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美国圣犹大儿童研究医院Shengdar Q. Tsai研究小组利用CHANGE-seq技术，揭示了影响CRISPR-Cas9全基因组活性的遗传和表观遗传因素。相关论文于2020年6月15日在线发表在《自然—生物技术》杂志上。

Title: CHANGE-seq reveals genetic and epigenetic effects on CRISPR–Cas9 genome-wide activity

Author: Cicera R. Lazzarotto, Nikolay L. Malinin, Yichao Li, Ruochi Zhang, Yang Yang, GaHyun Lee, Eleanor Cowley, Yanghua He, Xin Lan, Kasey Jividen, Varun Katta, Natalia G. Kolmakova, Christopher T. Petersen, Qian Qi, Evgheni Strelcov, Samantha Maragh, Giedre Krenciute, Jian Ma, Yong Cheng, Shengdar Q. Tsai

Issue&Volume: 2020-06-15

Abstract: Current methods can illuminate the genome-wide activity of CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases, but are not easily scalable to the throughput needed to fully understand the principles that govern Cas9 specificity. Here we describe ‘circularization for high-throughput analysis of nuclease genome-wide effects by sequencing’ (CHANGE-seq), a scalable, automatable tagmentation-based method for measuring the genome-wide activity of Cas9 in vitro. We applied CHANGE-seq to 110 single guide RNA targets across 13 therapeutically relevant loci in human primary T cells and identified 201,934 off-target sites, enabling the training of a machine learning model to predict off-target activity. Comparing matched genome-wide off-target, chromatin modification and accessibility, and transcriptional data, we found that cellular off-target activity was two to four times more likely to occur near active promoters, enhancers and transcribed regions. Finally, CHANGE-seq analysis of six targets across eight individual genomes revealed that human single-nucleotide variation had significant effects on activity at ~15.2% of off-target sites analyzed. CHANGE-seq is a simplified, sensitive and scalable approach to understanding the specificity of genome editors.

DOI: 10.1038/s41587-020-0555-7

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0555-7

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