Retinitis pigmentosa(RP)is a form of inherited retinal degenerative diseases that ultimately involves the macula,which is present in primates but not in the ***,creating nonhumanprimate(NHP)models of RP is of critica...
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Retinitis pigmentosa(RP)is a form of inherited retinal degenerative diseases that ultimately involves the macula,which is present in primates but not in the ***,creating nonhuman primate(NHP)models of RP is of critical importance to study its mechanism of pathogenesis and to evaluate potential therapeutic options in the *** we applied adeno-associated virus(AAV)-delivered CRISPR/SaCas9 technology to knockout the RHO gene in the retinae of the adult rhesus macaque(Macaca mulatta)to investigate the hypothesis whether non-germline mutation of the RHO gene is sufficient to recapitulate *** a series of studies,we were able to demonstrate successful somatic editing of the RHO gene and reduced RHO protein *** importantly,the mutant macaque retinae displayed clinical RP phenotypes,including photoreceptor degeneration,retinal thinning,abnormal rod subcellular structures,and reduced ***,we suggest somatic editing of the RHO gene is able to phenocopy RP,and the reduced time span in generating NHP mutant accelerates RP research and expands the utility of NHP model for human disease study.
Although CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing is widely applied to mimic human disorders,whether acute manipulation of disease-causing genes in the brain leads to behavioral abnormalities in non-human primates remains to...
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Although CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing is widely applied to mimic human disorders,whether acute manipulation of disease-causing genes in the brain leads to behavioral abnormalities in non-human primates remains to be *** we induced genetic mutations in MECP2,a critical gene linked to Rett syndrome(RTT)and autism spectrum disorders(ASD),in the hippocampus(DG and CA1–4)of adolescent rhesus monkeys(Macaca mulatta)in vivo via adeno-associated virus(AAV)-delivered Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 with small guide RNAs(sg RNAs)targeting *** comparison to monkeys injected with AAV-Sa Cas9 alone(n=4),numerous autistic-like behavioral abnormalities were identified in the AAV-Sa Cas9-sg MECP2-injected monkeys(n=7),including social interaction deficits,abnormal sleep patterns,insensitivity to aversive stimuli,abnormal hand motions,and defective social reward ***,some aspects of ASD and RTT,such as stereotypic behaviors,did not appear in the MECP2 gene-edited monkeys,suggesting that different brain areas likely contribute to distinct ASD *** study showed that acute manipulation of disease-causing genes via in vivo gene editing directly led to behavioral changes in adolescent primates,paving the way for the rapid generation of genetically engineered non-human primate models for neurobiological studies and therapeutic development.
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