recognition that a nucleobase editing fusion protein with a cytidine deaminase domain fused to the N-terminus of a napDNAbp via a linker was capable of efficiently deaminating target nucleic acids in a double stranded DNA target molecule. See, for example, Examples 3 and 4 below, which demonstrate that the fusion proteins, which are also referred to herein as base editors, generate less indels and more efficiently deaminate target nucleic acids than other base editors, such as base editors without a UGI domain. Other aspects of this disclosure relate to the recognition that a nucleobase editing fusion protein with a cytidine deaminase domain fused to the N-terminus of napDNAbp via a linker perform base editing with higher efficiency and greatly improved product purity when the fusion protein is comprised of more than one UGI domain. See, for example, Example 17, which demonstrates that a fusion protein (e.g., base editor) comprising two UGI domains generates less indels and more efficiently deaminates target nucleic acids than other base editors, such as those comprising one UGI domain.
In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises: (i) a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp); (ii) a cytidine deaminase domain; and (iii) a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domain, where the napDNAbp is a CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, or Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a CasX protein. In some embodiments, the CasX protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 29 or 30. In some embodiments, the CasX protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 29 or 30.
In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises: (i) a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp); (ii) a cytidine deaminase domain; (iii) a first uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domain; and (iv) a second uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domain, wherein the napDNAbp is a Cas9, dCas9, or Cas9 nickase protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a dCas9 protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, or Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein is a S. pyogenes dCas9 (SpCas9d). In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein is a S. pyogenes dCas9 harboring a D10A mutation. In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 6 or 7. In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 or 7. In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein is a S. aureus dCas9 (SaCas9d). In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein is a S. aureus dCas9 harboring a D10A mutation. In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 33-36. In some embodiments, the dCas9 protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 33-36.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a CasY protein. In some embodiments, the CasY protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 31. In some embodiments, the CasY protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 31.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a Cpf1 or Cpf1 mutant protein. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 or Cpf1 mutant protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 9-24. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 or Cpf1 mutant protein comprises the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 9-24.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a C2c1 protein. In some embodiments, the C2c1 protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 26. In some embodiments, the C2c1 protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 26.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a C2c2 protein. In some embodiments, the C2c2 protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 27. In some embodiments, the C2c2 protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 27.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a C2c3 protein. In some embodiments, the C2c3 protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 28. In some embodiments, the C2c3 protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 28.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is an Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, the Argonaute protein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 25. In some embodiments, the Argonaute protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 25.
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that fusion proteins provided herein are capable of generating one or more mutations (e.g., a C to T mutation) without generating a large proportion of indels. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins (e.g., base editing proteins) provided herein generate less than 10% indels. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins (e.g., base editing proteins) provided herein generate less than 10%, 9%, 8%, 7%, 6%, 5.5%, 5%, 4.5%, 4%, 3.5%, 3%, 2.5%, 2%, 1.5%, 1%, 0.5%, or 0.1% indels.
In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises a napDNAbp and an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex 1 (APOBEC1) deaminase domain, where the deaminase domain is fused to the N-terminus of the napDNAbp domain via a linker comprising the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604). In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises the amino acid sequence of any of the napDNAbp provided herein. In some embodiments, the deaminase is rat APOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76). In some embodiments, the deaminase is human APOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 74). In some embodiments, the deaminase is pmCDA1 (SEQ ID NO: 81). In some embodiments, the deaminase is human APOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human APOBEC3G variant of any one of (SEQ ID NOs: 82-84). In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises a napDNAbp and an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex 1 catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G) deaminase domain, wherein the deaminase domain is fused to the N-terminus of the napDNAbp domain via a linker of any length or composition (e.g., an amino acid sequence, a peptide, a polymer, or a bond). In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604). In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605).
In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises a napDNAbp and a cytidine deaminase 1 (CDA1) deaminase domain, wherein the deaminase domain is fused to the N-terminus of the napDNAbp domain via a linker comprising the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604). In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605). In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises the amino acid sequence of any of the napDNAbps provided herein.
In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises a napDNAbp and an activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) deaminase domain, where the deaminase domain is fused to the N-terminus of the napDNAbp domain via a linker comprising the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604). In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605). In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises the amino acid sequence of any of the napDNAbps provided herein.
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that certain configurations of a napDNAbp, and a cytidine deaminase domain fused by a linker are useful for efficiently deaminating target cytidine residues. Other aspects of this disclosure relate to the recognition that a nucleobase editing fusion protein with an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex 1 (APOBEC1) deaminase domain fused to the N-terminus of a napDNAbp via a linker comprising the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604) was capable of efficiently deaminating target nucleic acids in a double stranded DNA target molecule. In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises a napDNAbp domain and an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex 1 (APOBEC1) deaminase domain, where the deaminase domain is fused to the N-terminus of the napDNAbp via a linker comprising the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604).
Some aspects of this disclosure provide strategies, systems, reagents, methods, and kits that are useful for the targeted editing of nucleic acids, including editing a single site within a subject's genome, e.g., a human's genome. In some embodiments, fusion proteins of napDNAbp (e.g., CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, or Argonaute protein) and deaminases or deaminase domains, are provided. In some embodiments, methods for targeted nucleic acid editing are provided. In some embodiments, reagents and kits for the generation of targeted nucleic acid editing proteins, e.g., fusion proteins of napDNAbp and deaminases or deaminase domains, are provided.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide fusion proteins comprising a napDNAbp as provided herein that is fused to a second protein (e.g., an enzymatic domain such as a cytidine deaminase domain), thus forming a fusion protein. In some embodiments, the second protein comprises an enzymatic domain, or a binding domain. In some embodiments, the enzymatic domain is a nuclease, a nickase, a recombinase, a deaminase, a methyltransferase, a methylase, an acetylase, an acetyltransferase, a transcriptional activator, or a transcriptional repressor domain. In some embodiments, the enzymatic domain is a nucleic acid editing domain. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain is a deaminase domain. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a cytosine deaminase or a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC1 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC2 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3A deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3B deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3C deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3D deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3E deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3F deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3G deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3H deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC4 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an activation-induced deaminase (AID). It should be appreciated that the deaminase may be from any suitable organism (e.g., a human or a rat). In some embodiments, the deaminase is from a human, chimpanzee, gorilla, monkey, cow, dog, rat, or mouse. In some embodiments, the deaminase is rat APOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76). In some embodiments, the deaminase is human APOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 74). In some embodiments, the deaminase is pmCDA1.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide fusion proteins comprising: (i) a CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, or Argonaute protein domain comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 32; and (ii) an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex 1 (APOBEC1) deaminase domain, wherein the deaminase domain is fused to the N-terminus of the napDNAbp via a linker comprising the amino acid sequence of SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604). In some embodiments, the deaminase is rat APOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76). In some embodiments, the deaminase is human APOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 74). In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 591. In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5737. In some embodiments, the deaminase is pmCDA1 (SEQ ID NO: 81). In some embodiments, the deaminase is human APOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human APOBEC3G variant of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 82-84.
Other aspects of this disclosure relate to the recognition that fusion proteins comprising a deaminase domain, a napDNAbp domain and a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domain demonstrate improved efficiency for deaminating target nucleotides in a nucleic acid molecule. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, cellular DNA-repair response to the presence of U:G heteroduplex DNA may be responsible for a decrease in nucleobase editing efficiency in cells. Uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) catalyzes removal of U from DNA in cells, which may initiate base excision repair, with reversion of the U:G pair to a C:G pair as the most common outcome. As demonstrated herein, Uracil DNA Glycosylase Inhibitor (UGI) may inhibit human UDG activity. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, base excision repair may be inhibited by molecules that bind the single strand, block the edited base, inhibit UGI, inhibit base excision repair, protect the edited base, and/or promote “fixing” of the non-edited strand, etc. Thus, this disclosure contemplates fusion proteins comprising a napDNAbp-cytidine deaminase domain that is fused to a UGI domain.
Further aspects of this disclosure relate to the recognition that fusion proteins comprising a deaminase domain, a napDNAbp domain, and more than one uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domain (e.g., one, two, three, four, five, or more UGI domains) demonstrate improved efficiency for deaminating target nucleotides in a nucleic acid molecule and/or improved nucleic acid product purity. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, the addition of a second UGI domain may substantially decrease the access of UDG to the G:U base editing intermediate, thereby improving the efficiency of the base editing.
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that any of the base editors provided herein are capable of modifying a specific nucleotide base without generating a significant proportion of indels. An “indel”, as used herein, refers to the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide base within a nucleic acid. Such insertions or deletions can lead to frame shift mutations within a coding region of a gene. In some embodiments, it is desirable to generate base editors that efficiently modify (e.g. mutate or deaminate) a specific nucleotide within a nucleic acid, without generating insertions or deletions (i.e., indels) in the nucleic acid. In certain embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of generating a greater proportion of intended modifications (e.g., point mutations or deaminations) versus indels.
In certain embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of generating a certain percentage of desired mutations. In some embodiments, the desired mutation is a C to T mutation. In some embodiments, the desired mutation is a C to A mutation, In some embodiments, the desired mutation is a C to G mutation. In some embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of generating at least 1% of desired mutations. In some embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of generating at least 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 40%, 45%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, or 99% of desired mutations.
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that any of the base editors provided herein are capable of efficiently generating an intended mutation, such as a point mutation, in a nucleic acid (e.g. a nucleic acid within a genome of a subject) without generating a significant number of unintended mutations, such as unintended point mutations.
In some embodiments, the deaminase domain of the fusion protein is fused to the N-terminus of the napDNAbp domain. In some embodiments, the UGI domain is fused to the C-terminus of the napDNAbp domain. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp and the nucleic acid editing domain are fused via a linker. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp domain and the UGI domain are fused via a linker. In some embodiments, a second UGI domain is fused to the C-terminus of a first UGI domain. In some embodiments, the first UGI domain and the second UGI domain are fused via a linker.
In certain embodiments, linkers may be used to link any of the peptides or peptide domains of the invention. The linker may be as simple as a covalent bond, or it may be a polymeric linker many atoms in length. In certain embodiments, the linker is a polpeptide or based on amino acids. In other embodiments, the linker is not peptide-like. In certain embodiments, the linker is a covalent bond (e.g., a carbon-carbon bond, disulfide bond, carbon-heteroatom bond, etc.). In certain embodiments, the linker is a carbon-nitrogen bond of an amide linkage. In certain embodiments, the linker is a cyclic or acyclic, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched aliphatic or heteroaliphatic linker. In certain embodiments, the linker is polymeric (e.g., polyethylene, polyethylene glycol, polyamide, polyester, etc.). In certain embodiments, the linker comprises a monomer, dimer, or polymer of aminoalkanoic acid. In certain embodiments, the linker comprises an aminoalkanoic acid (e.g., glycine, ethanoic acid, alanine, beta-alanine, 3-aminopropanoic acid, 4-aminobutanoic acid, 5-pentanoic acid, etc.). In certain embodiments, the linker comprises a monomer, dimer, or polymer of aminohexanoic acid (Ahx). In certain embodiments, the linker is based on a carbocyclic moiety (e.g., cyclopentane, cyclohexane). In other embodiments, the linker comprises a polyethylene glycol moiety (PEG). In other embodiments, the linker comprises amino acids. In certain embodiments, the linker comprises a peptide. In certain embodiments, the linker comprises an aryl or heteroaryl moiety. In certain embodiments, the linker is based on a phenyl ring. The linker may included functionalized moieties to facilitate attachment of a nucleophile (e.g., thiol, amino) from the peptide to the linker. Any electrophile may be used as part of the linker. Exemplary electrophiles include, but are not limited to, activated esters, activated amides, Michael acceptors, alkyl halides, aryl halides, acyl halides, and isothiocyanates.
In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence (GGGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 607), (G)n(SEQ ID NO: 608), (EAAAK)n (SEQ ID NO: 609), (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO:610), (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606), SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604), (XP)n (SEQ ID NO: 611), SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612), SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605), or any combination thereof, wherein n is independently an integer between 1 and 30, and X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610), wherein n is 1, 3, or 7. In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612), wherein n is 2. In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604). In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605).
In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the structure [nucleic acid editing domain]-[optional linker sequence]-[napDNAbp]-[optional linker sequence]-[UGI]. In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the structure [nucleic acid editing domain]-[optional linker sequence]-[UGI]-[optional linker sequence]-[napDNAbp]; [UGI]-[optional linker sequence]-[nucleic acid editing domain]-[optional linker sequence]-[napDNAbp]; [UGI]-[optional linker sequence]-[napDNAbp]-[optional linker sequence]-[nucleic acid editing domain]; [napDNAbp]-[optional linker sequence]-[UGI]-[optional linker sequence]-[nucleic acid editing domain]; [napDNAbp]-[optional linker sequence]-[nucleic acid editing domain]-[optional linker sequence]-[UGI]; or [nucleic acid editing domain]-[optional linker sequence]-[napDNAbp]-[optional linker sequence]-[first UGI]-[optional linker sequence]-[second UGI].
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain comprises a deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC1 deaminase, an APOBEC2 deaminase, an APOBEC3A deaminase, an APOBEC3B deaminase, an APOBEC3C deaminase, an APOBEC3D deaminase, an APOBEC3F deaminase, an APOBEC3G deaminase, an APOBEC3H deaminase, or an APOBEC4 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an activation-induced deaminase (AID). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a cytidine deaminase 1 (CDA1). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a Lamprey CDA1 (pmCDA1) deaminase.
In some embodiments, the deaminase is from a human, chimpanzee, gorilla, monkey, cow, dog, rat, or mouse. In some embodiments, the deaminase is from a human. In some embodiments the deaminase is from a rat. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a rat APOBEC1 deaminase comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in (SEQ ID NO: 76). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human APOBEC1 deaminase comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in (SEQ ID NO: 74). In some embodiments, the deaminase is pmCDA1 (SEQ ID NO: 81). In some embodiments, the deaminase is human APOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human APOBEC3G variant of any one of (SEQ ID NOs: 82-84). In some embodiments, the deaminase is at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 92%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 49-84.
In some embodiments, the UGI domain comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 92%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to SEQ ID NO: 134. In some embodiments, the UGI domain comprises the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide complexes comprising a napDNAbp fusion protein as provided herein, and a guide RNA bound to the napDNAbp.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide methods of using the napDNAbp, fusion proteins, or complexes provided herein. For example, some aspects of this disclosure provide methods comprising contacting a DNA molecule (a) with a napDNAbp or a fusion protein as provided herein and with a guide RNA, wherein the guide RNA is about 15-100 nucleotides long and comprises a sequence of at least 10 contiguous nucleotides that is complementary to a target sequence; or (b) with a napDNAbp, a napDNAbp fusion protein, or a napDNAbp or napDNAbp complex with a gRNA as provided herein.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide kits comprising a nucleic acid construct, comprising (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a napDNAbp or a napDNAbp fusion protein as provided herein; and (b) a heterologous promoter that drives expression of the sequence of (a). In some embodiments, the kit further comprises an expression construct encoding a guide RNA backbone, wherein the construct comprises a cloning site positioned to allow the cloning of a nucleic acid sequence identical or complementary to a target sequence into the guide RNA backbone.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide polynucleotides encoding a napDNAbp of a fusion protein as provided herein. Some aspects of this disclosure provide vectors comprising such polynucleotides. In some embodiments, the vector comprises a heterologous promoter driving expression of polynucleotide.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide cells comprising a napDNAbp protein, a fusion protein, a nucleic acid molecule, and/or a vector as provided herein.
It should be appreciated that any of the fusion proteins provided herein that include a Cas9 domain (e.g. Cas9, nCas9, or dCas9) may be replaced with any of the napDNAbp provided herein, for example CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, or Argonaute protein.
The description of exemplary embodiments of the reporter systems above is provided for illustration purposes only and not meant to be limiting. Additional reporter systems, e.g., variations of the exemplary systems described in detail above, are also embraced by this disclosure.
The summary above is meant to illustrate, in a non-limiting manner, some of the embodiments, advantages, features, and uses of the technology disclosed herein. Other embodiments, advantages, features, and uses of the technology disclosed herein will be apparent from the Detailed Description, the Drawings, the Examples, and the Claims.
19 shows nucleobase editing efficiencies of NBE2 in U2OS and HEK293T cells. Cellular C to T conversion percentages by NBE2 are shown for each of the six targeted genomic loci in HEK293T cells and U2OS cells. HEK293T cells were transfected using LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent, and U2OS cells were nucleofected. U2OS nucleofection efficiency was 74%. Three days after plasmid delivery, genomic DNA was extracted and analyzed for nucleobase editing at the six genomic loci by HTS. Values and error bars reflect the mean and standard deviation of at least two biological experiments done on different days.
As used herein and in the claims, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” include the singular and the plural reference unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Thus, for example, a reference to “an agent” includes a single agent and a plurality of such agents.
The term “nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein” or “napDNAbp” refers to a protein that associates with a nucleic acid (e.g., DNA or RNA), such as a guide nucleic acid (e.g., gRNA), that guides the napDNAbp to a specific nucleic acid sequence, for example, by hybridinzing to the target nucleic acid sequence. For example, a Cas9 protein can associate with a guide RNA that guides the Cas9 protein to a specific DNA sequence is has complementary to the guide RNA. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a class 2 microbial CRISPR-Cas effector. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a Cas9 domain, for example, a nuclease active Cas9, a Cas9 nickase (nCas9), or a nuclease inactive Cas9 (dCas9). Examples of nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins include, without limitation, Cas9 (e.g., dCas9 and nCas9), CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2C3, and Argonaute. It should be appreciated, however, that nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins also include nucleic acid programmable proteins that bind RNA. For example, the napDNAbp may be associated with a nucleic acid that guides the napDNAbp to an RNA. Other nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins are also within the scope of this disclosure, though they may not be specifically described in this disclosure.
In some embodiments, the napDNAby is an “RNA-programmable nuclease” or “RNA-guided nuclease.” The terms are used interchangeably herein and refer to a nuclease that forms a complex with (e.g., binds or associates with) one or more RNA(s) that is not a target for cleavage. In some embodiments, an RNA-programmable nuclease, when in a complex with an RNA, may be referred to as a nuclease:RNA complex. Typically, the bound RNA(s) is referred to as a guide RNA (gRNA). gRNAs can exist as a complex of two or more RNAs, or as a single RNA molecule. gRNAs that exist as a single RNA molecule may be referred to as single-guide RNAs (sgRNAs), though “gRNA” is also used to refer to guide RNAs that exist as either single molecules or as a complex of two or more molecules. Typically, gRNAs that exist as a single RNA species comprise two domains: (1) a domain that shares homology to a target nucleic acid (i.e., directs binding of a Cas9 complex to the target); and (2) a domain that binds a Cas9 protein. In some embodiments, domain (2) corresponds to a sequence known as a tracrRNA and comprises a stem-loop structure. In some embodiments, domain (2) is identical or homologous to a tracrRNA as provided in Jinek et al., Science 337:816-821 (2012), the entire contents of which is incorporated herein by reference. Other examples of gRNAs (e.g., those including domain 2) can be found in U.S. Provisional Patent Application, U.S. Ser. No. 61/874,682, filed Sep. 6, 2013, entitled “Switchable Cas9 Nucleases And Uses Thereof,” and U.S. Provisional Patent Application, U.S. Ser. No. 61/874,746, filed Sep. 6, 2013, entitled “Delivery System For Functional Nucleases,” the entire contents of each are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. In some embodiments, a gRNA comprises two or more of domains (1) and (2), and may be referred to as an “extended gRNA.” For example, an extended gRNA will bind two or more Cas9 proteins and bind a target nucleic acid at two or more distinct regions, as described herein. The gRNA comprises a nucleotide sequence that complements a target site, which mediates binding of the nuclease/RNA complex to said target site, providing the sequence specificity of the nuclease:RNA complex. In some embodiments, the RNA-programmable nuclease is the (CRISPR-associated system) Cas9 endonuclease, for example, Cas9 (Csn1) from Streptococcus pyogenes (see, e.g., “Complete genome sequence of an M1 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes.” Ferretti J. J., McShan W. M., Ajdic D. J., Savic D. J., Savic G., Lyon K., Primeaux C., Sezate S., Suvorov A. N., Kenton S., Lai H. S., Lin S. P., Qian Y., Jia H. G., Najar F. Z., Ren Q., Zhu H., Song L., White J., Yuan X., Clifton S. W., Roe B. A., McLaughlin R. E., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98:4658-4663 (2001); “CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III.” Deltcheva E., Chylinski K., Sharma C. M., Gonzales K., Chao Y., Pirzada Z. A., Eckert M. R., Vogel J., Charpentier E., Nature 471:602-607 (2011); and “A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.” Jinek M., Chylinski K., Fonfara I., Hauer M., Doudna J. A., Charpentier E. Science 337:816-821 (2012), the entire contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.
In some embodiments, any of the sgRNAs provided herein comprise a sequence, e.g., a sgRNA backbone sequence that binds to a napDNAbp. For example sgRNAs have been described in Jinek M, Chylinski K, Fonfara I, Hauer M, Doudna J A, and Charpentier E (2012) A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity. Science, 337, 816-812; Mali P, Esvelt K M, Church G M (2013) Cas9 as a versatile tool for engineering biology. Nature Methods, 10, 957-963; Li J F, Norville J E, Aach J, McCromack M, Zhang D, Bush J, Church G M, and Sheen J (2013) Multiplex and homologous recombination-mediated genome editing in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana using guide RNA and Cas9. Nature Biotech, 31, 688-691; Hwang W Y, Fu Y, Reyon D, Maeder M L, Tsai S Q, Sander J D, Peterson R T, Yeh J R J, Joung J K (2013) Efficient in vivo genome editing using RNA-guided nucleases. Nat Biotechnol, 31, 227-229; Cong L, Ran F A, Cox D, Lin S, Barretto R, Habib N, Hsu P D, Wu X, Jiang W, Marraffini L A, Zhang F (2013) Multiplex genome engineering using CRIPSR/Cas systems. Science, 339, 819-823; Cho S W, Kim S, Kim J M, Kim J S (2013) Targeted genome engineering in human cells with the Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease. Nat Biotechnol, 31, 230-232; Jinek M J, East A, Cheng A, Lin S, Ma E, Doudna J (2013) RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells. eLIFE, 2:e00471; DiCarlo J E, Norville J E, Mali P, Rios, Aach J, Church G M (2013) Genome engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using CRISPR-Cas systems. Nucl Acids Res, 41, 4336-4343; Briner A E, Donohoue P D, Gomaa A A, Selle K, Slorach E M, Nye C H, Haurwitz R E, Beisel C L, May A P, and Barrangou R (2014) Guide RNA functional modules direct Cas9 activity and orthogonality. Mol Cell, 56, 333-339; the contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference. In some embodiments, any of the gRNAs (e.g., sgRNAs) provided herein comprise the nucleic acid sequence of GTAATTTCTACTAAGTGTAGAT (SEQ ID NO: 741), wherein each of the Ts of SEQ ID NO: 741 are uracil (U), i.e., GUAAUUUCUACUAAGUGUAGAU, or the sequence GUUUUAGAGCUAGAAAUAGCAAGUUAAAAUAAGGCUAGUCCGUUAUCAACUUG AAAAAGUGGCACCGAGUCGGUGCUUUUU-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 618).
Because RNA-programmable nucleases (e.g., Cas9) use RNA:DNA hybridization to target DNA cleavage sites, these proteins are able to target, in principle, any sequence specified by the guide RNA. Methods of using RNA-programmable nucleases, such as Cas9, for site-specific cleavage (e.g., to modify a genome) are known in the art (see e.g., Cong, L. et al., Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems. Science 339, 819-823 (2013); Mali, P. et al., RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9. Science 339, 823-826 (2013); Hwang, W. Y. et al., Efficient genome editing in zebrafish using a CRISPR-Cas system. Nature biotechnology 31, 227-229 (2013); Jinek, M. et al. RNA-programmed genome editing in human cells. eLife 2, e00471 (2013); Dicarlo, J. E. et al., Genome engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using CRISPR-Cas systems. Nucleic Acids Research (2013); Jiang, W. et al., RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems. Nature Biotechnology 31, 233-239 (2013); the entire contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference).
The term “Cas9” or “Cas9 nuclease” refers to an RNA-guided nuclease comprising a Cas9 protein, or a fragment thereof (e.g., a protein comprising an active, inactive, or partially active DNA cleavage domain of Cas9, and/or the gRNA binding domain of Cas9). A Cas9 nuclease is also referred to sometimes as a casn1 nuclease or a CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)-associated nuclease. CRISPR is an adaptive immune system that provides protection against mobile genetic elements (viruses, transposable elements and conjugative plasmids). CRISPR clusters contain spacers, sequences complementary to antecedent mobile elements, and target invading nucleic acids. CRISPR clusters are transcribed and processed into CRISPR RNA (crRNA). In type II CRISPR systems correct processing of pre-crRNA requires a trans-encoded small RNA (tracrRNA), endogenous ribonuclease 3 (rnc) and a Cas9 protein. The tracrRNA serves as a guide for ribonuclease 3-aided processing of pre-crRNA. Subsequently, Cas9/crRNA/tracrRNA endonucleolytically cleaves linear or circular dsDNA target complementary to the spacer. The target strand not complementary to crRNA is first cut endonucleolytically, then trimmed 3′-5′ exonucleolytically. In nature, DNA-binding and cleavage typically requires protein and both RNAs. However, single guide RNAs (“sgRNA”, or simply “gNRA”) can be engineered so as to incorporate aspects of both the crRNA and tracrRNA into a single RNA species. See, e.g., Jinek M., Chylinski K., Fonfara I., Hauer M., Doudna J. A., Charpentier E. Science 337:816-821(2012), the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference. Cas9 recognizes a short motif in the CRISPR repeat sequences (the PAM or protospacer adjacent motif) to help distinguish self versus non-self. Cas9 nuclease sequences and structures are well known to those of skill in the art (see, e.g., “Complete genome sequence of an M1 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes.” Ferretti et al., J. J., McShan W. M., Ajdic D. J., Savic D. J., Savic G., Lyon K., Primeaux C., Sezate S., Suvorov A. N., Kenton S., Lai H. S., Lin S. P., Qian Y., Jia H. G., Najar F. Z., Ren Q., Zhu H., Song L., White J., Yuan X., Clifton S. W., Roe B. A., McLaughlin R. E., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98:4658-4663(2001); “CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III.” Deltcheva E., Chylinski K., Sharma C. M., Gonzales K., Chao Y., Pirzada Z. A., Eckert M. R., Vogel J., Charpentier E., Nature 471:602-607(2011); and “A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity.” Jinek M., Chylinski K., Fonfara I., Hauer M., Doudna J. A., Charpentier E. Science 337:816-821(2012), the entire contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference). Cas9 orthologs have been described in various species, including, but not limited to, S. pyogenes and S. thermophilus. Additional suitable Cas9 nucleases and sequences will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on this disclosure, and such Cas9 nucleases and sequences include Cas9 sequences from the organisms and loci disclosed in Chylinski, Rhun, and Charpentier, “The tracrRNA and Cas9 families of type II CRISPR-Cas immunity systems” (2013) RNA Biology 10:5, 726-737; the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. In some embodiments, a Cas9 nuclease has an inactive (e.g., an inactivated) DNA cleavage domain, that is, the Cas9 is a nickase.
A nuclease-inactivated Cas9 protein may interchangeably be referred to as a “dCas9” protein (for nuclease-“dead” Cas9). Methods for generating a Cas9 protein (or a fragment thereof) having an inactive DNA cleavage domain are known (See, e.g., Jinek et al., Science. 337:816-821(2012); Qi et al., “Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-Guided Platform for Sequence-Specific Control of Gene Expression” (2013) Cell. 28; 152(5):1173-83, the entire contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference). For example, the DNA cleavage domain of Cas9 is known to include two subdomains, the HNH nuclease subdomain and the RuvC1 subdomain. The HNH subdomain cleaves the strand complementary to the gRNA, whereas the RuvC1 subdomain cleaves the non-complementary strand. Mutations within these subdomains can silence the nuclease activity of Cas9. For example, the mutations D10A and H840A completely inactivate the nuclease activity of S. pyogenes Cas9 (Jinek et al., Science. 337:816-821(2012); Qi et al., Cell. 28; 152(5):1173-83 (2013)). In some embodiments, proteins comprising fragments of Cas9 are provided. For example, in some embodiments, a protein comprises one of two Cas9 domains: (1) the gRNA binding domain of Cas9; or (2) the DNA cleavage domain of Cas9. In some embodiments, proteins comprising Cas9 or fragments thereof are referred to as “Cas9 variants.” A Cas9 variant shares homology to Cas9, or a fragment thereof. For example a Cas9 variant is at least about 70% identical, at least about 80% identical, at least about 90% identical, at least about 95% identical, at least about 96% identical, at least about 97% identical, at least about 98% identical, at least about 99% identical, at least about 99.5% identical, or at least about 99.9% identical to wild type Cas9. In some embodiments, the Cas9 variant may have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 or more amino acid changes compared to wild type Cas9. In some embodiments, the Cas9 variant comprises a fragment of Cas9 (e.g., a gRNA binding domain or a DNA-cleavage domain), such that the fragment is at least about 70% identical, at least about 80% identical, at least about 90% identical, at least about 95% identical, at least about 96% identical, at least about 97% identical, at least about 98% identical, at least about 99% identical, at least about 99.5% identical, or at least about 99.9% identical to the corresponding fragment of wild type Cas9. In some embodiments, the fragment is at least 30%, at least 35%, at least 40%, at least 45%, at least 50%, at least 55%, at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95% identical, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% of the amino acid length of a corresponding wild type Cas9.
In some embodiments, the fragment is at least 100 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, the fragment is at least 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750, 800, 850, 900, 950, 1000, 1050, 1100, 1150, 1200, 1250, or at least 1300 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, wild type Cas9 corresponds to Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes (NCBI Reference Sequence: NC_017053.1, SEQ ID NO: 1 (nucleotide); SEQ ID NO: 2 (amino acid)).
LLFGSGETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHR
MGHKPENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEGIKELGSQILKEHPV
ENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDHIVPQSFIKDDS
IDNKVLTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDNLT
KAERGGLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDSRMNTKYDENDKLIR
EVKVITLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDAYLNAVVGTALIKKY
PKLESEFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYFFYSNIMNFFKTEIT
LANGEIRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVLSMPQVNIVKKTEVQ
TGGFSKESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFDSPTVAYSVLVVAKVEK
In some embodiments, wild type Cas9 corresponds to, or comprises SEQ ID NO:3 (nucleotide) and/or SEQ ID NO: 4 (amino acid):
LLFDSGETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHR
MGRHKPENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEGIKELGSQILKEHP
VENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDHIVPQSFLKDD
SIDNKVLTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDNL
TKAERGGLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDSRMNTKYDENDKLI
REVKVITLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDAYLNAVVGTALIKK
YPKLESEFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYFFYSNIMNFFKTEI
TLANGEIRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVLSMPQVNIVKKTEV
QTGGFSKESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFDSPTVAYSVLVVAKVE
In some embodiments, wild type Cas9 corresponds to Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes (NCBI Reference Sequence: NC_002737.2, SEQ ID NO: 5 (nucleotide); and Uniport Reference Sequence: Q99ZW2, SEQ ID NO: 6 (amino acid).
LLFDSGETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHR
MGRHKPENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEGIKELGSQILKEHP
VENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDHIVPQSFLKDD
SIDNKVLTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDNL
TKAERGGLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDSRMNTKYDENDKLI
REVKVITLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDAYLNAVVGTALIKK
YPKLESEFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYFFYSNIMNFFKTEI
TLANGEIRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVLSMPQVNIVKKTEV
QTGGFSKESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFDSPTVAYSVLVVAKVE
In some embodiments, Cas9 refers to Cas9 from: Corynebacterium ulcerans (NCBI Refs: NC_015683.1, NC_017317.1); Corynebacterium diphtheria (NCBI Refs: NC_016782.1, NC_016786.1); Spiroplasma syrphidicola (NCBI Ref: NC_021284.1); Prevotella intermedia (NCBI Ref: NC_017861.1); Spiroplasma taiwanense (NCBI Ref: NC_021846.1); Streptococcus iniae (NCBI Ref: NC_021314.1); Belliella baltica (NCBI Ref: NC_018010.1); Psychroflexus torquisl (NCBI Ref: NC_018721.1); Streptococcus thermophilus (NCBI Ref: YP_820832.1), Listeria innocua (NCBI Ref: NP_472073.1), Campylobacter jejuni (NCBI Ref: YP_002344900.1) or Neisseria. meningitidis (NCBI Ref: YP_002342100.1) or to a Cas9 from any of the organisms listed in Example 5.
In some embodiments, dCas9 corresponds to, or comprises in part or in whole, a Cas9 amino acid sequence having one or more mutations that inactivate the Cas9 nuclease activity. For example, in some embodiments, a dCas9 domain comprises D10A and/or H840A mutation.
LLFDSGET
AEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHR
PVENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDAIVPQSFLKD
DSIDNKVLTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDN
In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain comprises a D10A mutation, while the residue at position 840 remains a histidine in the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or at corresponding positions in any of the amino acid sequences provided in another Cas9 domain, such as any of the Cas9 proteins provided herein. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, the presence of the catalytic residue H840 restores the activity of the Cas9 to cleave the non-edited (e.g., non-deaminated) strand containing a G opposite the targeted C. Restoration of H840 (e.g., from A840) does not result in the cleavage of the target strand containing the C. Such Cas9 variants are able to generate a single-strand DNA break (nick) at a specific location based on the gRNA-defined target sequence, leading to repair of the non-edited strand, ultimately resulting in a G to A change on the non-edited strand. A schematic representation of this process is shown in
In other embodiments, dCas9 variants having mutations other than D10A and H840A are provided, which, e.g., result in nuclease inactivated Cas9 (dCas9). Such mutations, by way of example, include other amino acid substitutions at D10 and H820, or other substitutions within the nuclease domains of Cas9 (e.g., substitutions in the HNH nuclease subdomain and/or the RuvC1 subdomain). In some embodiments, variants or homologues of dCas9 (e.g., variants of SEQ ID NO: 6) are provided which are at least about 70% identical, at least about 80% identical, at least about 90% identical, at least about 95% identical, at least about 98% identical, at least about 99% identical, at least about 99.5% identical, or at least about 99.9% identical to SEQ ID NO: 6. In some embodiments, variants of dCas9 (e.g., variants of SEQ ID NO: 6) are provided having amino acid sequences which are shorter, or longer than SEQ ID NO: 6, by about 5 amino acids, by about 10 amino acids, by about 15 amino acids, by about 20 amino acids, by about 25 amino acids, by about 30 amino acids, by about 40 amino acids, by about 50 amino acids, by about 75 amino acids, by about 100 amino acids or more.
In some embodiments, Cas9 fusion proteins as provided herein comprise the full-length amino acid sequence of a Cas9 protein, e.g., one of the Cas9 sequences provided herein. In other embodiments, however, fusion proteins as provided herein do not comprise a full-length Cas9 sequence, but only a fragment thereof. For example, in some embodiments, a Cas9 fusion protein provided herein comprises a Cas9 fragment, wherein the fragment binds crRNA and tracrRNA or sgRNA, but does not comprise a functional nuclease domain, e.g., in that it comprises only a truncated version of a nuclease domain or no nuclease domain at all. Exemplary amino acid sequences of suitable Cas9 domains and Cas9 fragments are provided herein, and additional suitable sequences of Cas9 domains and fragments will be apparent to those of skill in the art.
In some embodiments, Cas9 refers to Cas9 from: Corynebacterium ulcerans (NCBI Refs: NC_015683.1, NC_017317.1); Corynebacterium diphtheria (NCBI Refs: NC_016782.1, NC_016786.1); Spiroplasma syrphidicola (NCBI Ref: NC_021284.1); Prevotella intermedia (NCBI Ref: NC_017861.1); Spiroplasma taiwanense (NCBI Ref: NC_021846.1); Streptococcus iniae (NCBI Ref: NC_021314.1); Belliella baltica (NCBI Ref: NC_018010.1); Psychroflexus torquis I (NCBI Ref: NC_018721.1); Streptococcus thermophilus (NCBI Ref: YP_820832.1); Listeria innocua (NCBI Ref: NP_472073.1); Campylobacter jejuni (NCBI Ref: YP_002344900.1); or Neisseria. meningitidis (NCBI Ref: YP_002342100.1).
The term “deaminase” or “deaminase domain,” as used herein, refers to a protein or enzyme that catalyzes a deamination reaction. In some embodiments, the deaminase or deaminase domain is a cytidine deaminase, catalyzing the hydrolytic deamination of cytidine or deoxycytidine to uridine or deoxyuridine, respectively. In some embodiments, the deaminase or deaminase domain is a cytidine deaminase domain, catalyzing the hydrolytic deamination of cytosine to uracil. In some embodiments, the deaminase or deaminase domain is a naturally-occurring deaminase from an organism, such as a human, chimpanzee, gorilla, monkey, cow, dog, rat, or mouse. In some embodiments, the deaminase or deaminase domain is a variant of a naturally-occurring deaminase from an organism, that does not occur in nature. For example, in some embodiments, the deaminase or deaminase domain is at least 50%, at least 55%, at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75% at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to a naturally-occurring deaminase from an organism.
The term “effective amount,” as used herein, refers to an amount of a biologically active agent that is sufficient to elicit a desired biological response. For example, in some embodiments, an effective amount of a nuclease may refer to the amount of the nuclease that is sufficient to induce cleavage of a target site specifically bound and cleaved by the nuclease. In some embodiments, an effective amount of a fusion protein provided herein, e.g., of a fusion protein comprising a nuclease-inactive Cas9 domain and a nucleic acid editing domain (e.g., a deaminase domain) may refer to the amount of the fusion protein that is sufficient to induce editing of a target site specifically bound and edited by the fusion protein. As will be appreciated by the skilled artisan, the effective amount of an agent, e.g., a fusion protein, a nuclease, a deaminase, a recombinase, a hybrid protein, a protein dimer, a complex of a protein (or protein dimer) and a polynucleotide, or a polynucleotide, may vary depending on various factors as, for example, on the desired biological response, e.g., on the specific allele, genome, or target site to be edited, on the cell or tissue being targeted, and on the agent being used.
