Patent Application: US-201715441089-A

Abstract:
this disclosure describes a composition and method of magenitic nanoparticles that are bound to a baculovirus . the mnp - bv can be systemically administered to a patient , and a strong magnetic field applied to the target btissue , thus allowing uptake and expression only in the target tissue . off - target effects are not seen because the mnp - bc is inactivated by the complement system outside of the magnetic field .

Description:
we have combined two important tools ( crispr and bv ) to develop a novel way of genome editing . in order to overcome serum inactivation of the insect virus , we combine the virus with magnetic nanoparticles , inject or otherwise introduce the virus in vivo , and then subject the target tissue to a strong magnetic field within 30 minutes , preferably within 10 ″, of viral introduction . this allows the virus to escape complement inactivation and allows transient expression of the crispr payload . meanwhile , tissues that are not suject to the magnetic field will not take up virus , because any virus outside the target zone will be inactivated . we have exemplified the method using a cas9 / crispr genomic editing tool , but the method is of broader application and can be used to deliver other genome editing tools or other agents , such as drugs or other dnas or rnas and the like . in more detail , the invention includes any one or more of the following in any combination ( s ) thereof : a ) packaging an expression vector ( v ) encoding a gene editing system ; b ) attaching a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles to said v to make mnp - v ; c ) introducing said mnp - v to a patient having a gene to be edited ; nontargeted tissue , so that the mnp - v are only taken up and expressed in cells in said a ) packaging an expression vector encoding a cas9 or dcas9 protein , single or multiple guide rnas and an optional donor template into a baculovirus vector ( bv ), wherein said guide rna and said optional donor template have homology to one or b ) attaching a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles to said bv to make mnp - bv ; c ) introducing said mnp - bv to a patient comprising said gene ( s ) to be edited ; nontargeted tissue , so that the mnp - bv are only taken up and expressed in cells in said a ) packaging an expression vector encoding a crispr nuclease , single or multiple guide rnas and an optional donor template into a baculovirus vector ( bv ), wherein said guide rna and said donor template have homology to one or more gene ( s ) that is to b ) attaching a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles to said bv to make mnp - bv wherein c ) introducing said mnp - bv to a patient having said gene to be edited ; d ) applying a magnetic field of at least 0 . 1 tesla and 0 . 1 tesla / m to said targeted tissue within 10 minutes of said introducing step c , without applying said magnetic field to nontargeted tissue , so that the mnp - bv are only taken up and transiently expressed in any method herein described , wherein said magnetic field is at least 0 . 1 tesla . any method herein described , wherein said gradient of the magnetic field is at least 0 . 1 any method herein described , wherein said magnetic field is applied within 5 ″, 10 ″, or any method herein described , wherein said magnetic field is applied for at least 30 any method herein described , wherein said mnp : bv ratio is at least 500 : 1 . any method herein described , wherein said guide rna is a synthetic guide rna any method herein described , wherein said magnetic field is at least 0 . 1 tesla and the any method herein described , wherein said expression vector is a baculovirus vector any method herein described , wherein said mnp are made with iron oxide any method herein described , wherein said mnp are made with iron ( iii ) oxide any method herein described , wherein said mnp are made with magnetite crystals of any method herein describes , which is performed on ex vivo tissue rather than a whole a transformed cell or tissue or animal made by the methods herein described . production of bv vector : bv constructs including bv - luc , bv - egfp and bv - crispr , were generated using pfb - cmv - luc , pfb - ef1a - egfp and pfb - ef1a - egfp - u6 - sgrna - cbh - cas9 , respectively , and propagated in sf9 insect cells using the bac - to - bac baculovirus expression system ( thermo fisher ) according to the distributor &# 39 ; s protocol . synthesis of mnps : magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles ( mnps ) were synthesized according to previously published protocols 29 , 30 . in brief , magnetite nanocrystals were synthesized through thermodecomposition of iron ( iii ) acetylacetonate ( fe ( acac ) 3 , sigma ) in benzyl ether using oleic acid ( sigma ) and oleylamine ( sigma ) as the capping molecules . as - synthesized nanocrystals were subsequently coated with dspe - mpeg2000 ( avanti lipids ) and dspe - peg - maleimide ( avanti lipids ) at a molar ratio of 9 : 1 using a dual solvent exchange method . to conjugate tat peptides to the surface of mnps , freshly coated mnps were mixed with cys - tat peptides ( cgygrkkrrqrrr , genscript ) at a molar ratio of 1 : 400 in pbs and incubated overnight . unconjugated tat peptides were removed by washing the nanoparticles with deionized water in centrifugal filter tubes ( cutoff mol . wt .