In vivo editing of lung stem cells for durable gene correction in mice

Yehui Sun, Sumanta Chatterjee, Xizhen Lian, Zachary Traylor, Sandhya R. Sattiraju, Yufen Xiao, Sean A. Dilliard, Yun Chieh Sung, Minjeong Kim, Sang M. Lee, Stephen Moore, Xu Wang, Di Zhang, Shiying Wu, Pratima Basak, Jialu Wang, Jing Liu, Rachel J. Mann, David F. LePage, Weihong JiangShadaan Abid, Mirko Hennig, Anna Martinez, Brandon A. Wustman, David J. Lockhart, Raksha Jain, Ronald A. Conlon, Mitchell L. Drumm, Craig A. Hodges, Daniel J. Siegwart

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Abstract

In vivo genome correction holds promise for generating durable disease cures; yet, effective stem cell editing remains challenging. In this work, we demonstrate that optimized lung-targeting lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) enable high levels of genome editing in stem cells, yielding durable responses. Intravenously administered gene-editing LNPs in activatable tdTomato mice achieved >70% lung stem cell editing, sustaining tdTomato expression in >80% of lung epithelial cells for 660 days. Addressing cystic fibrosis (CF), NG-ABE8e messenger RNA (mRNA)-sgR553X LNPs mediated >95% cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) DNA correction, restored CFTR function in primary patient-derived bronchial epithelial cells equivalent to Trikafta for F508del, corrected intestinal organoids and corrected R553X nonsense mutations in 50% of lung stem cells in CF mice. These findings introduce LNP-enabled tissue stem cell editing for disease-modifying genome correction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1196-1202
Number of pages7
JournalScience (New York, N.Y.)
Volume384
Issue number6701
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 14 2024
Externally publishedYes

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