The term “linker,” as used herein, refers to a chemical group or a molecule linking two molecules or moieties, e.g., two domains of a fusion protein, such as, for example, a nuclease-inactive Cas9 domain and a nucleic acid editing domain (e.g., a deaminase domain). A linker may be, for example, an amino acid sequence, a peptide, or a polymer of any length and composition. In some embodiments, a linker joins a gRNA binding domain of an RNA-programmable nuclease, including a Cas9 nuclease domain, and the catalytic domain of a nucleic-acid editing protein. In some embodiments, a linker joins a dCas9 and a nucleic-acid editing protein. Typically, the linker is positioned between, or flanked by, two groups, molecules, or other moieties and connected to each one via a covalent bond, thus connecting the two. In some embodiments, the linker is an amino acid or a plurality of amino acids (e.g., a peptide or protein). In some embodiments, the linker is an organic molecule, group, polymer, or chemical moiety. In some embodiments, the linker is 1-100 amino acids in length, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30-35, 35-40, 40-45, 45-50, 50-60, 60-70, 70-80, 80-90, 90-100, 100-150, or 150-200 amino acids in length. Longer or shorter linkers are also contemplated.
The term “mutation,” as used herein, refers to a substitution of a residue within a sequence, e.g., a nucleic acid or amino acid sequence, with another residue, or a deletion or insertion of one or more residues within a sequence. Mutations are typically described herein by identifying the original residue followed by the position of the residue within the sequence and by the identity of the newly substituted residue. Various methods for making the amino acid substitutions (mutations) provided herein are well known in the art, and are provided by, for example, Green and Sambrook, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (4th ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. (2012)).
The terms “nucleic acid” and “nucleic acid molecule,” as used herein, refer to a compound comprising a nucleobase and an acidic moiety, e.g., a nucleoside, a nucleotide, or a polymer of nucleotides. Typically, polymeric nucleic acids, e.g., nucleic acid molecules comprising three or more nucleotides are linear molecules, in which adjacent nucleotides are linked to each other via a phosphodiester linkage. In some embodiments, “nucleic acid” refers to individual nucleic acid residues (e.g. nucleotides and/or nucleosides). In some embodiments, “nucleic acid” refers to an oligonucleotide chain comprising three or more individual nucleotide residues. As used herein, the terms “oligonucleotide” and “polynucleotide” can be used interchangeably to refer to a polymer of nucleotides (e.g., a string of at least three nucleotides). In some embodiments, “nucleic acid” encompasses RNA as well as single and/or double-stranded DNA. Nucleic acids may be naturally occurring, for example, in the context of a genome, a transcript, an mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, siRNA, snRNA, a plasmid, cosmid, chromosome, chromatid, or other naturally occurring nucleic acid molecule. On the other hand, a nucleic acid molecule may be a non-naturally occurring molecule, e.g., a recombinant DNA or RNA, an artificial chromosome, an engineered genome, or fragment thereof, or a synthetic DNA, RNA, DNA/RNA hybrid, or including non-naturally occurring nucleotides or nucleosides. Furthermore, the terms “nucleic acid,” “DNA,” “RNA,” and/or similar terms include nucleic acid analogs, e.g., analogs having other than a phosphodiester backbone. Nucleic acids can be purified from natural sources, produced using recombinant expression systems and optionally purified, chemically synthesized, etc. Where appropriate, e.g., in the case of chemically synthesized molecules, nucleic acids can comprise nucleoside analogs such as analogs having chemically modified bases or sugars, and backbone modifications. A nucleic acid sequence is presented in the 5′ to 3′ direction unless otherwise indicated. In some embodiments, a nucleic acid is or comprises natural nucleosides (e.g. adenosine, thymidine, guanosine, cytidine, uridine, deoxyadenosine, deoxythymidine, deoxyguanosine, and deoxycytidine); nucleoside analogs (e.g., 2-aminoadenosine, 2-thiothymidine, inosine, pyrrolo-pyrimidine, 3-methyl adenosine, 5-methylcytidine, 2-aminoadenosine, C5-bromouridine, C5-fluorouridine, C5-iodouridine, C5-propynyl-uridine, C5-propynyl-cytidine, C5-methylcytidine, 2-aminoadenosine, 7-deazaadenosine, 7-deazaguanosine, 8-oxoadenosine, 8-oxoguanosine, O(6)-methylguanine, and 2-thiocytidine); chemically modified bases; biologically modified bases (e.g., methylated bases); intercalated bases; modified sugars (e.g., 2′-fluororibose, ribose, 2′-deoxyribose, arabinose, and hexose); and/or modified phosphate groups (e.g., phosphorothioates and 5′-N-phosphoramidite linkages).
The term “nucleic acid editing domain,” as used herein refers to a protein or enzyme capable of making one or more modifications (e.g., deamination of a cytidine residue) to a nucleic acid (e.g., DNA or RNA). Exemplary nucleic acid editing domains include, but are not limited to a deaminase, a nuclease, a nickase, a recombinase, a methyltransferase, a methylase, an acetylase, an acetyltransferase, a transcriptional activator, or a transcriptional repressor domain. In some embodiments the nucleic acid editing domain is a deaminase (e.g., a cytidine deaminase, such as an APOBEC or an AID deaminase).
The term “proliferative disease,” as used herein, refers to any disease in which cell or tissue homeostasis is disturbed in that a cell or cell population exhibits an abnormally elevated proliferation rate. Proliferative diseases include hyperproliferative diseases, such as pre-neoplastic hyperplastic conditions and neoplastic diseases. Neoplastic diseases are characterized by an abnormal proliferation of cells and include both benign and malignant neoplasias. Malignant neoplasia is also referred to as cancer.
The terms “protein,” “peptide,” and “polypeptide” are used interchangeably herein, and refer to a polymer of amino acid residues linked together by peptide (amide) bonds. The terms refer to a protein, peptide, or polypeptide of any size, structure, or function. Typically, a protein, peptide, or polypeptide will be at least three amino acids long. A protein, peptide, or polypeptide may refer to an individual protein or a collection of proteins. One or more of the amino acids in a protein, peptide, or polypeptide may be modified, for example, by the addition of a chemical entity such as a carbohydrate group, a hydroxyl group, a phosphate group, a farnesyl group, an isofarnesyl group, a fatty acid group, a linker for conjugation, functionalization, or other modification, etc. A protein, peptide, or polypeptide may also be a single molecule or may be a multi-molecular complex. A protein, peptide, or polypeptide may be just a fragment of a naturally occurring protein or peptide. A protein, peptide, or polypeptide may be naturally occurring, recombinant, or synthetic, or any combination thereof. The term “fusion protein” as used herein refers to a hybrid polypeptide which comprises protein domains from at least two different proteins. One protein may be located at the amino-terminal (N-terminal) portion of the fusion protein or at the carboxy-terminal (C-terminal) protein thus forming an “amino-terminal fusion protein” or a “carboxy-terminal fusion protein,” respectively. A protein may comprise different domains, for example, a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., the gRNA binding domain of Cas9 that directs the binding of the protein to a target site) and a nucleic acid cleavage domain or a catalytic domain of a nucleic-acid editing protein. In some embodiments, a protein comprises a proteinaceous part, e.g., an amino acid sequence constituting a nucleic acid binding domain, and an organic compound, e.g., a compound that can act as a nucleic acid cleavage agent. In some embodiments, a protein is in a complex with, or is in association with, a nucleic acid, e.g., RNA. Any of the proteins provided herein may be produced by any method known in the art. For example, the proteins provided herein may be produced via recombinant protein expression and purification, which is especially suited for fusion proteins comprising a peptide linker. Methods for recombinant protein expression and purification are well known, and include those described by Green and Sambrook, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (4th ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. (2012)), the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The term “subject,” as used herein, refers to an individual organism, for example, an individual mammal. In some embodiments, the subject is a human. In some embodiments, the subject is a non-human mammal. In some embodiments, the subject is a non-human primate. In some embodiments, the subject is a rodent. In some embodiments, the subject is a sheep, a goat, a cattle, a cat, or a dog. In some embodiments, the subject is a vertebrate, an amphibian, a reptile, a fish, an insect, a fly, or a nematode. In some embodiments, the subject is a research animal. In some embodiments, the subject is genetically engineered, e.g., a genetically engineered non-human subject. The subject may be of either sex and at any stage of development.
The term “target site” refers to a sequence within a nucleic acid molecule that is deaminated by a deaminase or a fusion protein comprising a deaminase, (e.g., a dCas9-deaminase fusion protein provided herein).
The terms “treatment,” “treat,” and “treating” refer to a clinical intervention aimed to reverse, alleviate, delay the onset of, or inhibit the progress of a disease or disorder, or one or more symptoms thereof, as described herein. As used herein, the terms “treatment,” “treat,” and “treating” refer to a clinical intervention aimed to reverse, alleviate, delay the onset of, or inhibit the progress of a disease or disorder, or one or more symptoms thereof, as described herein. In some embodiments, treatment may be administered after one or more symptoms have developed and/or after a disease has been diagnosed. In other embodiments, treatment may be administered in the absence of symptoms, e.g., to prevent or delay onset of a symptom or inhibit onset or progression of a disease. For example, treatment may be administered to a susceptible individual prior to the onset of symptoms (e.g., in light of a history of symptoms and/or in light of genetic or other susceptibility factors). Treatment may also be continued after symptoms have resolved, for example, to prevent or delay their recurrence.
The term “recombinant” as used herein in the context of proteins or nucleic acids refers to proteins or nucleic acids that do not occur in nature, but are the product of human engineering. For example, in some embodiments, a recombinant protein or nucleic acid molecule comprises an amino acid or nucleotide sequence that comprises at least one, at least two, at least three, at least four, at least five, at least six, or at least seven mutations as compared to any naturally occurring sequence.
The term “pharmaceutical composition,” as used herein, refers to a composition that can be administrated to a subject in the context of treatment of a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition comprises an active ingredient, e.g., a nuclease or a nucleic acid encoding a nuclease, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.
The term “base editor (BE),” or “nucleobase editor (NBE),” as used herein, refers to an agent comprising a polypeptide that is capable of making a modification to a base (e.g., A, T, C, G, or U) within a nucleic acid sequence (e.g., DNA or RNA). In some embodiments, the base editor is capable of deaminating a base within a nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the base editor is capable of deaminating a base within a DNA molecule. In some embodiments, the base editor is capable of deaminating an cytosine (C) in DNA. In some embodiments, the base editor is a fusion protein comprising a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) fused to a cytidine deaminase domain. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a Cas9 (e.g., dCas9 and nCas9), CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, or Argonaute protein fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a Cas9 nickase (nCas9) fused to an cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a nuclease-inactive Cas9 (dCas9) fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor is fused to an inhibitor of base excision repair, for example, a UGI domain. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a CasX protein fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a CasY protein fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a Cpf1 protein fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a C2c1 protein fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a C2c2 protein fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a C2c3 protein fused to a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises an Argonaute protein fused to a cytidine deaminase.
The term “uracil glycosylase inhibitor” or “UGI,” as used herein, refers to a protein that is capable of inhibiting a uracil-DNA glycosylase base-excision repair enzyme.
The term “Cas9 nickase,” as used herein, refers to a Cas9 protein that is capable of cleaving only one strand of a duplexed nucleic acid molecule (e.g., a duplexed DNA molecule). In some embodiments, a Cas9 nickase comprises a D10A mutation and has a histidine at position H840 of SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in another Cas9 domain, such as any of the Cas9 proteins provided herein. For example, a Cas9 nickase may comprise the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 8. Such a Cas9 nickase has an active HNH nuclease domain and is able to cleave the non-targeted strand of DNA, i.e., the strand bound by the gRNA. Further, such a Cas9 nickase has an inactive RuvC nuclease domain and is not able to cleave the targeted strand of the DNA, i.e., the strand where base editing is desired.
Exemplary Cas9 nickase (Cloning vector pPlatTET-gRNA2; Accession No. BAV54124).
Some aspects of this disclosure provide fusion proteins that comprise a domain capable of binding to a nucleotide sequence (e.g., a Cas9, or a Cpf1 protein) and an enzyme domain, for example, a DNA-editing domain, such as, e.g., a deaminase domain. The deamination of a nucleobase by a deaminase can lead to a point mutation at the respective residue, which is referred to herein as nucleic acid editing. Fusion proteins comprising a Cas9 variant or domain and a DNA editing domain can thus be used for the targeted editing of nucleic acid sequences. Such fusion proteins are useful for targeted editing of DNA in vitro, e.g., for the generation of mutant cells or animals; for the introduction of targeted mutations, e.g., for the correction of genetic defects in cells ex vivo, e.g., in cells obtained from a subject that are subsequently re-introduced into the same or another subject; and for the introduction of targeted mutations, e.g., the correction of genetic defects or the introduction of deactivating mutations in disease-associated genes in a subject. Typically, the Cas9 domain of the fusion proteins described herein does not have any nuclease activity but instead is a Cas9 fragment or a dCas9 protein or domain. Other aspects of the invention provide fusion proteins that comprise (i) a domain capable of binding to a nucleic acid sequence (e.g., a Cas9, or a Cpf1 protein); (ii) an enzyme domain, for example, a DNA-editing domain (e.g., a deaminase domain); and (iii) one or more uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domains. The presence of at least one UGI domain increases base editing efficiency compared to fusion proteins without a UGI domain. A fusion protein comprising two UGI domains further increases base editing efficiency and product purity compared to fusion proteins with one UGI domain or without a UGI domain. Methods for the use of Cas9 fusion proteins as described herein are also provided.
Nucleic Acid Programmable DNA Binding Proteins
Some aspects of the disclosure provide nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins, which may be used to guide a protein, such as a base editor, to a specific nucleic acid (e.g., DNA or RNA) sequence. It should be appreciated that any of the fusion proteins (e.g., base editors) provided herein may include any nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp). For example, any of the fusion proteins described herein that include a Cas9 domain, can use another napDNAbp, such as CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2c3, and Argonaute, in place of the Cas9 domain. Nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins include, without limitation, Cas9 (e.g., dCas9 and nCas9), CasX, CasY, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, C2C3, and Argonaute. One example of a nucleic acid programmable DNA-binding protein that has a different PAM specificity than Cas9 is Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats from Prevotella and Francisella 1 (Cpf1). Similar to Cas9, Cpf1 is also a class 2 CRISPR effector. It has been shown that Cpf1 mediates robust DNA interference with features distinct from Cas9. Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease lacking tracrRNA, and it utilizes a T-rich protospacer-adjacent motif (TTN, TTTN, or YTN). Moreover, Cpf1 cleaves DNA via a staggered DNA double-stranded break. Out of 16 Cpf1-family proteins, two enzymes from Acidaminococcus and Lachnospiraceae are shown to have efficient genome-editing activity in human cells. Cpf1 proteins are known in the art and have been described previously, for example, Yamano et al., “Crystal structure of Cpf1 in complex with guide RNA and target DNA.” Cell (165) 2016, p. 949-962; the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Also useful in the present compositions and methods are nuclease-inactive Cpf1 (dCpf1) variants that may be used as a guide nucleotide sequence-programmable DNA-binding protein domain. The Cpf1 protein has a RuvC-like endonuclease domain that is similar to the RuvC domain of Cas9 but does not have a HNH endonuclease domain, and the N-terminal of Cpf1 does not have the alpha-helical recognition lobe of Cas9. It was shown in Zetsche et al., Cell, 163, 759-771, 2015 (which is incorporated herein by reference) that, the RuvC-like domain of Cpf1 is responsible for cleaving both DNA strands and inactivation of the RuvC-like domain inactivates Cpf1 nuclease activity. For example, mutations corresponding to D917A, E1006A, or D1255A in Francisella novicida Cpf1 (SEQ ID NO: 15) inactivate Cpf1 nuclease activity. In some embodiments, the dead Cpf1 (dCpf1) comprises mutations corresponding to D917A, E1006A, D1255A, D917A/E1006A, D917A/D1255A, E1006A/D1255A, or D917A/E1006A/D1255A in SEQ ID NO: 9. It is to be understood that any mutations, e.g., substitution mutations, deletions, or insertions, that inactivate the RuvC domain of Cpf1, may be used in accordance with the present disclosure.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) of any of the fusion proteins provided herein is a Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein is a Cpf1 nickase (nCpf1). In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein is a nuclease inactive Cpf1 (dCpf1). In some embodiments, the Cpf1, the nCpf1, or the dCpf1 comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 9-24. In some embodiments, the dCpf1 comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 9-16, and comprises mutations corresponding to D917A, E1006A, D1255A, D917A/E1006A, D917A/D1255A, E1006A/D1255A, or D917A/E1006A/D1255A in SEQ ID NO: 9. In some embodiments, the dCpf1 protein comprises an amino acid sequence of any one SEQ ID NOs: 9-16. It should be appreciated that Cpf1 from other species may also be used in accordance with the present disclosure.
Wild type Francisella novicida Cpf1 (SEQ ID NO: 9) (D917, E1006, and D1255 are bolded and underlined)
Francisella novicida Cpf1 D917A (SEQ ID NO: 10) (A917, E1006, and D1255 are bolded and underlined)
Francisella novicida Cpf1 E1006A (SEQ ID NO: 11) (D917, A1006, and D1255 are bolded and underlined)
Francisella novicida Cpf1 D1255A (SEQ ID NO: 12) (D917, E1006, and A1255 are bolded and underlined)
Francisella novicida Cpf1 D917A/E1006A (SEQ ID NO: 13) (A917, A1006, and D1255 are bolded and underlined)
Francisella novicida Cpf1 D917A/D1255A (SEQ ID NO: 14) (A917, E1006, and A1255 are bolded and underlined)
Francisella novicida Cpf1 E1006A/D1255A (SEQ ID NO: 15) (D917, A1006, and A1255 are bolded and underlined)
Francisella novicida Cpf1 D917A/E1006A/D1255A (SEQ ID NO: 16) (A917, A1006, and A1255 are bolded and underlined)
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein is a Cpf1 protein from an Acidaminococcus species (AsCpf1). Cpf1 proteins form Acidaminococcus species have been described previously and would be apparent to the skilled artisan. Exemplary Acidaminococcus Cpf1 proteins (AsCpf1) include, without limitation, any of the AsCpf1 proteins provided herein.
Wild-type AsCpf1—Residue R912 is indicated in bold underlining and residues 661-667 are indicated in italics and underlining.
AsCpf1(R912A)—Residue A912 is indicated in bold underlining and residues 661-667 are indicated in italics and underlining.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein is a Cpf1 protein from a Lachnospiraceae species (LbCpf1). Cpf1 proteins form Lachnospiraceae species have been described previously have been described previously and would be apparent to the skilled artisan. Exemplary Lachnospiraceae Cpf1 proteins (LbCpf1) include, without limitation, any of the LbCpf1 proteins provided herein.
In some embodiments, the LbCpf1 is a nickase. In some embodiments, the LbCpf1 nickase comprises an R836X mutant relative to SEQ ID NO: 18, wherein X is any amino acid except for R. In some embodiments, the LbCpf1 nickase comprises R836A mutant relative to SEQ ID NO: 18. In some embodiments, the LbCpf1 is a nuclease inactive LbCpf1 (dLbCpf1). In some embodiments, the dLbCpf1 comprises a D832X mutant relative to SEQ ID NO: 18, wherein X is any amino acid except for D. In some embodiments, the dLbCpf1 comprises a D832A mutant relative to SEQ ID NO: 18. Additional dCpf1 proteins have been described in the art, for example, in Li et al. “Base editing with a Cpf1-cytidine deaminase fusion” Nature Biotechnology; March 2018 DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4102; the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. In some embodiments, the dCpf1 comprises 1, 2, or 3 of the point mutations D832A, E1006A, D1125A of the Cpf1 described in Li et al.
Wild-type LbCpf1—Residues R836 and R1138 is indicated in bold underlining.
LbCpf1 (R836A)—Residue A836 is indicated in bold underlining.
LbCpf1 (R1138A)—Residue A1138 is indicated in bold underlining.
In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein is a crippled Cpf1 protein. As used herein a “crippled Cpf1” protein is a Cpf1 protein having diminished nuclease activity as compared to a wild-type Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein preferentially cuts the target strand more efficiently than the non-target strand. For example, the Cpf1 protein preferentially cuts the strand of a duplexed nucleic acid molecule in which a nucleotide to be edited resides. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein preferentially cuts the non-target strand more efficiently than the target strand. For example, the Cpf1 protein preferentially cuts the strand of a duplexed nucleic acid molecule in which a nucleotide to be edited does not reside. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein preferentially cuts the target strand at least 5% more efficiently than it cuts the non-target strand. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein preferentially cuts the target strand at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, or at least 100% more efficiently than it cuts the non-target strand.
In some embodiments, a crippled Cpf1 protein is a non-naturally occurring Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein comprises one or more mutations relative to a wild-type Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein comprises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 mutations relative to a wild-type Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein comprises an R836A mutation as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 18, or in a corresponding amino acid in another Cpf1 protein. It should be appreciated that a Cpf1 comprising a homologous residue (e.g., a corresponding amino acid) to R836A of SEQ ID NO: 18 could also be mutated to achieve similar results. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein comprises a R1138A mutation as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 18, or in a corresponding amino acid in another Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the crippled Cpf1 protein comprises an R912A mutation mutation as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 17, or in a corresponding amino acid in another Cpf1 protein. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, residue R836 of SEQ ID NO: 18 (LbCpf1) and residue R912 of SEQ ID NO: 17 (AsCpf1) are examples of corresponding (e.g., homologous) residues. For example, a portion of the alignment between SEQ ID NO: 17 and 18 shows that R912 and R836 are corresponding residues.
In some embodiments, any of the Cpf1 proteins provided herein comprises one or more amino acid deletions. In some embodiments, any of the Cpf1 proteins provided herein comprises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 amino acid deletions. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, there is a helical region in Cpf1, which includes residues 661-667 of AsCpf1 (SEQ ID NO: 17), that may obstruct the function of a deaminase (e.g., APOBEC) that is fused to the Cpf1. This region comprises the amino acid sequence KKTGDQK. Accordingly, aspects of the disclosure provide Cpf1 proteins comprising mutations (e.g., deletions) that disrupt this helical region in Cpf1. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein comprises one or more deletions of the following residues in SEQ ID NO: 17, or one or more corresponding deletions in another Cpf1 protein: K661, K662, T663, G664, D665, Q666, and K667. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein comprises a T663 and a D665 deletion in SEQ ID NO: 17, or corresponding deletions in another Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein comprises a K662, T663, D665, and Q666 deletion in SEQ ID NO: 17, or corresponding deletions in another Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein comprises a K661, K662, T663, D665, Q666 and K667 deletion in SEQ ID NO: 17, or corresponding deletions in another Cpf1 protein.
AsCpf1 (Deleted T663 and D665)
AsCpf1 (Deleted K662, T663, D665, and Q666)
AsCpf1 (Deleted K661, K662, T663, D665, Q666, and K667)
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein that does not require a canonical (NGG) PAM sequence in the target sequence. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is an Argonaute protein. One example of such a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein is an Argonaute protein from Natronobacterium gregoryi (NgAgo). NgAgo is a ssDNA-guided endonuclease. NgAgo binds 5′-phosphorylated ssDNA of ˜24 nucleotides (gDNA) in length to guide it to a target site and makes DNA double-strand breaks at the gDNA site. In contrast to Cas9, the NgAgo-gDNA system does not require a protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM). Using a nuclease inactive NgAgo (dNgAgo) can greatly expand the bases that may be targeted. The characterization and use of NgAgo have been described in Gao et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2016 July; 34(7):768-73. PubMed PMID: 27136078; Swarts et al., Nature 507(7491) (2014):258-61; and Swarts et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 43(10) (2015):5120-9, each of which is incorporated herein by reference. The sequence of Natronobacterium gregoryi Argonaute is provided in SEQ ID NO: 25.
In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is an Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to a naturally-occurring Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a naturally-occurring Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NO: 25. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence of any one SEQ ID NO: 25.
In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a prokaryotic homolog of an Argonaute protein. Prokaryotic homologs of Argonaute proteins are known and have been described, for example, in Makarova K., et al., “Prokaryotic homologs of Argonaute proteins are predicted to function as key components of a novel system of defense against mobile genetic elements”, Biol. Direct. 2009 Aug. 25; 4:29. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-4-29, is incorporated herein by reference. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a Marinitoga piezophila Argunaute (MpAgo) protein. The CRISPR-associated Marinitoga piezophila Argonaute (MpAgo) protein cleaves single-stranded target sequences using 5′-phosphorylated guides. The 5′ guides are used by all known Argonautes. The crystal structure of an MpAgo-RNA complex shows a guide strand binding site comprising residues that block 5′ phosphate interactions. This data suggests the evolution of an Argonaute subclass with noncanonical specificity for a 5′-hydroxylated guide. See, e.g., Kaya et al., “A bacterial Argonaute with noncanonical guide RNA specificity”, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2016 Apr. 12; 113(15):4057-62, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference). It should be appreciated that other Argonaute proteins may be used in any of the fusion proteins (e.g., base editors) described herein, for example, to guide a deaminase (e.g., cytidine deaminase) to a target nucleic acid (e.g., ssRNA).
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) is a single effector of a microbial CRISPR-Cas system. Single effectors of microbial CRISPR-Cas systems include, without limitation, Cas9, Cpf1, C2c1, C2c2, and C2c3. Typically, microbial CRISPR-Cas systems are divided into Class 1 and Class 2 systems. Class 1 systems have multisubunit effector complexes, while Class 2 systems have a single protein effector. Cas9 and Cpf1 are Class 2 effectors. In addition to Cas9 and Cpf1, three distinct Class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems (C2c1, C2c2, and C2c3) have been described by Shmakov et al., “Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR Cas Systems”, Mol. Cell, 2015 Nov. 5; 60(3): 385-397, the entire contents of which are herein incorporated by reference. Effectors of two of the systems, C2c1 and C2c3, contain RuvC-like endonuclease domains related to Cpf1. A third system, C2c2 contains an effector with two predicted HEPN RNase domains. Production of mature CRISPR RNA is tracrRNA-independent, unlike production of CRISPR RNA by C2c1. C2c1 depends on both CRISPR RNA and tracrRNA for DNA cleavage. Bacterial C2c2 has been shown to possess a unique RNase activity for CRISPR RNA maturation distinct from its RNA-activated single-stranded RNA degradation activity. These RNase functions are different from each other and from the CRISPR RNA-processing behavior of Cpf1. See, e.g., East-Seletsky, et al., “Two distinct RNase activities of CRISPR-C2c2 enable guide-RNA processing and RNA detection”, Nature, 2016 Oct. 13; 538(7624):270-273, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. In vitro biochemical analysis of C2c2 in Leptotrichia shahii has shown that C2c2 is guided by a single CRISPR RNA and can be programmed to cleave ssRNA targets carrying complementary protospacers. Catalytic residues in the two conserved HEPN domains mediate cleavage. Mutations in the catalytic residues generate catalytically inactive RNA-binding proteins. See e.g., Abudayyeh et al., “C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector,” Science, 2016 Aug. 5; 353(6299), the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The crystal structure of Alicyclobaccillus acidoterrastris C2c1 (AacC2c1) has been reported in complex with a chimeric single-molecule guide RNA (sgRNA). See, e.g., Liu et al., “C2c1-sgRNA Complex Structure Reveals RNA-Guided DNA Cleavage Mechanism”, Mol. Cell, 2017 Jan. 19; 65(2):310-322, incorporated herein by reference. The crystal structure has also been reported for Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris C2c1 bound to target DNAs as ternary complexes. See, e.g., Yang et al., “PAM-dependent Target DNA Recognition and Cleavage by C2C1 CRISPR-Cas endonuclease”, Cell, 2016 Dec. 15; 167(7):1814-1828, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. Catalytically competent conformations of AacC2c1, both with target and non-target DNA strands, have been captured independently positioned within a single RuvC catalytic pocket, with C2c1-mediated cleavage resulting in a staggered seven-nucleotide break of target DNA. Structural comparisons between C2c1 ternary complexes and previously identified Cas9 and Cpf1 counterparts demonstrate the diversity of mechanisms used by CRISPR-Cas9 systems.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) of any of the fusion proteins provided herein is a C2c1, a C2c2, or a C2c3 protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a C2c1 protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a C2c2 protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a C2c3 protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to a naturally-occurring C2c1, C2c2, or C2c3 protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a naturally-occurring C2c1, C2c2, or C2c3 protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 26-28. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence of any one SEQ ID NOs: 26-28. It should be appreciated that C2c1, C2c2, or C2c3 from other bacterial species may also be used in accordance with the present disclosure.
C2c1 (uniprot.org/uniprot/T0D7A2#)
sp|T0D7A2C2C1_ALIAG CRISPR-associated endonuclease C2c1 OS=Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris (strain ATCC 49025/DSM 3922/CIP 106132/NCIMB 13137/GD3B) GN=c2c1 PE=1 SV=1
C2c2 (uniprot.org/uniprot/P0DOC6)
>sp|P0DOC6|C2C2_LEPSD CRISPR-associated endoribonuclease C2c2 OS=Leptotrichia shahii (strain DSM 19757/CCUG 47503/CIP 107916/JCM 16776/LB37) GN=c2c2 PE=1 SV=1
C2c3, translated from >CEPX01008730.1 marine metagenome genome assembly TARA_037_MES_0.1-0.22, contig TARA_037_MES_0.1-0.22_scaffold22115_1, whole genome shotgun sequence.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) of any of the fusion proteins provided herein is a Cas9 from archaea (e.g. nanoarchaea), which constitute a domain and kingdom of single-celled prokaryotic microbes. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is CasX or CasY, which have been described in, for example, Burstein et al., “New CRISPR-Cas systems from uncultivated microbes.” Cell Res. 2017 Feb. 21. doi: 10.1038/cr.2017.21, which is incorporated herein by reference. Using genome-resolved metagenomics, a number of CRISPR-Cas systems were identified, including the first reported Cas9 in the archaeal domain of life. This divergent Cas9 protein was found in nanoarchaea as part of an active CRISPR-Cas system. In bacteria, two previously unknown systems were discovered, CRISPR-CasX and CRISPR-CasY, which are among the most compact systems yet discovered. In some embodiments, Cas9 refers to CasX, or a variant of CasX. In some embodiments, Cas9 refers to a CasY, or a variant of CasY. It should be appreciated that other RNA-guided DNA binding proteins may be used as a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) and are within the scope of this disclosure.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp) of any of the fusion proteins provided herein is a CasX or CasY protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a CasX protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a CasY protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to a naturally-occurring CasX or CasY protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp is a naturally-occurring CasX or CasY protein. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 29-31. In some embodiments, the napDNAbp comprises an amino acid sequence of any one SEQ ID NOs: 29-31. It should be appreciated that CasX and CasY from other bacterial species may also be used in accordance with the present disclosure.
CasX (uniprot.org/uniprot/F0NN87; uniprot.org/uniprot/F0NH53) >tr|F0NN87|F0NN87_SULIH CRISPR-associated Casx protein OS═Sulfolobus islandicus (strain HVE10/4) GN=SiH_0402 PE=4 SV=1
>tr|F0NH53|F0NH53_SULIR CRISPR associated protein, Casx OS═Sulfolobus islandicus (strain REY15A) GN=SiRe_0771 PE=4 SV=1
CasY (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/APG80656.1)
>APG80656.1 CRISPR-associated protein CasY [uncultured Parcubacteria group bacterium]
Cas9 Domains of Nucleobase Editors
Non-limiting, exemplary Cas9 domains are provided herein. The Cas9 domain may be a nuclease active Cas9 domain, a nuclease inactive Cas9 domain, or a Cas9 nickase. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain is a nuclease active domain. For example, the Cas9 domain may be a Cas9 domain that cuts both strands of a duplexed nucleic acid (e.g., both strands of a duplexed DNA molecule). In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain comprises any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments the Cas9 domain comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain comprises an amino acid sequence that has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, or more mutations compared to any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain comprises an amino acid sequence that has at least 10, at least 15, at least 20, at least 30, at least 40, at least 50, at least 60, at least 70, at least 80, at least 90, at least 100, at least 150, at least 200, at least 250, at least 300, at least 350, at least 400, at least 500, at least 600, at least 700, at least 800, at least 900, at least 1000, at least 1100, or at least 1200 identical contiguous amino acid residues as compared to any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein.
In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain is a nuclease-inactive Cas9 domain (dCas9). For example, the dCas9 domain may bind to a duplexed nucleic acid molecule (e.g., via a gRNA molecule) without cleaving either strand of the duplexed nucleic acid molecule. In some embodiments, the nuclease-inactive dCas9 domain comprises a D10X mutation and a H840X mutation of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid change. In some embodiments, the nuclease-inactive dCas9 domain comprises a D10A mutation and a H840A mutation of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. As one example, a nuclease-inactive Cas9 domain comprises the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 32 (Cloning vector pPlatTET-gRNA2, Accession No. BAV54124).
Additional suitable nuclease-inactive dCas9 domains will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on this disclosure and knowledge in the field, and are within the scope of this disclosure. Such additional exemplary suitable nuclease-inactive Cas9 domains include, but are not limited to, D10A/H840A, D10A/D839A/H840A, and D10A/D839A/H840A/N863A mutant domains (See, e.g., Prashant et al., CAS9 transcriptional activators for target specificity screening and paired nickases for cooperative genome engineering. Nature Biotechnology. 2013; 31(9): 833-838, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference). In some embodiments the dCas9 domain comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of the dCas9 domains provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain comprises an amino acid sequences that has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 or more or more mutations compared to any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain comprises an amino acid sequence that has at least 10, at least 15, at least 20, at least 30, at least 40, at least 50, at least 60, at least 70, at least 80, at least 90, at least 100, at least 150, at least 200, at least 250, at least 300, at least 350, at least 400, at least 500, at least 600, at least 700, at least 800, at least 900, at least 1000, at least 1100, or at least 1200 identical contiguous amino acid residues as compared to any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein.
In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain is a Cas9 nickase. The Cas9 nickase may be a Cas9 protein that is capable of cleaving only one strand of a duplexed nucleic acid molecule (e.g., a duplexed DNA molecule). In some embodiments the Cas9 nickase cleaves the target strand of a duplexed nucleic acid molecule, meaning that the Cas9 nickase cleaves the strand that is base paired to (complementary to) a gRNA (e.g., an sgRNA) that is bound to the Cas9. In some embodiments, a Cas9 nickase comprises a D10A mutation and has a histidine at position 840 of SEQ ID NO: 6, or a mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. For example, a Cas9 nickase may comprise the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 8. In some embodiments the Cas9 nickase cleaves the non-target, non-base-edited strand of a duplexed nucleic acid molecule, meaning that the Cas9 nickase cleaves the strand that is not base paired to a gRNA (e.g., an sgRNA) that is bound to the Cas9. In some embodiments, a Cas9 nickase comprises an H840A mutation and has an aspartic acid residue at position 10 of SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments the Cas9 nickase comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of the Cas9 nickases provided herein. Additional suitable Cas9 nickases will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on this disclosure and knowledge in the field, and are within the scope of this disclosure.
Cas9 Domains with Reduced PAM Exclusivity
Some aspects of the disclosure provide Cas9 domains that have different PAM specificities. Typically, Cas9 proteins, such as Cas9 from S. pyogenes (spCas9), require a canonical NGG PAM sequence to bind a particular nucleic acid region. This may limit the ability to edit desired bases within a genome. In some embodiments, the base editing fusion proteins provided herein may need to be placed at a precise location, for example where a target base is placed within a 4 base region (e.g., a “deamination window”), which is approximately 15 bases upstream of the PAM. See Komor, A. C., et al., “Programmable editing of a target base in genomic DNA without double-stranded DNA cleavage” Nature 533, 420-424 (2016), the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. Accordingly, in some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein may contain a Cas9 domain that is capable of binding a nucleotide sequence that does not contain a canonical (e.g., NGG) PAM sequence. Cas9 domains that bind to non-canonical PAM sequences have been described in the art and would be apparent to the skilled artisan. For example, Cas9 domains that bind non-canonical PAM sequences have been described in Kleinstiver, B. P., et al., “Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with altered PAM specificities” Nature 523, 481-485 (2015); and Kleinstiver, B. P., et al., “Broadening the targeting range of Staphylococcus aureus CRISPR-Cas9 by modifying PAM recognition” Nature Biotechnology 33, 1293-1298 (2015); the entire contents of each are hereby incorporated by reference.
In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain is a Cas9 domain from Staphylococcus aureus (SaCas9). In some embodiments, the SaCas9 domain is a nuclease active SaCas9, a nuclease inactive SaCas9 (SaCas9d), or a SaCas9 nickase (SaCas9n). In some embodiments, the SaCas9 comprises the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 33. In some embodiments, the SaCas9 comprises a N579X mutation of SEQ ID NO: 33, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid except for N. In some embodiments, the SaCas9 comprises a N579A mutation of SEQ ID NO: 33, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SaCas9 domain, the SaCas9d domain, or the SaCas9n domain can bind to a nucleic acid sequence having a non-canonical PAM. In some embodiments, the SaCas9 domain, the SaCas9d domain, or the SaCas9n domain can bind to a nucleic acid sequence having a NNGRRT PAM sequence. In some embodiments, the SaCas9 domain comprises one or more of a E781X, a N967X, and a R1014X mutation of SEQ ID NO: 33, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, the SaCas9 domain comprises one or more of a E781K, a N967K, and a R1014H mutation of SEQ ID NO: 33, or one or more corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SaCas9 domain comprises a E781K, a N967K, or a R1014H mutation of SEQ ID NO: 33, or corresponding mutations in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein.
In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain of any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 33-36. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain of any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprises the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 33-36. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain of any of the fusion proteins provided herein consists of the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 33-36.
Exemplary SaCas9 Sequence
Residue N579 of SEQ ID NO: 33, which is underlined and in bold, may be mutated (e.g., to a A579) to yield a SaCas9 nickase.
Exemplary SaCas9d Sequence
Residue D10 of SEQ ID NO: 34, which is underlined and in bold, may be mutated (e.g., to a A10) to yield a nuclease inactive SaCas9d.
Exemplary SaCas9n Sequence
Residue A579 of SEQ ID NO: 35, which can be mutated from N579 of SEQ ID NO: 33 to yield a SaCas9 nickase, is underlined and in bold.
