초록 |
Delivery of the CRISPR ribonucleoprotein (RNP) for homology-directed repair (HDR) has been challenging due to the low efficiency. Herein, we developed a Cas9 conjugated with low molecular weight polymer (Cas9-LP) complex system which can induce efficient HDR editing. The Cas9-LP conjugates were complexed with single guide RNA (sgRNA) and donor DNA, which showed greatly enhanced internalization into cells, as well as a high extent of co-localization of Cas9 with sgRNA. Finally, the treatment of Cas9-LP complexes to HEK293T reporter cell line expressing a mutant red fluorescent protein (RFP) resulted in efficient base correction of the RFP gene (up to 31%), leading to restoration of RFP expression and fluorescence. We anticipate that the current method can be widely used as a platform for efficient HDR editing which can be potentially applied for in vivo and ex vivo editing of cellular targets. |