CRISPR/Cas9
Suk Namgoong
Center for Animal Bioreactor & Xenotransplantation
Chungbuk National University
Contents
• History of Genome Engineering
• CRISPR/Cas9
• Applications
• Current Limitations and Future prospects
Recombinant DNA Technology :
aka “Genetic Engineering”
- Plasmid Vector
- Restriction Endonuclease
- DNA Ligase
Foundation of Modern Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Paul Berg Herb Boyer Stanley Cohen
- PCR
- Sanger Sequencing Kary Mullis
Fred Sanger
- Transgenic Animal/Plants
Rudolph Jaenisch
• Size of DNA can manipulates in vitro :
~ Max 150kb.
More practically, less than 20kb
• Recombinant DNA can manipulated is mostly
episomal DNAs
• Random Integration of foreign DNA
Major Limitations of „Genetic
Engineering v1.0‟
Restriction Endonuclease
• Typical restriction endonuclease can recognize 6-8bp
• RE with 6bp will cut, on average, every 46 or 4096bp, while
8bp cutter will recognize 48, or 65536bp
• Therefore conventional RE is not suitable for genome level
manipulation.
• Human Genome : 3 billion bp.
• For specific cleavage of human genome, at least specific
recognition of more than 18bp would be required.
Genome Engineering
“Genetic Engineering v2.0”
• Homologous Recombination
• Artificial Restriction Enzyme
ZFN (Zinc-Finger Nuclease)
TALEN (Transcription activator-like effector nuclease)
• CRISPR/Cas9
- Yeast
- E.coli (Lamda Red Recombinase System)
- Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell (Knockout/KnockIn mouse)
- Limitations
• Feasible in only a few model organisms (ES Cell)
• Time consuming
• Efficiencies
Homologous Recombination
ZFN & TALEN
Artificial restriction enzyme consist of
DNA recognition (Zinc Finger or TALE)
Cleavage Domain (FokI Nuclease)
Repeated Protein Modules (Zinc Figer or TALE) recognize
DNA bases
Dimerization of FokI nuclease domain induce cleavages of
target DNA
recognize long
stretches of bases suitable for genome-level cleavages
Left ZFN
9 nt target
Right ZFN
9 nt target
Cleavage by
Dimerization
• To recognize new target sequence, you
should develop new zinc-finger DNA binding
domain
- Modular assembly from previously generated
array
- Selection using Phage Display/One Hybrid
• Time consuming for the proper ZFP sets
• Failure rate is very high
• Off-target effects are very high
TALEN
Transcription activator-like effector nuclease
TAL effector : secreted protein by plant pathogenm
Xanthomonas sp.
Type III effector proteins which activate plant gene expression
Repeated highly conserved 33-34 amino acid sequences
(Except 33-34 amino acids)
Left TALEN
16-17nt target
Right TALEN
16-17 nt target
DNA-TALE Complex Structure
Nonhomologus end joining (NHEJ)
- Natural pathway to repair double-strand break of DNA
- ZFN or TALEN induces double-stranded break of DNA then
NHEJ joins broken ends, although its repair ability can be limited.
ZF or TALE
ZF or TALE FokI
FokI
DSB
NHEJ
Indel Cause Frameshift -> knockout
Homology Directed Repair (HDR)
ZF or TALE
ZF or TALE FokI
FokI
DSB
Donor Template
(Mutation, Insertion..)
HDR
ssDNA Oligo or Plasmid
Precise Repair (Targeted Gene Integration, Site-specific Mutagenesis)
CRISPR/Cas9
Humble Beginning as Exotic Repeat
Sequences in Bacterial Genome
- Found as „exotic junk DNA‟ with unknown function
Ishino et al., J.Bacteriol (1987)
- Widespread presence in Archeae and Bacteria
Jansen et al, Mol. Microbiol (2002)
- Named as..
lustered egularly nterspaced hort alindromic epeat
RISPR sociated protein (Cas)
Family of genes associated with CRISPR
- Sequence similarity between phage
CRISPR as bacterial immune system
against bacteriophagy
The research was carried at by researcher in DANISCO.Inc
(acquired by DuPont at 2011)
Science 2007
Practical questions in Yogurt Fermentation
industry
- Phage contamination :
Most serious problem in fermentation industries
- Phage-resistant strains would emerged after phage
pandemics
- Hypothesis
Insertion of „spacer‟ between CRISPR element after phage challenge
Phage genome has sequences corresponds to spacer
Involvement of cas genes in immunity against bacteriophage
Horvath et al., Science 2007
http://pnabio.com/products/image/CRISPR.png
Biochem J. Jul 15, 2013; 453(Pt 2): 155–166.