Exemplary SaKKH Cas9
Residue A579 of SEQ ID NO: 36, which can be mutated from N579 of SEQ ID NO: 36 to yield a SaCas9 nickase, is underlined and in bold. Residues K781, K967, and H1014 of SEQ ID NO: 36, which can be mutated from E781, N967, and R1014 of SEQ ID NO: 36 to yield a SaKKH Cas9 are underlined and in italics.
In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain is a Cas9 domain from Streptococcus pyogenes (SpCas9). In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain is a nuclease active SpCas9, a nuclease inactive SpCas9 (SpCas9d), or a SpCas9 nickase (SpCas9n). In some embodiments, the SpCas9 comprises the amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 37. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 comprises a D9X mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid except for D. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 comprises a D9A mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain, the SpCas9d domain, or the SpCas9n domain can bind to a nucleic acid sequence having a non-canonical PAM. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain, the SpCas9d domain, or the SpCas9n domain can bind to a nucleic acid sequence having a NGG, a NGA, or a NGCG PAM sequence. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises one or more of a D1134X, a R1334X, and a T1336X mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises one or more of a D1134E, R1334Q, and T1336R mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises a D1134E, a R1334Q, and a T1336R mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or corresponding mutations in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises one or more of a D1134X, a R1334X, and a T1336X mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises one or more of a D1134V, a R1334Q, and a T1336R mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises a D1134V, a R1334Q, and a T1336R mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or corresponding mutations in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises one or more of a D1134X, a G1217X, a R1334X, and a T1336X mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises one or more of a D1134V, a G1217R, a R1334Q, and a T1336R mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the SpCas9 domain comprises a D1134V, a G1217R, a R1334Q, and a T1336R mutation of SEQ ID NO: 37, or corresponding mutations in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein.
In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain of any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 37-41. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain of any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprises the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 37-41. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain of any of the fusion proteins provided herein consists of the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 37-41.
Exemplary SpCas9
Exemplary SpCas9n
Exemplary SpEQR Cas9
Residues E1134, Q1334, and R1336 of SEQ ID NO: 39, which can be mutated from D1134, R1334, and T1336 of SEQ ID NO: 39 to yield a SpEQR Cas9, are underlined and in bold.
Exemplary SpVQR Cas9
Residues V1134, Q1334, and R1336 of SEQ ID NO: 40, which can be mutated from D1134, R1334, and T1336 of SEQ ID NO: 40 to yield a SpVQR Cas9, are underlined and in bold.
Exemplary SpVRER Cas9
Residues V1134, R1217, Q1334, and R1336 of SEQ ID NO: 41, which can be mutated from D1134, G1217, R1334, and T1336 of SEQ ID NO: 41 to yield a SpVRER Cas9, are underlined and in bold.
The following are exemplary fusion proteins (e.g., base editing proteins) capable of binding to a nucleic acid sequence having a non-canonical (e.g., a non-NGG) PAM sequence:
Exemplary SaBE3 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-SaCas9n-UGI-NLS)
LGLDIGITSVGYGIIDYETRDVIDAGVRLFKEANVENNEGRRSKRGARRL
KRRRRHRIQRVKKLLFDYNLLTDHSELSGINPYEARVKGLSQKLSEEEFS
AALLHLAKRRGVHNVNEVEEDTGNELSTKEQISRNSKALEEKYVAELQLE
RLKKDGEVRGSINRFKTSDYVKEAKQLLKVQKAYHQLDQSFIDTYIDLLE
TRRTYYEGPGEGSPFGWKDIKEWYEMLMGHCTYFPEELRSVKYAYNADLY
NALNDLNNLVITRDENEKLEYYEKFQIIENVFKQKKKPTLKQIAKEILVN
EEDIKGYRVTSTGKPEFTNLKVYHDIKDITARKEIIENAELLDQIAKILT
IYQSSEDIQEELTNLNSELTQEEIEQISNLKGYTGTHNLSLKAINLILDE
LWHTNDNQIAIFNRLKLVPKKVDLSQQKEIPTTLVDDFILSPVVKRSFIQ
SIKVINAIIKKYGLPNDIIIELAREKNSKDAQKMINEMQKRNRQTNERIE
EIIRTTGKENAKYLIEKIKLHDMQEGKCLYSLEAIPLEDLLNNPFNYEVD
HIIPRSVSFDNSFNNKVLVKQEEASKKGNRTPFQYLSSSDSKISYETFKK
HILNLAKGKGRISKTKKEYLLEERDINRFSVQKDFINRNLVDTRYATRGL
MNLLRSYFRVNNLDVKVKSINGGFTSFLRRKWKFKKERNKGYKHHAEDAL
IIANADFIFKEWKKLDKAKKVMENQMFEEKQAESMPEIETEQEYKEIFIT
PHQIKHIKDFKDYKYSHRVDKKPNRELINDTLYSTRKDDKGNTLIVNNLN
GLYDKDNDKLKKLINKSPEKLLMYHHDPQTYQKLKLIMEQYGDEKNPLYK
YYEETGNYLTKYSKKDNGPVIKKIKYYGNKLNAHLDITDDYPNSRNKVVK
LSLKPYRFDVYLDNGVYKFVTVKNLDVIKKENYYEVNSKCYEEAKKLKKI
SNQAEFIASFYNNDLIKINGELYRVIGVNNDLLNRIEVNMIDITYREYLE
NMNDKRPPRIIKTIASKTQSIKKYSTDILGNLYEVKSKKHPQIIKKGSGG
Exemplary SaKKH-BE3 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-SaCas9n-UGI-NLS)
LGLDIGITSVGYGIIDYETRDVIDAGVRLFKEANVENNEGRRSKRGARRL
KRRRRHRIQRVKKLLFDYNLLTDHSELSGINPYEARVKGLSQKLSEEEFS
AALLHLAKRRGVHNVNEVEEDTGNELSTKEQISRNSKALEEKYVAELQLE
RLKKDGEVRGSINRFKTSDYVKEAKQLLKVQKAYHQLDQSFIDTYIDLLE
TRRTYYEGPGEGSPFGWKDIKEWYEMLMGHCTYFPEELRSVKYAYNADLY
NALNDLNNLVITRDENEKLEYYEKFQIIENVFKQKKKPTLKQIAKEILVN
EEDIKGYRVTSTGKPEFTNLKVYHDIKDITARKEIIENAELLDQIAKILT
IYQSSEDIQEELTNLNSELTQEEIEQISNLKGYTGTHNLSLKAINLILDE
LWHTNDNQIAIFNRLKLVPKKVDLSQQKEIPTTLVDDFILSPVVKRSFIQ
SIKVINAIIKKYGLPNDIIIELAREKNSKDAQKMINEMQKRNRQTNERIE
EIIRTTGKENAKYLIEKIKLHDMQEGKCLYSLEAIPLEDLLNNPFNYEVD
HIIPRSVSFDNSFNNKVLVKQEEASKKGNRTPFQYLSSSDSKISYETFKK
HILNLAKGKGRISKTKKEYLLEERDINRFSVQKDFINRNLVDTRYATRGL
MNLLRSYFRVNNLDVKVKSINGGFTSFLRRKWKFKKERNKGYKHHAEDAL
IIANADFIFKEWKKLDKAKKVMENQMFEEKQAESMPEIETEQEYKEIFIT
PHQIKHIKDFKDYKYSHRVDKKPNRKLINDTLYSTRKDDKGNTLIVNNLN
GLYDKDNDKLKKLINKSPEKLLMYHHDPQTYQKLKLIMEQYGDEKNPLYK
YYEETGNYLTKYSKKDNGPVIKKIKYYGNKLNAHLDITDDYPNSRNKVVK
LSLKPYRFDVYLDNGVYKFVTVKNLDVIKKENYYEVNSKCYEEAKKLKKI
SNQAEFIASFYKNDLIKINGELYRVIGVNNDLLNRIEVNMIDITYREYLE
NMNDKRPPHIIKTIASKTQSIKKYSTDILGNLYEVKSKKHPQIIKKGSGG
Exemplary EQR-BE3 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-Cas9n-UGI-NLS)
IGLAIGTNSVGWAVITDEYKVPSKKFKVLGNTDRHSIKKNLIGALLFDSG
ETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHRLEESFL
VEEDKKHERHPIFGNIVDEVAYHEKYPTIYHLRKKLVDSTDKADLRLIYL
ALAHMIKFRGHFLIEGDLNPDNSDVDKLFIQLVQTYNQLFEENPINASGV
DAKAILSARLSKSRRLENLIAQLPGEKKNGLFGNLIALSLGLTPNFKSNF
DLAEDAKLQLSKDTYDDDLDNLLAQIGDQYADLFLAAKNLSDAILLSDIL
RVNTEITKAPLSASMIKRYDEHHQDLTLLKALVRQQLPEKYKEIFFDQSK
NGYAGYIDGGASQEEFYKFIKPILEKMDGTEELLVKLNREDLLRKQRTFD
NGSIPHQIHLGELHAILRRQEDFYPFLKDNREKIEKILTFRIPYYVGPLA
RGNSRFAWMTRKSEETITPWNFEEVVDKGASAQSFIERMTNFDKNLPNEK
VLPKHSLLYEYFTVYNELTKVKYVTEGMRKPAFLSGEQKKAIVDLLFKTN
RKVTVKQLKEDYFKKIECFDSVEISGVEDRFNASLGTYHDLLKIIKDKDF
LDNEENEDILEDIVLTLTLFEDREMIEERLKTYAHLFDDKVMKQLKRRRY
TGWGRLSRKLINGIRDKQSGKTILDFLKSDGFANRNFMQLIHDDSLTFKE
ENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEGIKELGSQILKEHPVENTQL
QNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDHIVPQSFLKDDSIDNKV
LTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDNLTKAERG
GLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDSRMNTKYDENDKLIREVKVI
TLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDAYLNAVVGTALIKKYPKLES
EFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYFFYSNIMNFFKTEITLANGE
IRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVLSMPQVNIVKKTEVQTGGFS
KESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFESPTVAYSVLVVAKVEKGKSKK
LKSVKELLGITIMERSSFEKNPIDFLEAKGYKEVKKDLIIKLPKYSLFEL
ENGRKRMLASAGELQKGNELALPSKYVNFLYLASHYEKLKGSPEDNEQKQ
LFVEQHKHYLDEIIEQISEFSKRVILADANLDKVLSAYNKHRDKPIREQA
ENIIHLFTLTNLGAPAAFKYFDTTIDRKQYRSTKEVLDATLIHQSITGLY
ETRIDLSQLGGDSGGSTNLSDIIEKETGKQLVIQESILMLPEEVEEVIGN
VQR-BE3 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-Cas9n-UGI-NLS)
IGLAIGTNSVGWAVITDEYKVPSKKFKVLGNTDRHSIKKNLIGALLFDSG
ETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHRLEESFL
VEEDKKHERHPIFGNIVDEVAYHEKYPTIYHLRKKLVDSTDKADLRLIYL
ALAHMIKFRGHFLIEGDLNPDNSDVDKLFIQLVQTYNQLFEENPINASGV
DAKAILSARLSKSRRLENLIAQLPGEKKNGLFGNLIALSLGLTPNFKSNF
DLAEDAKLQLSKDTYDDDLDNLLAQIGDQYADLFLAAKNLSDAILLSDIL
RVNTEITKAPLSASMIKRYDEHHQDLTLLKALVRQQLPEKYKEIFFDQSK
NGYAGYIDGGASQEEFYKFIKPILEKMDGTEELLVKLNREDLLRKQRTFD
NGSIPHQIHLGELHAILRRQEDFYPFLKDNREKIEKILTFRIPYYVGPLA
RGNSRFAWMTRKSEETITPWNFEEVVDKGASAQSFIERMTNFDKNLPNEK
VLPKHSLLYEYFTVYNELTKVKYVTEGMRKPAFLSGEQKKAIVDLLFKTN
RKVTVKQLKEDYFKKIECFDSVEISGVEDRFNASLGTYHDLLKIIKDKDF
LDNEENEDILEDIVLTLTLFEDREMIEERLKTYAHLFDDKVMKQLKRRRY
TGWGRLSRKLINGIRDKQSGKTILDFLKSDGFANRNFMQLIHDDSLTFKE
DIQKAQVSGQGDSLHEHIANLAGSPAIKKGILQTVKVVDELVKVMGRHKP
ENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEGIKELGSQILKEHPVENTQL
QNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDHIVPQSFLKDDSIDNKV
LTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDNLTKAERG
GLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDSRMNTKYDENDKLIREVKVI
TLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDAYLNAVVGTALIKKYPKLES
EFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYFFYSNIMNFFKTEITLANGE
IRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVLSMPQVNIVKKTEVQTGGFS
KESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFVSPTVAYSVLVVAKVEKGKSKK
LKSVKELLGITIMERSSFEKNPIDFLEAKGYKEVKKDLIIKLPKYSLFEL
ENGRKRMLASAGELQKGNELALPSKYVNFLYLASHYEKLKGSPEDNEQKQ
LFVEQHKHYLDEIIEQISEFSKRVILADANLDKVLSAYNKHRDKPIREQA
ENIIHLFTLTNLGAPAAFKYFDTTIDRKQYRSTKEVLDATLIHQSITGLY
ETRIDLSQLGGDSGGSTNLSDIIEKETGKQLVIQESILMLPEEVEEVIGN
VRER-BE3 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-Cas9n-UGI-NLS)
IGLAIGTNSVGWAVITDEYKVPSKKFKVLGNTDRHSIKKNLIGALLFDSG
ETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHRLEESFL
VEEDKKHERHPIFGNIVDEVAYHEKYPTIYHLRKKLVDSTDKADLRLIYL
ALAHMIKFRGHFLIEGDLNPDNSDVDKLFIQLVQTYNQLFEENPINASGV
DAKAILSARLSKSRRLENLIAQLPGEKKNGLFGNLIALSLGLTPNFKSNF
DLAEDAKLQLSKDTYDDDLDNLLAQIGDQYADLFLAAKNLSDAILLSDIL
RVNTEITKAPLSASMIKRYDEHHQDLTLLKALVRQQLPEKYKEIFFDQSK
NGYAGYIDGGASQEEFYKFIKPILEKMDGTEELLVKLNREDLLRKQRTFD
NGSIPHQIHLGELHAILRRQEDFYPFLKDNREKIEKILTFRIPYYVGPLA
RGNSRFAWMTRKSEETITPWNFEEVVDKGASAQSFIERMTNFDKNLPNEK
VLPKHSLLYEYFTVYNELTKVKYVTEGMRKPAFLSGEQKKAIVDLLFKTN
RKVTVKQLKEDYFKKIECFDSVEISGVEDRFNASLGTYHDLLKIIKDKDF
LDNEENEDILEDIVLTLTLFEDREMIEERLKTYAHLFDDKVMKQLKRRRY
TGWGRLSRKLINGIRDKQSGKTILDFLKSDGFANRNFMQLIHDDSLTFKE
DIQKAQVSGQGDSLHEHIANLAGSPAIKKGILQTVKVVDELVKVMGRHKP
ENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEGIKELGSQILKEHPVENTQL
QNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDHIVPQSFLKDDSIDNKV
LTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDNLTKAERG
GLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDSRMNTKYDENDKLIREVKVI
TLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDAYLNAVVGTALIKKYPKLES
EFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYFFYSNIMNFFKTEITLANGE
IRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVLSMPQVNIVKKTEVQTGGFS
KESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFVSPTVAYSVLVVAKVEKGKSKK
LKSVKELLGITIMERSSFEKNPIDFLEAKGYKEVKKDLIIKLPKYSLFEL
ENGRKRMLASARELQKGNELALPSKYVNFLYLASHYEKLKGSPEDNEQKQ
LFVEQHKHYLDEIIEQISEFSKRVILADANLDKVLSAYNKHRDKPIREQA
ENIIHLFTLTNLGAPAAFKYFDTTIDRKEYRSTKEVLDATLIHQSITGLY
ETRIDLSQLGGDSGGSTNLSDIIEKETGKQLVIQESILMLPEEVEEVIGN
High Fidelity Base Editors
Some aspects of the disclosure provide Cas9 fusion proteins (e.g., any of the fusion proteins provided herein) comprising a Cas9 domain that has high fidelity. Additional aspects of the disclosure provide Cas9 fusion proteins (e.g., any of the fusion proteins provided herein) comprising a Cas9 domain with decreased electrostatic interactions between the Cas9 domain and a sugar-phosphate backbone of a DNA, as compared to a wild-type Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, a Cas9 domain (e.g., a wild type Cas9 domain) comprises one or more mutations that decreases the association between the Cas9 domain and a sugar-phosphate backbone of a DNA. In some embodiments, any of the Cas9 fusion proteins provided herein comprise one or more of a N497X, a R661X, a Q695X, and/or a Q926X mutation of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, any of the Cas9 fusion proteins provided herein comprise one or more of a N497A, a R661A, a Q695A, and/or a Q926A mutation of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain comprises a D10A mutation of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain (e.g., of any of the fusion proteins provided herein) comprises the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 47. In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 48. Cas9 domains with high fidelity are known in the art and would be apparent to the skilled artisan. For example, Cas9 domains with high fidelity have been described in Kleinstiver, B. P., et al. “High-fidelity CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects.” Nature 529, 490-495 (2016); and Slaymaker, I. M., et al. “Rationally engineered Cas9 nucleases with improved specificity.” Science 351, 84-88 (2015); the entire contents of each are incorporated herein by reference.
It should be appreciated that the base editors provided herein, for example, base editor 2 (BE2) or base editor 3 (BE3), may be converted into high fidelity base editors by modifying the Cas9 domain as described herein to generate high fidelity base editors, for example, high fidelity base editor 2 (HF-BE2) or high fidelity base editor 3 (HF-BE3). In some embodiments, base editor 2 (BE2) comprises a deaminase domain, a dCas9, and a UGI domain. In some embodiments, base editor 3 (BE3) comprises a deaminase domain, anCas9 domain and a UGI domain.
Cas9 Domain where Mutations Relative to Cas9 of SEQ ID NO: 6 are Shown in Bold and Underlines
HF-BE3
Cas9 Fusion Proteins
Any of the Cas9 domains (e.g., a nuclease active Cas9 protein, a nuclease-inactive dCas9 protein, or a Cas9 nickase protein) disclosed herein may be fused to a second protein, thus fusion proteins provided herein comprise a Cas9 domain as provided herein and a second protein, or a “fusion partner”. In some embodiments, the second protein is fused to the N-terminus of the Cas9 domain. However, in other embodiments, the second protein is fused to the C-terminus of the Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, the second protein that is fused to the Cas9 domain is a nucleic acid editing domain. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain and the nucleic acid editing domain are fused via a linker, while in other embodiments the Cas9 domain and the nucleic acid editing domain are fused directly to one another. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain and the nucleic acid editing domain are fused via a linker of any length or composition. For example, the linker may be a bond, one or more amino acids, a peptide, or a polymer, of any length and composition. In some embodiments, the linker comprises (GGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 613), (GGGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 607), (G)n (SEQ ID NO: 608), (EAAAK)n (SEQ ID NO: 609), (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610), (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606), SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604), SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612), SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605), or (XP)n (SEQ ID NO: 611) motif, or a combination of any of these, wherein n is independently an integer between 1 and 30, and wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGS)n motif, wherein n is 1, 3, or 7. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 610) motif, wherein n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15. In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612), wherein n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10. In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612), wherein n is 2. In some embodiments, the linker comprises an amino acid sequence of SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604), also referred to as the XTEN linker in the Examples). In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605), also referred to as the 32 amino acid linker in the Examples. The length of the linker can influence the base to be edited, as illustrated in the Examples. For example, a linker of 3-amino-acid long (e.g., (GGS)1) may give a 2-5, 2-4, 2-3, 3-4 base editing window relative to the PAM sequence, while a 9-amino-acid linker (e.g., (GGS)3 (SEQ ID NO: 610)) may give a 2-6, 2-5, 2-4, 2-3, 3-6, 3-5, 3-4, 4-6, 4-5, 5-6 base editing window relative to the PAM sequence. A 16-amino-acid linker (e.g., the XTEN linker) may give a 2-7, 2-6, 2-5, 2-4, 2-3, 3-7, 3-6, 3-5, 3-4, 4-7, 4-6, 4-5, 5-7, 5-6, 6-7 base window relative to the PAM sequence with exceptionally strong activity, and a 21-amino-acid linker (e.g., (GGS)7 (SEQ ID NO: 610)) may give a 3-8, 3-7, 3-6, 3-5, 3-4, 4-8, 4-7, 4-6, 4-5, 5-8, 5-7, 5-6, 6-8, 6-7, 7-8 base editing window relative to the PAM sequence. The novel finding that varying linker length may allow the dCas9 fusion proteins of the disclosure to edit nucleobases different distances from the PAM sequence affords significant clinical importance, since a PAM sequence may be of varying distance to the disease-causing mutation to be corrected in a gene. It is to be understood that the linker lengths described as examples here are not meant to be limiting.
In some embodiments, the second protein comprises an enzymatic domain. In some embodiments, the enzymatic domain is a nucleic acid editing domain. Such a nucleic acid editing domain may be, without limitation, a nuclease, a nickase, a recombinase, a deaminase, a methyltransferase, a methylase, an acetylase, or an acetyltransferase. Non-limiting exemplary binding domains that may be used in accordance with this disclosure include transcriptional activator domains and transcriptional repressor domains.
Deaminase Domains
In some embodiments, second protein comprises a nucleic acid editing domain. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain can catalyze a C to U base change. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain is a deaminase domain. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a cytidine deaminase or a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC1 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC2 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3A deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3B deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3C deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3D deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3E deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3F deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3G deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3H deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC4 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an activation-induced deaminase (AID). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a vertebrate deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an invertebrate deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human, chimpanzee, gorilla, monkey, cow, dog, rat, or mouse deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a rat deaminase, e.g., rAPOBEC1. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a cytidine deaminase 1 (CDA1). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a Petromyzon marinus cytidine deaminase 1 (pmCDA1). In some embodiments, the deminase is a human APOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a fragment of the human APOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 83). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human APOBEC3G variant comprising a D316R_D317R mutation (SEQ ID NO: 82). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a fragment of the human APOBEC3G and comprising mutations corresponding to the D316R_D317R mutations in SEQ ID NO: 60 (SEQ ID NO: 84).
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain is at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 92%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to the deaminase domain of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 49-84. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain comprises the amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 49-84.
Deaminase Domains that Modulate the Editing Window of Base Editors
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that modulating the deaminase domain catalytic activity of any of the fusion proteins provided herein, for example by making point mutations in the deaminase domain, affect the processivity of the fusion proteins (e.g., base editors). For example, mutations that reduce, but do not eliminate, the catalytic activity of a deaminase domain within a base editing fusion protein can make it less likely that the deaminase domain will catalyze the deamination of a residue adjacent to a target residue, thereby narrowing the deamination window. The ability to narrow the deaminataion window may prevent unwanted deamination of residues adjacent of specific target residues, which may decrease or prevent off-target effects.
In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise a deaminase domain (e.g., a cytidine deaminase domain) that has reduced catalytic deaminase activity. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise a deaminase domain (e.g., a cytidine deaminase domain) that has a reduced catalytic deaminase activity as compared to an appropriate control. For example, the appropriate control may be the deaminase activity of the deaminase prior to introducing one or more mutations into the deaminase. In other embodiments, the appropriate control may be a wild-type deaminase. In some embodiments, the appropriate control is a wild-type apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family deaminase. In some embodiments, the appropriate control is an APOBEC1 deaminase, an APOBEC2 deaminase, an APOBEC3A deaminase, an APOBEC3B deaminase, an APOBEC3C deaminase, an APOBEC3D deaminase, an APOBEC3F deaminase, an APOBEC3G deaminase, or an APOBEC3H deaminase. In some embodiments, the appropriate control is an activation induced deaminase (AID). In some embodiments, the appropriate control is a cytidine deaminase 1 from Petromyzon marinus (pmCDA1). In some embodiments, the deaminase domain may be a deaminase domain that has at least 1%, at least 5%, at least 15%, at least 20%, at least 25%, at least 30%, at least 40%, at least 50%, at least 60%, at least 70%, at least 80%, at least 90%, or at least 95% less catalytic deaminase activity as compared to an appropriate control.
In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising one or more mutations selected from the group consisting of H121X, H122X, R126X, R126X, R118X, W90X, W90X, and R132X of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase, wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising one or more mutations selected from the group consisting of H121R, H122R, R126A, R126E, R118A, W90A, W90Y, and R132E of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase.
In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising one or more mutations selected from the group consisting of D316X, D317X, R320X, R320X, R313X, W285X, W285X, R326X of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase, wherein X is any amino acid. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising one or more mutations selected from the group consisting of D316R, D317R, R320A, R320E, R313A, W285A, W285Y, R326E of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase.
In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a H121R and a H122R mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R126A mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R126E mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R118A mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W90A mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W90Y mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R132E mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W90Y and a R126E mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R126E and a R132E mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W90Y and a R132E mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W90Y, R126E, and R132E mutation of rAPOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 76), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase.
In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a D316R and a D317R mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R320A mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R320E mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R313A mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W285A mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W285Y mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R326E mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W285Y and a R320E mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a R320E and a R326E mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W285Y and a R326E mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein comprise an APOBEC deaminase comprising a W285Y, R320E, and R326E mutation of hAPOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60), or one or more corresponding mutations in another APOBEC deaminase.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide fusion proteins comprising (i) a nuclease-inactive Cas9 domain; and (ii) a nucleic acid editing domain. In some embodiments, a nuclease-inactive Cas9 domain (dCas9), comprises an amino acid sequence that is at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 92%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to the amino acid sequence of a Cas9 as provided by any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, and comprises mutations that inactivate the nuclease activity of Cas9. Mutations that render the nuclease domains of Cas9 inactive are well-known in the art. For example, the DNA cleavage domain of Cas9 is known to include two subdomains, the HNH nuclease subdomain and the RuvC1 subdomain. The HNH subdomain cleaves the strand complementary to the gRNA, whereas the RuvC1 subdomain cleaves the non-complementary strand. Mutations within these subdomains can silence the nuclease activity of Cas9. For example, the mutations D10A and H840A completely inactivate the nuclease activity of S. pyogenes Cas9 (Jinek et al., Science. 337:816-821(2012); Qi et al., Cell. 28; 152(5):1173-83 (2013)). In some embodiments, the dCas9 of this disclosure comprises a D10A mutation of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the dCas9 of this disclosure comprises a H840A mutation of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the dCas9 of this disclosure comprises both D10A and H840A mutations of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 further comprises a histidine residue at position 840 of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. The presence of the catalytic residue H840 restores the activity of the Cas9 to cleave the non-edited strand containing a G opposite the targeted C. Restoration of H840 does not result in the cleavage of the target strand containing the C. In some embodiments, the dCas9 comprises an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 32. It is to be understood that other mutations that inactivate the nuclease domains of Cas9 may also be included in the dCas9 of this disclosure.
The Cas9 or dCas9 domains comprising the mutations disclosed herein, may be a full-length Cas9, or a fragment thereof. In some embodiments, proteins comprising Cas9, or fragments thereof, are referred to as “Cas9 variants.” A Cas9 variant shares homology to Cas9, or a fragment thereof. For example a Cas9 variant is at least about 70% identical, at least about 80% identical, at least about 90% identical, at least about 95% identical, at least about 96% identical, at least about 97% identical, at least about 98% identical, at least about 99% identical, at least about 99.5% identical, or at least about 99.9% to wild type Cas9. In some embodiments, the Cas9 variant comprises a fragment of Cas9 (e.g., a gRNA binding domain or a DNA-cleavage domain), such that the fragment is at least about 70% identical, at least about 80% identical, at least about 90% identical, at least about 95% identical, at least about 96% identical, at least about 97% identical, at least about 98% identical, at least about 99% identical, at least about 99.5% identical, or at least about 99.9% identical to the corresponding fragment of wild type Cas9, e.g., a Cas9 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6.
Any of the Cas9 fusion proteins of this disclosure may further comprise a nucleic acid editing domain (e.g., an enzyme that is capable of modifying nucleic acid, such as a deaminase). In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain is a DNA-editing domain. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain has deaminase activity. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain comprises or consists of a deaminase or deaminase domain. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC1 family deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). Some nucleic-acid editing domains as well as Cas9 fusion proteins including such domains are described in detail herein. Additional suitable nucleic acid editing domains will be apparent to the skilled artisan based on this disclosure and knowledge in the field.
Some aspects of the disclosure provide a fusion protein comprising a Cas9 domain fused to a nucleic acid editing domain, wherein the nucleic acid editing domain is fused to the N-terminus of the Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain and the nucleic acid editing-editing domain are fused via a linker. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 613), a (GGGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 607), a (G)n(SEQ ID NO: 608), an (EAAAK)n (SEQ ID NO: 609), a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610), (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606), an SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604) motif (see, e.g., Guilinger J P, Thompson D B, Liu D R. Fusion of catalytically inactive Cas9 to FokI nuclease improves the specificity of genome modification. Nat. Biotechnol. 2014; 32(6): 577-82; the entire contents are incorporated herein by reference), or an (XP)n (SEQ ID NO: 611) motif, or a combination of any of these, wherein n is independently an integer between 1 and 30. In some embodiments, n is independently 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, or 30, or, if more than one linker or more than one linker motif is present, any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610) motif, wherein n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610) motif, wherein n is 1, 3, or 7. In some embodiments, the linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604). Additional suitable linker motifs and linker configurations will be apparent to those of skill in the art. In some embodiments, suitable linker motifs and configurations include those described in Chen et al., Fusion protein linkers: property, design and functionality. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2013; 65(10):1357-69, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. Additional suitable linker sequences will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on the instant disclosure. In some embodiments, the general architecture of exemplary Cas9 fusion proteins provided herein comprises the structure:
[NH2]-[nucleic acid editing domain]-[Cas9]-[COOH] or
[NH2]-[nucleic acid editing domain]-[linker]-[Cas9]-[COOH],
wherein NH2 is the N-terminus of the fusion protein, and COOH is the C-terminus of the fusion protein.
The fusion proteins of the present disclosure may comprise one or more additional features. For example, in some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises a nuclear localization sequence (NLS). In some embodiments, the NLS of the fusion protein is localized between the nucleic acid editing domain and the Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, the NLS of the fusion protein is localized C-terminal to the Cas9 domain.
Other exemplary features that may be present are localization sequences, such as cytoplasmic localization sequences, export sequences, such as nuclear export sequences, or other localization sequences, as well as sequence tags that are useful for solubilization, purification, or detection of the fusion proteins. Suitable protein tags provided herein include, but are not limited to, biotin carboxylase carrier protein (BCCP) tags, myc-tags, calmodulin-tags, FLAG-tags, hemagglutinin (HA)-tags, polyhistidine tags, also referred to as histidine tags or His-tags, maltose binding protein (MBP)-tags, nus-tags, glutathione-S-transferase (GST)-tags, green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tags, thioredoxin-tags, S-tags, Softags (e.g., Softag 1, Softag 3), strep-tags, biotin ligase tags, FlAsH tags, V5 tags, and SBP-tags. Additional suitable sequences will be apparent to those of skill in the art. In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises one or more His tags.
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain is a deaminase. For example, in some embodiments, the general architecture of exemplary Cas9 fusion proteins with a deaminase domain comprises the structure:
[NH2]-[NLS]-[deaminase]-[Cas9]-[COOH],
[NH2]-[Cas9]-[deaminase]-[COOH],
[NH2]-[deaminase]-[Cas9]-[COOH], or
[NH2]-[deaminase]-[Cas9]-[NLS]-[COOH];
wherein NLS is a nuclear localization sequence, NH2 is the N-terminus of the fusion protein, and COOH is the C-terminus of the fusion protein. Nuclear localization sequences are known in the art and would be apparent to the skilled artisan. For example, NLS sequences are described in Plank et al., PCT/EP2000/011690, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference for their disclosure of exemplary nuclear localization sequences. In some embodiments, a NLS comprises the amino acid sequence PKKKRKV (SEQ ID NO: 614) or MDSLLMNRRKFLYQFKNVRWAKGRRETYLC (SEQ ID NO: 615). In some embodiments, a linker is inserted between the Cas9 and the deaminase. In some embodiments, the NLS is located C-terminal of the Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, the NLS is located N-terminal of the Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, the NLS is located between the deaminase and the Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, the NLS is located N-terminal of the deaminase domain. In some embodiments, the NLS is located C-terminal of the deaminase domain.
One exemplary suitable type of nucleic acid editing domain is a cytidine deaminase, for example, of the APOBEC family. The apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family of cytidine deaminase enzymes encompasses eleven proteins that serve to initiate mutagenesis in a controlled and beneficial manner.29 One family member, activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), is responsible for the maturation of antibodies by converting cytosines in ssDNA to uracils in a transcription-dependent, strand-biased fashion.30 The apolipoprotein B editing complex 3 (APOBEC3) enzyme provides protection to human cells against a certain HIV-1 strain via the deamination of cytosines in reverse-transcribed viral ssDNA.31 These proteins all require a Zn2+-coordinating motif (His-X-Glu-X23-26-Pro-Cys-X2-4-Cys; SEQ ID NO: 616) and bound water molecule for catalytic activity. The Glu residue acts to activate the water molecule to a zinc hydroxide for nucleophilic attack in the deamination reaction. Each family member preferentially deaminates at its own particular “hotspot”, ranging from WRC (W is A or T, R is A or G) for hAID, to TTC for hAPOBEC3F.32 A recent crystal structure of the catalytic domain of APOBEC3G revealed a secondary structure comprised of a five-stranded j-sheet core flanked by six a-helices, which is believed to be conserved across the entire family.33 The active center loops have been shown to be responsible for both ssDNA binding and in determining “hotspot” identity.34 Overexpression of these enzymes has been linked to genomic instability and cancer, thus highlighting the importance of sequence-specific targeting.35
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to the recognition that the activity of cytidine deaminase enzymes such as APOBEC enzymes can be directed to a specific site in genomic DNA. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, advantages of using Cas9 as a recognition agent include (1) the sequence specificity of Cas9 can be easily altered by simply changing the sgRNA sequence; and (2) Cas9 binds to its target sequence by denaturing the dsDNA, resulting in a stretch of DNA that is single-stranded and therefore a viable substrate for the deaminase. It should be understood that other catalytic domains, or catalytic domains from other deaminases, can also be used to generate fusion proteins with Cas9, and that the disclosure is not limited in this regard.
Some aspects of this disclosure are based on the recognition that Cas9:deaminase fusion proteins can efficiently deaminate nucleotides at positions 3-11 according to the numbering scheme in
In some embodiments, the deaminase domain and the Cas9 domain are fused to each other via a linker. Various linker lengths and flexibilities between the deaminase domain (e.g., AID) and the Cas9 domain can be employed (e.g., ranging from very flexible linkers of the form (GGGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 607), (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610), and (G)n (SEQ ID NO: 608) to more rigid linkers of the form (EAAAK)n (SEQ ID NO: 609), (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606), SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604) (see, e.g., Guilinger J P, Thompson D B, Liu D R. Fusion of catalytically inactive Cas9 to FokI nuclease improves the specificity of genome modification. Nat. Biotechnol. 2014; 32(6): 577-82; the entire contents are incorporated herein by reference) and (XP)n (SEQ ID NO: 611))36 in order to achieve the optimal length for deaminase activity for the specific application. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610) motif, wherein n is 1, 3, or 7. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (an SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604) motif.
Some exemplary suitable nucleic-acid editing domains, e.g., deaminases and deaminase domains, that can be fused to Cas9 domains according to aspects of this disclosure are provided below. It should be understood that, in some embodiments, the active domain of the respective sequence can be used, e.g., the domain without a localizing signal (nuclear localization sequence, without nuclear export signal, cytoplasmic localizing signal).
Human AID:
MDSLLMNRRKFLYQFKNVRWAKGRRETYLCYVVKRRDSATSFSLDFGYLR
(underline: nuclear localization sequence; double underline: nuclear export signal)
Mouse AID:
MDSLLMKQKKFLYHFKNVRWAKGRHETYLCYVVKRRDSATSCSLDFGHLR
(underline: nuclear localization sequence; double underline: nuclear export signal)
Dog AID:
MDSLLMKQRKFLYHFKNVRWAKGRHETYLCYVVKRRDSATSFSLDFGHLR
(underline: nuclear localization sequence; double underline: nuclear export signal)
Bovine AID:
MDSLLKKQRQFLYQFKNVRWAKGRHETYLCYVVKRRDSPTSFSLDFGHLR
(underline: nuclear localization sequence; double underline: nuclear export signal)
(underline: nuclear localization sequence; double underline: nuclear export signal)
Mouse APOBEC-3:
SWSPCFECAEQIVRFLATHHNLSLDIFSSRLYNVQDPETQQNLCRLVQEG
ELSQVTITCYLTWSPCPNCAWQLAAFKRDRPDLILHIYTSRLYFHWKRPF
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Rat APOBEC-3:
SWSPCFECAEQVLRFLATHHNLSLDIFSSRLYNIRDPENQQNLCRLVQEG
ELSQVIITCYLTWSPCPNCAWQLAAFKRDRPDLILHIYTSRLYFHWKRPF
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Rhesus macaque APOBEC-3G:
MVEPMDPRTFVSNFNNRPILSGLNTVWLCCEVKTKDPSGPPLDAKIFQGK
VYSKAKYHPEM
RFLRWFHKWRQLHHDQEYKVTWYVSWSPCTRCANSVATF
AELCFLDLIPFWKLDGQQYRVTCFTSWSPCFSCAQEMAKFISNNEHVSLC
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain; underline: cytoplasmic localization signal)
Chimpanzee APOBEC-3G:
MKPHFRNPVERMYQDTFSDNFYNRPILSHRNTVWLCYEVKTKGPSRPPLD
AKIFRGQVYSKLKYHPEMRFFHWFSKWRKLHRDQEYEVTWYISWSPCTKC
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain; underline: cytoplasmic localization signal)
Green Monkey APOBEC-3G:
MNPQIRNMVEQMEPDIFVYYFNNRPILSGRNTVWLCYEVKTKDPSGPPLD
ANIFQGKLYPEAKDHPEMKFLHWFRKWRQLHRDQEYEVTWYVSWSPCTRC
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain; underline: cytoplasmic localization signal)
Human APOBEC-3G:
MKPHFRNTVERMYRDTFSYNFYNRPILSRRNTVWLCYEVKTKGPSRPPLD
AKIFRGQVYSELKYHPEMRFFHWFSKWRKLHRDQEYEVTWYISWSPCTKC
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain; underline: cytoplasmic localization signal)
Human APOBEC-3F:
ERCFLSWFCDDILSPNTNYEVTWYTSWSPCPECAGEVAEFLARHSNVNLT
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Human APOBEC-3B:
GRHAELRFLDLVPSLQLDPAQIYRVTWFISWSPCFSWGCAGEVRAFLQEN
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Rat APOBEC-3B:
Bovine APOBEC-3B:
Chimpanzee APOBEC-3B:
Human APOBEC-3C:
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Gorilla APOBEC3C:
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Human APOBEC-3A:
CFSWGCAGEVRAFLQENTHVRLRIFAARIYDYDPLYKEALQMLRDAGAQV
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Rhesus Macaque APOBEC-3A:
WSPCFRRGCAGQVRVFLQENKHVRLRIFAARIYDYDPLYQEALRTLRDAG
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Bovine APOBEC-3A:
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Human APOBEC-3H:
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Rhesus Macaque APOBEC-3H:
Human APOBEC-3D:
(italic: nucleic acid editing domain)
Human APOBEC-1:
Mouse APOBEC-1:
Rat APOBEC-1:
Human APOBEC-2:
Mouse APOBEC-2:
Rat APOBEC-2:
Bovine APOBEC-2:
Petromyzon marinus CDA1 (pmCDA1)
Human APOBEC3G D316R_D317R
Human APOBEC3G chain A
Human APOBEC3G chain A D120R_D121R
In some embodiments, fusion proteins as provided herein comprise the full-length amino acid of a nucleic acid editing enzyme, e.g., one of the sequences provided above. In other embodiments, however, fusion proteins as provided herein do not comprise a full-length sequence of a nucleic acid editing enzyme, but only a fragment thereof. For example, in some embodiments, a fusion protein provided herein comprises a Cas9 domain and a fragment of a nucleic acid editing enzyme, e.g., wherein the fragment comprises a nucleic acid editing domain. Exemplary amino acid sequences of nucleic acid editing domains are shown in the sequences above as italicized letters, and additional suitable sequences of such domains will be apparent to those of skill in the art.
