Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Ex vivo editing of human hematopoietic stem cells for erythroid expression of therapeutic proteins

  • Giulia Pavani,
  • Marine Laurent,
  • Anna Fabiano,
  • Erika Cantelli,
  • Aboud Sakkal,
  • Guillaume Corre,
  • Peter J. Lenting,
  • Jean-Paul Concordet,
  • Magali Toueille,
  • Annarita Miccio,
  • Mario Amendola

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17552-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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A platform for systemic therapeutic transgene expression independent of patient mutations needs a safe and highly transcribed locus. Here the authors ex vivo edit HPSCs using CRISPR-Cas9 to integrate transgenes under the α-globin promoter to achieve erythroid specific expression.