Biochem J. Jul 15, 2013; 453(Pt 2): 155–166.
Cas9 : RNA-directed Endonuclease
In contrast with other CRISPR system,
Cas9 is the only component in Inference complex in
Type II CRISPR system
Cas9 as RNA-dependent Programmable DNA Endonuclease
Plasmid DNA +Complementary crRNA+ tracrRNA
dsDNA
Cleavage
Cas9
Cas9 = Reprogrammable RNA-Dependent Restriction Enzyme
Cas9-sgRNA-DNA complex structure
RuvC
RuvCHNH PI
1 1386
Rec
Nureki et al., Cell 2014
CRISPR/Cas9 as Genome Editing Tools
Church et al., Jan 2013
Zhang et al, Jan 2013
Humanized Cas9 Trans-crRNA
Cong et al., Science 2013
Knock-out mouse modified multiple locus
with single step
Rudolph Jaenisch
Déjà vu? 
August 2013
Cell
One-Step Generation of Knock Out / Knock-In Mouse
Traditional Knock Out/In
Mouse Generations using ES Cell
Targeting Vector Construction/
ES Cell Knockout and selection
3 Months
Injection of ES Cell into Blastocyst
Generation Chimeric Mouse
2 Months
At least 6-12 Months is required to
generate Founder Mice
CRISPR/Cas9 Systems
Design and Generation of sgRNA andCc
Less than a week
(1 day except oligo synthesis)
Injection in Zygote
And Transfer to surrogates Mother
1 weeks
Germline transmission and backgross
Selection of Founder
~ 4 Month
(If you are lucky…)
Founder Mouse
Less than 3 weeks
Multiple gene : individual crossing…
80-90% of Mouse has mutated alleles
60-70% of Mouse has Double Knocked when two sgRNAs are introduced
Knock-in Generations
Generation of floxed mouse in single step
• Injections of
cas9+sgRNA+ssODN(Single-
strand oligo donor nucleotide)
• Homology Dependent Repair
~10%
~20%
~20%
Advantage of CRISPR/Cas9 over TALEN or ZFN (1)
TALEN or ZFN
Artificial protein gene recognizing the target sequences are required
X 2
Synthesis of TALE gene is not trivial due to repeated nature of TALE
Sometime very complicated construction scheme is required..
Sakuma, Sci Rep. 2013
Validation of Constructed TALEN/ZFN is essential
Kim et al., Nature Method (2011)
http://www.toolgen.com/html/kor/technology/surrogate_reporter.php
Enrichments using surrogate reporter system
In CRISPR/Cas9 system…
All you need to synthesize this part 
Cas9 is common protein component
regardless the nature of recognition site
- Very affordable
- Fast
- High-throughput friendly
Advantage of CRISPR/Cas9 over TALEN or ZFN (2)
- TALEN or ZFN : Artificial Restriciton Enzyme consisted with..
DNA binding domain + Nonspecific DNA cleavage domains
Dimerization of FokI cleavage domain is essential for DNA cleavages
If binding affinity of one of ZFN/TALEN pair is less than other, cleavage efficiency is lo
- Not as optimal compared with bona-fide endonuclease?
Cas9 is bona fide RNA-dependent DNA endonuclease by itself
- Higher catalytic efficiency
- Evolved to cleave Phage DNA after injection ASAP.
Higher efficiency than TALEN
Church et al., 2013 Science
Cell Stem Cell, 2013
The real secret for popularity of CRISPR/Cas9 system
Case Studies
Buzzword about Cas9 became really loud, so we decided to join CRISPR bandwagon…
http://www.addgene.org
In January 2014, we got cas9 constructs from addgene..
$65 per clone 
In vitro transcriptions of Cas9
Design and Generation of sgRNAs
- Order two DNA oligos..
-Annealing and amplification using PCR
-In vitro transcription using T7 RNA Polymerase
For the preparations of all of material, it tooks 2-3 Days..