Additional suitable nucleic-acid editing enzyme sequences, e.g., deaminase enzyme and domain sequences, that can be used according to aspects of this invention, e.g., that can be fused to a nuclease-inactive Cas9 domain, will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on this disclosure. In some embodiments, such additional enzyme sequences include deaminase enzyme or deaminase domain sequences that are at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, or at least 99% similar to the sequences provided herein. Additional suitable Cas9 domains, variants, and sequences will also be apparent to those of skill in the art. Examples of such additional suitable Cas9 domains include, but are not limited to, D10A, D10A/D839A/H840A, and D10A/D839A/H840A/N863A mutant domains (see, e.g., Prashant et al., CAS9 transcriptional activators for target specificity screening and paired nickases for cooperative genome engineering. Nature Biotechnology. 2013; 31(9): 833-838 the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference). In some embodiments, the Cas9 comprises a histidine residue at position 840 of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. The presence of the catalytic residue H840 restores the activity of the Cas9 to cleave the non-edited strand containing a G opposite the targeted C. Restoration of H840 does not result in the cleavage of the target strand containing the C.
Additional suitable strategies for generating fusion proteins comprising a Cas9 domain and a deaminase domain will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on this disclosure in combination with the general knowledge in the art. Suitable strategies for generating fusion proteins according to aspects of this disclosure using linkers or without the use of linkers will also be apparent to those of skill in the art in view of the instant disclosure and the knowledge in the art. For example, Gilbert et al., CRISPR-mediated modular RNA-guided regulation of transcription in eukaryotes. Cell. 2013; 154(2):442-51, showed that C-terminal fusions of Cas9 with VP64 using 2 NLS's as a linker (SPKKKRKVEAS, SEQ ID NO: 617), can be employed for transcriptional activation. Mali et al., CAS9 transcriptional activators for target specificity screening and paired nickases for cooperative genome engineering. Nat Biotechnol. 2013; 31(9):833-8, reported that C-terminal fusions with VP64 without linker can be employed for transcriptional activation. And Maeder et al., CRISPR RNA-guided activation of endogenous human genes. Nat Methods. 2013; 10: 977-979, reported that C-terminal fusions with VP64 using a Gly4Ser (SEQ ID NO: 613) linker can be used as transcriptional activators. Recently, dCas9-FokI nuclease fusions have successfully been generated and exhibit improved enzymatic specificity as compared to the parental Cas9 enzyme (In Guilinger J P, Thompson D B, Liu D R. Fusion of catalytically inactive Cas9 to FokI nuclease improves the specificity of genome modification. Nat. Biotechnol. 2014; 32(6): 577-82, and in Tsai S Q, Wyvekens N, Khayter C, Foden J A, Thapar V, Reyon D, Goodwin M J, Aryee M J, Joung J K. Dimeric CRISPR RNA-guided FokI nucleases for highly specific genome editing. Nat Biotechnol. 2014; 32(6):569-76. PMID: 24770325 a SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604) or a GGGGS (SEQ ID NO: 607) linker was used in FokI-dCas9 fusion proteins, respectively).
Some aspects of this disclosure provide fusion proteins comprising (i) a Cas9 enzyme or domain (e.g., a first protein); and (ii) a nucleic acid-editing enzyme or domain (e.g., a second protein). In some aspects, the fusion proteins provided herein further include (iii) a programmable DNA-binding protein, for example, a zinc-finger domain, a TALE, or a second Cas9 protein (e.g., a third protein). Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, fusing a programmable DNA-binding protein (e.g., a second Cas9 protein) to a fusion protein comprising (i) a Cas9 enzyme or domain (e.g., a first protein); and (ii) a nucleic acid-editing enzyme or domain (e.g., a second protein) may be useful for improving specificity of the fusion protein to a target nucleic acid sequence, or for improving specificity or binding affinity of the fusion protein to bind target nucleic acid sequence that does not contain a canonical PAM (NGG) sequence. In some embodiments, the third protein is a Cas9 protein (e.g., a second Cas9 protein). In some embodiments, the third protein is any of the Cas9 proteins provided herein. In some embodiments, the third protein is fused to the fusion protein N-terminal to the Cas9 protein (e.g., the first protein). In some embodiments, the third protein is fused to the fusion protein C-terminal to the Cas9 protein (e.g., the first protein). In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain (e.g., the first protein) and the third protein (e.g., a second Cas9 protein) are fused via a linker (e.g., a second linker). In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 607), a (G)n(SEQ ID NO: 608), an (EAAAK)n (SEQ ID NO: 609), a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610), (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606), a SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604), a SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612), a SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605), or an (XP)n (SEQ ID NO: 611) motif, or a combination of any of these, wherein n is independently an integer between 1 and 30. In some embodiments, the general architecture of exemplary napDNAbp fusion proteins provided herein comprises the structure:
Some aspects of the disclosure relate to fusion proteins that comprise a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domain. In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins provided herein that comprise a Cas9 domain (e.g., a nuclease active Cas9 domain, a nuclease inactive dCas9 domain, or a Cas9 nickase) may be further fused to a UGI domain either directly or via a linker. Some aspects of this disclosure provide deaminase-dCas9 fusion proteins, deaminase-nuclease active Cas9 fusion proteins and deaminase-Cas9 nickase fusion proteins with increased nucleobase editing efficiency. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, cellular DNA-repair response to the presence of U:G heteroduplex DNA may be responsible for the decrease in nucleobase editing efficiency in cells. For example, uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) catalyzes removal of U from DNA in cells, which may initiate base excision repair, with reversion of the U:G pair to a C:G pair as the most common outcome. As demonstrated in the Examples below, Uracil DNA Glycosylase Inhibitor (UGI) may inhibit human UDG activity. Thus, this disclosure contemplates a fusion protein comprising dCas9-nucleic acid editing domain further fused to a UGI domain. This disclosure also contemplates a fusion protein comprising a Cas9 nickase-nucleic acid editing domain further fused to a UGI domain. It should be understood that the use of a UGI domain may increase the editing efficiency of a nucleic acid editing domain that is capable of catalyzing a C to U change. For example, fusion proteins comprising a UGI domain may be more efficient in deaminating C residues. In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the structure:
In other embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the structure:
It should be appreciated that any of the fusion proteins described above may be comprised of (i) a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp); (ii) a cytidine deaminase domain; and (iii) two or more UGI domains, wherein the two or more UGI domains may be adjacent (e.g., [first UGI]-[second UGI], wherein “-” is an optional linker) to one another in the construct, or the two or more UGI domains may be separated by the napDNAbp of (i) and/or the cytidine deaminase domain of (ii) (e.g., [first UGI]-[deaminase]-[second UGI], [first UGI]-[napDNAbp]-[second UGI], [first UGI]-[deaminase]-[napDNAbp]-[second UGI], ect., wherein “-” is an optional linker).
In another aspect, the fusion protein comprises: (i) a Cas9 enzyme or domain; (ii) a nucleic acid-editing enzyme or domain (e.g., a second protein) (e.g., a cytidine deaminase domain); (iii) a first uracil glycosylase inhibitor domain (UGI) (e.g., a third protein); and (iv) a second uracil glycosylase inhibitor domain (UGI) (e.g., a fourth protein). The first and second uracil glycosylase inhibitor domains (UGIs) may be the same or different. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain (e.g., the first protein) and the deaminase (e.g., the second protein) are fused via a linker. In some embodiments, the Cas9 domain is fused to the C-terminus of the deaminase. In some embodiments, the Cas9 protein (e.g., the first protein) and the first UGI domain (e.g., the third protein) are fused via a linker (e.g., a second linker). In some embodiments, the first UGI domain is fused to the C-terminus of the Cas9 protein. In some embodiments, the first UGI domain (e.g., the third protein) and the second UGI domain (e.g., the forth protein) are fused via a linker (e.g., a third linker). In some embodiments, the second UGI domain is fused to the C-terminus of the first UGI domain. In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 607), a (G)n (SEQ ID NO: 608), an (EAAAK)n (SEQ ID NO: 609), a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610), (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606), a SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604), a SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612), a SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605), or an (XP)n (SEQ ID NO: 611) motif, or a combination of any of these, wherein n is independently an integer between 1 and 30. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-50 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-40 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-35 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-30 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 10-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 30-40 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 14, 16, or 18 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 16 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 30, 32, or 34 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 32 amino acids. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises a SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604) motif. In some embodiments, the first linker comprises a SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATPESSGGSSGGS (SEQ ID NO: 605) motif. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-50 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-40 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-35 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-30 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 2-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 2-10 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 10-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 2, 4, or 6 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 7, 9, or 11 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 14, 16, or 18 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 4 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 9 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 16 amino acids. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises a (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606) motif, wherein n is an integer between 1 and 30, inclusive. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises a (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606) motif, wherein n is 1. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises a SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612) motif, wherein n is an integer between 1 and 30, inclusive. In some embodiments, the second linker comprises a SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612) motif, wherein n is 2. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-50 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-40 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-35 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-30 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 1-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 2-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 2-10 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 10-20 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 2, 4, or 6 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 7, 9, or 11 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 14, 16, or 18 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 4 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 9 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises an amino acid sequence of 16 amino acids. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises a (SGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 606) motif, wherein n is an integer between 1 and 30, inclusive. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises a (SGGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 606) motif, wherein n is 1. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises a SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612)motif, wherein n is an integer between 1 and 30, inclusive. In some embodiments, the third linker comprises a SGGS(GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 612) motif, wherein n is 2.
In some embodiments, the fusion protein comprises the structure:
In another aspect, the fusion protein comprises: (i) a Cas9 enzyme or domain; (ii) a nucleic acid-editing enzyme or domain (e.g., a second protein) (e.g., a cytidine deaminase domain); (iii) more than two uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) domains.
In some embodiments, the fusion proteins provided herein do not comprise a linker sequence. In some embodiments, one or both of the optional linker sequences are present. In some embodiments, one, two, or three of the optional linker sequences are present.
In some embodiments, the “-” used in the general architecture above indicates the presence of an optional linker sequence. In some embodiments, the fusion proteins comprising a UGI further comprise a nuclear targeting sequence, for example a nuclear localization sequence. In some embodiments, fusion proteins provided herein further comprise a nuclear localization sequence (NLS). In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the N-terminus of the fusion protein. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the C-terminus of the fusion protein. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the N-terminus of the UGI protein. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the C-terminus of the UGI protein. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the N-terminus of the Cas9 protein. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the C-terminus of the Cas9 protein. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the N-terminus of the deaminase. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the C-terminus of the deaminase. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the N-terminus of the second Cas9. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the C-terminus of the second Cas9. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the fusion protein via one or more linkers. In some embodiments, the NLS is fused to the fusion protein without a linker. In some embodiments, the NLS comprises an amino acid sequence of any one of the NLS sequences provided or referenced herein. In some embodiments, the NLS comprises an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 614 or SEQ ID NO: 615.
In some embodiments, a UGI domain comprises a wild-type UGI or a UGI as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134. In some embodiments, the UGI proteins provided herein include fragments of UGI and proteins homologous to a UGI or a UGI fragment. For example, in some embodiments, a UGI domain comprises a fragment of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134. In some embodiments, a UGI fragment comprises an amino acid sequence that comprises at least 60%, at least 65%, at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% of the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134. In some embodiments, a UGI comprises an amino acid sequence homologous to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134 or an amino acid sequence homologous to a fragment of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134. In some embodiments, proteins comprising UGI or fragments of UGI or homologs of UGI or UGI fragments are referred to as “UGI variants.” A UGI variant shares homology to UGI, or a fragment thereof. For example a UGI variant is at least 70% identical, at least 75% identical, at least 80% identical, at least 85% identical, at least 90% identical, at least 95% identical, at least 96% identical, at least 97% identical, at least 98% identical, at least 99% identical, at least 99.5% identical, or at least 99.9% identical to a wild type UGI or a UGI as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134. In some embodiments, the UGI variant comprises a fragment of UGI, such that the fragment is at least 70% identical, at least 80% identical, at least 90% identical, at least 95% identical, at least 96% identical, at least 97% identical, at least 98% identical, at least 99% identical, at least 99.5% identical, or at least 99.9% to the corresponding fragment of wild-type UGI or a UGI as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 134. In some embodiments, the UGI comprises the following amino acid sequence:
>sp|P14739|UNGI_BPPB2 Uracil-DNA Glycosylase Inhibitor
Suitable UGI protein and nucleotide sequences are provided herein and additional suitable UGI sequences are known to those in the art, and include, for example, those published in Wang et al., Uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor gene of bacteriophage PBS2 encodes a binding protein specific for uracil-DNA glycosylase. J. Biol. Chem. 264:1163-1171(1989); Lundquist et al., Site-directed mutagenesis and characterization of uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor protein. Role of specific carboxylic amino acids in complex formation with Escherichia coli uracil-DNA glycosylase. J. Biol. Chem. 272:21408-21419(1997); Ravishankar et al., X-ray analysis of a complex of Escherichia coli uracil DNA glycosylase (EcUDG) with a proteinaceous inhibitor. The structure elucidation of a prokaryotic UDG. Nucleic Acids Res. 26:4880-4887(1998); and Putnam et al., Protein mimicry of DNA from crystal structures of the uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor protein and its complex with Escherichia coli uracil-DNA glycosylase. J. Mol. Biol. 287:331-346(1999), the entire contents of each are incorporated herein by reference.
It should be appreciated that additional proteins may be uracil glycosylase inhibitors. For example, other proteins that are capable of inhibiting (e.g., sterically blocking) a uracil-DNA glycosylase base-excision repair enzyme are within the scope of this disclosure. Additionally, any proteins that block or inhibit base-excision repair as also within the scope of this disclosure. In some embodiments, the fusion proteins described herein comprise one UGI domain. In some embodiments, the fusion proteins described herein comprise more than one UGI domain. In some embodiments, the fusion proteins described herein comprise two UGI domains. In some embodiments, the fusion proteins described herein comprise more than two UGI domains. In some embodiments, a protein that binds DNA is used. In another embodiment, a substitute for UGI is used. In some embodiments, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a protein that binds single-stranded DNA. For example, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor may be a Erwinia tasmaniensis single-stranded binding protein. In some embodiments, the single-stranded binding protein comprises the amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO: 135). In some embodiments, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a protein that binds uracil. In some embodiments, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a protein that binds uracil in DNA. In some embodiments, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a catalytically inactive uracil DNA-glycosylase protein. In some embodiments, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a catalytically inactive uracil DNA-glycosylase protein that does not excise uracil from the DNA. For example, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a UdgX. In some embodiments, the UdgX comprises the amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO: 136). As another example, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a catalytically inactive UDG. In some embodiments, a catalytically inactive UDG comprises the amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO: 137). It should be appreciated that other uracil glycosylase inhibitors would be apparent to the skilled artisan and are within the scope of this disclosure. In some embodiments, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a protein that is homologous to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 135-137 or 143-148. In some embodiments, a uracil glycosylase inhibitor is a protein that is at least 50% identical, at least 55% identical at least 60% identical, at least 65% identical, at least 70% identical, at least 75% identical, at least 80% identical at least 85% identical, at least 90% identical, at least 95% identical, at least 96% identical, at least 98% identical, at least 99% identical, or at least 99.5% identical to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 135-137 or 143-148.
Erwinia tasmaniensis SSB (Themostable Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein)
UdgX (Binds to Uracil in DNA but does not Excise)
UDG (Catalytically Inactive Human UDG, Binds to Uracil in DNA but does not Excise)
Additional single-stranded DNA binding proteins that can be used as a UGI are shown below. It should be appreciated that other single-stranded binding proteins may be used as a UGI, for example those described in Dickey T H, Altschuler S E, Wuttke D S. Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins:multiple domains for multiple functions. Structure. 2013 Jul. 2; 21(7):1074-84.
Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein 3 Isoform A [Mus musculus] (UniProtKB—Q9D032-1; NCBI Ref: NP_076161.2)
RPA 1—Replication Protein A 70 kDa DNA-Binding Subunit (UniProtKB: P27694; NCBI Ref: NM 002945.3)
RPA 2—Replication Protein A 32 kDa Subunit (UniProtKB: P15927; NCBI Ref: NM_002946)
RPA 3—Replication Protein A 14 kDa Subunit (UniProtKB: P35244; NCBI Ref: NM_002947.4)
Bacterial Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Proteins:
ssbA—Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein [Bacillus subtilis Subsp. Subtilis Str. 168](UniProtKB: P37455; NCBI Ref:)
Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein 2 [Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)] (UniProtKB: Q9X8U3; NCBI Ref: NP_628093.1)
Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein [Streptococcus pneumoniae R6] (UniProtKB: P66855; NCBI Ref: NP_358988.1)
Viral Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Proteins:
Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein [Human Alphaherpesvirus 1] (UniProtKB: P04296; NCBI Ref: YP_009137104.1)
Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Protein from Bacillus Virus Phi29 (UniProtKB: Q38504.1; NCBI Ref: YP_002004532.1)
Single Stranded DNA Binding Protein [Burkholderia Virus DC1] (UniProtKB: I6NRL7; NCBI Ref: YP_006589943.1)
In some embodiments, the nucleic acid editing domain is a deaminase domain. In some embodiments, the deaminase is a cytosine deaminase or a cytidine deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC1 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC2 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3A deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3B deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3C deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3D deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3E deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3F deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3G deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC3H deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an APOBEC4 deaminase. In some embodiments, the deaminase is an activation-induced deaminase (AID). In some embodiments, the deminase is a rat APOBEC1 (SEQ ID NO: 74). In some embodiments, the deminase is a human APOBEC1 (SEQ ID No: 76). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a Petromyzon marinus cytidine deaminase 1 (pmCDA1). In some embodiments, the deminase is a human APOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 60). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a fragment of the human APOBEC3G (SEQ ID NO: 83). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a human APOBEC3G variant comprising a D316R_D317R mutation (SEQ ID NO: 82). In some embodiments, the deaminase is a fragment of the human APOBEC3G and comprising mutations corresponding to the D316R_D317R mutations in SEQ ID NO: 60 (SEQ ID NO: 84).
In some embodiments, the linker comprises a (GGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 613), (GGGGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 607), a (G)n(SEQ ID NO: 608), an (EAAAK)n (SEQ ID NO: 609), a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610), an SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604), or an (XP)n (SEQ ID NO: 611) motif, or a combination of any of these, wherein n is independently an integer between 1 and 30.
Suitable UGI protein and nucleotide sequences are provided herein and additional suitable UGI sequences are known to those in the art, and include, for example, those published in Wang et al., Uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor gene of bacteriophage PBS2 encodes a binding protein specific for uracil-DNA glycosylase. J. Biol. Chem. 264:1163-1171(1989); Lundquist et al., Site-directed mutagenesis and characterization of uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor protein. Role of specific carboxylic amino acids in complex formation with Escherichia coli uracil-DNA glycosylase. J. Biol. Chem. 272:21408-21419(1997); Ravishankar et al., X-ray analysis of a complex of Escherichia coli uracil DNA glycosylase (EcUDG) with a proteinaceous inhibitor. The structure elucidation of a prokaryotic UDG. Nucleic Acids Res. 26:4880-4887(1998); and Putnam et al., Protein mimicry of DNA from crystal structures of the uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor protein and its complex with Escherichia coli uracil-DNA glycosylase. J. Mol. Biol. 287:331-346(1999), the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. In some embodiments, the optional linker comprises a (GGS)n(SEQ ID NO: 610) motif, wherein n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20. In some embodiments, the optional linker comprises a (GGS)n (SEQ ID NO: 610) motif, wherein n is 1, 3, or 7. In some embodiments, the optional linker comprises the amino acid sequence SGSETPGTSESATPES (SEQ ID NO: 604), which is also referred to as the XTEN linker in the Examples.
In some embodiments, a Cas9 nickase may further facilitate the removal of a base on the non-edited strand in an organism whose genome is edited in vivo. The Cas9 nickase, as described herein, may comprise a D10A mutation in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. In some embodiments, the Cas9 nickase of this disclosure may comprise a histidine at mutation 840 of SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding residue in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein. Such fusion proteins comprising the Cas9 nickase, can cleave a single strand of the target DNA sequence, e.g., the strand that is not being edited. Without wishing to be bound by any particular theory, this cleavage may inhibit mis-match repair mechanisms that reverse a C to U edit made by the deaminase.
Cas9 Complexes with Guide RNAs
Some aspects of this disclosure provide complexes comprising any of the fusion proteins provided herein, and a guide RNA bound to a Cas9 domain (e.g., a dCas9, a nuclease active Cas9, or a Cas9 nickase) of fusion protein.
In some embodiments, the guide RNA is from 15-100 nucleotides long and comprises a sequence of at least 10 contiguous nucleotides that is complementary to a target sequence. In some embodiments, the guide RNA is 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, or 50 nucleotides long. In some embodiments, the guide RNA comprises a sequence of 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, or 40 contiguous nucleotides that is complementary to a target sequence. In some embodiments, the target sequence is a DNA sequence. In some embodiments, the target sequence is a sequence in the genome of a mammal. In some embodiments, the target sequence is a sequence in the genome of a human. In some embodiments, the 3′ end of the target sequence is immediately adjacent to a canonical PAM sequence (NGG). In some embodiments, the guide RNA is complementary to a sequence associated with a disease or disorder.
Methods of Using Cas9 Fusion Proteins
Some aspects of this disclosure provide methods of using the Cas9 proteins, fusion proteins, or complexes provided herein. For example, some aspects of this disclosure provide methods comprising contacting a DNA molecule (a) with any of the Cas9 proteins or fusion proteins provided herein, and with at least one guide RNA, wherein the guide RNA is about 15-100 nucleotides long and comprises a sequence of at least 10 contiguous nucleotides that is complementary to a target sequence; or (b) with a Cas9 protein, a Cas9 fusion protein, or a Cas9 protein or fusion protein complex with at least one gRNA as provided herein. In some embodiments, the 3′ end of the target sequence is not immediately adjacent to a canonical PAM sequence (NGG). In some embodiments, the 3′ end of the target sequence is immediately adjacent to an AGC, GAG, TTT, GTG, or CAA sequence.
In some embodiments, the target DNA sequence comprises a sequence associated with a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, the target DNA sequence comprises a point mutation associated with a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, the activity of the Cas9 protein, the Cas9 fusion protein, or the complex results in a correction of the point mutation. In some embodiments, the target DNA sequence comprises a T→C point mutation associated with a disease or disorder, and wherein the deamination of the mutant C base results in a sequence that is not associated with a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, the target DNA sequence encodes a protein and wherein the point mutation is in a codon and results in a change in the amino acid encoded by the mutant codon as compared to the wild-type codon. In some embodiments, the deamination of the mutant C results in a change of the amino acid encoded by the mutant codon. In some embodiments, the deamination of the mutant C results in the codon encoding the wild-type amino acid. In some embodiments, the contacting is in vivo in a subject. In some embodiments, the subject has or has been diagnosed with a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, the disease or disorder is cystic fibrosis, phenylketonuria, epidermolytic hyperkeratosis (EHK), Charcot-Marie-Toot disease type 4J, neuroblastoma (NB), von Willebrand disease (vWD), myotonia congenital, hereditary renal amyloidosis, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), hereditary lymphedema, familial Alzheimer's disease, HIV, Prion disease, chronic infantile neurologic cutaneous articular syndrome (CINCA), desmin-related myopathy (DRM), a neoplastic disease associated with a mutant PI3KCA protein, a mutant CTNNB1 protein, a mutant HRAS protein, or a mutant p53 protein.
Some embodiments provide methods for using the Cas9 DNA editing fusion proteins provided herein. In some embodiments, the fusion protein is used to introduce a point mutation into a nucleic acid by deaminating a target nucleobase, e.g., a C residue. In some embodiments, the deamination of the target nucleobase results in the correction of a genetic defect, e.g., in the correction of a point mutation that leads to a loss of function in a gene product. In some embodiments, the genetic defect is associated with a disease or disorder, e.g., a lysosomal storage disorder or a metabolic disease, such as, for example, type I diabetes. In some embodiments, the methods provided herein are used to introduce a deactivating point mutation into a gene or allele that encodes a gene product that is associated with a disease or disorder. For example, in some embodiments, methods are provided herein that employ a Cas9 DNA editing fusion protein to introduce a deactivating point mutation into an oncogene (e.g., in the treatment of a proliferative disease). A deactivating mutation may, in some embodiments, generate a premature stop codon in a coding sequence, which results in the expression of a truncated gene product, e.g., a truncated protein lacking the function of the full-length protein.
In some embodiments, the purpose of the methods provide herein is to restore the function of a dysfunctional gene via genome editing. The Cas9 deaminase fusion proteins provided herein can be validated for gene editing-based human therapeutics in vitro, e.g., by correcting a disease-associated mutation in human cell culture. It will be understood by the skilled artisan that the fusion proteins provided herein, e.g., the fusion proteins comprising a Cas9 domain and a nucleic acid deaminase domain can be used to correct any single point T→C or A→G mutation. In the first case, deamination of the mutant C back to U corrects the mutation, and in the latter case, deamination of the C that is base-paired with the mutant G, followed by a round of replication, corrects the mutation.
An exemplary disease-relevant mutation that can be corrected by the provided fusion proteins in vitro or in vivo is the H1047R (A3140G) polymorphism in the PI3KCA protein. The phosphoinositide-3-kinase, catalytic alpha subunit (PI3KCA) protein acts to phosphorylate the 3-OH group of the inositol ring of phosphatidylinositol. The PI3KCA gene has been found to be mutated in many different carcinomas, and thus it is considered to be a potent oncogene.37 In fact, the A3140G mutation is present in several NCI-60 cancer cell lines, such as, for example, the HCT116, SKOV3, and T47D cell lines, which are readily available from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC).38
In some embodiments, a cell carrying a mutation to be corrected, e.g., a cell carrying a point mutation, e.g., an A3140G point mutation in exon 20 of the PI3KCA gene, resulting in a H1047R substitution in the PI3KCA protein, is contacted with an expression construct encoding a Cas9 deaminase fusion protein and an appropriately designed sgRNA targeting the fusion protein to the respective mutation site in the encoding PI3KCA gene. Control experiments can be performed where the sgRNAs are designed to target the fusion enzymes to non-C residues that are within the PI3KCA gene. Genomic DNA of the treated cells can be extracted, and the relevant sequence of the PI3KCA genes PCR amplified and sequenced to assess the activities of the fusion proteins in human cell culture.
It will be understood that the example of correcting point mutations in PI3KCA is provided for illustration purposes and is not meant to limit the instant disclosure. The skilled artisan will understand that the instantly disclosed DNA-editing fusion proteins can be used to correct other point mutations and mutations associated with other cancers and with diseases other than cancer including other proliferative diseases.
The successful correction of point mutations in disease-associated genes and alleles opens up new strategies for gene correction with applications in therapeutics and basic research. Site-specific single-base modification systems like the disclosed fusions of Cas9 and deaminase enzymes or domains also have applications in “reverse” gene therapy, where certain gene functions are purposely suppressed or abolished. In these cases, site-specifically mutating Trp (TGG), Gln (CAA and CAG), or Arg (CGA) residues to premature stop codons (TAA, TAG, TGA) can be used to abolish protein function in vitro, ex vivo, or in vivo.
The instant disclosure provides methods for the treatment of a subject diagnosed with a disease associated with or caused by a point mutation that can be corrected by a Cas9 DNA editing fusion protein provided herein. For example, in some embodiments, a method is provided that comprises administering to a subject having such a disease, e.g., a cancer associated with a PI3KCA point mutation as described above, an effective amount of a Cas9 deaminase fusion protein that corrects the point mutation or introduces a deactivating mutation into the disease-associated gene. In some embodiments, the disease is a proliferative disease. In some embodiments, the disease is a genetic disease. In some embodiments, the disease is a neoplastic disease. In some embodiments, the disease is a metabolic disease. In some embodiments, the disease is a lysosomal storage disease. Other diseases that can be treated by correcting a point mutation or introducing a deactivating mutation into a disease-associated gene will be known to those of skill in the art, and the disclosure is not limited in this respect.
The instant disclosure provides methods for the treatment of additional diseases or disorders, e.g., diseases or disorders that are associated or caused by a point mutation that can be corrected by deaminase-mediated gene editing. Some such diseases are described herein, and additional suitable diseases that can be treated with the strategies and fusion proteins provided herein will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on the instant disclosure. Exemplary suitable diseases and disorders are listed below. It will be understood that the numbering of the specific positions or residues in the respective sequences depends on the particular protein and numbering scheme used. Numbering might be different, e.g., in precursors of a mature protein and the mature protein itself, and differences in sequences from species to species may affect numbering. One of skill in the art will be able to identify the respective residue in any homologous protein and in the respective encoding nucleic acid by methods well known in the art, e.g., by sequence alignment and determination of homologous residues. Exemplary suitable diseases and disorders include, without limitation, cystic fibrosis (see, e.g., Schwank et al., Functional repair of CFTR by CRISPR/Cas9 in intestinal stem cell organoids of cystic fibrosis patients. Cell stem cell. 2013; 13: 653-658; and Wu et. al., Correction of a genetic disease in mouse via use of CRISPR-Cas9. Cell stem cell. 2013; 13: 659-662, neither of which uses a deaminase fusion protein to correct the genetic defect); phenylketonuria—e.g., phenylalanine to serine mutation at position 835 (mouse) or 240 (human) or a homologous residue in phenylalanine hydroxylase gene (T>C mutation)—see, e.g., McDonald et al., Genomics. 1997; 39:402-405; Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS)—e.g., phenylalanine to serine mutation at position 55 or a homologous residue, or cysteine to arginine at residue 24 or a homologous residue in the platelet membrane glycoprotein IX (T>C mutation)—see, e.g., Noris et al., British Journal of Haematology. 1997; 97: 312-320, and Ali et al., Hematol. 2014; 93: 381-384; epidermolytic hyperkeratosis (EHK)—e.g., leucine to proline mutation at position 160 or 161 (if counting the initiator methionine) or a homologous residue in keratin 1 (T>C mutation)—see, e.g., Chipev et al., Cell. 1992; 70: 821-828, see also accession number P04264 in the UNIPROT database at www[dot]uniprot[dot]org; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—e.g., leucine to proline mutation at position 54 or 55 (if counting the initiator methionine) or a homologous residue in the processed form of α1-antitrypsin or residue 78 in the unprocessed form or a homologous residue (T>C mutation) —see, e.g., Poller et al., Genomics. 1993; 17: 740-743, see also accession number P01011 in the UNIPROT database; Charcot-Marie-Toot disease type 4J—e.g., isoleucine to threonine mutation at position 41 or a homologous residue in
It will be apparent to those of skill in the art that in order to target a Cas9:nucleic acid editing enzyme/domain fusion protein as disclosed herein to a target site, e.g., a site comprising a point mutation to be edited, it is typically necessary to co-express the Cas9:nucleic acid editing enzyme/domain fusion protein together with a guide RNA, e.g., an sgRNA. As explained in more detail elsewhere herein, a guide RNA typically comprises a tracrRNA framework allowing for Cas9 binding, and a guide sequence, which confers sequence specificity to the Cas9:nucleic acid editing enzyme/domain fusion protein. In some embodiments, the guide RNA comprises a structure 5′-[guide sequence]-guuuuagagcuagaaauagcaaguuaaaauaaggcuaguccguuaucaacuugaaaaaguggcaccgagucggugcuuuu u-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 618), wherein the guide sequence comprises a sequence that is complementary to the target sequence. The guide sequence is typically 20 nucleotides long. The sequences of suitable guide RNAs for targeting Cas9:nucleic acid editing enzyme/domain fusion proteins to specific genomic target sites will be apparent to those of skill in the art based on the instant disclosure. Such suitable guide RNA sequences typically comprise guide sequences that are complementary to a nucleic sequence within 50 nucleotides upstream or downstream of the target nucleotide to be edited. Some exemplary guide RNA sequences suitable for targeting Cas9:nucleic acid editing enzyme/domain fusion proteins to specific target sequences are provided below.
Base Editor Efficiency
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that any of the base editors provided herein are capable of modifying a specific nucleotide base without generating a significant proportion of indels. An “indel”, as used herein, refers to the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide base within a nucleic acid. Such insertions or deletions can lead to frame shift mutations within a coding region of a gene. In some embodiments, it is desirable to generate base editors that efficiently modify (e.g. mutate or deaminate) a specific nucleotide within a nucleic acid, without generating a large number of insertions or deletions (i.e., indels) in the nucleic acid. In certain embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of generating a greater proportion of intended modifications (e.g., point mutations or deaminations) versus indels. In some embodiments, the base editors provided herein are capable of generating a ratio of intended point mutations to indels that is greater than 1:1. In some embodiments, the base editors provided herein are capable of generating a ratio of intended point mutations to indels that is at least 1.5:1, at least 2:1, at least 2.5:1, at least 3:1, at least 3.5:1, at least 4:1, at least 4.5:1, at least 5:1, at least 5.5:1, at least 6:1, at least 6.5:1, at least 7:1, at least 7.5:1, at least 8:1, at least 10:1, at least 12:1, at least 15:1, at least 20:1, at least 25:1, at least 30:1, at least 40:1, at least 50:1, at least 100:1, at least 200:1, at least 300:1, at least 400:1, at least 500:1, at least 600:1, at least 700:1, at least 800:1, at least 900:1, or at least 1000:1, or more. The number of intended mutations and indels may be determined using any suitable method, for example the methods used in the below Examples.
In some embodiments, the base editors provided herein are capable of limiting formation of indels in a region of a nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the region is at a nucleotide targeted by a base editor or a region within 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 nucleotides of a nucleotide targeted by a base editor. In some embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of limiting the formation of indels at a region of a nucleic acid to less than 1%, less than 1.5%, less than 2%, less than 2.5%, less than 3%, less than 3.5%, less than 4%, less than 4.5%, less than 5%, less than 6%, less than 7%, less than 8%, less than 9%, less than 10%, less than 12%, less than 15%, or less than 20%. The number of indels formed at a nucleic acid region may depend on the amount of time a nucleic acid (e.g., a nucleic acid within the genome of a cell) is exposed to a base editor. In some embodiments, an number or proportion of indels is determined after at least 1 hour, at least 2 hours, at least 6 hours, at least 12 hours, at least 24 hours, at least 36 hours, at least 48 hours, at least 3 days, at least 4 days, at least 5 days, at least 7 days, at least 10 days, or at least 14 days of exposing a nucleic acid (e.g., a nucleic acid within the genome of a cell) to a base editor.
Some aspects of the disclosure are based on the recognition that any of the base editors provided herein are capable of efficiently generating an intended mutation, such as a point mutation, in a nucleic acid (e.g. a nucleic acid within a genome of a subject) without generating a significant number of unintended mutations, such as unintended point mutations. In some embodiments, a intended mutation is a mutation that is generated by a specific base editor bound to a gRNA, specifically designed to generate the intended mutation. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a mutation associated with a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a cytosine (C) to thymine (T) point mutation associated with a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a guanine (G) to adenine (A) point mutation associated with a disease or disorder. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a cytosine (C) to thymine (T) point mutation within the coding region of a gene. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a guanine (G) to adenine (A) point mutation within the coding region of a gene. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a point mutation that generates a stop codon, for example, a premature stop codon within the coding region of a gene. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a mutation that eliminates a stop codon. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a mutation that alters the splicing of a gene. In some embodiments, the intended mutation is a mutation that alters the regulatory sequence of a gene (e.g., a gene promotor or gene repressor). In some embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of generating a ratio of intended mutations to unintended mutations (e.g., intended point mutations:unintended point mutations) that is greater than 1:1. In some embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein are capable of generating a ratio of intended mutations to unintended mutations (e.g., intended point mutations:unintended point mutations) that is at least 1.5:1, at least 2:1, at least 2.5:1, at least 3:1, at least 3.5:1, at least 4:1, at least 4.5:1, at least 5:1, at least 5.5:1, at least 6:1, at least 6.5:1, at least 7:1, at least 7.5:1, at least 8:1, at least 10:1, at least 12:1, at least 15:1, at least 20:1, at least 25:1, at least 30:1, at least 40:1, at least 50:1, at least 100:1, at least 150:1, at least 200:1, at least 250:1, at least 500:1, or at least 1000:1, or more. It should be appreciated that the characteristics of the base editors described in the “Base Editor Efficiency” section, herein, may be applied to any of the fusion proteins, or methods of using the fusion proteins provided herein.
