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. 2021 Aug 13;12:4922. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25190-6

Fig. 1. CRISPR-Cas9-mediated globin gene targeting induces Chr11p terminal deletions in HEK cells.

Fig. 1

a Experimental design. HEK293T cells edited with Cas9 nuclease RNP and sets of gRNA corresponding to protocols #1 to #3. Map of β-globin genes, telomeric downstream SNP genes (RRM1) and FISH probes. LOH, loss of heterozygosity; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism; FISH, fluorescent in situ hybridization; CGH, comparative genomic hybridization. b Illustrative Chr11 DNA-FISH in HEK cells. Scale-bar: 5 µm. Polyclonal Chr11 DNA-FISH analysis at D4 (left) and at D18 (right) after editing with protocols #1 to #3. NT: non-transfected. O, Orange sub-centromeric probe; G sub-telomeric Green probe. 3O/3G (in gray), 3O/2G (in red), 2O/3G (in yellow), and 2O/2G (in black) signal percentages are quantified. 3O/2G frequencies after protocols 1–3 were compared to non-transduced cells on same day by two-sided Chi-square tests. n correspond to analyzed cells from each polyclonal pool (1 per protocol). c left: Polyclonal Chr11 DNA-FISH analysis at D4 after editing with protocol #3 (Chr11), without gRNA or targeting another chromosome (UROS locus in Chr10). 3O/2G frequencies targeting Chr10 or without guide RNA were compared to protocol #3 on same day. 3O/2G frequencies targeting Chr10 or without guide RNA were compared by two-sided Chi-square tests. Right: Polyclonal Chr11 DNA-FISH analysis at D4 after editing with protocol #3 (Chr11), and with protocol #3 using HiFi Cas9. 3O/3G, 3O/3G, 2O/3G and 2O/2G signal percentages were quantified. 3O/2G frequencies with protocol #3 using HiFi Cas9 or Cas9 were compared to non-transduced cells by two-sided Chi-square tests. 3O/2G frequencies with protocol #3 using HiFi Cas9 were compared to protocol #3 using Cas9 by two-sided Chi-square tests. O: orange sub-centromeric Chr11 probe, G: green sub-telomeric Chr11p probe. n correspond to analyzed cells from each polyclonal pool (1 per protocol). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.