Reprogramming the antigen specificity of B cells using genome-editing technologies
By
James E. Voss,
Alicia Gonzalez-Martin,
Raiees Andrabi,
Roberta P Fuller,
Ben Murrell,
Laura E McCoy,
Katelyn Porter,
Deli Huang,
Wenjuan Li,
Devin Sok,
Khoa Le,
Bryan Briney,
Morgan Chateau,
Geoffrey Rogers,
Lars Hangartner,
Ann J Feeney,
David Nemazee,
Paula Cannon,
Dennis R. Burton
Posted 29 Oct 2018
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/455402
(published DOI: 10.7554/eLife.42995)
We have developed a method to introduce novel paratopes into the human antibody repertoire by modifying the immunoglobulin genes of mature B cells directly using genome editing technologies. We used CRISPR-Cas9 in a homology directed repair strategy, to replace the heavy chain (HC) variable region in B cell lines with that from an HIV broadly neutralizing antibody, PG9. Our strategy is designed to function in cells that have undergone VDJ recombination using any combination of variable (V), diversity (D) and joining (J) genes. The modified locus expresses PG9 HC which pairs with native light chains resulting in the cell surface expression of HIV specific B cell receptors (BCRs). Endogenous activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) in engineered cells allowed for Ig class switching and generated BCR variants with improved anti-HIV neutralizing activity. Thus, BCRs engineered in this way retain the genetic flexibility normally required for affinity maturation during adaptive immune responses.
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