Methods for Editing Nucleic Acids
Some aspects of the disclosure provide methods for editing a nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the method is a method for editing a nucleobase of a nucleic acid (e.g., a base pair of a double-stranded DNA sequence). In some embodiments, the method comprises the steps of: a) contacting a target region of a nucleic acid (e.g., a double-stranded DNA sequence) with a complex comprising a base editor (e.g., a Cas9 domain fused to a cytidine deaminase domain) and a guide nucleic acid (e.g., gRNA), wherein the target region comprises a targeted nucleobase pair, b) inducing strand separation of said target region, c) converting a first nucleobase of said target nucleobase pair in a single strand of the target region to a second nucleobase, and d) cutting no more than one strand of said target region, where a third nucleobase complementary to the first nucleobase base is replaced by a fourth nucleobase complementary to the second nucleobase; and the method results in less than 20% indel formation in the nucleic acid. It should be appreciated that in some embodiments, step b is omitted. In some embodiments, the first nucleobase is a cytosine. In some embodiments, the second nucleobase is a deaminated cytosine, or a uracil. In some embodiments, the third nucleobase is a guanine. In some embodiments, the fourth nucleobase is an adenine. In some embodiments, the first nucleobase is a cytosine, the second nucleobase is a deaminated cytosine, or a uracil, the third nucleobase is a guanine, and the fourth nucleobase is an adenine. In some embodiments, the method results in less than 19%, 18%, 16%, 14%, 12%, 10%, 8%, 6%, 4%, 2%, 1%, 0.5%, 0.2%, or less than 0.1% indel formation. In some embodiments, the method further comprises replacing the second nucleobase with a fifth nucleobase that is complementary to the fourth nucleobase, thereby generating an intended edited base pair (e.g., C:G→T:A). In some embodiments, the fifth nucleobase is a thymine. In some embodiments, at least 5% of the intended basepairs are edited. In some embodiments, at least 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, or 50% of the intended basepairs are edited.
In some embodiments, the ratio of intended products to unintended products in the target nucleotide is at least 2:1, 5:1, 10:1, 20:1, 30:1, 40:1, 50:1, 60:1, 70:1, 80:1, 90:1, 100:1, or 200:1, or more. In some embodiments, the ratio of intended point mutation to indel formation is greater than 1:1, 10:1, 50:1, 100:1, 500:1, or 1000:1, or more. In some embodiments, the cut single strand (nicked strand) is hybridized to the guide nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the cut single strand is opposite to the strand comprising the first nucleobase. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises a Cas9 domain. In some embodiments, the first base is cytosine, and the second base is not a G, C, A, or T. In some embodiments, the second base is uracil. In some embodiments, the first base is cytosine. In some embodiments, the second base is not a G, C, A, or T. In some embodiments, the second base is uracil. In some embodiments, the base editor inhibits base escision repair of the edited strand. In some embodiments, the base editor protects or binds the non-edited strand. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises UGI activity. In some embodiments, the base editor comprises nickase activity. In some embodiments, the intended edited basepair is upstream of a PAM site. In some embodiments, the intended edited base pair is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 nucleotides upstream of the PAM site. In some embodiments, the intended edited basepair is downstream of a PAM site. In some embodiments, the intended edited base pair is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 nucleotides downstream stream of the PAM site. In some embodiments, the method does not require a canonical (e.g., NGG) PAM site. In some embodiments, the nucleobase editor comprises a linker. In some embodiments, the linker is 1-25 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, the linker is 5-20 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, linker is 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, the target region comprises a target window, wherein the target window comprises the target nucleobase pair. In some embodiments, the target window comprises 1-10 nucleotides. In some embodiments, the target window is 1-9, 1-8, 1-7, 1-6, 1-5, 1-4, 1-3, 1-2, or 1 nucleotides in length. In some embodiments, the target window is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 nucleotides in length. In some embodiments, the intended edited base pair is within the target window. In some embodiments, the target window comprises the intended edited base pair. In some embodiments, the method is performed using any of the base editors provided herein. In some embodiments, a target window is a deamination window.
In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods for editing a nucleotide. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides a method for editing a nucleobase pair of a double-stranded DNA sequence. In some embodiments, the method comprises a) contacting a target region of the double-stranded DNA sequence with a complex comprising a base editor and a guide nucleic acid (e.g., gRNA), where the target region comprises a target nucleobase pair, b) inducing strand separation of said target region, c) converting a first nucleobase of said target nucleobase pair in a single strand of the target region to a second nucleobase, d) cutting no more than one strand of said target region, wherein a third nucleobase complementary to the first nucleobase base is replaced by a fourth nucleobase complementary to the second nucleobase, and the second nucleobase is replaced with a fifth nucleobase that is complementary to the fourth nucleobase, thereby generating an intended edited basepair, wherein the efficiency of generating the intended edited basepair is at least 5%. It should be appreciated that in some embodiments, step b is omitted. In some embodiments, at least 5% of the intended basepairs are edited. In some embodiments, at least 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, or 50% of the intended basepairs are edited. In some embodiments, the method causes less than 19%, 18%, 16%, 14%, 12%, 10%, 8%, 6%, 4%, 2%, 1%, 0.5%, 0.2%, or less than 0.1% indel formation. In some embodiments, the ratio of intended product to unintended products at the target nucleotide is at least 2:1, 5:1, 10:1, 20:1, 30:1, 40:1, 50:1, 60:1, 70:1, 80:1, 90:1, 100:1, or 200:1, or more. In some embodiments, the ratio of intended point mutation to indel formation is greater than 1:1, 10:1, 50:1, 100:1, 500:1, or 1000:1, or more. In some embodiments, the cut single strand is hybridized to the guide nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the cut single strand is opposite to the strand comprising the first nucleobase. In some embodiments, the first base is cytosine. In some embodiments, the second nucleobase is not G, C, A, or T. In some embodiments, the second base is uracil. In some embodiments, the base editor inhibits base escision repair of the edited strand. In some embodiments, the base editor protects or binds the non-edited strand. In some embodiments, the nucleobase editor comprises UGI activity. In some embodiments, the nucleobase edit comprises nickase activity. In some embodiments, the intended edited basepair is upstream of a PAM site. In some embodiments, the intended edited base pair is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 nucleotides upstream of the PAM site. In some embodiments, the intended edited basepair is downstream of a PAM site. In some embodiments, the intended edited base pair is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 nucleotides downstream stream of the PAM site. In some embodiments, the method does not require a canonical (e.g., NGG) PAM site. In some embodiments, the nucleobase editor comprises a linker. In some embodiments, the linker is 1-25 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, the linker is 5-20 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, the linker is 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, the target region comprises a target window, wherein the target window comprises the target nucleobase pair. In some embodiments, the target window comprises 1-10 nucleotides. In some embodiments, the target window is 1-9, 1-8, 1-7, 1-6, 1-5, 1-4, 1-3, 1-2, or 1 nucleotides in length. In some embodiments, the target window is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 nucleotides in length. In some embodiments, the intended edited base pair occurs within the target window. In some embodiments, the target window comprises the intended edited base pair. In some embodiments, the nucleobase editor is any one of the base editors provided herein.
In some embodiments, any of the fusion proteins, gRNAs, and/or complexes described herein are provided as part of a pharmaceutical composition. In some embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition comprises any of the fusion proteins provided herein. In some embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition comprises any of the complexes provided herein. In some embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition comprises a ribonucleoprotein complex comprising an RNA-guided nuclease (e.g., Cas9) that forms a complex with a gRNA and a cationic lipid. In some embodiments pharmaceutical composition comprises a gRNA, a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein, a cationic lipid, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. Pharmaceutical compositions may optionally comprise one or more additional therapeutically active substances.
In some embodiments, compositions provided herein are administered to a subject, for example, to a human subject, in order to effect a targeted genomic modification within the subject. In some embodiments, cells are obtained from the subject and contacted with a any of the pharmaceutical compositions provided herein. In some embodiments, cells removed from a subject and contacted ex vivo with a pharmaceutical composition are re-introduced into the subject, optionally after the desired genomic modification has been effected or detected in the cells. Methods of delivering pharmaceutical compositions comprising nucleases are known, and are described, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,453,242; 6,503,717; 6,534,261; 6,599,692; 6,607,882; 6,689,558; 6,824,978; 6,933,113; 6,979,539; 7,013,219; and 7,163,824, the disclosures of all of which are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties. Although the descriptions of pharmaceutical compositions provided herein are principally directed to pharmaceutical compositions which are suitable for administration to humans, it will be understood by the skilled artisan that such compositions are generally suitable for administration to animals or organisms of all sorts. Modification of pharmaceutical compositions suitable for administration to humans in order to render the compositions suitable for administration to various animals is well understood, and the ordinarily skilled veterinary pharmacologist can design and/or perform such modification with merely ordinary, if any, experimentation. Subjects to which administration of the pharmaceutical compositions is contemplated include, but are not limited to, humans and/or other primates; mammals, domesticated animals, pets, and commercially relevant mammals such as cattle, pigs, horses, sheep, cats, dogs, mice, and/or rats; and/or birds, including commercially relevant birds such as chickens, ducks, geese, and/or turkeys.
Formulations of the pharmaceutical compositions described herein may be prepared by any method known or hereafter developed in the art of pharmacology. In general, such preparatory methods include the step of bringing the active ingredient(s) into association with an excipient and/or one or more other accessory ingredients, and then, if necessary and/or desirable, shaping and/or packaging the product into a desired single- or multi-dose unit.
Pharmaceutical formulations may additionally comprise a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, which, as used herein, includes any and all solvents, dispersion media, diluents, or other liquid vehicles, dispersion or suspension aids, surface active agents, isotonic agents, thickening or emulsifying agents, preservatives, solid binders, lubricants and the like, as suited to the particular dosage form desired. Remington's The Science and Practice of Pharmacy, 21st Edition, A. R. Gennaro (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Md., 2006; incorporated in its entirety herein by reference) discloses various excipients used in formulating pharmaceutical compositions and known techniques for the preparation thereof. See also PCT application PCT/US2010/055131 (Publication number WO2011053982 A8, filed Nov. 2, 2010), incorporated in its entirety herein by reference, for additional suitable methods, reagents, excipients and solvents for producing pharmaceutical compositions comprising a nuclease. Except insofar as any conventional excipient medium is incompatible with a substance or its derivatives, such as by producing any undesirable biological effect or otherwise interacting in a deleterious manner with any other component(s) of the pharmaceutical composition, its use is contemplated to be within the scope of this disclosure.
In some embodiments, compositions in accordance with the present invention may be used for treatment of any of a variety of diseases, disorders, and/or conditions, including but not limited to one or more of the following: autoimmune disorders (e.g. diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis); inflammatory disorders (e.g. arthritis, pelvic inflammatory disease); infectious diseases (e.g. viral infections (e.g., HIV, HCV, RSV), bacterial infections, fungal infections, sepsis); neurological disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease; autism; Duchenne muscular dystrophy); cardiovascular disorders (e.g. atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, thrombosis, clotting disorders, angiogenic disorders such as macular degeneration); proliferative disorders (e.g. cancer, benign neoplasms); respiratory disorders (e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease); digestive disorders (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease, ulcers); musculoskeletal disorders (e.g. fibromyalgia, arthritis); endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional disorders (e.g. diabetes, osteoporosis); urological disorders (e.g. renal disease); psychological disorders (e.g. depression, schizophrenia); skin disorders (e.g. wounds, eczema); blood and lymphatic disorders (e.g. anemia, hemophilia); etc.
Kits, Vectors, Cells
Some aspects of this disclosure provide kits comprising a nucleic acid construct, comprising (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a Cas9 protein or a Cas9 fusion protein as provided herein; and (b) a heterologous promoter that drives expression of the sequence of (a). In some embodiments, the kit further comprises an expression construct encoding a guide RNA backbone, wherein the construct comprises a cloning site positioned to allow the cloning of a nucleic acid sequence identical or complementary to a target sequence into the guide RNA backbone.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide polynucleotides encoding a Cas9 protein of a fusion protein as provided herein. Some aspects of this disclosure provide vectors comprising such polynucleotides. In some embodiments, the vector comprises a heterologous promoter driving expression of polynucleotide.
Some aspects of this disclosure provide cells comprising a Cas9 protein, a fusion protein, a nucleic acid molecule encoding the fusion protein, a complex comprise the Cas9 protein and the gRNA, and/or a vector as provided herein.
The description of exemplary embodiments of the reporter systems above is provided for illustration purposes only and not meant to be limiting. Additional reporter systems, e.g., variations of the exemplary systems described in detail above, are also embraced by this disclosure.
A number of Cas9:Deaminase fusion proteins were generated and deaminase activity of the generated fusions was characterized. The following deaminases were tested:
Human AID (hAID):
Human AID-DC (hAID-DC, Truncated Version of hAID with 7-Fold Increased Activity):
Rat APOBEC1 (rAPOBEC1):
Human APOBEC1 (hAPOBEC1)
Petromyzon marinus (Lamprey) CDA1 (pmCDA1):
Human APOBEC3G (hAPOBEC3G):
Deaminase Activity on ssDNA. A USER (Uracil-Specific Excision Reagent) Enzyme-based assay for deamination was employed to test the activity of various deaminases on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) substrates. USER Enzyme was obtained from New England Biolabs. An ssDNA substrate was provided with a target cytosine residue at different positions. Deamination of the ssDNA cytosine target residue results in conversion of the target cytosine to a uracil. The USER Enzyme excises the uracil base and cleaves the ssDNA backbone at that position, cutting the ssDNA substrate into two shorter fragments of DNA. In some assays, the ssDNA substrate is labeled on one end with a dye, e.g., with a 5′ Cy3 label (the * in the scheme below). Upon deamination, excision, and cleavage of the strand, the substrate can be subjected to electrophoresis, and the substrate and any fragment released from it can be visualized by detecting the label. Where Cy5 is images, only the fragment with the label will be visible via imaging.
In one USER Enzyme assay, ssDNA substrates were used that matched the target sequences of the various deaminases tested. Expression cassettes encoding the deaminases tested were inserted into a CMV backbone plasmid that has been used previously in the lab (Addgene plasmid 52970). The deaminase proteins were expressed using a TNT Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System (Promega) according to the manufacturers recommendations. After 90 min of incubation, 5 mL of lysate was incubated with 5′ Cy3-labeled ssDNA substrate and 1 unit of USER Enzyme (NEB) for 3 hours. The DNA was resolved on a 10% TBE PAGE gel and the DNA was imaged using Cy-dye imaging. A schematic representation of the USER Enzyme assay is shown in
MSSETGPVAVDPTLRRRIEPHEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSIWRHTSQNTN
KHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAITEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARL
YHHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMTEQESGYCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVR
MSSETGPVAVDPTLRRRIEPHEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSIWRHTSQNTN
KHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAITEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARL
YHHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMTEQESGYCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVR
FDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSIWRHTSQNTNKHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSIT
WFLSWSPCGECSRAITEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARLYHHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMT
EQESGYCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVRLYVLELYCIILGLPPCLNILRRKQPQL
TFFTIALQSCHYQRLPPHILWATGLK
HEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSIWRHTSQNTNKHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCP
NTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAITEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARLYHHADPRNRQGLRDLISSG
VTIQIMTEQESGYCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVRLYVLELYCIILGLPPCLNIL
RRKQPQLTFFTIALQSCHYQRLPPHILWATGLK
MSSETGPVAVDPTLRRRIEPHEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSIWRHTSQNTN
KHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAITEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARL
YHHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMTEQESGYCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVR
The data further indicates that a linker of only 3 amino acids (GGS) is not optimal for allowing the deaminase to access the single stranded portion of the DNA. The 9 amino acid linker [(GGS)3] (SEQ ID NO: 610) and the more structured 16 amino acid linker (XTEN) allow for more efficient deamination.
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTATAGCC
ATTATTCCGCGGAT
Correct sgRNA Sequence (Partial 3′ Sequence):
eGFP sgRNA Sequence (Partial 3′-Sequence:
Exemplary deamination targets. The dCas9:deaminase fusion proteins described herein can be delivered to a cell in vitro or ex vivo or to a subject in vivo and can be used to effect C to T or G to A transitions when the target nucleotide is in positions 3-11 with respect to a PAM. Exemplary deamination targets include, without limitation, the following: CCR5 truncations: any of the codons encoding Q93, Q102, Q186, R225, W86, or Q261 of CCR5 can be deaminated to generate a STOP codon, which results in a nonfunctional truncation of CCR5 with applications in HIV treatment. APOE4 mutations: mutant codons encoding C11R and C57R mutant APOE4 proteins can be deaminated to revert to the wild-type amino acid with applications in Alzheimer's treatment. eGFP truncations: any of the codons encoding Q158, Q184, Q185 can be deaminated to generate a STOP codon, or the codon encoding M1 can be deaminated to encode I, all of which result in loss of eGFP fluorescence, with applications in reporter systems. eGFP restoration: a mutant codon encoding T65A or Y66C mutant GFP, which does not exhibit substantial fluorescence, can be deaminated to restore the wild-type amino acid and confer fluorescence. PIK3CA mutation: a mutant codon encoding K111E mutant PIK3CA can be deaminated to restore the wild-type amino acid residue with applications in cancer. CTNNB1 mutation: a mutant codon encoding T41A mutant CTNNB1 can be deaminated to restore the wild-type amino acid residue with applications in cancer. HRAS mutation: a mutant codon encoding Q61R mutant HRAS can be deaminated to restore the wild-type amino acid residue with applications in cancer. P53 mutations: any of the mutant codons encoding Y163C, Y236C, or N239D mutant p53 can be deaminated to encode the wild type amino acid sequence with applications in cancer. The feasibility of deaminating these target sequences in double-stranded DNA is demonstrated in
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTAACTAT
GCTGCCGCC
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTAAAATA
CAATGTGT
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTATTTTC
CATACAGT
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTATCCTG
AACACCTT
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTAGACAT
GGAGGAC
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTACCTCG
CCCTTGCTCA
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTAAAGCA
CTGCACTC
GTAGGTAGTTAGGATGAATGGAAGGTTGGTAAGGAG
CTGTGG
Direct programmable nucleobase editing efficiencies in mammalian cells by dCas9:deaminase fusion proteins can be improved significantly by fusing a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) to the dCas9:deaminase fusion protein.
MSSETGPVAVDPTLRRRIEPHEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSIWRHTSQNTN
KHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAITEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARLY
HHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMTEQESGYCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVRL
YVLELYCIILGLPPCLNILRRKQPQLTFFTIALQSCHYQRLPPHILWATGLK
SGSETPGTS
Protospacer Sequences were as Follows:
MSSETGPVAVDPTLRRRIEPHEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSIWRHTSQNTN
KHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAITEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARLY
HHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMTEQESGYCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVRL
YVLELYCIILGLPPCLNILRRKQPQLTFFTIALQSCHYQRLPPHILWATGLK
SGSETPGTS
LMLPEEVEEVIGNKPESDILVHTAYDESTDENVMLLTSDAPEYKPWALVICIDSNGE
NKIKML
SGGSPKKKRKV
The percentages in
When a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) was fused to the dCas9:deaminase fusion protein (e.g., rAPOBEC1-XTEN-dCas9-[UGI]-NLS), a significant increase in editing efficiency in cells was observed. This result indicates that in mammalian cells, the DNA repair machinery that cuts out the uracil base in a U:G base pair is a rate-limiting process in DNA editing. Tethering UGI to the dVas9:deaminase fusion proteins greatly increases editing yields.
Without UGI, typical editing efficiencies in human cells were in the ˜2-14% yield range (
Current genome-editing technologies introduce double-stranded DNA breaks at a target locus of interest as the first step to gene correction.39,40 Although most genetic diseases arise from mutation of a single nucleobase to a different nucleobase, current approaches to revert such changes are very inefficient and typically induce an abundance of random insertions and deletions (indels) at the target locus as a consequence of the cellular response to double-stranded DNA breaks.39,40 Reported herein is the development of nucleobase editing, a new strategy for genome editing that enables the direct conversion of one target nucleobase into another in a programmable manner, without requiring double-stranded DNA backbone cleavage. Fusions of CRISPR/Cas9 were engineered and the cytidine deaminase enzyme APOBEC1 that retain the ability to be programmed with a guide RNA, do not induce double-stranded DNA breaks, and mediate the direct conversion of cytidine to uracil, thereby effecting a C→T (or G→A) substitution following DNA replication, DNA repair, or transcription if the template strand is targeted. The resulting “nucleobase editors” convert cytidines within a window of approximately five nucleotides, and can efficiently correct a variety of point mutations relevant to human disease in vitro. In four transformed human and murine cell lines, second- and third-generation nucleobase editors that fuse uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI), and that use a Cas9 nickase targeting the non-edited strand, respectively, can overcome the cellular DNA repair response to nucleobase editing, resulting in permanent correction of up to 37% or (˜15-75%) of total cellular DNA in human cells with minimal (typically ≤1%) indel formation. In contrast, canonical Cas9-mediated HDR on the same targets yielded an average of 0.7% correction with 4% indel formation. Nucleobase editors were used to revert two oncogenic p53 mutations into wild-type alleles in human breast cancer and lymphoma cells, and to convert an Alzheimer's Disease associated Arg codon in ApoE4 into a non-disease-associated Cys codon in mouse astrocytes. Base editing expands the scope and efficiency of genome editing of point mutations.
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system is a prokaryotic adaptive immune system that has been adapted to mediate genome engineering in a variety of organisms and cell lines.41 CRISPR/Cas9 protein-RNA complexes localize to a target DNA sequence through base pairing with a guide RNA, and natively create a DNA double-stranded break (DSB) at the locus specified by the guide RNA. In response to DSBs, endogenous DNA repair processes mostly result in random insertions or deletions (indels) at the site of DNA cleavage through non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). In the presence of a homologous DNA template, the DNA surrounding the cleavage site can be replaced through homology-directed repair (HDR). When simple disruption of a disease-associated gene is sufficient (for example, to treat some gain-of-function diseases), targeted DNA cleavage followed by indel formation can be effective. For most known genetic diseases, however, correction of a point mutation in the target locus, rather than stochastic disruption of the gene, is needed to address or study the underlying cause of the disease.68
Motivated by this need, researchers have invested intense effort to increase the efficiency of HDR and suppress NHEJ. For example, a small-molecule inhibitor of ligase IV, an essential enzyme in the NHEJ pathway, has been shown to increase HDR efficiency.42,43 However, this strategy is challenging in post-mitotic cells, which typically down-regulate HDR, and its therapeutic relevance is limited by the potential risks of inhibiting ligase IV in non-target cells. Enhanced HDR efficiency can also be achieved by the timed delivery of Cas9-guide RNA complexes into chemically synchronized cells, as HDR efficiency is highly cell-cycle dependent.44 Such an approach, however, is limited to research applications in cell culture since synchronizing cells is highly disruptive. Despite these developments, current strategies to replace point mutations using HDR in most contexts are very inefficient (typically ˜0.1 to 5%),42,43,45,46,75 especially in unmodified, non-dividing cells. In addition, HDR competes with NHEJ during the resolution of double-stranded breaks, and indels are generally more abundant outcomes than gene replacement. These observations highlight the need to develop alternative approaches to install specific modifications in genomic DNA that do not rely on creating double-stranded DNA breaks. A small-molecule inhibitor of ligase IV, an essential enzyme in the NHEJ pathway, has been shown to increase HDR efficiency.42,43 However, this strategy is challenging in post-mitotic cells, which typically down-regulate HDR, and its therapeutic relevance is limited by the potential risks of inhibiting ligase IV in non-target cells. Enhanced HDR efficiency can also be achieved by the timed delivery of Cas9-guide RNA complexes into chemically synchronized cells, as HDR efficiency is highly cell-cycle dependent.44 Such an approach, however, is limited to research applications in cell culture since synchronizing cells is highly disruptive. In some cases, it is possible to design HDR templates such that the product of successful HDR contains mutations in the PAM sequence and therefore is no longer a substrate for subsequent Cas9 modification, increasing the overall yield of HDR products,75 although such an approach imposes constraints on the product sequences. Recently, this strategy has been coupled to the use of ssDNA donors that are complementary to the non-target strand and high-efficiency ribonucleoprotein (RNP) delivery to substantially increase the efficiency of HDR, but even in these cases the ratio of HDR to NHEJ outcomes is relatively low (<2).83
It was envisioned that direct catalysis of the conversion of one nucleobase to another at a programmable target locus without requiring DNA backbone cleavage could increase the efficiency of gene correction relative to HDR without introducing undesired random indels at the locus of interest. Catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9), which contains Asp10Ala and His840Ala mutations that inactivate its nuclease activity, retains its ability to bind DNA in a guide RNA-programmed manner but does not cleave the DNA backbone.16,47 In principle, conjugation of dCas9 with an enzymatic or chemical catalyst that mediates the direct conversion of one nucleobase to another could enable RNA-programmed nucleobase editing. The deamination of cytosine (C) is catalyzed by cytidine deaminases29 and results in uracil (U), which has the base pairing properties of thymine (T). dCas9 was fused to cytidine deaminase enzymes in order to test their ability to convert C to U at a guide RNA-specified DNA locus. Most known cytidine deaminases operate on RNA, and the few examples that are known to accept DNA require single-stranded DNA.48 Recent studies on the dCas9-target DNA complex reveal that at least nine nucleotides of the displaced DNA strand are unpaired upon formation of the Cas9:guide RNA:DNA “R-loop” complex.12 Indeed, in the structure of the Cas9 R-loop complex the first 11 nucleotides of the protospacer on the displaced DNA strand are disordered, suggesting that their movement is not highly restricted.76 It has also been speculated that Cas9 nickase-induced mutations at cytosines in the non-template strand might arise from their accessibility by cellular cytidine deaminase enzymes.77 Recent studies on the dCas9-target DNA complex have revealed that at least 26 bases on the non-template strand are unpaired when Cas9 binds to its target DNA sequence.49 It was reasoned that a subset of this stretch of single-stranded DNA in the R-loop might serve as a substrate for a dCas9-tethered cytidine deaminase to effect direct, programmable conversion of C to U in DNA (
Four different cytidine deaminase enzymes (hAID, hAPOBEC3G, rAPOBEC1, and pmCDA1) were expressed in a mammalian cell lysate-derived in vitro transcription-translation system and evaluated for ssDNA deamination. Of the four enzymes, rAPOBEC1 showed the highest deaminase activity under the tested conditions and was chosen for dCas9 fusion experiments (
Efficient, sequence-specific, sgRNA-dependent C to U conversion was observed in vitro (
Elected were seven mutations relevant to human disease that in theory could be corrected by C to T nucleobase editing, synthesized double-stranded DNA 80-mers of the corresponding sequences, and assessed the ability of NBE1 to correct these mutations in vitro (
While BE1 efficiently processes substrates in a test tube, in cells a tree of possible DNA repair outcomes determines the fate of the initial U:G product of base editing (
It was asked whether the cellular DNA repair response to the presence of U:G heteroduplex DNA was responsible for the large decrease in nucleobase editing efficiency in cells (
Similar editing efficiencies were observed when a separate plasmid overexpressing UGI was co-transfected with NBE1 (
The permanence of nucleobase editing in human cells was confirmed by monitoring editing efficiencies over multiple cell divisions in HEK293T cells at two of the tested genomic loci. Genomic DNA was harvested at two time points: three days after transfection with plasmids expressing NBE2 and appropriate sgRNAs, and after passaging the cells and growing them for four additional days (approximately five subsequent cell divisions). No significant change in editing efficiency was observed between the non-passaged cells (editing observed in 4.6% to 6.6% of targeted strands for three different target Cs) and passaged cells (editing observed in 4.6% to 6.4% of targeted strands for the same three target Cs), confirming that the nucleobase edits became permanent following cell division (
To further increase the efficiency of nucleobase editing in cells, it was anticipated that nicking the non-edited strand may result in a smaller fraction of edited Us being removed by the cell, since eukaryotic mismatch repair machinery uses strand discontinuity to direct DNA repair to any broken strand of a mismatched duplex (
Next, the off-target activity of NBE1, NBE2, and NBE3 in human cells was evaluated. The off-target activities of Cas9, dCas9, and Cas9 nickase have been extensively studied (
Finally, the potential of nucleobase editing to correct three disease-relevant mutations in mammalian cells was tested. The apolipoprotein E gene variant APOE4 encodes two Arg residues at amino acid positions 112 and 158, and is the largest and most common genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease.64 ApoE variants with Cys residues in positions 112 or 158, including APOE2 (Cys112/Cys158), APOE3 (Cys112/Arg158), and APOE3′ (Arg112/Cys158) have been shown65 or are presumed81 to confer substantially lower Alzheimer's disease risk than APOE4. Encouraged by the ability of NBE1 to convert APOE4 to APOE3′ in vitro (
The dominant-negative p53 mutations Tyr163Cys and Asn239Asp are strongly associated with several types of cancer.66-67 Both of these mutations can be corrected by a C to T conversion on the template strand (
To illuminate the potential relevance of nucleobase editors to address human genetic diseases, the NCBI ClinVar database68 was searched for known genetic diseases that could in principle be corrected by this approach. ClinVar was filtered by first examining only single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), then removing any nonpathogenic variants. Out of the 24,670 pathogenic SNPs, 3,956 are caused by either a T to C, or an A to G, substitution. This list was further filtered to only include variants with a nearby NGG PAM that would position the SNP within the deamination activity window, resulting in 1,089 clinically relevant pathogenic gene variants that could in principle be corrected by the nucleobase editors described here (
In some embodiments, any of the base editors provided herein may be used to treat a disease or disorder. For example, any base editors provided herein may be used to correct one or more mutations associated with any of the diseases or disorders provided herein. Exemplary diseases or disorders that may be treated include, without limitation, 3-Methylglutaconic aciduria type 2, 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis, 4-Alpha-hydroxyphenylpyruvate hydroxylase deficiency, 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin synthase deficiency, achromatopsia, Acid-labile subunit deficiency, Acrodysostosis, acroerythrokeratoderma, ACTH resistance, ACTH-independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia, Activated PI3K-delta syndrome, Acute intermittent porphyria, Acute myeloid leukemia, Adams-Oliver syndrome 1/5/6, Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency, Adrenoleukodystrophy, Adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, Adult onset ataxia with oculomotor apraxia, Advanced sleep phase syndrome, Age-related macular degeneration, Alagille syndrome, Alexander disease, Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome, Alport syndrome, X-linked recessive, Alternating hemiplegia of childhood, Alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins, Amelogenesis imperfecta, Amyloidogenic transthyretin amyloidosis, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Anemia (nonspherocytic hemolytic, due to G6PD deficiency), Anemia (sideroblastic, pyridoxine-refractory, autosomal recessive), Anonychia, Antithrombin III deficiency, Aortic aneurysm, Aplastic anemia, Apolipoprotein C2 deficiency, Apparent mineralocorticoid excess, Aromatase deficiency, Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Arthrogryposis multiplex congenital, Aspartylglycosaminuria, Asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy, Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency, Ataxia (spastic), Atrial fibrillation, Atrial septal defect, atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome, autosomal dominant CD11C+/CD1C+ dendritic cell deficiency, Autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial DNA deletions, Baraitser-Winter syndrome, Bartter syndrome, Basa ganglia calcification, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Benign familial neonatal seizures, Benign scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy, Bernard Soulier syndrome, Beta thalassemia intermedia, Beta-D-mannosidosis, Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy, Bile acid malabsorption, Biotinidase deficiency, Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome, Boucher Neuhauser syndrome, Bowen-Conradi syndrome, Brachydactyly, Brown-Vialetto-Van laere syndrome, Brugada syndrome, Cardiac arrhythmia, Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, Cardiomyopathy, Carnevale syndrome, Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency, Carpenter syndrome, Cataract, Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, Central core disease, Centromeric instability of chromosomes 1,9 and 16 and immunodeficiency, Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy, Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome, Ceroid lipofuscinosis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Cholestanol storage disease, Chondrocalcinosis, Chondrodysplasia, Chronic progressive multiple sclerosis, Coenzyme Q10 deficiency, Cohen syndrome, Combined deficiency of factor V and factor VIII, Combined immunodeficiency, Combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency, Combined partial 17-alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency, Complement factor d deficiency, Complete combined 17-alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency, Cone-rod dystrophy, Congenital contractural arachnodactyly, Congenital disorder of glycosylation, Congenital lipomatous overgrowth, Neoplasm of ovary, PIK3CA Related Overgrowth Spectrum, Congenital long QT syndrome, Congenital muscular dystrophy, Congenital muscular hypertrophy-cerebral syndrome, Congenital myasthenic syndrome, Congenital myopathy with fiber type disproportion, Eichsfeld type congenital muscular dystrophy, Congenital stationary night blindness, Corneal dystrophy, Cornelia de Lange syndrome, Craniometaphyseal dysplasia, Crigler Najjar syndrome, Crouzon syndrome, Cutis laxa with osteodystrophy, Cyanosis, Cystic fibrosis, Cystinosis, Cytochrome-c oxidase deficiency, Mitochondrial complex I deficiency, D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, Danon disease, Deafness with labyrinthine aplasia microtia and microdontia (LAMM), Deafness, Deficiency of acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase, Deficiency of ferroxidase, Deficiency of UDPglucose-hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, Dejerine-Sottas disease, Desbuquois syndrome, DFNA, Diabetes mellitus type 2, Diabetes-deafness syndrome, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Diastrophic dysplasia, Dihydropteridine reductase deficiency, Dihydropyrimidinase deficiency, Dilated cardiomyopathy, Disseminated atypical mycobacterial infection, Distal arthrogryposis, Distal hereditary motor neuronopathy, Donnai Barrow syndrome, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Becker muscular dystrophy, Dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria, Dyskeratosis congenital, Dystonia, Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Eichsfeld type congenital muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, Enamel-renal syndrome, Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica inversa, Epidermolysis bullosa herpetiformis, Epilepsy, Episodic ataxia, Erythrokeratodermia variabilis, Erythropoietic protoporphyria, Exercise intolerance, Exudative vitreoretinopathy, Fabry disease, Factor V deficiency, Factor VII deficiency, Factor xiii deficiency, Familial adenomatous polyposis, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, cold urticarial, chronic infantile neurological, cutaneous and articular syndrome, hemiplegic migraine, hypercholesterolemia, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, hypoalphalipoproteinemia, hypokalemia-hypomagnesemia, juvenile gout, hyperlipoproteinemia, visceral amyloidosis, hypophosphatemic vitamin D refractory rickets, FG syndrome, Fibrosis of extraocular muscles, Finnish congenital nephrotic syndrome, focal epilepsy, Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, Frontonasal dysplasia, Frontotemporal dementia, Fructose-biphosphatase deficiency, Gamstorp-Wohlfart syndrome, Ganglioside sialidase deficiency, GATA-1-related thrombocytopenia, Gaucher disease, Giant axonal neuropathy, Glanzmann thrombasthenia, Glomerulocystic kidney disease, Glomerulopathy, Glucocorticoid resistance, Glucose-6-phosphate transport defect, Glutaric aciduria, Glycogen storage disease, Gorlin syndrome, Holoprosencephaly, GRACILE syndrome, Haemorrhagic telangiectasia, Hemochromatosis, Hemoglobin H disease, Hemolytic anemia, Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, Carcinoma of colon, Myhre syndrome, leukoencephalopathy, Hereditary factor IX deficiency disease, Hereditary factor VIII deficiency disease, Hereditary factor XI deficiency disease, Hereditary fructosuria, Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Neoplasm, Hereditary pancreatitis, Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis, Elliptocytosis, Heterotaxy, Heterotopia, Histiocytic medullary reticulosis, Histiocytosis-lymphadenopathy plus syndrome, HNSHA due to aldolase A deficiency, Holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency, Homocysteinemia, Howel-Evans syndrome, Hydatidiform mole, Hypercalciuric hypercalcemia, Hyperimmunoglobulin D, Mevalonic aciduria, Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis, Paramyotonia congenita of von Eulenburg, Hyperlipoproteinemia, Hypermanganesemia, Hypermethioninemia, Hyperphosphatasemia, Hypertension, hypomagnesemia, Hypobetalipoproteinemia, Hypocalcemia, Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, Hyper-IgM immunodeficiency, Hypohidrotic X-linked ectodermal dysplasia, Hypomagnesemia, Hypoparathyroidism, Idiopathic fibrosing alveolitis, Immunodeficiency, Immunoglobulin A deficiency, Infantile hypophosphatasia, Infantile Parkinsonism-dystonia, Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, Intermediate maple syrup urine disease, Ischiopatellar dysplasia, Islet cell hyperplasia, Isolated growth hormone deficiency, Isolated lutropin deficiency, Isovaleric acidemia, Joubert syndrome, Juvenile polyposis syndrome, Juvenile retinoschisis, Kallmann syndrome, Kartagener syndrome, Kugelberg-Welander disease, Lattice corneal dystrophy, Leber congenital amaurosis, Leber optic atrophy, Left ventricular noncompaction, Leigh disease, Mitochondrial complex I deficiency, Leprechaunism syndrome, Arthrogryposis, Anterior horn cell disease, Leukocyte adhesion deficiency, Leukodystrophy, Leukoencephalopathy, Ovarioleukodystrophy, L-ferritin deficiency, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Long QT syndrome, Macrocephaly/autism syndrome, Macular corneal dystrophy, Macular dystrophy, Malignant hyperthermia susceptibility, Malignant tumor of prostate, Maple syrup urine disease, Marden Walker like syndrome, Marfan syndrome, Marie Unna hereditary hypotrichosis, Mast cell disease, Meconium ileus, Medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency, Melnick-Fraser syndrome, Mental retardation, Merosin deficient congenital muscular dystrophy, Mesothelioma, Metachromatic leukodystrophy, Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, Methemoglobinemia, methylmalonic aciduria, homocystinuria, Microcephaly, chorioretinopathy, lymphedema, Microphthalmia, Mild non-PKU hyperphenylalanemia, Mitchell-Riley syndrome, mitochondrial 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase deficiency, Mitochondrial complex I deficiency, Mitochondrial complex III deficiency, Mitochondrial myopathy, Mucolipidosis III, Mucopolysaccharidosis, Multiple sulfatase deficiency, Myasthenic syndrome, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Myeloperoxidase deficiency, Myhre syndrome, Myoclonic epilepsy, Myofibrillar myopathy, Myoglobinuria, Myopathy, Myopia, Myotonia congenital, Navajo neurohepatopathy, Nemaline myopathy, Neoplasm of stomach, Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, Nephronophthisis, Nephrotic syndrome, Neurofibromatosis, Neutral lipid storage disease, Niemann-Pick disease, Non-ketotic hyperglycinemia, Noonan syndrome, Noonan syndrome-like disorder, Norum disease, Macular degeneration, N-terminal acetyltransferase deficiency, Oculocutaneous albinism, Oculodentodigital dysplasia, Ohdo syndrome, Optic nerve aplasia, Ornithine carbamoyltransferase deficiency, Orofaciodigital syndrome, Osteogenesis imperfecta, Osteopetrosis, Ovarian dysgenesis, Pachyonychia, Palmoplantar keratoderma, nonepidermolytic, Papillon-Lef\xc3\xa8vre syndrome, Haim-Munk syndrome, Periodontitis, Peeling skin syndrome, Pendred syndrome, Peroxisomal fatty acyl-coa reductase 1 disorder, Peroxisome biogenesis disorder, Pfeiffer syndrome, Phenylketonuria, Phenylketonuria, Hyperphenylalaninemia, non-PKU, Pituitary hormone deficiency, Pityriasis rubra pilaris, Polyarteritis nodosa, Polycystic kidney disease, Polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia, Polymicrogyria, Pontocerebellar hypoplasia, Porokeratosis, Posterior column ataxia, Primary erythromelalgia, hyperoxaluria, Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia, Propionic acidemia, Pseudohermaphroditism, Pseudohypoaldosteronism, Pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like disorder, Purine-nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency, Pyridoxal 5-phosphate-dependent epilepsy, Renal dysplasia, retinal pigmentary dystrophy, cerebellar ataxia, skeletal dysplasia, Reticular dysgenesis, Retinitis pigmentosa, Usher syndrome, Retinoblastoma, Retinopathy, RRM2B-related mitochondrial disease, Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, Schnyder crystalline corneal dystrophy, Sebaceous tumor, Severe congenital neutropenia, Severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy, Severe X-linked myotubular myopathy, onychodysplasia, facial dysmorphism, hypotrichosis, Short-rib thoracic dysplasia, Sialic acid storage disease, Sialidosis, Sideroblastic anemia, Small fiber neuropathy, Smith-Magenis syndrome, Sorsby fundus dystrophy, Spastic ataxia, Spastic paraplegia, Spermatogenic failure, Spherocytosis, Sphingomyelin/cholesterol lipidosis, Spinocerebellar ataxia, Split-hand/foot malformation, Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, Platyspondylic lethal skeletal dysplasia, Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, Stargardt disease, Sucrase-isomaltase deficiency, Sudden infant death syndrome, Supravalvar aortic stenosis, Surfactant metabolism dysfunction, Tangier disease, Tatton-Brown-rahman syndrome, Thoracic aortic aneurysms and aortic dissections, Thrombophilia, Thyroid hormone resistance, TNF receptor-associated periodic fever syndrome (TRAPS), Tooth agenesis, Torsades de pointes, Transposition of great arteries, Treacher Collins syndrome, Tuberous sclerosis syndrome, Tyrosinase-negative oculocutaneous albinism, Tyrosinase-positive oculocutaneous albinism, Tyrosinemia, UDPglucose-4-epimerase deficiency, Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy, Bethlem myopathy Usher syndrome, UV-sensitive syndrome, Van der Woude syndrome, popliteal pterygium syndrome, Very long chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, Vesicoureteral reflux, Vitreoretinochoroidopathy, Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, von Willebrand disease, Waardenburg syndrome, Warsaw breakage syndrome, WFS1-Related Disorders, Wilson disease, Xeroderma pigmentosum, X-linked agammaglobulinemia, X-linked hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency, and Zellweger syndrome.
