Targeted activation of diverse CRISPR-Cas systems for mammalian genome editing via proximal CRISPR targeting

Fuqiang Chen (), Xiao Ding, Yongmei Feng, Timothy Seebeck, Yanfang Jiang and Gregory D. Davis
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Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Bacterial CRISPR–Cas systems comprise diverse effector endonucleases with different targeting ranges, specificities and enzymatic properties, but many of them are inactive in mammalian cells and are thus precluded from genome-editing applications. Here we show that the type II-B FnCas9 from Francisella novicida possesses novel properties, but its nuclease function is frequently inhibited at many genomic loci in living human cells. Moreover, we develop a proximal CRISPR (termed proxy-CRISPR) targeting method that restores FnCas9 nuclease activity in a target-specific manner. We further demonstrate that this proxy-CRISPR strategy is applicable to diverse CRISPR–Cas systems, including type II-C Cas9 and type V Cpf1 systems, and can facilitate precise gene editing even between identical genomic sites within the same genome. Our findings provide a novel strategy to enable use of diverse otherwise inactive CRISPR–Cas systems for genome-editing applications and a potential path to modulate the impact of chromatin microenvironments on genome modification.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14958

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