Trichostatin A for Efficient CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Overview

Journal CRISPR J

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2023 Sep 7

PMID 37676985

Authors

Kaivalya Molugu

Namita Khajanchi

Cicera R Lazzarotto

Shengdar Q Tsai

Krishanu Saha

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Abstract

Genome-edited human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have broad applications in disease modeling, drug discovery, and regenerative medicine. Despite the development of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 system, the gene editing process is inefficient and can take several weeks to months to generate edited iPSC clones. We developed a strategy to improve the efficiency of the iPSC gene editing process via application of a small-molecule, trichostatin A (TSA), a Class I and II histone deacetylase inhibitor. We observed that TSA decreased global chromatin condensation and further resulted in increased gene-editing efficiency of iPSCs by twofold to fourfold while concurrently ensuring no increased off-target effects. The edited iPSCs could be clonally expanded while maintaining genomic integrity and pluripotency. The rapid generation of therapeutically relevant gene-edited iPSCs could be enabled by these findings.

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