The development of nucleobase editing advances both the scope and effectiveness of genome editing. The nucleobase editors described here offer researchers a choice of editing with virtually no indel formation (NBE2), or more efficient editing with a low frequency (here, typically <1%) of indel formation (NBE3). That the product of base editing is, by definition, no longer a substrate likely contributes to editing efficiency by preventing subsequent product transformation, which can hamper traditional Cas9 applications. By removing the reliance on double-stranded DNA cleavage and stochastic DNA repair processes that vary greatly by cell state and cell type, nucleobase editing has the potential to expand the type of genome modifications that can be cleanly installed, the efficiency of these modifications, and the type of cells that are amenable to editing. It is likely that recent engineered Cas9 variants69,70,82 or delivery methods71 with improved DNA specificity, as well as Cas9 variants with altered PAM specificities,72 can be integrated into this strategy to provide additional nucleobase editors with improved DNA specificity or that can target an even wider range of disease-associated mutations. These findings also suggest that engineering additional fusions of dCas9 with enzymes that catalyze additional nucleobase transformations will increase the fraction of the possible DNA base changes that can be made through nucleobase editing. These results also suggest architectures for the fusion of other DNA-modifying enzymes, including methylases and demathylases, that mau enable additional types of programmable genome and epigenome base editing.
Materials and Methods
Cloning. DNA sequences of all constructs and primers used in this paper are listed in the Supplementary Sequences. Plasmids containing genes encoding NBE1, NBE2, and NBE3 will be available from Addgene. PCR was performed using VeraSeq ULtra DNA polymerase (Enzymatics), or Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase (New England Biolabs). NBE plasmids were constructed using USER cloning (New England Biolabs). Deaminase genes were synthesized as gBlocks Gene Fragments (Integrated DNA Technologies), and Cas9 genes were obtained from previously reported plasmids.18 Deaminase and fusion genes were cloned into pCMV (mammalian codon-optimized) or pET28b (E. coli codon-optimized) backbones. sgRNA expression plasmids were constructed using site-directed mutagenesis. Briefly, the primers listed in the Supplementary Sequences were 5′ phosphorylated using T4 Polynucleotide Kinase (New England Biolabs) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Next, PCR was performed using Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity Polymerase (New England Biolabs) with the phosphorylated primers and the plasmid pFYF1320 (EGFP sgRNA expression plasmid) as a template according to the manufacturer's instructions. PCR products were incubated with DpnI (20 U, New England Biolabs) at 37° C. for 1 h, purified on a QIAprep spin column (Qiagen), and ligated using QuickLigase (New England Biolabs) according to the manufacturer's instructions. DNA vector amplification was carried out using Machi competent cells (ThermoFisher Scientific).
In Vitro Deaminase Assay on ssDNA.
Sequences of all ssDNA substrates are listed in the Supplementary Sequences. All Cy3-labelled substrates were obtained from Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT). Deaminases were expressed in vitro using the TNT T7 Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation Kit (Promega) according to the manufacturer's instructions using 1 μg of plasmid. Following protein expression, 5 μL of lysate was combined with 35 μL of ssDNA (1.8 μM) and USER enzyme (1 unit) in CutSmart buffer (New England Biolabs) (50 mM potassium acetate, 29 mM Trisacetate, 10 mM magnesium acetate, 100 ug/mL BSA, pH 7.9) and incubated at 37° C. for 2 h. Cleaved U-containing substrates were resolved from full-length unmodified substrates on a 10% TBE-urea gel (Bio-Rad).
Expression and Purification of His6-rAPOBEC1-Linker-dCas9 Fusions.
E. Coli BL21 STAR (DE3)-competent cells (ThermoFisher Scientific) were transformed with plasmids encoding pET28b-His6-rAPOBEC-linker-dCas9 with GGS, (GGS)3, (SEQ ID NO: 610) XTEN, or (GGS)7 (SEQ ID NO: 610) linkers. The resulting expression strains were grown overnight in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth containing 100 μg/mL of kanamycin at 37° C. The cells were diluted 1:100 into the same growth medium and grown at 37° C. to OD600=˜0.6. The culture was cooled to 4° C. over a period of 2 h, and isopropyl-β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) was added at 0.5 mM to induce protein expression. After ˜16 h, the cells were collected by centrifugation at 4,000 g and resuspended in lysis buffer (50 mM tris(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane (Tris)-HCl, pH 7.0, 1 M NaCl, 20% glycerol, 10 mM tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP, Soltec Ventures)). The cells were lysed by sonication (20 s pulse-on. 20 s pulse-off for 8 min total at 6 W output) and the lysate supernatant was isolated following centrifugation at 25,000 g for 15 min. The lysate was incubated with His-Pur nickel-nitriloacetic acid (nickel-NTA) resin (ThermoFisher Scientific) at 4° C. for 1 h to capture the His-tagged fusion protein. The resin was transferred to a column and washed with 40 mL of lysis buffer. The His-tagged fusion protein was eluted in lysis buffer supplemented with 285 mM imidazole, and concentrated by ultrafiltration (Amicon-Millipore, 100-kDa molecular weight cut-off) to 1 mL total volume. The protein was diluted to 20 mL in low-salt purification buffer containing 50 mM tris(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane (Tris)-HCl, pH 7.0, 0.1 M NaCl, 20% glycerol. 10 mM TCEP and loaded onto SP Sepharose Fast Flow resin (GE Life Sciences). The resin was washed with 40 mL of this low-salt buffer, and the protein eluted with 5 mL, of activity buffer containing 50 mM tris(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane (Tris)-HCl, pH 7.0. 0.5 M NaCl, 20% glycerol, 10 mM TCEP. The eluted proteins were quantified on a SDSPAGE gel
In Vitro Transcription of sgRNAs.
Linear DNA fragments containing the T7 promoter followed by the 20-bp sgRNA target sequence were transcribed in vitro using the primers listed in the Supplementary Sequences with the TranscriptAid T7 High Yield Transcription Kit (ThermoFisher Scientific) according to the manufacturer's instructions. sgRNA products were purified using the MEGAclear Kit (ThermoFisher Scientific) according to the manufacturer's instructions and quantified by UV absorbance.
Preparation of Cy3-Conjugated dsDNA Substrates.
Sequences of 80-nucleotide unlabeled strands are listed in the Supplementary Sequences and were ordered as PAGE-purified oligonucleotides from IDT. The 25-nt Cy3-labeled primer listed in the Supplementary Sequences is complementary to the 3′ end of each 80-nt substrate. This primer was ordered as an HPLC-purified oligonucleotide from IDT. To generate the Cy3-labeled dsDNA substrates, the 80-nt strands (5 μL of a 100 μM solution) were combined with the Cy3-labeled primer (5 L of a 100 μM solution) in NEBuffer 2 (38.25 μL of a 50 mM NaCl, 10 mMTris-HCl, 10 mM MgCl2, 1 mM DTT, pH 7.9 solution, New England Biolabs) with dNTPs (0.75 μL of a 100 mM solution) and heated to 95° C. for 5 min, followed by a gradual cooling to 45° C. at a rate of 0.1° C./s. After this annealing period, Klenow exo (5 U, New England Biolabs) was added and the reaction was incubated at 37° C. for 1 h. The solution was diluted with Buffer PB (250 μL, Qiagen) and isopropanol (50 μL) and purified on a QIAprep spin column (Qiagen), eluting with 50 μL of Tris buffer.
Deaminase Assay on dsDNA.
The purified fusion protein (20 μL of 1.9 μM in activity buffer) was combined with 1 equivalent of appropriate sgRNA and incubated at ambient temperature for 5 min. The Cy3-labeled dsDNA substrate was added to final concentration of 125 nM and the resulting solution was incubated at 37° C. for 2 h. The dsDNA was separated from the fusion by the addition of Buffer PB (100 μL, Qiagen) and isopropanol (25 μL) and purified on a EconoSpin micro spin column (Epoch Life Science), eluting with 20 μL of CutSmart buffer (New England Biolabs). USER enzyme (1 U, New England Biolabs) was added to the purified, edited dsDNA and incubated at 37° C. for 1 h. The Cy3-labeled strand was fully denatured from its complement by combining 5 μL of the reaction solution with 15 μL of a DMSO-based loading buffer (5 mM Tris, 0.5 mM EDTA, 12.5% glycerol, 0.02% bromophenol blue, 0.02% xylene cyan, 80% DMSO). The full-length C-containing substrate was separated from any cleaved, U-containing edited substrates on a 10% TBE-urea gel (Bio-Rad) and imaged on a GE Amersham Typhoon imager.
Preparation of In Vitro-Edited dsDNA for High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS).
The oligonucleotides listed in the Supplementary Sequences were obtained from IDT. Complementary sequences were combined (5 μL of a 100 μM solution) in Tris buffer and annealed by heating to 95° C. for 5 min, followed by a gradual cooling to 45° C. at a rate of 0.1° C./s to generate 60-bp dsDNA substrates. Purified fusion protein (20 μL of 1.9 μM in activity buffer) was combined with 1 equivalent of appropriate sgRNA and incubated at ambient temperature for 5 min. The 60-mer dsDNA substrate was added to final concentration of 125 nM and the resulting solution was incubated at 37° C. for 2 h. The dsDNA was separated from the fusion by the addition of Buffer PB (100 μL, Qiagen) and isopropanol (25 μL) and purified on a EconoSpin micro spin column (Epoch Life Science), eluting with 20 μL of Tris buffer. The resulting edited DNA (1 μL was used as a template) was amplified by PCR using the HTS primer pairs specified in the Supplementary Sequences and VeraSeq Ultra (Enzymatics) according to the manufacturer's instructions with 13 cycles of amplification. PCR reaction products were purified using RapidTips (Diffinity Genomics), and the purified DNA was amplified by PCR with primers containing sequencing adapters, purified, and sequenced on a MiSeq high-throughput DNA sequencer (Illumina) as previously described.73
Cell Culture.
HEK293T (ATCC CRL-3216), U2OS (ATCC-HTB-96) and ST486 cells (ATCC) were maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium plus GlutaMax (ThermoFisher) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS) and penicillin/streptomycin (1×, Amresco), at 37° C. with 5% CO2. HCC1954 cells (ATCC CRL-2338) were maintained in RPMI-1640 medium (ThermoFisher Scientific) supplemented as described above. Immortalized rat astrocytes containing the ApoE4 isoform of the APOE gene (Taconic Biosciences) were cultured in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium plus GlutaMax (ThermoFisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 200 g/mL Geneticin (ThermoFisher Scientific).
Transfections.
HEK293T cells were seeded on 48-well collagen-coated BioCoat plates (Corning) and transfected at approximately 85% confluency. Briefly, 750 ng of NBE and 250 ng of sgRNA expression plasmids were transfected using 1.5 μl of LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent (ThermoFisher Scientific) per well according to the manufacturer's protocol. Astrocytes, U2OS, HCC1954, HEK293T and ST486 cells were transfected using appropriate AMAXA NUCLEOFECTOR™ II programs according to manufacturer's instructions. 40 ng of infrared RFP (Addgene plasmid 45457)74 was added to the nucleofection solution to assess nucleofection efficiencies in these cell lines. For astrocytes, U2OS, and ST486 cells, nucleofection efficiencies were 25%, 74%, and 92%, respectively. For HCC1954 cells, nucleofection efficiency was <10%. Therefore, following trypsinization, the HCC1954 cells were filtered through a 40 micron strainer (Fisher Scientific), and the nucleofected HCC1954 cells were collected on a Beckman Coulter MoFlo XDP Cell Sorter using the iRFP signal (abs 643 nm, em 670 nm). The other cells were used without enrichment of nucleofected cells.
High-Throughput DNA Sequencing of Genomic DNA Samples.
Transfected cells were harvested after 3 d and the genomic DNA was isolated using the Agencourt DNAdvance Genomic DNA Isolation Kit (Beckman Coulter) according to the manufacturer's instructions. On-target and off-target genomic regions of interest were amplified by PCR with flanking HTS primer pairs listed in the Supplementary Sequences. PCR amplification was carried out with Phusion high-fidelity DNA polymerase (ThermoFisher) according to the manufacturer's instructions using 5 ng of genomic DNA as a template. Cycle numbers were determined separately for each primer pair as to ensure the reaction was stopped in the linear range of amplification (30, 28, 28, 28, 32, and 32 cycles for EMX1, FANCF, HEK293 site 2, HEK293 site 3, HEK293 site 4, and RNF2 primers, respectively). PCR products were purified using RapidTips (Diffinity Genomics). Purified DNA was amplified by PCR with primers containing sequencing adaptors. The products were gel-purified and quantified using the QUANT-IT™ PicoGreen dsDNA Assay Kit (ThermoFisher) and KAPA Library Quantification Kit-Illumina (KAPA Biosystems). Samples were sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq as previously described.73
Data Analysis.
Sequencing reads were automatically demultiplexed using MiSeq Reporter (Illumina), and individual FASTQ files were analyzed with a custom Matlab script provided in the Supplementary Notes. Each read was pairwise aligned to the appropriate reference sequence using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. Base calls with a Q-score below 31 were replaced with N's and were thus excluded in calculating nucleotide frequencies. This treatment yields an expected MiSeq base-calling error rate of approximately 1 in 1,000. Aligned sequences in which the read and reference sequence contained no gaps were stored in an alignment table from which base frequencies could be tabulated for each locus.
Indel frequencies were quantified with a custom Matlab script shown in the Supplementary Notes using previously described criteria71. Sequencing reads were scanned for exact matches to two 10-bp sequences that flank both sides of a window in which indels might occur. If no exact matches were located, the read was excluded from analysis. If the length of this indel window exactly matched the reference sequence the read was classified as not containing an indel. If the indel window was two or more bases longer or shorter than the reference sequence, then the sequencing read was classified as an insertion or deletion, respectively.
All publications, patents, patent applications, publication, and database entries (e.g., sequence database entries) mentioned herein, e.g., in the Background, Summary, Detailed Description, Examples, and/or References sections, are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety as if each individual publication, patent, patent application, publication, and database entry was specifically and individually incorporated herein by reference. In case of conflict, the present application, including any definitions herein, will control.
Supplementary Sequences
Primers Used for Generating sgRNA Transfection Plasmids.
rev_sgRNA_plasmid was used in all cases. The pFYF1320 plasmid was used as template as noted in Materials and Methods section. SEQ ID NOs: 187-196 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Sequences of all ssDNA Substrates Used in In Vitro Deaminase Assays.
SEQ ID NOs: 197-199 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Primers Used for Generating PCR Products to Serve as Substrates for T7 Transcription of sgRNAs for Gel-Based Deaminase Assay.
rev_gRNA_T7 was used in all cases. The pFYF1320 plasmid was used as template as noted in Materials and Methods section. SEQ ID NOs: 200-223 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Sequences of 80-Nucleotide Unlabeled Strands and Cy3-Labeled Universal Primer Used in Gel-Based dsDNA Deaminase Assays.
SEQ ID NOs: 224-248 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Primers Used for Generating PCR Products to Serve as Substrates for T7 Transcription of sgRNAs for High-Throughput Sequencing.
rev_gRNA_T7 (above) was used in all cases. The pFYF1320 plasmid was used as template as noted in Materials and Methods section. SEQ ID NOs: 249-300 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Sequences of In Vitro-Edited dsDNA for High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS).
Shown are the sequences of edited strands. Reverse complements of all sequences shown were also obtained. dsDNA substrates were obtained by annealing complementary strands as described in Materials and Methods. Oligonucleotides representing the EMX1, FANCF, HEK293 site 2, HEK293 site 3, HEK293 site 4, and RNF2 loci were originally designed for use in the gel-based deaminase assay and therefore have the same 25-nt sequence on their 5′-ends (matching that of the Cy3-primer). SEQ ID NOs: 301-352 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Primers for HTS of In Vitro Edited dsDNA.
SEQ ID NOs: 353-361 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Primers for HTS of On-Target and Off-Target Sites from all Mammalian Cell Culture Experiments.
SEQ ID NOs: 362-469 appear from top to bottom below, respectively.
Sequences of Single-Stranded Oligonucleotide Donor Templates (ssODNs) Used in HDR Studies.
Deaminase Gene gBlocks Gene Fragments
Amino Acid Sequences of NBE1, NBE2, and NBE3.
NBE1 for E. Coli Expression (His6-rAPOBEC1-XTEN-dCas9) (SEQ ID NO: 154)
NBE1 for Mammalian Expression (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-dCas9-NLS) (SEQ ID NO: 155)
Alternative NBE1 for Mammalian Expression with Human APOBEC1 (hAPOBEC1-XTEN-dCas9-NLS) (SEQ ID NO: 158)
NBE2 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-dCas9-UGI-NLS) (SEQ ID NO: 156)
NBE3 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-Cas9n-UGI-NLS) (SEQ ID NO: 157)
pmCDA1-XTEN-dCas9-UGI (Bacteria) (SEQ ID NO: 159)
pmCDA1-XTEN-nCas9-UGI-NLS (Mammalian Construct) (SEQ ID NO: 160)
huAPOBEC3G-XTEN-dCas9-UGI (Bacteria) (SEQ ID NO: 161)
huAPOBEC3G-XTEN-nCas9-UGI-NLS (Mammalian Construct) (SEQ ID NO: 162)
huAPOBEC3G (D316R_D317R)-XTEN-nCas9-UGI-NLS (Mammalian Construct) (SEQ ID NO: 163)
Base Calling Matlab Script
INDEL Detection Matlab Script
The disclosure provides Cas9 variants, for example Cas9 proteins from one or more organisms, which may comprise one or more mutations (e.g., to generate dCas9 or Cas9 nickase). In some embodiments, one or more of the amino acid residues, identified below by an asterisk, of a Cas9 protein may be mutated. In some embodiments, the D10 and/or H840 residues of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, are mutated. In some embodiments, the D10 residue of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, is mutated to any amino acid residue, except for D. In some embodiments, the D10 residue of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, is mutated to an A. In some embodiments, the H840 residue of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding residue in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, is an H. In some embodiments, the H840 residue of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, is mutated to any amino acid residue, except for H. In some embodiments, the H840 residue of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding mutation in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, is mutated to an A. In some embodiments, the D10 residue of the amino acid sequence provided in SEQ ID NO: 6, or a corresponding residue in any Cas9 protein, such as any one of the Cas9 amino acid sequences as provided herein, is a D.
A number of Cas9 sequences from various species were aligned to determine whether corresponding homologous amino acid residues of D10 and H840 of SEQ ID NO: 6 or SEQ ID NO: 567 can be identified in other Cas9 proteins, allowing the generation of Cas9 variants with corresponding mutations of the homologous amino acid residues. The alignment was carried out using the NCBI Constraint-based Multiple Alignment Tool (COBALT(accessible at st-va.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/cobalt), with the following parameters. Alignment parameters: Gap penalties −11, −1; End-Gap penalties −5, −1. CDD Parameters: Use RPS BLAST on; Blast E-value 0.003; Find Conserved columns and Recompute on. Query Clustering Parameters: Use query clusters on; Word Size 4; Max cluster distance 0.8; Alphabet Regular.
An exemplary alignment of four Cas9 sequences is provided below. The Cas9 sequences in the alignment are: Sequence 1 (S1): SEQ ID NO: 567|WP_010922251|gi 499224711|type II CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9 [Streptococcus pyogenes]; Sequence 2 (S2): SEQ ID NO: 568|WP_039695303|gi 746743737|type II CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9 [Streptococcus gallolyticus]; Sequence 3 (S3): SEQ ID NO: 569|WP_045635197|gi 782887988|type II CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9 [Streptococcus mitis]; Sequence 4 (S4): SEQ ID NO: 570|5AXW_A|gi 924443546|Staphylococcus aureus Cas9. The HNH domain (bold and underlined) and the RuvC domain (boxed) are identified for each of the four sequences. Amino acid residues 10 and 840 in S1 and the homologous amino acids in the aligned sequences are identified with an asterisk following the respective amino acid residue.
KRIEEGIKELGSQIL-------KEHPVENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSD----YDVDH*IVPQSFLKDD
KKLQNSLKELGSNILNEEKPSYIEDKVENSHLQNDQLFLYYIQNGKDMYTGDELDIDHLSD----YDIDH*IIPQAFIKDD
KRIEDSLKILASGL---DSNILKENPTDNNQLQNDRLFLYYLQNGKDMYTGEALDINQLSS----YDIDH*IIPQAFIKDD
ERIEEIIRTTGK---------------ENAKYLIEKIKLHDMQEGKCLYSLEAIPLEDLLNNPFNYEVDH*IIPRSVSFDN
The alignment demonstrates that amino acid sequences and amino acid residues that are homologous to a reference Cas9 amino acid sequence or amino acid residue can be identified across Cas9 sequence variants, including, but not limited to Cas9 sequences from different species, by identifying the amino acid sequence or residue that aligns with the reference sequence or the reference residue using alignment programs and algorithms known in the art. This disclosure provides Cas9 variants in which one or more of the amino acid residues identified by an asterisk in SEQ ID NOs: 567-570 (e.g., S1, S2, S3, and S4, respectively) are mutated as described herein. The residues D10 and H840 in Cas9 of SEQ ID NO: 6 that correspond to the residues identified in SEQ ID NOs: 567-570 by an asterisk are referred to herein as “homologous” or “corresponding” residues. Such homologous residues can be identified by sequence alignment, e.g., as described above, and by identifying the sequence or residue that aligns with the reference sequence or residue. Similarly, mutations in Cas9 sequences that correspond to mutations identified in SEQ ID NO: 6 herein, e.g., mutations of residues 10, and 840 in SEQ ID NO: 6, are referred to herein as “homologous” or “corresponding” mutations. For example, the mutations corresponding to the D10A mutation in SEQ ID NO: 6 or S1 (SEQ ID NO: 567) for the four aligned sequences above are D11A for S2, D10A for S3, and D13A for S4; the corresponding mutations for H840A in SEQ ID NO: 6 or S1 (SEQ ID NO: 567) are H850A for S2, H842A for S3, and H560A for S4.
Other families of cytidine deaminases as alternatives to base editor 3 (BE3) constructs were examined. The different C to T editors were developed to have a narrow or different editing window, alternate sequence specificity to expand targetable substrates, and to have higher activity.
Using the methods described in Example 4, the pmCDA1 (cytidine deaminase 1 from Petromyzon marinus) activity at the HeK-3 site is evaluated (
The pmCDA1 activity at the HeK-2 site is given in
The percent of total sequencing reads with target C converted to T (
The huAPOBEC3G activity at the HeK-2 site is shown in
LacZ selection optimization for the A to I conversion was performed using a bacterial strain with lacZ encoded on the F plasmid. A critical glutamic acid residue was mutated (e.g., GAG to GGG, Glu to Gly mutation) so that G to A by a cytidine deaminase would restore lacZ activity (
To evaluate the effect of copy number of the plasmids encoding the deaminase constructs on lacZ reversion frequency, the CDA and APOBEC1 deaminases were cloned into 4 plasmids with different replication origins (hence different copy numbers), SC101, CloDF3, RSF1030, and PUC (copy number: PUC>RSF1030>CloDF3>SC101) and placed under an inducible promoter. The plasmids were individually transformed into E. coli cells harboring F plasmid containing the mutated LacZ gene. The expression of the deaminases were induced and LacZ activity was detected for each construct (
LacZ reversions were confirmed by sequencing of the genomic DNA at the lacZ locus. To obtain the genomic DNA containing the corrected LacZ gene, cells were grown media containing X-gal, where cells having LacZ activity form blue colonies. Blue colonies were selected and grown in minimal media containing lactose. The cells were spun down, washed, and re-plated on minimal media plates (lactose). The blue colony at the highest dilution was then selected, and its genomic DNA was sequenced at the lacZ locus (
A chloramphenicol reversion assay was designed to test the activity of different cytidine deaminases (e.g., CDA, and APOBEC1). A plasmid harboring a mutant CAT1 gene which confers chloramphenicol resistance to bacteria is constructed with RSF1030 as the replication origin. The mutant CAT1 gene encodings a CAT1 protein that has a H195R (CAC to CGC) mutation, rendering the protein inactive (
Next, the huAPOBEC3G-XTEN-dCas9-UGI protein was tested in the same assay. Interestingly, huAPOBEC3G-XTEN-dCas9-UGI exhibited different sequence specificity than the rAPOBEC1-XTEN-dCas9-UGI fusion protein. Only position 8 was edited with APOBEC3G-XTEN-dCas9-UGI fusion, as compared to the rAPOBEC11-XTEN-dCas9-UGIfusion (in which positions 3, 6, and 8 were edited) (
Current base editing technologies allow for the sequence-specific conversion of a C:G base pair into a T:A base pair in genomic DNA. This is done via the direct catalytic conversion of cytosine to uracil by a cytidine deaminase enzyme and thus, unlike traditional genome editing technologies, does not introduce double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) into the DNA as a first step. See, Komor, A. C., Kim, Y. B., Packer, M. S., Zuris, J. A., and Liu, D. R. (2016), “Programmable editing of a target base in genomic DNA without double-stranded DNA cleavage.” Nature 533, 420-424; the entire contents of which are incorporated by reference herein. Instead, catalytically dead SpCas9 (dCas9) or a SpCas9 nickase (dCas9(A840H)) is tethered to a cytidine deaminase enzyme such as rAPOBEC1, pmCDA1, or hAPOBEC3G. The genomic locus of interest is encoded by an sgRNA, and DNA binding and local denaturation is facilitated by the dCas9 portion of the fusion. However, just as wt dCas9 and wt Cas9 exhibit off-target DNA binding and cleavage, current base editors also exhibit C to T editing at Cas9 off-target loci, which limits their therapeutic usefulness.
It has been reported that the introduction of just three to four mutations into SpCas9 that neutralize nonspecific electrostatic interactions between the protein and the sugar-phosphate backbone of its target DNA, increases the DNA binding specificity of SpCas9. See, Kleinstiver, B. P., Pattanayak, V., Prew, M. S., Tsai, S. Q., Nguyen, N. T., Zheng, Z., and Joung, J. K. (2016) “High-fidelity CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects.” Nature 529, 490-495; and Slaymaker, I. M., Gao, L., Zetsche, B., Scott, D. A., Yan, W. X., and Zhang, F. (2015) “Rationally engineered Cas9 nucleases with improved specificity. Science 351, 84-88; the entire contents of each are hereby incorporated by reference herein. Four reported neutralizing mutations were therefore incorporated into the initially reported base editor BE3 (SEQ ID NO: 48), and found that off-target C to T editing of this enzyme is also drastically reduced (
As shown in
In
Primary Protein Sequence of HF-BE3 (SEQ ID NO: 48):
Unlike traditional genome editing platforms, base editing technology allows precise single nucleotide changes in the DNA without inducing double-stranded breaks(DSBs). See, Komor, A. C. et al. Nature 533, 420-424 (2016). The current generation of base editor uses the NGG PAM exclusively. This limits its ability to edit desired bases within the genome, as the base editor needs to be placed at a precise location where the target base is placed within a 4-base region (the ‘deamination window’), approximately 15 bases upstream of the PAM. See, Komor, A. C. et al. Nature 533, 420-424 (2016). Moreover, due to the high processivity of cytidine deaminase, the base editor may convert all cytidines within its deamination window into thymidines, which could induce amino acid changes other than the one desired by the researcher. See, Komor, A. C. et al. Nature 533, 420-424 (2016).
Expanding the Scope of Base Editing Through the Development of Base Editors with Cas9 Variants
Cas9 homologs and other RNA-guided DNA binders that have different PAM specificities were incorporated into the base editor architecture. See, Kleinstiver, B. P. et al. Nature 523, 481-485 (2015); Kleinstiver, B. P. et al. Nature Biotechnology 33, 1293-1298 (2015); and Zetsche, B. et al. Cell 163, 759-771 (2015); the entire contents of each are incorporated by reference herein. Furthermore, innovations that have broadened the PAM specificities of various Cas9 proteins were also incorporated to expand the target reach of the base editor even more. See, Kleinstiver, B. P. et al. Nature 523, 481-485 (2015); and Kleinstiver, B. P. et al. Nature Biotechnology 33, 1293-1298 (2015). The current palette of base editors is summarized in Table 4.
S. pyogenes
S. aureus
L. bacterium
Modulating Base Editor's Processivity Through Site-Directed Mutagenesis of rAPOBEC1
It was reasoned that the processivity of the base editor could be modulated by making point mutations in the deaminase enzyme. The incorporation of mutations that slightly reduce the catalytic activity of deaminase in which the base editor could still catalyze on average one round of cytidine deamination but was unlikely to access and catalyze another deamination within the relevant timescale were pursued. In effect, the resulting base editor would have a narrower deamination window.
rAPOBEC1 mutations probed in this work are listed in Table 5. Some of the mutations resulted in slight apparent impairment of rAPOBEC1 catalysis, which manifested as preferential editing of one cytidine over another when multiple cytidines are found within the deamination window. Combining some of these mutations had an additive effect, allowing the base editor to discriminate substrate cytidines with higher stringency. Some of the double mutants and the triple mutant allowed selective editing of one cytidine among multiple cytidines that are right next to one another (
Base Editor PAM Expansion and Processivity Modulation
The next generation of base editors were designed to expand editable cytidines in the genome by using other RNA-guided DNA binders (
The effect of various mutations on the deamination window was then investigated in cell culture using spacers with multiple cytidines (
Further, the effect of various mutations on different genomic sites with limited numbers of cytidines was examined (
Base Editing Using Cpf1
Cpf1, a Cas9 homolog, can be obtained as AsCpf1, LbCpf1, or from any other species. Schematics of fusion constructs, including BE2 and BE3 equivalents, are shown in
Full Protein Sequence of Cpf1 (SEQ ID NO: 9):
Examining the difference between plasmid delivery of BE3 and HF-BE3, it was found that the two edit on-target loci with comparable efficiency (
Delivery of BE3 Protein Via Micro-Injection to Zebrafish
TYR guide RNAs were tested in an in vitro assay for sgRNA activity (
The delivery of BE3 protein in was tested in vivo in zebrafish. Zebrafish embryos (n=16-24) were injected with either scrambled sgRNA, sgHR_13, sgHR_16, or sgHR_17 and purified BE3. Three embryos from each condition were analyzed independently (single embryo) and for each condition, all of the injected embryos were pooled and sequenced as a pool. The results are shown in
Base editors or complexes provided herein (e.g., BE3) may be used to modify nucleic acids. For example, base editors may be used to change a cytosine to a thymine in a nucleic acid (e.g., DNA). Such changes may be made to, inter alia, alter the amino acid sequence of a protein, to destroy or create a start codon, to create a stop codon, to disrupt splicing donors, to disrupt splicing acceptors or edit regulatory sequences. Examples of possible nucleotide changes are shown in
Base editors or complexes provided herein (e.g., BE3) may be used to edit an isoform of Apolipoprotein E in a subject. For example, an Apolipoprotein E isoform may be edited to yield an isoform associated with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Apolipoprotein E has four isoforms that differ at amino acids 112 and 158. APOE4 is the largest and most common genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Arginine residue 158 of APOE4, encoded by the nucleic acid sequence CGC, may be changed to a cysteine by using a base editor (e.g., BE3) to change the CGC nucleic acid sequence to TGC, which encodes cysteine at residue 158. This change yields an APOE3r isoform, which is associated with lower Alzheimer's disease risk. See
It was tested whether base editor BE3 could be used to edit APOE4 to APOE3r in mouse astrocytes (
Base editors or complexes provided herein may be used to treat prion protein diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and fatal familial insomnia, for example, by introducing mutations into a PRNP gene. Reverting PRNP mutations may not yield therapeutic results, and intels in PRNP may be pathogenic. Accordingly, it was tested whether PRNP could be mutated using base editors (e.g., BE3) to introduce a premature stop codon in the PRNP gene. BE3, associated with its guide RNA, was introduced into HEK cells or glioblastoma cells and was capable of editing the PRNP gene to change the encoded arginine at residue 37 to a stop codon. BE3 yielded 41% editing (
Additional genes that may be edited include the following: APOE editing of Arg 112 and Arg 158 to treat increased Alzheimer's risk; APP editing of Ala 673 to decrease Alzheimer's risk; PRNP editing of Arg 37 to treat fatal familial insomnia and other prion protein diseases; DMD editing of the exons 23 and 51 splice sites to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy; FTO editing of intron 1 to treat obesity risk; PDS editing of exon 8 to treat Pendred syndrome (genetic deafness); TMC1 editing of exon 8 to treat congenital hearing loss; CYBB editing of various patient-relevant mutations to treat chronic granulomatous disease. Additional diseases that may be treated using the base editors provided herein are shown in Table 6, below.
UGI also plays a key role. Knocking out UDG (which UGI inhibits) was shown to dramatically improve the cleanliness and efficiency of C to T base editing (
Base editing is a new approach to genome editing that uses a fusion protein containing a catalytically defective Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9, a cytidine deaminase, and an inhibitor of base excision repair to induce programmable, single-nucleotide C→T (or G→A) changes in DNA without generating double-strand DNA breaks, without requiring a donor DNA template, and without inducing an excess of stochastic insertions and deletions1. The development of five new C→T (or G→A) base editors that use natural and engineered Cas9 variants with different protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) specificities to expand the number of sites that can be targeted by base editing by 2.5-fold are described herein. Additionally, new base editors containing mutated cytidine deaminase domains that narrow the width of the apparent editing window from approximately 5 nucleotides to 1 or 2 nucleotides were engineered, enabling the discrimination of neighboring C nucleotides that would previously be edited with comparable efficiency. Together, these developments substantially increase the targeting scope of base editing.
CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases have been widely used to mediate targeted genome editing2. In most genome editing applications, Cas9 forms a complex with a single guide RNA (sgRNA) and induces a double-stranded DNA break (DSB) at the target site specified by the sgRNA sequence. Cells primarily respond to this DSB through the non-homolougous end-joining (NHEJ) repair pathway, which results in stochastic insertions or deletions (indels) that can cause frameshift mutations that disrupt the gene. In the presence of a donor DNA template with a high degree of homology to the sequences flanking the DSB, gene correction can be achieved through an alternative pathway known as homology directed repair (HDR).3,4 Unfortunately, under most non-perturbative conditions HDR is inefficient, dependent on cell state and cell type, and dominated by a larger frequency of indels.3,4 As most of the known genetic variations associated with human disease are point mutations5, methods that can more efficiently and cleanly make precise point mutations are needed.
Base editing, which enables targeted replacement of a C:G base pair with a T:A base pair in a programmable manner without inducing DSBs1, has been recently described. Base editing uses a fusion protein between a catalytically inactivated (dCas9) or nickase form of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9), a cytidine deaminase such as APOBEC1, and an inhibitor of base excision repair such as uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) to convert cytidines into uridines within a five-nucleotide window specified by the sgRNA.1 The third-generation base editor, BE3, converts C:G base pairs to T:A base pairs, including disease-relevant point mutations, in a variety of cell lines with higher efficiency and lower indel frequency than what can be achieved using other genome editing methods1. Subsequent studies have validated the deaminase-dCas9 fusion approach in a variety of settings6,7.
