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A Flexible Transgene Integration Landing-Pad Toolkit in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Enables Facile Cellular Engineering, Gene Zygosity Control, and Parallel Transgene Integration

Rosenstein, A. H.; Nguyen, M.; Al-attar, R.; Serra, D.; Gulati, N.; Yin, T.; Gilbert, P. M.; Garton, M.

2023-03-04 synthetic biology
10.1101/2023.03.03.531057 bioRxiv
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Development of a repeatable method for delivering transgene payloads to human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) without risking unintended off-target effects is not fully realized. Yet, such methods are indispensable to fully unlocking the potential for applying synthetic biological approaches to regenerative medicine, delivering quantum impacts to cell-based therapeutics development. Here we present a toolkit for engineering hiPSCs centred on the development of two core landing-pad cell-lines, facilitating rapid high-efficiency delivery of transgenes to the AAVS1 safe-harbour locus using the Bxb1 large-serine recombinase. We developed two landing-pad cell lines expressing green and red fluorescent reporters respectively, both retaining stemness whilst fully capable of differentiation into all three germ layers. A fully selected hiPSC population can be isolated within 1-2 weeks after landing-pad recombinase-mediated cassette exchange. We demonstrate the capability for investigator-controlled homozygous or heterozygous transgene configurations in these cells. As such, the toolkit of vectors and protocols associated with this landing-pad hiPSC system has the potential to accelerate engineering workflows for researchers in a variety of disciplines.

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