Exon1OCT-4 Exon2 Exon3 Exon4 Exon5
TCCTAAAGCAGAAGAGGATCACCCTGGGATATAC
Knockout of Porcine Oct4
Injections in Porcine Zygotes (Parthernotes)
J.W. Kwon
WT
Cas9/sgRNA
WT AACAATTTGCCAAGCTCCTAAAGCAGAAGAGGATCACCCTGGGATATACCCAGGCCGATGTGGGGCT
AACAATTTGCCAAGCTCCTAAAGCAGAAGAGGAT---------ATATACCCAGGCCGATGTGGGGCT
Indel
AACAATTTGCCAAGCTCCTAAAGCAGAAGAGGATCAC--TGG-ATATACCCAGGCCGATGTGGGGCT
AACAATTTGCCAAGCTCCTAAAGCAGAAGAGG-----------ATATACCCAGGCCGATGTGGGGCT
AACAATTTGCCAAGCTCCTAAAGCAGAAGAGGATCACCCCTGGGATATACCCAGGCCGATGTGGGGCT
#1
#2
PAMGuide Sequence
#3
#4
~30-40 % of Mutation efficiency in first trial
DNA Oct4 Merge
Cas9 (100ng)
Cas9/
sgRNA
(10ng/ul)
Cas9/
sgRNA
(100ng/ul)
Immunostaining of Oct4 in Cas9/sgRNA
Knockdown of l Oct4 in porcine blastocyst
Application of CRISPR/Cas9
• Knockout/Knock-in Animal Generation
• Gene Knockout in Cultured Cell Line
• Gene Activation / Repression by dCas9
• Therapeutic Application?
• Others..
Generation of Animal Model in Lighting Speed
- Knockout/Knock-in generation Mouse :
at least 6~12 months
- Using CRISPR/Cas9..
You can get a founder in 2 Months with ~90% of efficiency
- Introduction of Disease Model Mutations
Variants discovered from GWAS / WGS projects
Validation in animal model would be possible
Knockout/KnockIn in „Other‟ Animals
- Knockout/Knock-in generation Mouse :
Established procedures even before ZFN/TALEN/CRISPR
- But in other animal?
Lack of embryonic stem cell and suitable genome level
targeting technology
Even in Rat, embryonic stem cell was
- Targeted genetic modification in domestic animal
With Little Helps from CRISPR/Cas9..
Rat August 2013Zebrafish January 2013
Xenopus
October 2013
Pig
January 2014
Rabbit January 2014
Rice fish
April 2014
Silkworm December 2013
Drosophila
September 2013
Virtually genomes of all living organisms can
be modified by CRISPR/Cas9
as “Programmable DNA endonculease”
AnimalPlant
Fungi
Bacteria
Mouse
Rat
Xenopus
Drosophila
Pig
Zebrafish
Rabbit
Goat
Arabidopsis
Rice
Tobacco
Wheat
Orange
Genome Engineering in Primate is feasible
Sus scorfa : Important model organism for
Xenotransplantation
Knockout of immune responsive related genes is
necessary
Alternative Source of Human Organs :
Xenotransplantation?
- porcine α1,3-galactosyltransferase (GGTA1)
- CMP-Neu5Ac hydroxylase
Expression of various human immune organizer in Pigs
Primary fetal fibroblast Genetic Modification Nuclear Transfer
Slow
Inefficient
Transgenesis
Gene targeting by
Homologous recombination/
AAV vector
ZFN/TALEN
(i.e. Cloning)
Low efficiency
Laborious
Abnormal development
Transfer Nuclues of
Genetically Modified cell
to Unfertillized /
enuclated oocyte
Traditional Way of Genetic Modifications in Pig
CRISPR/Cas9 Offers Much Faster Way..
sgRNA + Donor
DNA
MicroInjections Embryo Transfer
Positive selection of gene knockout for resistance
to the BRAF protein kinase inhibitor
Shalem et al., Science 2014
Negative Screening
Lander et al., Science 2014
dCas9-mediated Endogenous Gene Activations
Cell Res. 2013
Double Mutant of Cas9
Inactive for cleavage
Tandem Transactivation Domain
Position of sgRNA
dCas9-mediated Gene expression interference
Lim et al., Cell 2013
Therapeutic Potential of CRISPR/Cas9
CCR5 HIV receptor targeting by ZFN
http://www.sangamo.com/pipeline/sb-728.html
Editas genomics was found late 2013
Zhang + Church + Doudna
http://www.editas.com
Mutation Corrections Cataract (백내장) in Model Organism
Wu et al., Cell Stem Cell, 2013
Repair of
Dominant Negative
Heterozygote
Using WT allele
Repair of
Dominant Negative
Heterozygote
Using oligonucleotide
Functional Repair of CTFR by CRISPR/Cas9 in Intestinal
Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Schwank et al., Cell Stem Cell 2013
Delta F508 : Most common CTFR mutation : resulting abnormal channel proteins
Genome Editing in Adult Mouse
- Mouse model of hereditary tyrosinemia type I
- Caused by mutation on fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Exon skipping)
Correction of Mutations in Zygote stages of Human?
