Abstract
A transient cytosolic delivery system for accurate Cas9 ribonucleoprotein is a key factor for target specificity of the CRIPSR/Cas9 toolkit. Owing to the large size of the Cas9 protein and a long negative strand RNA, the development of the delivery system is still a major challenge. Here, a size-controlled lipopeptide-based nanosome system is reported, derived from the blood-brain barrier-permeable dNP2 peptide which is capable of delivering a hyperaccurate Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex (HypaRNP) into human cells for gene editing. Each nanosome is capable of encapsulating and delivering ≈2 HypaRNP molecules into the cytoplasm, followed by nuclear localization at 4 h post-treatment without significant cytotoxicity. The HypaRNP thus efficiently enacts endogenous eGFP silencing and editing in human embryonic kidney cells (up to 27.6%) and glioblastoma (up to 19.7% frequency of modification). The lipopeptide-based nanosome system shows superior delivery efficiency, high controllability, and simplicity, thus providing biocompatibility and versatile platform approach for CRISPR-mediated transient gene editing applications.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1903172 |
Journal | Small |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 46 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Nov 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors thank the staff at the SAXS beamline 4C-SAXSII (Pohang Light Source, Korea) for technical assistance. This work was supported by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS-R015-D1), Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST-2E29563-19-119), IMNEWRUN CORPORATION, and the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which is funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2017R1A1B0306021).
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biotechnology
- Biomaterials
- Chemistry(all)
- Materials Science(all)