The FusX TALE Base Editor (FusXTBE) for rapid mitochondrial DNA programming of human cells in vitro and zebrafish disease models in vivo
Sabharwal, A.; Kar, B.; Castillo, S. R.; Holmberg, S. R.; Kendall, B. L.; Cotter, R. P.; WareJoncas, Z.; Clark, K. J.; Ekker, S. C.
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Functional analyses of mitochondria have been hampered by few effective approaches to manipulate mtDNA and a lack of existing animal models. Recently a TALE-derived base editor was shown to induce C-to-T (or G-to-A) sequence changes in mtDNA. We report here the FusX TALE Base Editor (FusXTBE) to facilitate broad-based access to TALE mitochondrial base editing technology. TALE Writer is a de novo in silico design tool to map potential mtDNA base editing sites. FusXTBE was demonstrated to function with comparable activity to the initial base editor in human cells in vitro. Zebrafish embryos were used as a pioneering in vivo test system, with FusXTBE inducing 90+% editing efficiency in mtDNA loci, the first example of majority mtDNA heteroplasmy induction in any system. Gene editing specificity as precise as a single nucleotide was observed in vivo for a protein-coding gene. Non-destructive genotyping enables single animal mtDNA analyses for downstream biological functional genomics applications. FusXTBE is a new gene editing toolkit for exploring important questions in mitochondrial biology and genetics.
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