Targeted Knock-in of Transgenes into the CHO Cell Genome Using CRISPR-mediated Integration Systems

Autor: Iwao Ryusei, Kawabe Yoshinori, Murakami Mai, Ito Akira, Kamihira Masamichi
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: MATEC Web of Conferences, Vol 333, p 07001 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2261-236X
DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/202133307001
Popis: Biopharmaceutical proteins are usually produced by culturing recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. High producer cell lines are screened from transfected cells with random integration of target genes. Since transgene expression is susceptible to the surrounding environment of the integrated genomic locus, producer cell lines should be selected from a large number of recombinant cells with heterogeneous transgene insertion. In contrast, targeted integration into a characterized genomic locus allows for predictable transgene expression and less clonal variability, and thus stable production of target proteins can be expected. Genome editing technology based on programmable nucleases has recently emerged as a versatile tool for precise editing of target locus in the cell genome. Here, we demonstrated targeted knock-in of transgenes into the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) locus of CHO cells using CRISPR/Cas9 and CRISPR-mediated precise integration into target chromosome (PITCh) systems. We also generated knock-in CHO cells based on the homology-independent targeted integration (HITI) system. We evaluated the knock-in efficiency of transgenes into the hprt locus using these systems.
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