Fig. 2.
Knockout CD19-CAR-NK92 cell clones. A Graphic abstract of the generation of knockout cell clones. CD19-CAR-NK92 cells were initially transduced with Cas9-coding plasmid (day 0). After Blasticidin selection (day 3–14), gRNA-coding plasmids (for FasL- or Prf1-binding or empty plasmid (reference)) were delivered in Cas9-equipped cells (day 14), followed by Neomycin selection. Creation of the single-cell clones begun after Blasticidin and Neomycin selection for 5 weeks (week 7). Single-cell clones were analyzed for success of knockouts after expanding for at least 4 weeks (week 11). The gRNA-complementary DNA sequences are shown in the box (underlined), the start codon is marked green. B Western blotting of perforin-, FasL-, TRAIL- and α-Tubulin-expression of the created knockout cell clones (3–10). For each knockout experiment, two single-cell clones were analyzed. Corresponding pairs of the cell clones are pictured one below the other (3/7; 4/8; 5/9; 6/10). Wildtype NK92 (1) and CD19-CAR-NK92 cells (2) were used as relation cells. C Histograms of CD19-CAR expression of the knockout cell clones. The corresponding pairs are indicated in the same color (green: reference clones, red: Prf1-ko clones, blue: FasL-ko clones, yellow: double-ko clones)