We have more knowledge and techniques on Human Embryo than Monkey‟s
Assisted Reproduction Technology is common
In 2012, 176,275 ART Cycle (In vitro fertillization) were performed and 65,179
live born infants
Over 1% of all infants born in the United States are conceived using ART
ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) was involved in 30-40% of cases
Most infertility clinics have ability to carry out ICSI
Transfer to
Utreus
ICSI
Validation of off-site mutations by PGD-NGS?
8-Cell Embryo
Karyotyping
Preimplamantation Genetic Diagonosis (PGD)
PCR-Seqencing
Aneuploidy
Mutation
Genome Sequencing from single oocyte is now possible
Cell 2014
1-Cell Embryo
(Zygote)
sgRNAs
Cas9
Donor DNA
Injection
3 Days
PGD-NGS Genotyping
(Fast turnaround
required)
8-Cell Embryo
Blastocyst with
Desired Modification
Without off-site mutaton
Blastocyst witout
Modification or
With off-site
mutaton
Embryo Transfer
Or
Storage in liquid N2
Potential Workflow for ‘GMO’ human?
5 Days
Ethical Concerns
- Regulations
- Safety
- Ethical concerns (GMO Human?)
- 생명윤리및 안전에 관한 법률
Mad Scientist aka “Frankenstein builder”
No relation with http://madscientist.wordpress.com 
BGI invested significant resources on PGD screening
http://www.genomics.cn/en/navigation/show_navigation?nid=5687
They are also trying to sequence a million people‟s genome
For what?
“Rising of „designer babies‟ industry?”
“성형외과 지고 성형산부인과 뜬다?”
Welcome To the Brave New World.
“Designer Baby” Patent issued to 23andMe.com
US. 8,620,594 B2
Current Pitfall of CRISPR/Cas9
- Off-target effects
-Cas9 recognition is mainly rely on ~15bp upstream of PAM
Although Off-target effect and toxicity of CRISPR is much lower than those of ZFN..
Fuji et al., NAR 2013
How to avoid off-target effects?
- Optimization of Injection conditions (less cas9/sgRNA)
- Bioinformatics : Find a sgRNA target for less off-targets
“CRISPR Design” (http://crispr.mit.edu)
Double-Nicking System
- Using Cas9 Nickase (Can cleave only single strand of DNA)
Ran et al., Cell 2013
- Reduces off-target mutagnesis
by 50-1,000 fold
- Efficient indel / HDR as similar
with wt Cas9
- More restriction in cleavage
site
Sequence requirement of Cas9
Streptococcus pyrogenes Cas9
5’-NNNNNNNNNNNN-NGG-3’
Neisseria meningitidis Cas9
5’-NNNNNNNNNNN-NNNNGATT-3’
NmCas9 can gene distruptions
In Human ES Cells
Hou, Thomson JA
PNAS 2013
Streptococcus thermophillus
5’-NNNNNNNNNNNNNN-NNAGAA-3’
Treponema denticola
5‟-NNNNNNNNNNNNNN-NAAAAC-3‟
Screening of novel Cas9? With different PAM specifity?
Engineering of Cas9
Now structure of Cas9-sgRNA is in our hands, it is time to engineer it
- PAM Specificity?
- Removal of nonessential part (spCas9 is too big in some vector system)
- Efficient fusion with other functional domains (Epigenetics?)
Roles of other Cas proteins and possible applications
We do not understand exact
functional roles
of all of Cas proteins
Some of Cas proteins may enhance
Genome engineering efficiency further
Delivery of Cas9/sgRNA
More efficient delivery method would be crucial for in vivo application
Viral vector?
Plasmid?
Ribonucleoprotein complex?
