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제목 Concurrent progress of reprogramming and gene correction to overcome therapeutic limitation of mutant ALK2-iPSC
등록일 2016-07-14 첨부파일
구분 SCI
학술지 EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
발표일 2016-06-03
저자 김부여, 정선구, 정상균, 이서영, 이소민, 권은정, 안현준, 김장환
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) syndrome is caused by mutation of the gene ACVR1, encoding a constitutive active BMP type I receptor (also called ALK2) to induce heterotopic ossification in the patient. To genetically correct it, we attempted to generate the mutant ALK2-iPSCs (mALK2-iPSCs) from FOP-human dermal fibroblasts. However, the mALK2 leads to inhibitory pluripotency maintenance, or impaired clonogenic potential after single-cell dissociation as an inevitable step, which applies gene-correction tools to iPSCs. Thus, current iPSCs-based gene therapy approach reveals a limitation that is not readily applicable to iPSCs with ALK2 mutation. Here we developed a simplified one-step procedure by simultaneously introducing reprogramming and gene-editing components into human fibroblasts derived from patient with FOP syndrome, and genetically treated it. The mixtures of reprogramming and gene-editing components are composed of reprogramming episomal vectors, CRISPR/Cas9-expressing vectors, and single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide harboring normal base to correct ALK2 c. 617G>A. The one-step-mediated ALK2 gene-corrected iPSCs restored global gene expression pattern as well as mineralization to the extent of normal iPSCs. This procedure not only helps save time, labor, and costs, but also opens up a new paradigm that is beyond the current application of gene-editing methodologies, which is hampered by inhibitory pluripotency-maintenance requirements, or vulnerability of single-cell-dissociated iPSCs.

*원문신청: kdc@kiom.re.kr