Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Extracellular nanovesicles for packaging of CRISPR-Cas9 protein and sgRNA to induce therapeutic exon skipping

  • Peter Gee,
  • Mandy S. Y. Lung,
  • Yuya Okuzaki,
  • Noriko Sasakawa,
  • Takahiro Iguchi,
  • Yukimasa Makita,
  • Hiroyuki Hozumi,
  • Yasutomo Miura,
  • Lucy F. Yang,
  • Mio Iwasaki,
  • Xiou H. Wang,
  • Matthew A. Waller,
  • Nanako Shirai,
  • Yasuko O. Abe,
  • Yoko Fujita,
  • Kei Watanabe,
  • Akihiro Kagita,
  • Kumiko A. Iwabuchi,
  • Masahiko Yasuda,
  • Huaigeng Xu,
  • Takeshi Noda,
  • Jun Komano,
  • Hidetoshi Sakurai,
  • Naoto Inukai,
  • Akitsu Hotta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14957-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Expression of Cas9 and gRNA from viral vectors in vivo may cause off-target activity. Here the authors present NanoMEDIC, which uses nanovesicles to transiently deliver editing machinery to hard-to-transfect cells.