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. 2020 Apr 15;10(12):5532–5549. doi: 10.7150/thno.43465

Table 7.

Summary of Physical Transfection Techniques for CRISPR Delivery

Transfection Method Cell Type CRISPR Format & Dosage Gene Editing Performance Target Gene Ref.
Mechanical SU-DHL-1 lymphoma cells Plasmid , @ - 70% knockout of fluorescence expression, assessed via flow cytometry EGFP 88
MDA-MB-231 basal cells Plasmid , @ - 90% knockout of fluorescence expression, assessed via flow cytometry EGFP
SK‐BR‐3 cells RNP, @ 2 µM 80% knockout of fluorescence expression, assessed via flow cytometry EGFP 90
MDA-MB-231 basal cells RNP, @ 2 µM 43% editing, assessed by surveyor mutation detection assay pMAPKs
SUM-159 cells RNP, @ 2 µM 47% editing, assessed by surveyor mutation detection assay pMAPKs
Human primary T cells RNP, @ 2 µM 36% editing, assessed by surveyor mutation detection assay pMAPKs
~35% knockout of PD-1 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry PD-1
Human HSCs RNP, @ 2 µM - C/EBPα 87
Human HSCs RNP, @ 25 µM 63% knockout of β2-microglobulin surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry B2M 89
Human primary T cells RNP, @ 0.625 µM 55% editing, assessed by T7E1 assay PD1 91
Electrical HEK 293 cells Plasmid, @ 200 µg/mL - - 92
Human primary CD4+ T cells RNP @ ~ 50 µM 96% knockout of CXCR4 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CXCR4 110
98% knockout of CD127 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CD127
94% knockout of CCR7 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CCR7
Human primary CD8+ T cells 95% knockout of PD1 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry PD1
96% knockout of TIGIT surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry TIGIT
98% knockout of CTLA4 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CTLA4
Mouse CD4+ T cells 90% knockout of CD90 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CD90
88% knockout of CTLA4 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CTLA4
Mouse CD8+ T cells 98% knockout of CD8α surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CD8α
93% knockout of CTLA4 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CTLA4
Human iPSCs RNP, @ 0.5 µM 52% editing of APP, assessed by T7E1 assay APP 94
70% editing of AAVS1, assessed by T7E1 assay AAVS1
59% editing of OCT4, assessed by T7E1 assay OCT4
52% editing of PD1, assessed by T7E1 assay PD1
56% editing of APP, assessed by DNA sequencing90% editing of APP with HDR DNA template, assessed by DNA sequencing48% editing of PD1, assessed by DNA sequencing62% editing of PD1 with HDR DNA template. assessed by DNA sequencing
Human MSCs RNP, @ 0.5 µM 45% editing of B2M, assessed by T7E1 assay30% knockout of β2-microglobulin surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry77% knockout of β2-microglobulin surface expression with HDR DNA template, assessed via flow cytometry B2M
Human primary T cells RNP, @ 0.5 µM 57% editing of PD1, assessed by T7E1 assay14% knockout of PD1 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry19% knockout of PD1 surface expression with HDR DNA template, assessed via flow cytometry PD-1
HEK 293 cells RNP, @ 10 µM 31% editing, assessed by T7E1 assay33% editing, assessed by Sanger sequencing PPIB 95
HeLa cells RNP, @ 10 µM 24% editing, assessed by T7E1 assay PPIB 101
Jurkat cells RNP, @ 10 µM 26% editing, assessed by T7E1 assay
Acoustic HEC-1A cells Plasmid, @ 2 μg/mL 57% knockout of mRNA expression, assessed via western blot C-erbB-2 118
HeLa & HEK 293 cells Plasmid, @ 110 ng/μl - - 121
Magnetic Porcine fibroblast Plasmid, @ 375 ng/mL & 750 ng/mL 15% & 27% editing, assessed by Sanger sequencing H11 locus 127
Hepa 1-6 cell Plasmid in baculovirus 35% editing, assessed by T7E1 assay Vegfr2 129
Laser/ Plasmonic SC1 cells sgRNA (to Cas9 expressing cells), @ 5 µM 12% editing, assessed by T7E1 assay30% knockout of CCR7 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CCR7 141
RNP, @ 5 µM 6% editing, assessed by T7E1 assay22% knockout of CCR7 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry
Mouse primary T cells RNP, @ 5 µM 4% knockout of CXCR3 surface expression, assessed via flow cytometry CXCR3
Lymph node stroma cells RNP, @ 5 µM 5% knockout of fluorescence expression, assessed via flow cytometry EGFP