Efficient editing by BE3 requires the presence of an NGG PAM that places the target C within a five-nucleotide window near the PAM-distal end of the protospacer (positions 4-8, counting the PAM as positions 21-23)1. This PAM requirement substantially limits the number of sites in the human genome that can be efficiently targeted by BE3, as many sites of interest lack an NGG 13- to 17-nucleotides downstream of the target C. Moreover, the high activity and processivity of BE3 results in conversion of all Cs within the editing window to Ts, which can potentially introduce undesired changes to the target locus. Herein, new C:G to T:A base editors that address both of these limitations are described.
It was thought that any Cas9 homolog that binds DNA and forms an “R-loop” complex8 containing a single-stranded DNA bubble could in principle be converted into a base editor. These new base editors would expand the number of targetable loci by allowing non-NGG PAM sites to be edited. The Cas9 homolog from Staphylococcus aureus (SaCas9) is considerably smaller than SpCas9 (1053 vs. 1368 residues), can mediate efficient genome editing in mammalian cells, and requires an NNGRRT PAM9. SpCas9 was replaced with SaCas9 in BE3 to generate SaBE3 and transfected HEK293T cells with plasmids encoding SaBE3 and sgRNAs targeting six human genomic loci (
The targeting range of base editors was further expanded by applying recently engineered Cas9 variants that expand or alter PAM specificities. Joung and coworkers recently reported three SpCas9 mutants that accept NGA (VQR-Cas9), NGAG (EQR-Cas9), or NGCG(VRER-Cas9) PAM sequences11. In addition, Joung and coworkers engineered a SaCas9 variant containing three mutations (SaKKH-Cas9) that relax its PAM requirement to NNNRRT12. The SpCas9 portion of BE3 was replaced with these four Cas9 variants to produce VQR-BE3, EQR-BE3, VRER-BE3, and SaKKH-BE3, which target NNNRRT, NGA, NGAG, and NGCG PAMs respectively. HEK293T cells were transfected with plasmids encoding these constructs and sgRNAs targeting six genomic loci for each new base editor, and measured C to T base conversions using HTS.
SaKKH-BE3 edited sites with NNNRRT PAMs with efficiencies up to 62% of treated, non-enriched cells (
Collectively, the properties of SaBE3, SaKKH-BE3, VQR-BE3, EQR-BE3, and VRER-BE3 establish that base editors exhibit a modularity that facilitates their ability to exploit Cas9 homologs and engineered variants.
Next, base editors with altered activity window widths were developed. All Cs within the activity window of BE3 can be efficiently converted to Ts1. The ability to modulate the width of this window would be useful in cases in which it is important to edit only a subset of Cs present in the BE3 activity window.
The length of the linker between APOBEC1 and dCas9 was previously observed to modulate the number of bases that are accessible by APOBEC1 in vitro1. In HEK293T cells, however, varying the linker length did not significantly modulate the width of the editing window, suggesting that in the complex cellular milieu, the relative orientation and flexibility of dCas9 and the cytidine deaminase are not strongly determined by linker length (
As an alternative approach, it was thought that mutations to the deaminase domain might narrow the width of the editing window through multiple possible mechanisms. First, some mutations may alter substrate binding, the conformation of bound DNA, or substrate accessibility to the active site in ways that reduce tolerance for non-optimal presentation of a C to the deaminase active site. Second, because the high activity of APOBEC1 likely contributes to the deamination of multiple Cs per DNA binding event,1,13,14 mutations that reduce the catalytic efficiency of the deaminase domain of a base editor might prevent it from catalyzing successive rounds of deamination before dissociating from the DNA. Once any C:G to T:A editing event has taken place, the sgRNA no longer perfectly matches the target DNA sequence and re-binding of the base editor to the target locus should be less favorable. Both strategies were tested in an effort to discover new base editors that distinguish among multiple cytidines within the original editing window.
Given the absence of an available APOBEC1 structure, several mutations previously reported to modulate the catalytic activity of APOBEC3G, a cytidine deaminase from the same family that shares 42% sequence similarity of its active site-containing domain to that of APOBEC1, were identified15. Corresponding APOBEC1 mutations were incorporated into BE3 and evaluated their effect on base editing efficiency and editing window width in HEK293T cells at two C-rich genomic sites containing Cs at positions 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 14 (site A); or containing Cs at positions 5,6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13 (site B).
The APOBEC1 mutations R118A and W90A each led to dramatic loss of base editing efficiency (
R126 in APOBEC1 is predicted to interact with the phosphate backbone of ssDNA13. Previous studies have shown that introducing the corresponding mutation into APOBEC3G decreased catalysis by at least 5-fold14. Interestingly, when introduced into APOBEC1 in BE3, R126A and R126E increased or maintained activity relative to BE3 at the most strongly edited positions (C5, C6, and C7), while decreasing editing activity at other positions (
W90 in APOBEC1 (corresponding to W285 in APOBEC3G) is predicted to form a hydrophobic pocket in the APOBEC3G active site and assist in substrate binding13. Mutating this residue to Ala abrogated APOBEC3G's catalytic activity13. In BE3, W90A almost completely abrogated base editing efficiency (
W90Y, R126E, and R132E, the three mutations that narrowed the editing window without drastically reducing base editing activity, were combined into doubly and triply mutated base editors. The double mutant W90Y+R126E resulted in a base editor (YE1-BE3) with BE3-like maximal editing efficiencies, but substantially narrowed editing window width (width at site A and site B=2.9 and 3.0 nucleotides, respectively (
The base editing outcomes of BE3, YE1-BE3, YE2-BE3, EE-BE3, and YEE-BE3 were further compared in HEK293T cells targeting four well-studied human genomic sites that contain multiple Cs within the BE3 activity window1. These target loci contained target Cs at positions 4 and 5 (HEK site 3), positions 4 and 6 (HEK site 2), positions 5 and 6 (EMX1), or positions 6, 7, 8, and 11 (FANCF). BE3 exhibited little (<1.2-fold) preference for editing any Cs within the position 4-8 activity window. In contrast, YE1-BE3, exhibited a 1.3-fold preference for editing C5 over C4 (HEK site 3), 2.6-fold preference for C6 over C4 (HEK site 2), 2.0-fold preference for C5 over C6 (EMX1), and 1.5-fold preference for C6 over C7 (FANCF) (
The product distributions of these four mutants and BE3 were further analyzed by HTS to evaluate their apparent processivity. BE3 generated predominantly T4-T5 (HEK site 3), T4-T6 (HEK site 2), and T5-T6 (EMX1) products in treated HEK293T cells, resulting in, on average, 7.4-fold more products containing two Ts, than products containing a single T. In contrast, YE1-BE3, YE2-BE3, EE-BE3, and YEE-BE3 showed substantially higher preferences for singly edited C4-T5, C4-T6, and T5-C6 products (
The window-modulating mutations in APOBEC1 were applied to VQR-BE3, allowing selective base editing of substrates at sites targeted by NGA PAM (
The five base editors with altered PAM specificities described in this study together increase the number of disease-associated mutations in the ClinVar database that can in principle be corrected by base editing by 2.5-fold (
In summary, the targeting scope of base editing was substantially expanded by developing base editors that use Cas9 variants with different PAM specificities, and by developing a collection of deaminase mutants with varying editing window widths. In theory, base editing should be possible using other programmable DNA-binding proteins (such as Cpf116) that create a bubble of single-stranded DNA that can serve as a substrate for a single-strand-specific nucleotide deaminase enzyme.
Materials and Methods
Cloning. PCR was performed using Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase (New England Biolabs). Plasmids for BE and sgRNA were constructed using USER cloning (New England Biolabs), obtained from previously reported plasmids1. DNA vector amplification was carried out using NEB 10beta competent cells (New England Biolabs).
Cell culture. HEK293T (ATCC CRL-3216) were cultured in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium plus GlutaMax (ThermoFisher) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS), at 37° C. with 5% CO2. Immortalized rat astrocytes containing the ApoE4 isoform of the APOE gene (Taconic Biosciences) were maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium plus GlutaMax (ThermoFisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 200 μg/mL Geneticin (ThermoFisher Scientific).
Transfections. HEK293T cells were seeded on 48-well collagen-coated BioCoat plates (Corning) and transfected at approximately 85% confluency. 750 ng of BE and 250 ng of sgRNA expression plasmids were transfected using 1.5 μl of LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent (ThermoFisher Scientific) per well according to the manufacturer's protocol.
High-throughput DNA sequencing of genomic DNA samples. Transfected cells were harvested after 3 d and the genomic DNA was isolated using the Agencourt DNAdvance Genomic DNA Isolation Kit (Beckman Coulter) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Genomic regions of interest were amplified by PCR with flanking HTS primer pairs listed in the Supplementary Sequences. PCR amplification was carried out with Phusion hot-start II DNA polymerase (ThermoFisher) according to the manufacturer's instructions. PCR products were purified using RapidTips (Diffinity Genomics). Secondary PCR was performed to attach sequencing adaptors. The products were gel-purified and quantified using the KAPA Library Quantification Kit-Illumina (KAPA Biosystems). Samples were sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq as previously described1.
Data analysis. Nucleotide frequencies were assessed using a previously described MATLAB script1. Briefly, the reads were aligned to the reference sequence via the Smith-Waterman algorithm. Base calls with Q-scores below 30 were replaced with a placeholder nucleotide (N). This quality threshold results in nucleotide frequencies with an expected theoretical error rate of 1 in 1000.
Analyses of base editing processivity were performed using a custom python script. This program trims sequencing reads to the 20 nucleotide protospacer sequence as determined by a perfect match for the 7 nucleotide sequences that should flank the target site. These targets were then consolidated and sorted by abundance to assess the frequency of base editing products.
Bioinformatic analysis of the ClinVar database of human disease-associated mutations was performed in a manner similar to that previously described but with small adjustments1. These adjustments enable the identification of targets with PAMs of customizable length and sequence. In addition, this improved script includes a priority ranking of target C positions (C5>C6>C7>C8≈C4), thus enabling the identification of target sites in which the on-target C is either the only cytosine within the window or is placed at a position with higher predicted editing efficiency than any off-target C within the editing window.
Using improved transfection procedures and better plasmids, biological replicates (n=3) were used to install the four HF mutations into the Cas9 portion of BE3. The mutations do not significantly effect on-targeting editing with plasmid delivery (
Both lipofection and installing HF mutations were shown to decrease off-target deamination events. For the four sites shown in
Purified proteins HF-BE3 and BE3 were analyzed in vitro for their capabilities to convert C to T residues at different positions in the spacer with the most permissive motif. Both BE3 and HF-BE3 proteins were found to have the same “window” for base editing (
A list of the disease targets is given in Table 8. The base to be edited in Table 8 is indicated in bold and underlined.
Several base editing constructs, including BE3, BE4-pmCDA1, BE4-hAID, BE4-3G, BE4-N, BE4-SSB, BE4-(GGS)3, BE4-XTEN, BE4-32aa, BE4-2×UGI, and BE4 were tested for their ability to edit a cytosine (C) residue within different target sequences (i.e., EMX1, FANCF, HEK2, HEK3, HEK4, and RNF2). For example, it was tested whether these constructs were capable of producing a C to T mutation. Schematic representations of the base editing constructs are shown in
The following amino acid sequences were used in the base editing constructs of this example:
UGI:
rAPOBEC1:
pmCDA1:
hAID:
hAPOBEC3G:
SSB (Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein):
Linker Sequences:
XTEN:
32aa:
SGGS:
(GGS)3:
The amino acid sequences of the constructs shown in
BE3:
BE4-pmCDA1:
BE4-hAID:
BE4-3G:
BE4-N:
BE4-SSB:
BE4-(GGS)3:
BE4-XTEN:
BE4-32aa:
BE4-2XUGI:
BE4:
The ability of the base editing constructs of
The C to non-T editing observed is likely due to UDG (uracil DNA glycosylase). For example, once the C is converted to the uracil intermediate, UDG can convert it to an abasic site. This abasic site is then processed by other endogenous enzymes and ultimately leads to indels or other bases (such as G or A) replacing the C. We have shown that in UDG knock-out cell lines show increased C to T editing with little to no indels at all.
As discussed above, nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins (napDNAbp) of any of the fusion proteins provided herein may be a Cpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the Cpf1 protein is a Cpf1 nickase (nCpf1). Cpf1 nickases, for example, a Cpf1 nickase (R1225A in AsCpf1; and R1138A in LbCpf1) that cleaves the non-target strand have been described in Yamano et al., “Crystal structure of Cpf1 in complex with guide RNA and target DNA.” Cell (165) 2016, p. 949-962; the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference. However, a nickase (e.g., a Cpf1 nickase of a base editor protein) that cleaves the target strand is expected to improve base editing efficiency.
A fluorescent labeled DNA was used to identify a Cpf1 mutant that preferentially nicks the target strand, rather than the non-target strand (see
Establishing a Base Editing Window with AsCp1-BE3
Base editing proteins (e.g., BE3 (SpCas9-BE3)) having LbCpf1(R836A) or AsCpf1(R912A) as the napDNAbp were shown to edit bases at low efficiency (0.1% to 0.4%). A base editor with a AsCpf1 (R912A) napDNAbp more efficiently mutated a target C at EMX1, FANCF, HEK3 and HEK4 sites. The editing window of the constructs tested appears to be from the 7th base to the 11th base. The numbers are consistent with the trend with BE3 having highest numbers and self-defeating BE (i.e., APOBEC-AsCpf1(R1225A)-UGI, which cleaves the non-target strand) having lower ones. See
Optimization of Cpf1-BE (Linkers)
Indel data suggests that Cpf1 can access DNA target sites. Thus, optimization of Cpf1 base editing proteins has focused on specific APOBEC proteins, linkers, and/or UGI domains. The construct shown in
Optimization of Cpf1-BE (Orientations)
Cas9 has a stretch of amino acids between the C and N termini (see red square,
Optimization of Cpf1-BE (Internal Truncation)
There is no known crystal structure of Cpf1 in which the non-target strand is resolved (see
To test the whether the removal of two, four or six residues improves base editing efficiency, experiments were conducted with a base editor having a AsCpf1(R912A) napDNAbp, using HEK3 as the target site. Editing levels increase to approximately 2.6%—a 6-fold increase from control levels when T663 and D665 are deleted (see Table 7, below). The construct used in this experiment was APOBEC-XTEN-AsCpf1(R912A)-SGGS-UGI
Base editing, a genome editing approach that enables the programmable conversion of one base pair into another without double-stranded DNA cleavage, excess stochastic insertions and deletions, or dependence on homology-directed repair was developed. The application of base editing is limited by off-target activity and reliance on intracellular DNA delivery. Here two advances are described that address these limitations. First, off-target base editing has been reduced by installing mutations into the third-generation base editor (BE3) to generate a high-fidelity base editor (HF-BE3). Next, BE3 and HF-BE3 are purified and delivered as ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes into mammalian cells, establishing DNA-free base editing. RNP delivery of BE3 confers higher specificity even than plasmid transfection of HF-BE3, while maintaining comparable on-target editing levels. Finally, these advances are applied to deliver BE3 RNPs into both zebrafish embryos and the inner ear of live mice to achieve specific, DNA-free base editing in vivo.
Introduction
Traditional genome editing agents introduce double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) as the first step of genome editing1-4. Cells respond to DSBs primarily through non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), resulting in stochastic insertions or deletions (indels) at the cleavage site1,5. To generate more precise changes in genomic DNA, homology-directed repair (HDR) can be used to replace the genomic DNA surrounding the cleavage site with that of an exogenously supplied DNA donor template6-8. Unfortunately, HDR is typically accompanied by an excess of indels resulting from competing NHEJ and is limited primarily to mitotic cells. In addition, most genome editing methods rely on delivery of exogenous plasmid or viral DNA into mammalian cells followed by intracellular expression of the agent9-12. These delivery methods result in continuous, uncontrolled Cas9 and sgRNA expression even after the on-target locus has been edited, increasing the opportunity for genome editing at off-target loci1,13.
Base editing, a different approach to genome editing that enables the direct, programmable, targeted conversion of a C:G base pair to a T:A base pair, was recently described3,14. The third-generation base editor, BE3, contains in a single protein (i) a catalytically impaired Cas9 that opens a small single-stranded DNA bubble at a guide RNA-specified locus, (ii) a tethered single-strand-specific cytidine deaminase that converts C to U within a window of approximately five nucleotides in the single-stranded DNA bubble, (iii) a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) that inhibits base excision repair, thereby improving the efficiency and product selectivity of base editing, and (iv) nickase activity to manipulate cellular mismatch repair into replacing the G-containing DNA strand. The combination of these components enables efficient and permanent C to T (or G to A) conversion in mammalian cells with minimal indel formation. Since previously reported14, other researchers have confirmed the ability of this strategy and related approaches to facilitate Cas9-directed C to T conversion in mammalian cells15-17 and in plants18.
Here, two advances that greatly improve the DNA specificity of base editing and that allow base editing in vitro and in vivo without supplying exogenous DNA, which has been associated with a risk of recombination with the host genome and cytotoxicity, are described18,19. First, a mutant form of BE3 incorporating mutations known to decrease the DNA affinity of Cas920 that reduces off-target editing events with only a modest decrease in on-target editing activity is engineered. Next, it is revealed that lipid-mediated delivery of base editor proteins complexed with guide RNA results in even larger specificity enhancements with no apparent reduction in on-target base editing compared to plasmid DNA delivery. Delivery of base editors as RNPs typically reduces off-target editing to below measurable levels, even for a notoriously promiscuous guide RNA that targets a highly repetitive genomic DNA sequence, in cultured human and mouse cells. These advances enable highly specific, DNA-free in vivo base editing in mice and zebrafish to be demonstrated.
Results
Engineering a High-Fidelity Base Editor
Cas9 nucleases and their associated fusion constructs have been shown to bind and cleave DNA at off-target genomic loci21-24. Joung and coworkers developed HF-Cas9, a high-fidelity SpCas9 variant containing four point mutations (N497A, R661A, Q695A, Q926A) that were designed to eliminate non-specific interactions between Cas9 and the phosphate backbone of the DNA target strand (
Plasmids encoding BE3 and HF-BE3 as His6-tagged proteins were overexpressed in E. coli and purified first by nickel affinity chromatography and then by cation exchange chromatography (
The purified base editor proteins were used to compare base editing efficiency and the width of the editing window of HF-BE3 and BE3 biochemically. In vitro C to U conversion efficiencies were measured in a synthetic dsDNA 79-mer with a protospacer comprised of TC repeats. The target dsDNA (250 nM) was incubated with BE3:sgRNA or HF-BE3:sgRNA (2 μM) for 30 min at 37° C. After incubation, the edited DNA was amplified using a uracil-tolerant polymerase and sequenced by high-throughput DNA sequencing (HTS). Comparable editing efficiencies and activity window widths were observed for HF-BE3 and BE3 in vitro (FIG. 125B). These findings indicate that introduction of the high-fidelity mutations into BE3 does not compromise inherent on-target base editing efficiency or change the width of the editing window of the resulting HF-BE3 protein in vitro.
HF-BE3 Enhances Editing Specificity Following DNA Transfection
Next, base editing efficiencies, specificities, and editing window widths of BE3 and HF-BE3 were compared in mammalian cells following plasmid DNA transfection. Four well-studied endogenous genomic loci (HEK293 site 3, FANCF, EMX1 and VEGFA site 2) were chosen to interrogate on- and off-target base editing in mammalian cells14,24. VEGFA site 2 is highly repetitive, containing 14 Cs out of 20 protospacer nucleotides, and is associated with notoriously high rate of known off-target genome editing20,22,24,26. This site was chosen to be included because it poses a formidable specificity challenge. In contrast with most nuclease-based genome editing applications, base editing relies on the precise location of the protospacer to place the target nucleotide within the editing window and usually little or no flexibility in the choice of guide RNA is available. Therefore, the development of base editors with enhanced specificities even for highly repetitive, promiscuous sgRNA targets is crucial3, 14.
The on-target locus and known off-target loci were amplified by PCR and analyzed by HTS following plasmid transfection24 with each of the four base editor:sgRNA pairs. On-target editing in HEK293T cells for these four endogenous genomic loci was slightly reduced by introduction of the HF mutations; editing averaged 29±5% with BE3, and 21±3% (mean±s.e.m. for n=3 biological replicates) for HF-BE3 (
For each of the three standard, non-repetitive target sites (HEK293 site 3, FANCF, and EMX1), the three most frequently modified off-target loci that contain a C within the editing window from the off-target loci previously reported to be modified from treatment with Cas9 and the same guide RNA were examined (Table 15)24. When cells were transfected with BE3 plasmid, C→T conversion across the nine most frequently modified Cas9 off-target loci for HEK293 site 3, FANCF, and EMX1 averaged 1.1±0.3% (
CACC4C5AGACTGAGCACGTGCTGG
AGCTC5AGACTGAGCAAGTGAGGG
GG
CTAC4C5C6C7TC9C10ACCCCGCCTCCG
G
G
GG
GG
G
G
G
To characterize HF-BE3 specificity on an extremely challenging site, BE3 and HF-BE3 off-target activity when targeting the highly repetitive VEGFA site 2 locus was compared. BE3 treatment lead to an average of 15±5% editing of cytosines located in the activity windows of the four tested off-target sites associated with this sgRNA (all average values quoted in this paragraph represent mean±s.d. for n 3 biological replicates). In contrast, HF-BE3 lead to a 3-fold reduction in absolute off-target editing (5.0±2.3%) at the same off-target sites (
In addition to considering the differences between absolute editing at off-target loci, the on-target:off-target editing specificity ratio was also calculated by dividing the observed on-target efficiency by the off-target efficiency (
RNP Delivery of BE3 Enables DNA-Free Base Editing
Next, the ability of BE3 in DNA-free, RNP form to mediate base editing when directly delivered into cultured human cells was studied. It has recently been established that cationic lipid reagents can potently deliver negatively charged proteins or protein:nucleic acid complexes into mammalian cells including ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes and that RNP delivery can substantially reduce off-target genome editing27-29
The commercially available cationic lipid LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent was combined with either purified BE3 protein or HF-BE3 protein after pre-complexation with a guide RNA targeting the EMX1, HEK293 site 3, FANCF, or VEGFA site 2 locus and the resulting lipid:RNP complexes were incubated with HEK293T cells. After 72 h, genomic DNA was harvested and on-target and off-target base editing was analyzed by high-throughput DNA sequencing. As with all Cas9-based technologies, substantial variations were observed in editing efficiency at different genomic loci (
In contrast, protein delivery of HF-BE3 reduced on-target editing compared to protein delivery of BE3 at the four genomic loci studied (average editing efficiency of 13±3% vs. 26±4%, respectively; mean±s.e.m. for n=3 biological replicates;
RNP Delivery of Base Editors Greatly Enhances DNA Specificity
Importantly, while RNP delivery of BE3 and HF-BE3 led to substantial on-target base editing, no instances of measurable base editing (<0.025%) were observed at any of the nine tested off-target loci associated with EMX1, FANCF and HEK293 site 3, (
Protein delivery of either BE3 or HF-BE3 also resulted in greatly improved base editing specificity at the highly promiscuous VEGFA site 2 locus compared to plasmid delivery of either BE3 or HF-BE3 (compare
Neither introduction of the HF mutations nor delivery method substantially altered the low indel rates associated with base editing. Indel frequencies at all on-target loci across all treatment conditions in this study remained low (typically ≤5%;
Taken together, these results establish that protein delivery of base editors maintains on-target base editing efficiency and greatly enhances editing specificity relative to delivery of plasmid DNA.
RNP Delivery Decouples On- and Off-Target Editing
Given the striking enhancement of base editing specificity associated with protein delivery of BE3, it was investigated if this improvement was a result of a reduction in the total quantity of active genome editing agent delivered into the cell. Using the sgRNA targeting EMX1, a dose response study for plasmid (
Linear regression analysis was performed to assess the relationship between on- and off-target editing for plasmid and protein delivery. For plasmid delivery, off-target editing was closely associated with on-target editing rates (R2=0.95, p=0.0012 for non-zero slope, F-test), whereas there was no significant association between off-target and on-target editing using protein delivery (R2=0.078, p=0.59 for non-zero slope, F-test).
These data indicate that protein delivery of base editors offers an inherent specificity advantage that is independent of dosage. Together with the previous observations29,34, these findings support a model in which the higher DNA specificity of base editing from protein delivery compared to DNA delivery arises from the ability of protein delivery to avoid extended exposure of the genome to base editors, thereby minimizing the opportunity of base editors to process off-target loci after on-target loci have already been modified.
DNA-Free Base Editing in Zebrafish and Mice
The above observations suggested the promise of protein delivery of BE3 to maintain on-target base editing while eliminating detectable off-target base editing. It was therefore tested whether protein delivery of BE3 could be used to generate specific point mutations in zebrafish by injecting BE3:sgRNA complexes targeting the tyrosinase locus into fertilized zebrafish embryos. Genomic DNA was harvested from the resultant zebrafish larvae 4 days post-injection and measured base editing and indel frequencies by high-throughput sequencing (
Finally, these developments were applied to achieve DNA-free, high-specificity base editing in mice. To maximize the likelihood of observing on- and off-target base editing in vivo, the highly repetitive sgRNA targeting VEGFA site 2 was used; conveniently, the murine and human genomes are identical at this target site.
Using cultured murine NIH/3T3 cells, it was confirmed that BE3 protein delivery yielded efficient on-target base editing at this locus 34±11% (
TCCCCCCTCCACCCCACCTCCGG
TGCCCACCTCACCCCGCCTCTGG
CACCCCCCTCACCCCGCCTCAGG
To establish DNA-free base editing in mice, BE3:sgRNA complexes were combined with LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent (
The percentage of cochlear cells containing target C→T conversion (
Finally, off-target editing following intracochlear injection of BE3:sgRNA:lipid complexes was analyzed. Analysis of all four predicted off-target loci, including the confirmed off-target sites CFD locus 1 and CFD locus 4, in genomic DNA from the cochlear tissue of mice injected with the BE3:VEGFA site 2 sgRNA:lipid complex revealed no detectable C→T conversion or indel formation above that observed in untreated controls samples for any of the off-target loci tested (
Together, these in vivo base editing results establish a virus-free, DNA-free strategy for the precise conversion of individual nucleotides in the genomic DNA of animals with high DNA sequence specificity.
The strategies developed and implemented in this study expand the utility and applicability of base editing by removing or reducing off-target base editing and establishing a DNA-free delivery method that supports in vivo base editing. Protein delivery improves base editing specificity in human and murine cells compared with plasmid delivery of the same constructs (
A high-fidelity base editor was generated by installing into BE3 mutations known to enhance the DNA specificity of Cas920. The installation of these mutations into Cas9 was reported to result in undetectable indel formation at off target loci associated with non-repetitive sgRNAs, including the EMX1 locus interrogated here (
In a second attempt to reduce off-target base editing, it was demonstrated that RNP delivery of base editors leads to decoupling of on- and off-target editing (
RNP delivery of Cas9 coupled with delivery of a donor DNA template has previously been used to perform HDR-based genome editing in mammalian cells. These approaches, however, remain limited by low efficiency, cell-state dependence, and indel formation efficiencies typically exceeding those of desired HDR outcomes, especially for point mutation correction29,30,32,35 DNA-free base editing, in contrast, generates a substantial excess of edited product relative to stochastic indels both in vivo and in cells (
Methods
Cloning of Plasmids
The plasmids in this study were generated by USER cloning. Phusion U Hot Start polymerase (Thermo Fisher) was used to install point mutations and construct protein expression plasmids from previously reported constructs36. Protein sequences are listed in the Supplementary Information, and plasmids for expression of BE3 and HF-BE3 are available from Addgene.
Expression and Purification of BE3 and HF-BE3
BL21 Star (DE3)-competent E. coli cells were transformed with plasmids encoding the bacterial codon optimized base editors with a His6 N-terminal purification tag. A single colony was grown overnight in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth containing 50 μg mL−1 kanamycin at 37° C. The cells were diluted 1:200 into 2 L of the same media and grown at 37° C. until OD600=0.70-0.75. The cultures were incubated on ice for 60 min and protein expression was induced with 0.5 mM isopropyl-β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG, GoldBio). Expression was sustained for 14-16 h with shaking at 18° C. The subsequent purification steps were carried out at 4° C. Cells were collected by centrifugation at 6,000 g for 20 min and resuspended in cell collection buffer (100 mM tris(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane (Tris)-HCl, pH 8.0, 1 M NaCl, 20% glycerol, 5 mM tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP; GoldBio), 0.4 mM phenylmethane sulfonyl fluoride (PMSF; Sigma Aldrich) and 1 cOmplete, EDTA-free protease inhibitor pellet (Roche) per 50 mL buffer used). Cells were lysed by sonication (6 min total, 3 s on, 3 s off) and the lysate cleared by centrifugation at 25,000 g (20 min).
The cleared lysate was incubated with His-Pur nickel nitriloacetic acid (nickel-NTA) resin (1 mL resin per litre of culture, Thermo Fisher) with rotation at 4° C. for 60-90 min. The resin was washed with 20 column volumes of cell collection buffer before bound protein was eluted with elution buffer ((100 mM tris(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane (Tris)-HCl, pH 8.0, 0.5 M NaCl, 20% glycerol, 5 mM tris (2-carboxyethyl) phosphine (TCEP; GoldBio), 200 mM imidazole). The resulting protein fraction was further purified on a 5 mL Hi-Trap HP SP (GE Healthcare) cation exchange column using an Akta Pure FPLC. Protein-containing fractions were concentrated using a column with a 100,000 kDa cutoff (Millipore) centrifuged at 3,000 g and the concentrated solution was sterile filtered through an 0.22 μm PVDF membrane (Millipore).
After sterile filtration, proteins were quantified with Reducing Agent Compatible Bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay (Pierce Biotechnology), snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in aliquots at −80° C. Sequences of expressed proteins are listed in Supplementary Note 2.
In Vitro Transcription of sgRNA
Linear DNA fragments containing the T7 RNA polymerase promoter sequence upstream of the desired 20 bp sgRNA protospacer and the sgRNA backbone were generated by PCR (Q5 Hot Start MasterMix, New England Biolabs) using primers as listed in the Supplementary Information and concentrated on minelute columns (Qiagen). sgRNA was transcribed with the HiScribe T7 High Yield RNA Synthesis Kit (New England Biolabs) at 16° C. for 14-16 h with 1 μg of linear template per 20 μL reaction. sgRNA was purified using the MEGAClear Transcription Clean Up Kit (Thermo Fisher), according to the manufacturer's instructions. Purified sgRNAs were stored in aliquots at −80° C.
In Vitro Deamination Assays
Sequences of DNA oligonucleotides used as templates for the in vitro deamination assay are shown in Supplementary Note 3. All oligonucleotides were purchased from IDT. Single-stranded oligonucleotides synthesized with complementary sequences were combined (5 μL of a 100 μM solution) in Tris buffer pH 8.0 and annealed by heating to 95° C. for 5 min, followed by a gradual cooling to 37° C. at a rate of 0.1° C. second−1 to generate 79 base pair (bp) dsDNA substrates. Freshly thawed base-editor proteins (2 μM final concentration in a 10 μL reaction volume) were complexed with the indicated sgRNA (2.2 μM final concentration) in Reaction Buffer (20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 150 mM KCl, 0.5 mM DTT, 0.1 mM EDTA, 10 mM MgCl2)37 for five minutes at room temperature. Annealed dsDNA substrates were then added to a final concentration of 250 nM. The reaction proceeded for 30 min at 37° C. before protein denaturation was performed by heating for 5 min at 99° C. Addition of PB buffer (Qiagen, 100 μL) and isopropanol (25 μL) ensured protein was dissociated from the substrate DNA. DNA was purified with Minelute columns (Qiagen) and the resulting products amplified to the top of the linear range with 15 cycles of qPCR (12 ng input DNA, 50 μL reaction volume) using a U-tolerant polymerase (Phusion U Hot Start, ThermoFisher) and primers as listed in the Supplementary Information. Amplified DNA was purified using RapidTip2 (Diffinity Genomics) and barcoded with a second round of PCR (8 cycles, 5 ng input) before being prepared for sequencing on an Illumina MiSeq as described below.
Purification and Sequencing of Genomic DNA
Genomic DNA was isolated using Agencourt DNAdvance Genomic DNA Isolation Kit (Beckman Coulter) according to the manufacturer's instructions. For the first PCR, DNA was amplified to the top of the linear range using Q5 Hot Start DNA Polymerase (NEB), according to the manufacturer's instructions but with the addition of 3% DMSO and SYBR Gold Nucleic Acid Stain (Thermo Fisher). For all amplicons, the PCR protocol used was an initial heating step of 2 min at 98° C. followed by an optimized number of amplification cycles (12 s at 98° C., 25 s at 61° C., 30 s at 72° C.). For zebrafish and for transfected cell samples, 30 ng of input DNA was used in a 50 μL reaction, for cochlear samples 20 ng was used in a 25 μL reaction. qPCR was performed to determine the optimal cycle number for each amplicon. Amplified DNA was purified using RapidTip2 (Diffinity Genomics) and barcoded with a further PCR (8 cycles, 5 ng input). The unique forward and reverse primers used in the first-round PCR contained a constant region 5′ to the annealing region, (forward: 5′-ACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCTNNNN-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 502), reverse: 5′-TGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT-3′(SEQ ID NO: 503)) which facilitated binding of barcoding primers to amplified DNA for a second-round PCR.
The second-round PCR used primers with three regions: a 5′ constant region allowing the amplicon to bind to the Illumina flow cell (italicized), an 8-base barcoding region (X), and a 3′ constant region allowing the barcoding primer to bind to the first-round PCR amplicon (in bold). Examples of primer sequences are:
CACTCTTTCCCTACACGAC-3′
GAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTC-3′
Sequencing adapters and dual-barcoding sequences are based on the TruSeq Indexing Adapters (Illumina). Barcoded samples were pooled and purified by gel extraction (Qiagen), and then purified using Ampure beads (Beckman Coulter) before quantification using the Qubit dsDNA HS Kit (Thermo Fisher) and qPCR (KAPA BioSystems) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Sequencing of pooled samples was performed using a single-end read from 180-250 bases (depending on the amplicon size) on the MiSeq (Illumina) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Sequences of oligonucleotides used for PCR amplification are shown in Supplementary Note 3. All oligonucleotides were obtained from IDT. The optimized number of PCR cycles for each amplicon in this study are as follows: VEGFA site 2 human genomic DNA (annealing temperature was 61° C. for 25 seconds for all extension steps): on-target: 29 cycles, off-target #1: 32 cycles, off-target #2: 28 cycles, off-target #3: 27 cycles, off-target #4: 27 cycles, VEGFA site 2 murine genomic DNA: on-target: 31 cycles, off-targets #1, #2, #3 and #4: 31 cycles. HEK293 site 3: off-targets #1: 29 cycles, off-target #2: 28 cycles, off-target #3: 28 cycles. FANCF off-target #1: 29 cycles, off-target #2: 28 cycles, off-target 3: 28 cycles. EMX1 off-targets #1, #2 and #3: 28 cycles. TYR1, TYR2 and TYR3 sgRNAs for amplification of zebrafish DNA: 32 cycles. Optimized protocols for the on-target amplification of the EMX1, FANCF, and HEK293 site 3 loci were followed as previously described14.
Analysis and Alignment of Genomic DNA Sequencing Reads
Sequencing reads were analyzed as previously described14. In brief, sequencing reads were demultiplexed using MiSeq Reporter (Illumina), and individual FASTQ files were analyzed with a previously reported custom Matlab script14. Reads were aligned to the reference sequence using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. Base calls with Q-scores below 30 were replaced with a placeholder nucleotide (N). This quality threshold results in nucleotide frequencies with an expected error rate of 1 in 1,000. Indel frequencies were quantified with a previously published custom Matlab script which counts indels which occurring in a 30-base window around the nCas9 cleavage site and are a minimum of 2-base insertions or deletions14. Indels were defined as detectable if there was a significant difference (Student's two-tailed t-test, p<0.05) between indel formation in the treated sample and untreated control.
For one of the sequenced amplicons, CFD off-target #3, associated with VEGFA site 2 sgRNA in the murine genome, it was not possible to accurately measure indel formation. The protospacer at this locus is directly preceded by 12 guanine bases, which makes PCR and high-throughput sequencing of this site prone to random insertion or deletions; deletion rates as high as 20% of sequencing reads were observed in multiple independent untreated control samples. Since no significant base editing was detected at this off-target locus under any treatment conditions (
A phred.II Q30 score corresponds to an estimated 99.9% accuracy in basecalling38. A 0.1% probability of incorrect base calling at a given position corresponds to a lower limit for base calling of 0.1/4=0.025% if it is assumed base call errors are randomly distributed across the four bases. C→T editing percentages that fell beneath this threshold were classified as undetectable. Spontaneous deamination39 or polymerase error during PCR can also introduce artefactual C→T edits. In order to distinguish base editor-induced C→T editing from artefactual C+T editing rates, untreated control cells were sequenced for each amplicon and it was calculated whether the C→T editing under a particular condition was statistically significant using the Student's two-tailed t-test with p<0.05 as the threshold. Off-target sites with statistically significant editing rates >0.025% were considered measureable. The number of aligned and quality filtered reads for each sample has been included in Table 17.
Statistical Analyses of Genomic DNA Sequence Alignments
Unless otherwise noted, mean values cited throughout the main text are representative of n≥3 independent biological replicates and the mean±standard deviation has been stated.
The statistical analysis of the high-throughput sequencing data displayed in
For
To account for sgRNA-dependent differences in base editing activity, the a base editing:indel ratio was calculated (
Data Analysis of In Vitro Edited DNA
Sequencing reads were automatically demultiplexed using MiSeq Reporter (Illumina.). Quality filtering was performed using the online package usegalaxy.org40. Individual bases with an Illumina quality score less than or equal to 30 were converted to the placeholder nucleotide ‘N’ using FASTQ Groomer followed by FASTA Masker41. The resulting quality-filtered FASTQ files were subsequently analysed with a custom python script provided in Supplementary Note 1. Sequencing reads were scanned for exact matches to two 14-base sequences that flank both sides of the target DNA sequence. If no exact matches were found, the read was excluded from analysis. If both 14-base sequences were located and the length of the sequence between them was equal to the expected protospacer length (20 bases), the protospacer sequence found between the flanking regions was saved and the bases called by high-throughput sequencing at each site within the protospacer were tallied.
