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Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with altered PAM specificities
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Although CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases are widely used for genome editing, the range of sequences that Cas9 can recognize is constrained by the need for a specific protospacer adjacent motif (PAM). As a result, it can often be difficult to target double-stranded breaks (DSBs) with the precision that is necessary for various genome-editing applications. The ability to engineer Cas9 derivatives with purposefully altered PAM specificities would address this limitation. Here we show that the commonly used Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) can be modified to recognize alternative PAM sequences using structural information, bacterial selection-based directed evolution, and combinatorial design. These altered PAM specificity variants enable robust editing of endogenous gene sites in zebrafish and human cells not currently targetable by wild-type SpCas9, and their genome-wide specificities are comparable to wild-type SpCas9 as judged by GUIDE-seq analysis. In addition, we identify and characterize another SpCas9 variant that exhibits improved specificity in human cells, possessing better discrimination against off-target sites with non-canonical NAG and NGA PAMs and/or mismatched spacers. We also find that two smaller-size Cas9 orthologues, Streptococcus thermophilus Cas9 (St1Cas9) and Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 (SaCas9), function efficiently in the bacterial selection systems and in human cells, suggesting that our engineering strategies could be extended to Cas9s from other species. Our findings provide broadly useful SpCas9 variants and, more importantly, establish the feasibility of engineering a wide range of Cas9s with altered and improved PAM specificities.
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“Precision editing of alleles in a human cell has drastically improved the understanding of genotypic and phenotypic effects in gene therapy due to the lower off-target rates [119,120,121].”
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“Besides, there are other variants that could identify different PAM sequences, such as VQR, VRER, VRQR, and QQR1, allowing gene editing on a wider range of genetic loci.”
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“The basic bacterial selection scheme performed was adapted from a previously described positive selection system for identifying Cas9 mutants in E. coli31.”
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“To be applicable to a wider range of genomic sites, some non-NGG PAM Cas9 were generated.”
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“This could result in the development of wider-ranged VQR, EQR, and VRER SpCas9 variants, enabling the targeting of NGAN, NGNG, and NGCG PAMs, respectively (Kleinstiver et al., 2015; Hirano et al., 2016).”
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“These modifications have led to the creation of SpCas9 variants such as VQR, EQR, and VRER, which can recognize broader PAM sequences like NGAN, NGNG, and NGCG, respectively (Kleinstiver et al., 2015; Hirano et al., 2016).”
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“Cas9 genomic localization is delimited by the protospacer adjacent motif (PAM), which is NGG for SpCas9 while evolved variants of SpCas9 tolerate a broader range of PAM sequences17–21.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kleinstiver, B. P., Prew, M. S., Tsai, S. Q., Topkar, V. V., Nguyen, N. T., Zheng, Z., Gonzales, A. P. W., Li, Z., Peterson, R. T., Yeh, J.-R. J., Aryee, M. J., & Joung, J. K.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Joung, J. Keith
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2015-06-22
- Volume
- 523
- Issue
- 7561
- Pages
- 481-485
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4540238
- OpenAlex
- W4245053291
- Semantic Scholar
- afe29e1767b5d0f3563ee9f2c1a586a9d5e8cb9b
- Cited by
- 1,624
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 58 · 2025: 105 · 2024: 117 · 2023: 134 · 2022: 166 · 2021: 165 · 2020: 164 · 2019: 154 · 2018: 147 · 2017: 186 · 2016: 167 · 2015: 58
- FWCI
- 80.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (DP1GM105378, R01GM107427, R01GM088040)
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (DP1 GM105378)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA regulation and disease
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › CAR-T cell therapy research
- Keywords
- CRISPR/Cas9, SpCas9, protospacer adjacent motif, genome editing, off-target effects, SaCas9, Cas9 nickase, zebrafish
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cell Line, Humans, Mutation, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Substrate Specificity, Zebrafish, Protein Engineering, Genome, Directed Molecular Evolution, Amino Acid Substitution, Streptococcus thermophilus, Nucleotide Motifs, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR-Cas Systems, CRISPR-Associated Proteins
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