Delivery without transfection agent?
Useful Resources
http://www.genome-engineering.org/crispr
http://www.toolgen.com
http://www.addgene.org/CRISPR/
http:///editasmedicine.com
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/crispr
“Secret Lab of a Mad Scientist”
http://madscientist.wordpress.com
“Frankenstein is not yet ready” 
동물바이오 신약장기개발사업단
http://www.cabx.kr
Thanks for your attention!

Crispr/cas9 101

  • 1.
    CRISPR/Cas9 Suk Namgoong Center forAnimal Bioreactor & Xenotransplantation Chungbuk National University
  • 2.
    Contents • History ofGenome Engineering • CRISPR/Cas9 • Applications • Current Limitations and Future prospects
  • 3.
    Recombinant DNA Technology: aka “Genetic Engineering” - Plasmid Vector - Restriction Endonuclease - DNA Ligase Foundation of Modern Molecular Biology & Biotechnology Paul Berg Herb Boyer Stanley Cohen - PCR - Sanger Sequencing Kary Mullis Fred Sanger - Transgenic Animal/Plants Rudolph Jaenisch
  • 4.
    • Size ofDNA can manipulates in vitro : ~ Max 150kb. More practically, less than 20kb • Recombinant DNA can manipulated is mostly episomal DNAs • Random Integration of foreign DNA Major Limitations of „Genetic Engineering v1.0‟
  • 5.
    Restriction Endonuclease • Typicalrestriction endonuclease can recognize 6-8bp • RE with 6bp will cut, on average, every 46 or 4096bp, while 8bp cutter will recognize 48, or 65536bp • Therefore conventional RE is not suitable for genome level manipulation. • Human Genome : 3 billion bp. • For specific cleavage of human genome, at least specific recognition of more than 18bp would be required.
  • 6.
    Genome Engineering “Genetic Engineeringv2.0” • Homologous Recombination • Artificial Restriction Enzyme ZFN (Zinc-Finger Nuclease) TALEN (Transcription activator-like effector nuclease) • CRISPR/Cas9
  • 7.
    - Yeast - E.coli(Lamda Red Recombinase System) - Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell (Knockout/KnockIn mouse) - Limitations • Feasible in only a few model organisms (ES Cell) • Time consuming • Efficiencies Homologous Recombination
  • 8.
    ZFN & TALEN Artificialrestriction enzyme consist of DNA recognition (Zinc Finger or TALE) Cleavage Domain (FokI Nuclease) Repeated Protein Modules (Zinc Figer or TALE) recognize DNA bases Dimerization of FokI nuclease domain induce cleavages of target DNA recognize long stretches of bases suitable for genome-level cleavages
  • 9.
    Left ZFN 9 nttarget Right ZFN 9 nt target Cleavage by Dimerization
  • 10.
    • To recognizenew target sequence, you should develop new zinc-finger DNA binding domain - Modular assembly from previously generated array - Selection using Phage Display/One Hybrid • Time consuming for the proper ZFP sets • Failure rate is very high • Off-target effects are very high
  • 11.
    TALEN Transcription activator-like effectornuclease TAL effector : secreted protein by plant pathogenm Xanthomonas sp. Type III effector proteins which activate plant gene expression Repeated highly conserved 33-34 amino acid sequences (Except 33-34 amino acids)
  • 12.
    Left TALEN 16-17nt target RightTALEN 16-17 nt target
  • 13.
  • 14.
    Nonhomologus end joining(NHEJ) - Natural pathway to repair double-strand break of DNA - ZFN or TALEN induces double-stranded break of DNA then NHEJ joins broken ends, although its repair ability can be limited. ZF or TALE ZF or TALE FokI FokI DSB NHEJ Indel Cause Frameshift -> knockout
  • 15.
    Homology Directed Repair(HDR) ZF or TALE ZF or TALE FokI FokI DSB Donor Template (Mutation, Insertion..) HDR ssDNA Oligo or Plasmid Precise Repair (Targeted Gene Integration, Site-specific Mutagenesis)
  • 16.
  • 17.
    Humble Beginning asExotic Repeat Sequences in Bacterial Genome - Found as „exotic junk DNA‟ with unknown function Ishino et al., J.Bacteriol (1987) - Widespread presence in Archeae and Bacteria Jansen et al, Mol. Microbiol (2002) - Named as.. lustered egularly nterspaced hort alindromic epeat RISPR sociated protein (Cas) Family of genes associated with CRISPR - Sequence similarity between phage
  • 18.