Cell Culture
Both HEK293T (ATCC CRL-3216) and NIH/3T3 (ATCC CRL-1658) were maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium plus GlutaMax (ThermoFisher) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS), at 37° C. with 5% CO2. Cells were obtained from ATCC and were authenticated and verified to be free of mycoplasma by ATCC upon purchase.
Plasmid Transfection of Base Editors into HEK293T Cells
HEK293T cells were seeded on 48-well collagen-coated BioCoat plates (Corning) in antibiotic free medium and transfected at approximately 70% confluency. Unless otherwise noted, 750 ng of BE and 250 ng of sgRNA expression plasmids were transfected using 1.5 μl of LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent (Thermo Fisher) per well according to the manufacturer's protocol.
Protein Transfection of Base Editors into HEK293T Cells
HEK293T cells were seeded on 48-well collagen-coated BioCoat plates (Corning) in 250 μL antibiotic free medium and transfected at approximately 70% confluency. Base editor protein and was incubated with 1.1× molar excess of the necessary sgRNA at room temperature for 5 min. The complex was then incubated with 1.5 μL LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent (Thermo Fisher) and transfected according to the manufacturer's protocol for plasmid delivery. Unless otherwise noted, BE protein was added to a final concentration of 200 nM (based on a total well volume of 275 μL).
Plasmid Transfection of Base Editors into NIH/3T3 Cells
NIH/3T3 cells were seeded on 48-well collagen-coated BioCoat plates (Corning) in antibiotic-free DMEM medium and transfected at approximately 75% confluency. Unless otherwise noted, 600 ng of BE and 200 ng of sgRNA expression plasmids were transfected using 1.4 μL of LIPOFECTAMINE® 3000 transfection reagent with 1 μL of P3000 reagent (Thermo Fisher) per well according to the manufacturer's protocol.
Protein Transfection of Base Editors into NIH/3T3 Cells
NIH/3T3 cells were seeded on 48-well collagen-coated BioCoat plates (Corning) in antibiotic free DMEM medium and transfected at approximately 75% confluency. Base editor proteins were incubated with 1.1-fold molar excess of the indicated sgRNA at 25° C. for 5 min. The complex was then incubated with 1.4 μL LIPOFECTAMINE® 3000 transfection reagent (Thermo Fisher) and transfected according to the manufacturer's protocol for plasmid delivery. P3000 reagent was not used because its addition lead to protein precipitation and a reduction in base editing efficiency. Unless otherwise noted, BE protein was added to a final concentration of 400 nM (based on a total well volume of 275 μL).
Intracochlear Delivery of BE3 Protein:Guide RNA Encapsulated in Cationic Lipid
All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and the Use Committee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Intracochlear delivery was performed in P1-P2 mice of a mixed genetic background as described previously42. Mice were anesthetized by lowering body temperature before the surgical procedure. A postauricular incision was made near the right ear, and the bulla was lifted to expose the cochlea. BE3 protein (57.7 μM) was pre-complexed with the sgRNA (100 μM) in a 1:1.1 molar ratio and then mixed with LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent (Thermo Fisher) in a 1:1 volumetric ratio. The resulting solution (1.2-1.5 μL) was injected with a glass pipette (end diameter, 5 μm) through the cochlear capsule into scala media at the cochlear basal turn that attached to a nanoliter micropump (WPI, UMP3+Micro4+NanoFil) at the rate of 250 nL min−1. After injection, the incision was closed and the mice were brought onto a heating pad to recover. After 3-4 days, the cochlea of mouse was dissected into the organ of Corti, stria vascularis, and modiolus. Each tissue was further micro-dissected into between 5 and 7 separate pieces and DNA extraction was performed separately for each sample, followed by high-throughput sequencing as described above. The data presented in
Microinjection of BE3 Protein:Guide RNA into Zebrafish Embryo
Zebrafish (Tuebingen strain) were maintained under standard conditions in compliance with internal regulatory review at Boston Children's Hospital. One-cell stage zebrafish embryos were injected with approximately 2 nL of BE3 protein pre-complexed with the appropriate sgRNA or an unrelated sgRNA control in a 1:1 molar ratio (4.5 μM final concentration). Four days post-fertilization, DNA was extracted from larvae as previously described43 in 50 mM NaOH for 30 minutes at 95° C. and the resulting solution was neutralized with Tris-HCl. Genomic DNA was quantified, amplified by PCR, and sequenced as described above.
Protein Gel Analyses
All protein gels shown were precast 4-12% polyacrylamide Bis-Tris Plus (Thermo Fisher). They were run in MOPS buffer (Thermo Fisher) at 180 V for 50 min. Samples were prepared for loading by heating to 99° C. in 100 mM DTT and 1× lithium dodecyl sulfate (LDS) Sample Buffer for denaturation (Thermo Fisher) for 10 min. Gels were stained using Instant Blue Protein Stain (Expedion) according to manufacturer's instructions.
For cell lysate analysis, 2 mL of post-induction overnight culture was pelleted at 15,000 g before lysis in 100 μL B-PER (Thermo Fisher) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Data Availability
High-throughput sequencing data that support the findings of this study have been deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive database under Accession Number SRP097884. Plasmids encoding HF-BE3 and BE3 for protein expression, as well as HF-BE3 for mammalian expression, are available from Addgene with Accession IDs 87439 (pCMV-HF-BE3), 87438 (pET42b-HF-BE3), 87437 (pET42b-BE3).
Supplementary Table 1. Protospacer and PAM Sequences for the Zebrafish Genomic Loci Studied in this Work.
Base editing is the programmable conversion of target C:G base pairs to T:A base pairs without inducing double-stranded DNA breaks or requiring homology-directed repair using engineered fusions of Cas9 variants and cytidine deaminases (1). The third-generation base editor (BE3) and related technologies have been successfully used by many researchers in a wide range of organisms (2-13). The product distribution of base editing—the frequency with which the target C:G base pair is converted to mixtures of undesired byproducts, along with the desired T:A product-varies in a target site-dependent manner (2, 3, 6-8). Here we characterize determinants of base editing outcomes in human cells, and establish that the formation of undesired products is dependent on uracil N-glycosylase (UNG), and is more likely to occur at target sites containing only a single C within the base editing activity window. The constructs CDA1-BE3 and AID-BE3, which use cytidine deaminase homologs that increase base editing efficiency for some sequences, were engineered. Additionally, a fourth-generation S. pyogenes Cas9-derived base editor (BE4) that more efficiently blocks access of UNG to base-edited intermediates was also engineered. Compared with BE3, BE4 increases by approximately 50% the efficiency of C:G to T:A base editing, while halving the frequency of undesired byproducts. These improvements were also applied to yield a S. aureus Cas9-derived BE4 (SaBE4), which is substantially smaller than BE4 and has an alternative targeting scope.
Introduction
Traditional genome editing methods introduce a double-stranded DNA break (DSB) at a genomic target locus (14). The cellular response to a DSB lesion primarily proceeds through nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) and related processes (15). Although NHEJ usually rejoins the two ends flanking the DSB, under typical genome editing conditions DSBs are continuously reintroduced, eventually resulting in the accumulation of insertions and deletions (indels) or translocations at the site of the DSB and disruption of the corresponding genomic locus (16). Actively dividing cells can also respond to DSBs by initiating homology-directed repair (HDR) in the presence of a donor DNA template containing homology to the regions surrounding the DSB, which allows researchers to more precisely and predictably manipulate genomes than is possible through NHEJ (17). HDR-dependent genome editing is limited by low efficiency arising from competition with NHEJ outcomes, and from the dependence of HDR on mitosis (18).
The development of base editing, which enables the direct, irreversible conversion of a C:G base pair to a T:A base pair in a programmable manner without requiring HDR or the introduction of a DSB, has been reported (1). Base editors consist of a single-stranded DNA-specific cytidine deaminase enzyme tethered to a catalytically impaired Cas9 protein and a base excision repair inhibitor (1, 4, 9, 10). The Cas9 variant binds a genomic locus of interest, programmed by a corresponding guide RNA. Formation of the protein:RNA:DNA ternary “R-loop” complex (19) exposes a small (˜5-nt) window of single-stranded DNA that serves as a substrate for the tethered cytidine deaminase enzyme. Any cytidines within this window are hydrolytically deaminated to uracils, resulting in G:U intermediates.
Base excision repair (BER) is the cell's primary response to G:U mismatches and is initiated by excision of the uracil by uracil N-glycosylase (UNG)(20). In an effort to protect the edited G:U intermediate from excision by UNG, an 83-amino acid uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) was fused directly to the C-terminus of catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) (1). To manipulate cellular DNA mismatch repair systems into preferentially replacing the G in the G:U mismatch with an A, the Ala 840 amino acid in dCas9 was reverted to His, enabling the Cas9 protein to nick the DNA strand opposite the newly formed uracil, resulting in much more efficient conversion of the G:U intermediate to desired A:U and A:T products (1). Combining these two engineering efforts resulted in BE3, a single protein consisting of a three-part fusion of the APOBEC1 cytidine deaminase enzyme tethered through a 16-amino acid linker to S. pyogenes dCas9(A840H), which is covalently linked to UGI through a 4-amino acid linker (1). BE3 and related base editors have now been employed for a wide variety of applications including plant genome editing, in vivo mammalian genome editing, targeted mutagenesis, and knockout studies (2-13). The scope of base editing has been recently expanded by reporting BE3 variants with altered PAM requirements (4), narrowed editing windows (4), reduced off-target editing (10), and small molecule dependence (21).
At some loci, base editors such as BE3 give rise to undesired byproducts in which the target C:G base pair is converted into a G:C or A:T base pair, rather than the desired T:A product (2, 3, 6-8). Here we illuminate determinants of base editing product purity, and establish that UNG activity is required for the formation of undesired byproducts. It has been determined that blocking UNG access to the uracil intermediate is especially crucial for target loci in which a single C is within the editing window in order to minimize undesired products. Fourth-generation base editors, BE4 and SaBE4, that perform base editing with higher efficiency and greatly improved product purity compared to previously described base editors including BE3 were engineered.
Results
UNG Activity is Required for Byproduct Formation
Undesired base editing byproducts may arise during base excision repair due to the formation and error-prone resolution of abasic sites within the uracil-containing DNA strand. To determine if the product purity of base editing in cells lacking uracile N-glycosylase (UNG) improves, HAP1 cells (a haploid human cell line) and HAP1 UNG− cells were nucelofected with plasmids encoding BE3 and sgRNAs targeting the EMX1, FANCF, HEK2, HEK3, HEK4, or RNF2 loci (see
Targets with Multiple Editable Cs Exhibit Higher Product Purity
Base editing efficiency by BE3 can be lower for some (but not all) target Cs that are immediately downstream of a G (1), consistent with the known sequence preference of APOBEC1 (22) (
While analyzing these data, it was noted that the product purities of CDA1-BE3 and AID-BE3 were typically higher than those of BE3 at those sites for which CDA1-BE3 and AID-BE3 edited more Cs than BE3 (
The relationship between product purity, the number of edited Cs in individual sequencing reads, and UNG activity was further analyzed. To reveal the fate of base edited DNA in the absence of explicit UNG inhibition, the UGI component of BE3 was removed to generate BE3B. HEK293T cells were transfected with plasmids encoding BE3 or BE3B and sgRNAs targeting the EMX1, FANCF, HEK2, HEK3, HEK4, or RNF2 loci. As expected given the role of UNG in diversifying base editing outcomes established above, the product purities at all target Cs greatly decreased in BE3B-treated DNA compared with BE3-treated DNA, with the fraction of editing products containing non-Ts increasing by an average of 1.8±0.4-fold (
Individual DNA sequencing reads from HEK293T cells treated with sgRNAs targeting the multi-C sites HEK2, HEK3, and RNF2 and either BE3 or BE3B were analyzed. For each site, the primary target C was designated as the nucleotide modified most efficiently. Across all three sites, an average of 80±10% of sequencing reads that contained an undesired C to non-T edit of the primary target C exhibited only that single base editing event (
These data are consistent with a model in which clustered G:U mismatches are processed differently than isolated G:U mismatches, and are more likely to produce clean C-to-T edits. When only a single C-to-T editing event is desired, the above observations suggest that UNG inhibition is critical to minimize undesired byproducts. However, when performing targeted random mutagenesis using dCas9-deaminase fusions, such as with TAM(8) and CRISPR-X(2), the above observations suggest that target sites with only a single editable C will maximize product mixtures.
Optimization of BE3 Architecture for Improved Product Purity
The UGI component of BE3 was replaced with a single-stranded DNA binding (SSB) protein to yield SSB-BE3, such that SSB may block the uracil-containing ssDNA portion of the R-loop from being accessed by UNG. Large decreases in base editing efficiency by SSB-BE3 were observed, with all seven Cs across the four sites exhibiting an average of only 1.9±0.5% C-to-T conversion (
Since the relative positioning of APOBEC, UGI, and UNG during steps that determine base editing outcomes are not known, UGI was relocated to the N-terminus of BE3 (N-UGI-BE3) in an effort to improve UNG inhibition. Moving UGI to the N-terminus of BE3 resulted in an average decrease in C-to-T editing percentages across all seven tested target Cs of 2.3±0.6-fold compared to BE3 (
In contrast, appending an additional copy of UGI to the C-terminus of BE3 (BE3-2×UGI) resulted in large increases in product purities relative to BE3 and C-to-T editing percentages comparable to those of BE3. Non-T editing products decreased an average of 2.2±0.8-fold across the four loci tested (
Because the above experiments also revealed the sensitivity of base editing outcomes to the architecture of the components, next we optimized the linkers between BE3 components to further increase product purities and editing efficiencies. We varied the rAPOBEC1-dCas9(A840H) linker from 16 amino acids (BE3) to 32 amino acids (BE3C) and the dCas9(A840H)-UGI linker from 4 (BE3) to 9 (BE3D) to 16 amino acids (BE3E,
BE4, a C:G to T:a Base Editor with Enhanced Efficiency and Product Purity
The base editor construct BE4 was engineered by combining all three improvements—extending the rAPOBEC1-dCas9 linker to 32 amino acids, extending the dCas9-UGI linker to 9 amino acids, and appending a second copy of UGI to the C-terminus of the construct with another 9-amino acid linker. Target-AID, an alternative base editor construct reported by Nishida et. al. (9), was also cloned into the same plasmid backbone as BE4. HEK293T cells were transfected with plasmids encoding BE3, BE4, or Target-AID and sgRNAs targeting the EMX1, FANCF, HEK2, HEK3, HEK4, or RNF2 loci. Three days post transfection, genomic DNA was extracted and the target loci were amplified by PCR and analyzed by HTS. An average increase in C-to-T editing efficiencies of 1.5±0.3-fold across all twelve edited Cs for BE4 relative to BE3 was observed (
In addition to greater C-to-T editing efficiency, BE4 also exhibited substantially improved product purities relative to BE3 at all genomic loci tested, with an average decrease in non-T product formation of 2.3±0.3-fold (
The BE4 improvements were integrated with S. aureus Cas9 (26) to generate SaBE4, which replaces the S. pyogenes dCas9(A840H) with the smaller S. aureus dCas9(A580N) and can access different targets due to its alternative PAM requirements. HEK293T cells were transfected with plasmids encoding SaBE3 (4) or SaBE4 and sgRNAs targeting the FANCF, HEK3, or HEK4 loci. Consistent with the results comparing BE4 and BE3, we observed an average increase in C-to-T editing efficiencies of 1.4±0.2-fold across all ten edited Cs for SaBE4 relative to SaBE3 (
Materials and Methods
Cloning of Plasmids
All plasmids in this study were generated by USER cloning using Phusion U Hot Start polymerase (Thermo Fisher). Deaminase and SSB genes were synthesized as gBlocks Gene Fragments (Integrated DNA Technologies), and Target-AID was obtained from Addgene (plasmid #79620). Protein sequences are listed in the Supplementary Notes.
Cell Culture
HEK293T (ATCC CRL-3216) cells were maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium plus GlutaMax (ThermoFisher) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS), at 37° C. with 5% CO2. HAP1 (Horizon Discovery C631) and HAP1 UNG (Horizon Discovery HZGHC001531c012) were maintained in Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium plus GlutaMax (ThermoFisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% (v/v) fetal bovine serum (FBS), at 37° C. with 5% CO2.
Transfections
HEK293T cells were seeded on 48-well collagen-coated BioCoat plates (Corning) and transfected at approximately 75% confluency. Briefly, 750 ng of BE and 250 ng of sgRNA expression plasmids were transfected using 1.5 μL of LIPOFECTAMINE® 2000 transfection reagent (ThermoFisher Scientific) per well according to the manufacturer's protocol.
HAP1 and HAP1 UNG− cells were nucleofected using the SE Cell Line 4DNucleofector™ X Kit S (Lonza) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Briefly, 4×105 cells were nucleofected with 300 ng of BE and 100 ng of sgRNA expression plasmids using the 4DNucleofector™ program DZ-113.
High-Throughput DNA Sequencing of Genomic DNA Samples
Transfected cells were harvested after 3 days and the genomic DNA was isolated by incubating cells in lysis buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 0.05% SDS, 25 μg/mL proteinase K) at 37° C. for 1 hr followed by 80° C. for 30 min. Genomic regions of interest were amplified by PCR with flanking HTS primer pairs as previously described (6, 1). PCR amplification was carried out with Phusion high-fidelity DNA polymerase (ThermoFisher) according to the manufacturer's instructions and as previously described. Purified DNA was amplified by PCR with primers containing sequencing adaptors. The products were gel-purified and quantified using the QuantiT™ PicoGreen dsDNA Assay Kit (ThermoFisher) and KAPA Library Quantification Kit-Illumina (KAPA Biosystems). Samples were sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq as previously described.
Data Analysis
Sequencing reads were automatically demultiplexed using MiSeq Reporter (Illumina), and individual FASTQ files were analyzed with a custom Matlab script as previously described (1). Each read was pairwise aligned to the appropriate reference sequence using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. Base calls with a Q-score below 31 were replaced with Ns and were thus excluded in calculating nucleotide frequencies. This treatment yields an expected MiSeq base-calling error rate of approximately 1 in 1,000. Aligned sequences in which the read and reference sequence contained no gaps were stored in an alignment table from which base frequencies could be tabulated for each locus.
Indel frequencies were quantified with the previously described Matlab script (5, 6, 1). Briefly, sequencing reads were scanned for exact matches to two 10-bp sequences that flank both sides of a window in which indels might occur. If no exact matches were located, the read was excluded from analysis. If the length of this indel window exactly matched the reference sequence the read was classified as not containing an indel. If the indel window was two or more bases longer or shorter than the reference sequence, then the sequencing read was classified as an insertion or deletion, respectively.
In order to evaluate interdependency (linkage disequilibrium) between the base editing outcomes at the multiple target cytidines within an editing window, target site sequences from BE treated cells were analyzed by a custom Python script (Supplementary Note 1). Briefly, sequencing reads were scanned for exact matches to two 7-bp sequences that flank each side of the protospacer. If the intervening region was not exactly 20-bp, then it was excluded further analysis. The protospacer sequences were further filtered into four groups based upon the identity of the nucleotide at the position with the most non-T editing outcomes (the primary target C). For each of these four groups as well as the entire pool, the nucleotide abundance at each of the 20 positions within the protospacer were tallied.
As discussed above, nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins (napDNAbp) of any of the fusion proteins provided herein may be an LbCpf1 protein. In some embodiments, the LbCpf1 protein is nuclease inactive, nuclease active, or an LbCpf1 nickase. Several constructs of fusion proteins comprising forms of LbCpf1 were tested for their ability to make C to T edits in different target sequences. A schematic representation of the constructs tested is shown in
The common guide backbone (sgRNA) used in the experiments is GTAATTTCTACTAAGTGTAGAT (SEQ ID NO: 741)[guide sequence]TTTTTTT, wherein each of the Ts of SEQ ID NO: 741 are uracil (U), and where the guide sequence that targets the construct to a specific nucleotide sequence is shown between brackets. In some embodiments, any of the constructs provided herein are complexed with a sgRNA that comprises the backbone sequence of GTAATTTCTACTAAGTGTAGAT(SEQ ID NO: 741), wherein each of the Ts of SEQ ID NO: 741 are uracil (U). In some embodiments, any of the guide RNAs provided herein comprise a guide sequence comprising 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, or 30 nucleotides that are perfectly complementary to a sequence, e.g., a target DNA sequence. In the experiments performed, the guide sequences tested are shown below:
The data demonstrating the C to T base pair editing percentage using various constructs and target sequences is shown in
Supplementary Sequences
Amino Acid Sequences of CDA1-BE3, AID-BE3, BE4, and SaBE4 fusion proteins. CDA1-XTEN-dCas9-UGI-NLS primary sequence (CDA1-BE3):
MTDAEYVRIHEKLDIYTFKK
Q
FFNNKKSVSHRCYVLFELKRRGERRACFW
GYAVNKP
Q
SGTERGIHAEIFSIRKVEEYLRDNPGQFTINWYSSWSPCADC
AEKILEWYNQELRGNGHTLKIWACKLYYEKNARN
Q
IGLWNLRDNGVGLNV
MVSEHY
Q
CCRKIFI
Q
SSHN
Q
LNENRWLEKTLKRAEKRRSELSIMIQVKIL
HTTKSPAV
SGSETPGTSESATPES
DKKYSIGLAIGTNSVGWAVITDEYKV
PSKKFKVLGNTDRHSIKKNLIGALLFDSGETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKN
RICYLQEIFSNEMAKVDDSFFHRLEESFLVEEDKKHERHPIFGNIVDEVA
YHEKYPTIYHLRKKLVDSTDKADLRLIYLALAHMIKFRGHFLIEGDLNPD
NSDVDKLFIQLVQTYNQLFEENPINASGVDAKAILSARLSKSRRLENLIA
QLPGEKKNGLFGNLIALSLGLTPNFKSNFDLAEDAKLQLSKDTYDDDLDN
LLAQIGDQYADLFLAAKNLSDAILLSDILRVNTEITKAPLSASMIKRYDE
HHQDLTLLKALVRQQLPEKYKEIFFDQSKNGYAGYIDGGASQEEFYKFIK
PILEKMDGTEELLVKLNREDLLRKQRTFDNGSIPHQIHLGELHAILRRQE
DFYPFLKDNREKIEKILTFRIPYYVGPLARGNSRFAWMTRKSEETITPWN
FEEVVDKGASAQSFIERMTNFDKNLPNEKVLPKHSLLYEYFTVYNELTKV
KYVTEGMRKPAFLSGEQKKAIVDLLFKTNRKVTVKQLKEDYFKKIECFDS
VETSGVEDRFNASLGTYHDLLKIIKDKDFLDNEENEDILEDIVLTLTLFE
DREMIEERLKTYAHLFDDKVMKQLKRRRYTGWGRLSRKLINGIRDKQSGK
TILDFLKSDGFANRNFMQLIHDDSLTFKEDIQKAQVSGQGDSLHEHIANL
AGSPAIKKGILQTVKVVDELVKVMGRHKPENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNS
RERMKRIEEGIKELGSQILKEHPVENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQE
LDINRLSDYDVDHIVPQSFLKDDSIDNKVLTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVK
KMKNYWRQLLNAKLITQRKFDNLTKAERGGLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQI
TKHVAQILDSRMNTKYDENDKLIREVKVITLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVRE
INNYHHAHDAYLNAVVGTALIKKYPKLESEFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQ
EIGKATAKYFFYSNIMNFFKTEITLANGEIRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKG
RDFATVRKVLSMPQVNIVKKTEVQTGGFSKESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWD
PKKYGGFDSPTVAYSVLVVAKVEKGKSKKLKSVKELLGITIMERSSFEKN
PIDFLEAKGYKEVKKDLIIKLPKYSLFELENGRKRMLASAGELQKGNELA
LPSKYVNFLYLASHYEKLKGSPEDNEQKQLFVEQHKHYLDEIIEQISEFS
KRVILADANLDKVLSAYNKHRDKPIREQAENIIHLFTLTNLGAPAAFKYF
DTTIDRKRYTSTKEVLDATLIHQSITGLYETRIDLSQLGGDSGGSTNLSD
IIEKETGKQLVIQESILMLPEEVEEVIGNKPESDILVHTAYDESTDENVM
AID-XTEN-dCas9-UGI-NLS Primary Sequence (AID-BE3):
MDSLLMNRRKFLYQFKNVRWAKGRRETYLCYVVKRRDSATSFSLDFGYLR
NKNGCHVELLFLRYISDWDLDPGRCYRVTWFTSWSPCYDCARHVADFLRG
NPNLSLRIFTARLYFCEDRKAEPEGLRRLHRAGVQIAIMTFKDYFYCWNT
FVENHERTFKAWEGLHENSVRLSRQLRRILLPLYEVDDLRDAFRTLGL
SG
SETPGTSESATPES
DKKYSIGLAIGTNSVGWAVITDEYKVPSKKFKVLGN
TDRHSIKKNLIGALLFDSGETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFS
NEMAKVDDSFFHRLEESFLVEEDKKHERHPIFGNIVDEVAYHEKYPTIYH
LRKKLVDSTDKADLRLIYLALAHMIKFRGHFLIEGDLNPDNSDVDKLFIQ
LVQTYNQLFEENPINASGVDAKAILSARLSKSRRLENLIAQLPGEKKNGL
FGNLIALSLGLTPNFKSNFDLAEDAKLQLSKDTYDDDLDNLLAQIGDQYA
DLFLAAKNLSDAILLSDILRVNTEITKAPLSASMIKRYDEHHQDLTLLKA
LVRQQLPEKYKEIFFDQSKNGYAGYIDGGASQEEFYKFIKPILEKMDGTE
ELLVKLNREDLLRKQRTFDNGSIPHQIHLGELHAILRRQEDFYPFLKDNR
EKIEKILTFRIPYYVGPLARGNSRFAWMTRKSEETITPWNFEEVVDKGAS
AQSFIERMTNFDKNLPNEKVLPKHSLLYEYFTVYNELTKVKYVTEGMRKP
AFLSGEQKKAIVDLLFKTNRKVTVKQLKEDYFKKIECFDSVETSGVEDRF
NASLGTYHDLLKIIKDKDFLDNEENEDILEDIVLTLTLFEDREMIEERLK
TYAHLFDDKVMKQLKRRRYTGWGRLSRKLINGIRDKQSGKTILDFLKSDG
FANRNFMQLIHDDSLTFKEDIQKAQVSGQGDSLHEHIANLAGSPAIKKGI
LQTVKVVDELVKVMGRHKPENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEG
IKELGSQILKEHPVENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYD
VDHIVPQSFLKDDSIDNKVLTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLL
NAKLITQRKFDNLTKAERGGLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDS
RMNTKYDENDKLIREVKVITLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDA
YLNAVVGTALIKKYPKLESEFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYF
FYSNIMNFFKTEITLANGEIRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVL
SMPQVNIVKKTEVQTGGFSKESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFDSP
TVAYSVLVVAKVEKGKSKKLKSVKELLGITIMERSSFEKNPIDFLEAKGY
KEVKKDLIIKLPKYSLFELENGRKRMLASAGELQKGNELALPSKYVNFLY
LASHYEKLKGSPEDNEQKQLFVEQHKHYLDEIIEQISEFSKRVILADANL
DKVLSAYNKHRDKPIREQAENIIHLFTLTNLGAPAAFKYFDTTIDRKRYT
STKEVLDATLIHQSITGLYETRIDLSQLGGDSGGSTNLSDHEKETGKQLV
IQESILMLPEEVEEVIGNKPESDILVHTAYDESTDENVMLLTSDAPEYKP
WALVIQIDSNGENKIKML
SGGSPKKKRKV
rAPOBEC1-linker-dCas9-UGI-UGI-NLS Primary Sequence (BE4):
MSSETGPVAVDPTLRRRIEPHEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSI
WRHTSQNTNKHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAI
TEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARLYHHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMTEQESG
YCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVRLYVLELYCHLGLPPCLNILRRKOP
QLTFFTIALQSCHYQRLPPHILWATGLK
SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATP
ESSGGSSGGS
DKKYSIGLAIGTNSVGWAVITDEYKVPSKKFKVLGNTDRH
SIKKNLIGALLFDSGETAEATRLKRTARRRYTRRKNRICYLQEIFSNEMA
KVDDSFFHRLEESFLVEEDKKHERHPIFGNIVDEVAYHEKYPTIYHLRKK
LVDSTDKADLRLIYLALAHMIKFRGHFLIEGDLNPDNSDVDKLFIQLVQT
YNQLFEENPINASGVDAKAILSARLSKSRRLENLIAQLPGEKKNGLFGNL
IALSLGLTPNFKSNFDLAEDAKLQLSKDTYDDDLDNLLAQIGDQYADLFL
AAKNLSDAILLSDILRVNTEITKAPLSASMIKRYDEHHQDLTLLKALVRQ
QLPEKYKEIFFDQSKNGYAGYIDGGASQEEFYKFIKPILEKMDGTEELLV
KLNREDLLRKQRTFDNGSIPHQIHLGELHAILRRQEDFYPFLKDNREKIE
KILTFRIPYYVGPLARGNSRFAWMTRKSEETITPWNFEEVVDKGASAQSF
IERMTNFDKNLPNEKVLPKHSLLYEYFTVYNELTKVKYVTEGMRKPAFLS
GEQKKAIVDLLFKTNRKVTVKQLKEDYFKKIECFDSVEISGVEDRFNASL
GTYHDLLKIIKDKDFLDNEENEDILEDIVLTLTLFEDREMIEERLKTYAH
LFDDKVMKQLKRRRYTGWGRLSRKLINGIRDKQSGKTILDFLKSDGFANR
NFMQLIHDDSLTFKEDIQKAQVSGQGDSLHEHIANLAGSPAIKKGILQTV
KVVDELVKVMGRHKPENIVIEMARENQTTQKGQKNSRERMKRIEEGIKEL
GSQILKEHPVENTQLQNEKLYLYYLQNGRDMYVDQELDINRLSDYDVDHI
VPQSFLKDDSIDNKVLTRSDKNRGKSDNVPSEEVVKKMKNYWRQLLNAKL
ITQRKFDNLTKAERGGLSELDKAGFIKRQLVETRQITKHVAQILDSRMNT
KYDENDKLIREVKVITLKSKLVSDFRKDFQFYKVREINNYHHAHDAYLNA
VVGTALIKKYPKLESEFVYGDYKVYDVRKMIAKSEQEIGKATAKYFFYSN
IMNFFKTEITLANGEIRKRPLIETNGETGEIVWDKGRDFATVRKVLSMPQ
VNIVKKTEVQTGGFSKESILPKRNSDKLIARKKDWDPKKYGGFDSPTVAY
SVLVVAKVEKGKSKKLKSVKELLGITIMERSSFEKNPIDFLEAKGYKEVK
KDLIIKLPKYSLFELENGRKRMLASAGELQKGNELALPSKYVNFLYLASH
YEKLKGSPEDNEQKQLFVEQHKHYLDEIIEQISEFSKRVILADANLDKVL
SAYNKHRDKPIREQAENIIHLFTLTNLGAPAAFKYFDTTIDRKRYTSTKE
VLDATLIHQSITGLYETRIDLSQLGGDSGGSGGSGGSTNLSDITEKETGK
QLVICIESILMLPEEVEEVIGNKPESDILVHTAYDESTDENVMLLTSDAP
EYKPWALVICIDSNGENKIKML
SGGSGGSGGS
SGGSPKKKRK
rAPOBEC1-linker-SaCas9d-UGI-UGI-NLS Primary Sequence (SaBE4):
MSSETGPVAVDPTLRRRIEPHEFEVFFDPRELRKETCLLYEINWGGRHSI
WRHTSQNTNKHVEVNFIEKFTTERYFCPNTRCSITWFLSWSPCGECSRAI
TEFLSRYPHVTLFIYIARLYHHADPRNRQGLRDLISSGVTIQIMTEQESG
YCWRNFVNYSPSNEAHWPRYPHLWVRLYVLELYCHLGLPPCLNILRRKQP
QLTFFTIALQSCHYQRLPPHILWATGLK
SGGSSGGSSGSETPGTSESATP
ESSGGSSGGSG
KRNYILGLAIGITSVGYGIIDYETRDVIDAGVRLFKEAN
VENNEGRRSKRGARRLKRRRRHRIQRVKKLLFDYNLLTDHSELSGINPYE
ARVKGLSQKLSEEEFSAALLHLAKRRGVHNVNEVEEDTGNELSTKEQISR
NSKALEEKYVAELQLERLKKDGEVRGSINRFKTSDYVKEAKQLLKVQKAY
HQLDQSFIDTYIDLLETRRTYYEGPGEGSPFGWKDIKEWYEMLMGHCTYF
PEELRSVKYAYNADLYNALNDLNNLVITRDENEKLEYYEKFQIIENVFKQ
KKKPTLKQIAKEILVNEEDIKGYRVTSTGKPEFTNLKVYHDIKDITARKE
IIENAELLDQIAKILTIYQSSEDIQEELTNLNSELTQEEIEQISNLKGYT
GTHNLSLKAINLILDELWHTNDNQIAIFNRLKLVPKKVDLSQQKEIPTTL
VDDFILSPVVKRSFIQSIKVINAIIKKYGLPNDIIIELAREKNSKDAQKM
INEMQKRNRQTNERIEEIIRTTGKENAKYLIEKIKLHDMQEGKCLYSLEA
IPLEDLLNNPFNYEVDHIIPRSVSFDNSFNNKVLVKQEENSKKGNRTPFQ
YLSSSDSKISYETFKKHILNLAKGKGRISKTKKEYLLEERDINRFSVQKD
FINRNLVDTRYATRGLMNLLRSYFRVNNLDVKVKSINGGFTSFLRRKWKF
KKERNKGYKHHAEDALIIANADFIFKEWKKLDKAKKVMENQMFEEKQAES
MPEIETEQEYKEIFITPHQIKHIKDFKDYKYSHRVDKKPNRELINDTLYS
TRKDDKGNTLIVNNLNGLYDKDNDKLKKLINKSPEKLLMYHHDPQTYQKL
KLIMEQYGDEKNPLYKYYEETGNYLTKYSKKDNGPVIKKIKYYGNKLNAH
LDITDDYPNSRNKVVKLSLKPYRFDVYLDNGVYKFVTVKNLDVIKKENYY
EVNSKCYEEAKKLKKISNQAEFIASFYNNDLIKINGELYRVIGVNNDLLN
RIEVNMIDITYREYLENMNDKRPPRIIKTIASKTQSIKKYSTDILGNLYE
VKSKKHPQIIKKGGSPKKKRKVSSDYKDHDGDYKDHDIDYKDDDDKSGGS
YDESTDENVMLLTSDAPEYKPWALVICIDSNGENKIKML
SGGSGGSGGS
SGGSPKKKRKV
Those skilled in the art will recognize, or be able to ascertain using no more than routine experimentation, many equivalents of the embodiments described herein. The scope of the present disclosure is not intended to be limited to the above description, but rather is as set forth in the appended claims.
Articles such as “a,” “an,” and “the” may mean one or more than one unless indicated to the contrary or otherwise evident from the context. Claims or descriptions that include “or” between two or more members of a group are considered satisfied if one, more than one, or all of the group members are present, unless indicated to the contrary or otherwise evident from the context. The disclosure of a group that includes “or” between two or more group members provides embodiments in which exactly one member of the group is present, embodiments in which more than one members of the group are present, and embodiments in which all of the group members are present. For purposes of brevity those embodiments have not been individually spelled out herein, but it will be understood that each of these embodiments is provided herein and may be specifically claimed or disclaimed.
It is to be understood that the invention encompasses all variations, combinations, and permutations in which one or more limitation, element, clause, or descriptive term, from one or more of the claims or from one or more relevant portion of the description, is introduced into another claim. For example, a claim that is dependent on another claim can be modified to include one or more of the limitations found in any other claim that is dependent on the same base claim. Furthermore, where the claims recite a composition, it is to be understood that methods of making or using the composition according to any of the methods of making or using disclosed herein or according to methods known in the art, if any, are included, unless otherwise indicated or unless it would be evident to one of ordinary skill in the art that a contradiction or inconsistency would arise.
Where elements are presented as lists, e.g., in Markush group format, it is to be understood that every possible subgroup of the elements is also disclosed, and that any element or subgroup of elements can be removed from the group. It is also noted that the term “comprising” is intended to be open and permits the inclusion of additional elements or steps. It should be understood that, in general, where an embodiment, product, or method is referred to as comprising particular elements, features, or steps, embodiments, products, or methods that consist, or consist essentially of, such elements, features, or steps, are provided as well. For purposes of brevity those embodiments have not been individually spelled out herein, but it will be understood that each of these embodiments is provided herein and may be specifically claimed or disclaimed.
Where ranges are given, endpoints are included. Furthermore, it is to be understood that unless otherwise indicated or otherwise evident from the context and/or the understanding of one of ordinary skill in the art, values that are expressed as ranges can assume any specific value within the stated ranges in some embodiments, to the tenth of the unit of the lower limit of the range, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. For purposes of brevity, the values in each range have not been individually spelled out herein, but it will be understood that each of these values is provided herein and may be specifically claimed or disclaimed. It is also to be understood that unless otherwise indicated or otherwise evident from the context and/or the understanding of one of ordinary skill in the art, values expressed as ranges can assume any subrange within the given range, wherein the endpoints of the subrange are expressed to the same degree of accuracy as the tenth of the unit of the lower limit of the range. In addition, it is to be understood that any particular embodiment of the present invention may be explicitly excluded from any one or more of the claims. Where ranges are given, any value within the range may explicitly be excluded from any one or more of the claims. Any embodiment, element, feature, application, or aspect of the compositions and/or methods of the invention, can be excluded from any one or more claims. For purposes of brevity, all of the embodiments in which one or more elements, features, purposes, or aspects is excluded are not set forth explicitly herein.
This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) to U.S. provisional patent applications, U.S. Ser. No. 62/551,951, filed Aug. 30, 2017; U.S. Ser. No. 62/511,934, filed May 26, 2017; U.S. Ser. No. 62/490,587, filed Apr. 26, 2017; and U.S. Ser. No. 62/475,830, filed Mar. 23, 2017, each of which are incorporated herein by reference. The instant application contains a Sequence Listing which has been submitted in ASCII format via EFS-Web and is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Said ASCII copy, created on Oct. 7, 2020, is named H082470257US04-SEQ-CHB and is 1,336,633 bytes in size.
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