Journal: Nature biotechnology
Article Title: Massively parallel knock-in engineering of human T cells
doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01639-x
Figure Lengend Snippet: a, T7E1 assay for individual crRNAs in CAR-T cells. Predicted cleaved bands, blue arrows. b–e, Flow analysis of mutant CAR-T cells in two donors (infection replicates, n = 3). b, Quantification of Tcm (CD45RO+CCR7+ or CD45RO+CD62L+). c, Quantification of exhaustion markers (LAG3+). d, Representative histograms of CellTrace Violet in mutant CAR-T cells, measured at day 0 (gray peak) or day 3 (cyan peak). Yellow dashed line, MFI for vector CAR-T. e, CellTrace Violet MFI quantification. f, T7E1 for PRDM1-cr3 to cr8 from donor 2 CAR-T cells. g, T7E1 for PRDM1-cr1and cr2 on another donor and different CAR-T construct. Note for a, f and g, gel is representative of three repeated experiments. h, Indel quantification of PRDM1-cr1 to cr8 in donor 2 CAR22 T cells (technical replicates, n = 3 for most samples, except cr4_control and c5_control (n = 1)). i, Top, schematics of PRDM1 protein primary structure. Bottom, PRDM1 protein western blot in vector and PRDM1 mutant CAR-T cells. Blot is representative of three repeated experiments. Blue arrowheads, WT protein. Blue stars, truncated mutant protein generated by PRDM1-cr1. j, Exon3 skipping after PRDM1-cr1 editing in CAR-T cells verified by Sanger sequencing of RT–PCR products. Note for f–j, cutting sites of crRNAs, vertical arrowheads on PRDM1 exon diagram. Predicted cleaved bands, horizontal arrowheads. Gel is representative of three repeated experiments. k, Protein structure alignment of PR domain (blue, PDB: 3DAL) and PR Δexon3 domain (gold, predicted via AlphaFold). Exon3 peptide, highlighted pink. l, Proliferation of PRDM1 mutant and control CD22 CAR-T cells with NALM6 stimulation (cell culture replicates, n = 3). m, Cytotoxicity of vector and PRDM1 mutant CAR-T cells for different donors (cell culture replicates, n = 3). Statistics: b, c and e, unpaired two-sided t-test; h, l and m, two-way ANOVA. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001. Data are shown as mean ± s.e.m. LOF, loss of function.
Article Snippet: For CAR staining, the CD22BBz CAR transduced T cells were incubated with 0.2 μg of CD22-Fc (R&D Systems) in 100 μl of staining buffer for 30 minutes and then stained with PE-IgG-Fc (BioLegend).
Techniques: Mutagenesis, Infection, Plasmid Preparation, Construct, Control, Western Blot, Generated, Sequencing, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction, Cell Culture