title: Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-Based Genome Engineering in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.
abstract: Human pluripotent stem cells (hPS cells) are rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for biomedical discovery. The advent of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPS cells) with human embryonic stem (hES)-cell-like properties has led to hPS cells with disease-specific genetic backgrounds for in vitro disease modeling and drug discovery as well as mechanistic and developmental studies. To fully realize this potential, it will be necessary to modify the genome of hPS cells with precision and flexibility. Pioneering experiments utilizing site-specific double-strand break (DSB)-mediated genome engineering tools, including zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) and transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), have paved the way to genome engineering in previously recalcitrant systems such as hPS cells. However, these methods are technically cumbersome and require significant expertise, which has limited adoption. A major recent advance involving the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) endonuclease has dramatically simplified the effort required for genome engineering and will likely be adopted widely as the most rapid and flexible system for genome editing in hPS cells. In this unit, we describe commonly practiced methods for CRISPR endonuclease genomic editing of hPS cells into cell lines containing genomes altered by insertion/deletion (indel) mutagenesis or insertion of recombinant genomic DNA.
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California.|Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, California.|Present address: Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: Cody
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kime
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California.|Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Mohammad A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mandegar
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California.|Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, California.|Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.|Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California.|Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, California.|Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.|Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamanaka
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California.|Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, California.|Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Bruce R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Conklin
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California.|Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Tim A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Rand
mesh_terms: D064113:CRISPR-Cas Systems; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D015894:Genome, Human / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D054643:INDEL Mutation; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
keywords: CRISPR; Cas9; genomic engineering; human pluripotent stem cells