Stem Cell Research (Jul 2020)

Generation of corrected-hiPSC (USTCi001-A-1) from epilepsy patient iPSCs using TALEN-mediated editing of the SCN1A gene

  • Huifang Zhao,
  • Lang He,
  • Shuai Li,
  • Hualin Huang,
  • Feng Tang,
  • Xiaobo Han,
  • Zuoxian Lin,
  • Chao Tian,
  • Rongqi Huang,
  • Peng Zhou,
  • Jufang Huang,
  • Sihao Deng,
  • Zhiyuan Li

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 46
p. 101864

Abstract

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Dravet syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by treatment-resistant polymorphic seizures, primarily caused by loss-of-function in the SCN1A gene. To develop an in vitro model of this disease, in a previously study we generated an induced pluripotent stem cell line from a 10-year-old boy carrying the NM_001165963.1:c.5768A to G (Q1923R) mutation in SCN1A. Using TALEN-mediated genome editing, we have now generated an isogenic control line in which the disease-causing mutation found in the epilepsy patient iPSCs was corrected, in order to eliminate the interference of different genetic backgrounds in future analyses.

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