    CRISPR as bacterialimmune system against bacteriophagy The research was carried at by researcher in DANISCO.Inc (acquired by DuPont at 2011) Science 2007
  • 20.
    Practical questions inYogurt Fermentation industry - Phage contamination : Most serious problem in fermentation industries - Phage-resistant strains would emerged after phage pandemics - Hypothesis
  • 21.
    Insertion of „spacer‟between CRISPR element after phage challenge
  • 22.
    Phage genome hassequences corresponds to spacer
  • 23.
    Involvement of casgenes in immunity against bacteriophage Horvath et al., Science 2007
  • 24.
  • 25.
    Biochem J. Jul15, 2013; 453(Pt 2): 155–166.
  • 26.
    Biochem J. Jul15, 2013; 453(Pt 2): 155–166.
  • 27.
    Cas9 : RNA-directedEndonuclease In contrast with other CRISPR system, Cas9 is the only component in Inference complex in Type II CRISPR system
  • 28.
    Cas9 as RNA-dependentProgrammable DNA Endonuclease Plasmid DNA +Complementary crRNA+ tracrRNA dsDNA Cleavage Cas9
  • 29.
    Cas9 = ReprogrammableRNA-Dependent Restriction Enzyme
  • 30.
    Cas9-sgRNA-DNA complex structure RuvC RuvCHNHPI 1 1386 Rec Nureki et al., Cell 2014
  • 32.
    CRISPR/Cas9 as GenomeEditing Tools Church et al., Jan 2013 Zhang et al, Jan 2013 Humanized Cas9 Trans-crRNA
  • 33.
    Cong et al.,Science 2013
  • 34.
    Knock-out mouse modifiedmultiple locus with single step Rudolph Jaenisch Déjà vu? 
  • 35.
  • 36.
    One-Step Generation ofKnock Out / Knock-In Mouse Traditional Knock Out/In Mouse Generations using ES Cell Targeting Vector Construction/ ES Cell Knockout and selection 3 Months Injection of ES Cell into Blastocyst Generation Chimeric Mouse 2 Months At least 6-12 Months is required to generate Founder Mice CRISPR/Cas9 Systems Design and Generation of sgRNA andCc Less than a week (1 day except oligo synthesis) Injection in Zygote And Transfer to surrogates Mother 1 weeks Germline transmission and backgross Selection of Founder ~ 4 Month (If you are lucky…) Founder Mouse Less than 3 weeks Multiple gene : individual crossing…
  • 37.
    80-90% of Mousehas mutated alleles 60-70% of Mouse has Double Knocked when two sgRNAs are introduced
  • 38.
    Knock-in Generations Generation offloxed mouse in single step • Injections of cas9+sgRNA+ssODN(Single- strand oligo donor nucleotide) • Homology Dependent Repair
  • 39.
  • 40.
    Advantage of CRISPR/Cas9over TALEN or ZFN (1) TALEN or ZFN Artificial protein gene recognizing the target sequences are required X 2 Synthesis of TALE gene is not trivial due to repeated nature of TALE
  • 41.
    Sometime very complicatedconstruction scheme is required.. Sakuma, Sci Rep. 2013
  • 43.
    Validation of ConstructedTALEN/ZFN is essential Kim et al., Nature Method (2011)
  • 44.
  • 45.
    In CRISPR/Cas9 system… Allyou need to synthesize this part  Cas9 is common protein component regardless the nature of recognition site - Very affordable - Fast - High-throughput friendly
  • 46.
    Advantage of CRISPR/Cas9over TALEN or ZFN (2) - TALEN or ZFN : Artificial Restriciton Enzyme consisted with.. DNA binding domain + Nonspecific DNA cleavage domains Dimerization of FokI cleavage domain is essential for DNA cleavages If binding affinity of one of ZFN/TALEN pair is less than other, cleavage efficiency is lo - Not as optimal compared with bona-fide endonuclease?
  • 47.
    Cas9 is bonafide RNA-dependent DNA endonuclease by itself - Higher catalytic efficiency - Evolved to cleave Phage DNA after injection ASAP.
  • 48.
    Higher efficiency thanTALEN Church et al., 2013 Science
  • 49.
  • 50.
