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- Title
Crosstalk between CRISPR-Cas9 and the human transcriptome.
- Authors
Smargon, Aaron A.; Madrigal, Assael A.; Yee, Brian A.; Dong, Kevin D.; Mueller, Jasmine R.; Yeo, Gene W.
- Abstract
CRISPR-Cas9 expression independent of its cognate synthetic guide RNA (gRNA) causes widespread genomic DNA damage in human cells. To investigate whether Cas9 can interact with endogenous human RNA transcripts independent of its guide, we perform eCLIP (enhanced CLIP) of Cas9 in human cells and find that Cas9 reproducibly interacts with hundreds of endogenous human RNA transcripts. This association can be partially explained by a model built on gRNA secondary structure and sequence. Critically, transcriptome-wide Cas9 binding sites do not appear to correlate with published genome-wide Cas9 DNA binding or cut-site loci under gRNA co-expression. However, even under gRNA co-expression low-affinity Cas9-human RNA interactions (which we term CRISPR crosstalk) do correlate with published elevated transcriptome-wide RNA editing. Our findings do not support the hypothesis that human RNAs can broadly guide Cas9 to bind and cleave human genomic DNA, but they illustrate a cellular and RNA impact likely inherent to CRISPR-Cas systems. The off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9 are thought to be mediated by its cognate guide RNA. Here the authors show that Cas9 independently interacts with the human transcriptome, correlating with elevated RNA editing even under guide RNA co-expression.
- Subjects
TRANSCRIPTOMES; HUMAN DNA; RNA editing; CRISPRS; DNA damage; BINDING sites
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-28719-5