Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

In vivo correction of anaemia in β-thalassemic mice by γPNA-mediated gene editing with nanoparticle delivery

  • Raman Bahal,
  • Nicole Ali McNeer,
  • Elias Quijano,
  • Yanfeng Liu,
  • Parker Sulkowski,
  • Audrey Turchick,
  • Yi-Chien Lu,
  • Dinesh C. Bhunia,
  • Arunava Manna,
  • Dale L. Greiner,
  • Michael A. Brehm,
  • Christopher J. Cheng,
  • Francesc López-Giráldez,
  • Adele Ricciardi,
  • Jagadish Beloor,
  • Diane S. Krause,
  • Priti Kumar,
  • Patrick G. Gallagher,
  • Demetrios T. Braddock,
  • W. Mark Saltzman,
  • Danith H. Ly,
  • Peter M. Glazer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13304
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Gene editing approaches are widely used for correcting mutations, but their application is largely limited to cells and not living animals. Here the authors show that in vivoγPNA-mediated editing of a β-globin mutation is promoted by SCF and leads to sustained normalization of blood haemoglobin levels β-thalassemic mice.