    The real secretfor popularity of CRISPR/Cas9 system
  • 51.
    Case Studies Buzzword aboutCas9 became really loud, so we decided to join CRISPR bandwagon… http://www.addgene.org
  • 52.
    In January 2014,we got cas9 constructs from addgene.. $65 per clone 
  • 53.
    In vitro transcriptionsof Cas9 Design and Generation of sgRNAs - Order two DNA oligos.. -Annealing and amplification using PCR -In vitro transcription using T7 RNA Polymerase For the preparations of all of material, it tooks 2-3 Days..
  • 54.
    Exon1OCT-4 Exon2 Exon3Exon4 Exon5 TCCTAAAGCAGAAGAGGATCACCCTGGGATATAC Knockout of Porcine Oct4 Injections in Porcine Zygotes (Parthernotes) J.W. Kwon
  • 55.
  • 56.
    DNA Oct4 Merge Cas9(100ng) Cas9/ sgRNA (10ng/ul) Cas9/ sgRNA (100ng/ul) Immunostaining of Oct4 in Cas9/sgRNA Knockdown of l Oct4 in porcine blastocyst
  • 57.
    Application of CRISPR/Cas9 •Knockout/Knock-in Animal Generation • Gene Knockout in Cultured Cell Line • Gene Activation / Repression by dCas9 • Therapeutic Application? • Others..
  • 58.
    Generation of AnimalModel in Lighting Speed - Knockout/Knock-in generation Mouse : at least 6~12 months - Using CRISPR/Cas9.. You can get a founder in 2 Months with ~90% of efficiency - Introduction of Disease Model Mutations Variants discovered from GWAS / WGS projects Validation in animal model would be possible
  • 59.
    Knockout/KnockIn in „Other‟Animals - Knockout/Knock-in generation Mouse : Established procedures even before ZFN/TALEN/CRISPR - But in other animal? Lack of embryonic stem cell and suitable genome level targeting technology Even in Rat, embryonic stem cell was - Targeted genetic modification in domestic animal
  • 60.
    With Little Helpsfrom CRISPR/Cas9.. Rat August 2013Zebrafish January 2013 Xenopus October 2013 Pig January 2014 Rabbit January 2014 Rice fish April 2014 Silkworm December 2013 Drosophila September 2013
  • 61.
    Virtually genomes ofall living organisms can be modified by CRISPR/Cas9 as “Programmable DNA endonculease” AnimalPlant Fungi Bacteria Mouse Rat Xenopus Drosophila Pig Zebrafish Rabbit Goat Arabidopsis Rice Tobacco Wheat Orange
  • 65.
    Genome Engineering inPrimate is feasible
  • 66.
    Sus scorfa :Important model organism for Xenotransplantation Knockout of immune responsive related genes is necessary Alternative Source of Human Organs : Xenotransplantation? - porcine α1,3-galactosyltransferase (GGTA1) - CMP-Neu5Ac hydroxylase Expression of various human immune organizer in Pigs
  • 67.
    Primary fetal fibroblastGenetic Modification Nuclear Transfer Slow Inefficient Transgenesis Gene targeting by Homologous recombination/ AAV vector ZFN/TALEN (i.e. Cloning) Low efficiency Laborious Abnormal development Transfer Nuclues of Genetically Modified cell to Unfertillized / enuclated oocyte Traditional Way of Genetic Modifications in Pig
  • 68.
    CRISPR/Cas9 Offers MuchFaster Way.. sgRNA + Donor DNA MicroInjections Embryo Transfer
  • 70.
    Positive selection ofgene knockout for resistance to the BRAF protein kinase inhibitor Shalem et al., Science 2014
  • 71.
  • 72.
    dCas9-mediated Endogenous GeneActivations Cell Res. 2013 Double Mutant of Cas9 Inactive for cleavage Tandem Transactivation Domain Position of sgRNA
  • 73.
    dCas9-mediated Gene expressioninterference Lim et al., Cell 2013
  • 74.
    Therapeutic Potential ofCRISPR/Cas9 CCR5 HIV receptor targeting by ZFN http://www.sangamo.com/pipeline/sb-728.html
  • 75.
    Editas genomics wasfound late 2013 Zhang + Church + Doudna http://www.editas.com
  • 76.
