High frequency off-target mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells

Fu, Yanfang; Foden, Jennifer A.; Khayter, Cyd; Maeder, Morgan L.; Reyon, Deepak; Joung, J. Keith; Sander, Jeffry D.

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High frequency off-target mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells

Published Date:

Jun 23 2013

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Nat Biotechnol. 31(9):822-826.

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Fu, Yanfang ; Foden, Jennifer A. ; Khayter, Cyd ; Maeder, Morgan L. ; Reyon, Deepak ; ... More ▼

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Clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) have rapidly emerged as a facile and efficient platform for genome editing. Here, we use a human cell-based reporter assay to characterize off-target cleavage of CRISPR-associated (Cas)9-based RGNs. We find that single and double mismatches are tolerated to varying degrees depending on their position along the guide RNA (gRNA)-DNA interface. We also readily detected off-target alterations induced by four out of six RGNs targeted to endogenous loci in human cells by examination of partially mismatched sites. The off-target sites we identified harbored up to five mismatches and many were mutagenized with frequencies comparable to (or higher than) those observed at the intended on-target site. Our work demonstrates that RGNs can be highly active even with imperfectly matched RNA-DNA interfaces in human cells, a finding that might confound their use in research and therapeutic applications.

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23792628

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PMC3773023

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Journal Article

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DP1 GM105378/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; DP1 GM105378/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States ; P50 HG005550/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States ; P50 HG005550/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States ; R01 GM088040/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States ; ... More ▼

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