    Mutation Corrections Cataract(백내장) in Model Organism Wu et al., Cell Stem Cell, 2013 Repair of Dominant Negative Heterozygote Using WT allele Repair of Dominant Negative Heterozygote Using oligonucleotide
  • 77.
    Functional Repair ofCTFR by CRISPR/Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients Schwank et al., Cell Stem Cell 2013 Delta F508 : Most common CTFR mutation : resulting abnormal channel proteins
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    Genome Editing inAdult Mouse - Mouse model of hereditary tyrosinemia type I - Caused by mutation on fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Exon skipping)
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    Correction of Mutationsin Zygote stages of Human? We have more knowledge and techniques on Human Embryo than Monkey‟s
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    Assisted Reproduction Technologyis common In 2012, 176,275 ART Cycle (In vitro fertillization) were performed and 65,179 live born infants Over 1% of all infants born in the United States are conceived using ART ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) was involved in 30-40% of cases
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    Most infertility clinicshave ability to carry out ICSI
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    Validation of off-sitemutations by PGD-NGS? 8-Cell Embryo Karyotyping Preimplamantation Genetic Diagonosis (PGD) PCR-Seqencing Aneuploidy Mutation
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    Genome Sequencing fromsingle oocyte is now possible Cell 2014
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    1-Cell Embryo (Zygote) sgRNAs Cas9 Donor DNA Injection 3Days PGD-NGS Genotyping (Fast turnaround required) 8-Cell Embryo Blastocyst with Desired Modification Without off-site mutaton Blastocyst witout Modification or With off-site mutaton Embryo Transfer Or Storage in liquid N2 Potential Workflow for ‘GMO’ human? 5 Days
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    Ethical Concerns - Regulations -Safety - Ethical concerns (GMO Human?) - 생명윤리및 안전에 관한 법률 Mad Scientist aka “Frankenstein builder” No relation with http://madscientist.wordpress.com 
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    BGI invested significantresources on PGD screening http://www.genomics.cn/en/navigation/show_navigation?nid=5687
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    They are alsotrying to sequence a million people‟s genome For what?
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    “Rising of „designerbabies‟ industry?” “성형외과 지고 성형산부인과 뜬다?” Welcome To the Brave New World. “Designer Baby” Patent issued to 23andMe.com US. 8,620,594 B2
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    Current Pitfall ofCRISPR/Cas9 - Off-target effects -Cas9 recognition is mainly rely on ~15bp upstream of PAM
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    Although Off-target effectand toxicity of CRISPR is much lower than those of ZFN.. Fuji et al., NAR 2013
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    How to avoidoff-target effects? - Optimization of Injection conditions (less cas9/sgRNA) - Bioinformatics : Find a sgRNA target for less off-targets “CRISPR Design” (http://crispr.mit.edu)
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    Double-Nicking System - UsingCas9 Nickase (Can cleave only single strand of DNA) Ran et al., Cell 2013 - Reduces off-target mutagnesis by 50-1,000 fold - Efficient indel / HDR as similar with wt Cas9 - More restriction in cleavage site
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    Sequence requirement ofCas9 Streptococcus pyrogenes Cas9 5’-NNNNNNNNNNNN-NGG-3’ Neisseria meningitidis Cas9 5’-NNNNNNNNNNN-NNNNGATT-3’ NmCas9 can gene distruptions In Human ES Cells Hou, Thomson JA PNAS 2013 Streptococcus thermophillus 5’-NNNNNNNNNNNNNN-NNAGAA-3’ Treponema denticola 5‟-NNNNNNNNNNNNNN-NAAAAC-3‟ Screening of novel Cas9? With different PAM specifity?
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    Engineering of Cas9 Nowstructure of Cas9-sgRNA is in our hands, it is time to engineer it - PAM Specificity? - Removal of nonessential part (spCas9 is too big in some vector system) - Efficient fusion with other functional domains (Epigenetics?)
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    Roles of otherCas proteins and possible applications We do not understand exact functional roles of all of Cas proteins Some of Cas proteins may enhance Genome engineering efficiency further
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    Delivery of Cas9/sgRNA Moreefficient delivery method would be crucial for in vivo application Viral vector? Plasmid? Ribonucleoprotein complex? Delivery without transfection agent?
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    “Secret Lab ofa Mad Scientist” http://madscientist.wordpress.com “Frankenstein is not yet ready”  동물바이오 신약장기개발사업단 http://www.cabx.kr
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    Thanks for yourattention!