= 100 kda ). the physical properties of the mnps were characterized using transmitted electron microscopy ( tem ), dynamic light scattering ( dls ) ( mobius , wyatt ) and squid ( mpms , quantum design ). in vitro bv transduction : hepa 1 - 6 mouse liver cell line was purchased from atcc ( clr - 1830 ). human umbilical vein endothelial cells ( huvec ) were purchased from lonza ( cc - 2517 ). these cell lines were tested for mycoplasma contamination but not authenticated after receiving them . all cells were cultured according to the standard protocols from the distributors . in a typical in vitro bv transduction experiment , the cells were seeded in a chamber slide . before bv transduction , 2 μl of bv suspension was mixed with 4 μl of mnps for 20 minutes . the cells were then incubated with the mixture for 30 minutes with or without the magnet . in each group , the cells were transduced with bv at an moi of 100 pfu per cell unless otherwise specified . after transduction , the cells were incubated with fresh medium . after 24 hours post transduction , luciferase activity was measured using an in vitro luciferase kit in a microplate reader ( one - glotm luciferase assay system , promega ). egfp fluorescence was examined using flowcytometry or fluorescence microscopy . in vitro gdna analysis : hepa 1 - 6 cells were seeded in chamber slides and transduced with bv or mnp - bv as discussed above . genomic dna was extracted from treated cells with a dneasy blood and tissue kit ( qiagen ). the amplicon containing the crispr cutting site was amplified with the indicated primers ( f : cccccattcgctagtgtgta ( seq id no : 1 ); r : agcacggagtgattgatgcc ( seq id no : 2 )) using platinum ® pcr supermix high fidelity kit ( invitrogen ). the pcr products were purified with a pcr purification kit ( qiagen ) and denatured , reannealed and digested with a t7e1 nuclease ( new england biolabs ). the fragments were examined by gel electrophoresis in 1 . 5 % agarose gel . cytotoxicity study : hepa 1 - 6 cells were cultured in 96 - well plates and incubated with bv at designated mois with or without mnps for 12 hours . after treatment , the cells were incubated in fresh medium for 3 days and cell viability was evaluated by mtt assay . in brief , mtt was dissolved in sterile pbs at 5 mg / ml and added to the culture medium at 20 μl per well . after 4 hour incubation , the supernatant was removed and dmso was added to the cells at 150 μl per well to dissolve the formazan generated by the cells . the optical density of the solutions was measured at 490 nm using a microplate reader . immunostaining : the cells were seeded in chamber slides and incubated with bv or mnp - bv under designated conditions . after treatment , the cells were fixed in 4 % paraformaldehyde for 20 minutes , permeabilized with pbs containing 0 . 1 % triton for 3 minutes and blocked with 5 % bsa for 1 hour at room temperature . bv was detected by incubating the cells with an antibody against vp39 ( the late capsid protein of bv , kindly provided by prof . loy volkman and dr . taro ohkawa ) overnight at 4 ° c . followed by an alexa fluor 647 goat anti - mouse igg antibody ( abcam ) 35 . after that , the cells were stained with hoechst 33342 ( thermo fisher ) and alexa fluor 488 phalloidin ( thermo fisher ). the images were acquired with a confocal microscope ( zeiss lsm 710 ). in vivo bv transduction : all animal studies were approved . athymic nude mice ˜ 25 g body weight were purchased from charles river . c3 knockout mice were purchased from the jackson laboratory . the mice were randomly allocated to the experimental groups ( n = 3 per group ) without blinding . the mice were injected with bv ( 10 9 pfu ) with or without mnps ( 0 . 1 mg fe ) dispersed in 200 μl sterile pbs through the tail vein . injected mice were placed on an n52 grade ndfeb block magnet ( l × w × h = 1 ″ ½ ″× ½ ″) ( k & amp ; j magnetics ) for one hour under anesthesia ( fig6 b ). the magnetic field and the magnetic force exerted on individual mnps were simulated with comsol multiphysics ( fig9 ). to examine the luciferase activity resulting from bv transduction , each mouse was injected with in vivo luciferase substrate ( promega ) intraperitoneally ( i . p .) and imaged using an ivis kinetic iii live imaging system ( perkin elmer ). to examine the outcomes of genome editing , organs were harvested at 1 or 4 days after injection of baculovirus . individual liver cells were isolated from the liver tissue using liver dissociation kit ( miltenyi biotec ). genome editing was evaluated with next generation sequencing using the following primers : f — tgaaagaacacccaagggagg ( seq id no : 3 ) and r — gggacggagaaggagtctgt ( seq id no : 4 ). to examine the in vivo toxicity of mnp - bv , vital organs and blood were harvested from treated mice after 10 days post injection . the organs were fixed in 10 % formalin solution overnight and embedded in paraffin . histology evaluation was performed in tissue sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin . alanine transaminase ( alt ) and aspartate aminotransferase ( ast ) levels in the blood were measured using the alt elisa kit ( biocompare ) and ast colorimetric kit ( biovision ) respectively , according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . statistics : spss statistics ( spss ) was used for all calculations . data was analyzed using student &# 39 ; s t - tests or one - way anova and post hoc multiple comparison tests . the difference with p & lt ; 0 . 05 was considered statistically significant (* denotes p & lt ; 0 . 05 ; # denotes p & lt ; 0 . 01 ). recombinant bv was produced as described above . magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles ( mnps ) that can bind to bv were synthesized in three steps . first , magnetite nanocrystals were synthesized through thermodecomposition of iron acetylacetonate in benzyl ether 29 . as - synthesized nanocrystals were 15 . 5 ± 1 . 1 nm in diameter and had a saturation magnetization of 87 . 2 emu / g , similar to that of bulk magnetite . water - dispersible mnps were then generated by coating the nanocrystals with copolymers of phospholipid and poly ( ethylene glycol ) using a dual solvent exchange method 25 to form micelles around the crystals . mnps were then conjugated with the tat peptide , a positively charged peptide that can attach to the bv surface ( fig3 a ) 30 , 31 . however , this step is optional as the mnps were sufficient to protect and deliver the bv to the cells without the tat . tat peptide conjugation to mnp was confirmed by zeta potential measurements and dna retardation assay . when tat - conjugated mnps were mixed with bvs in phosphate buffered saline ( pbs ), multiple mnps could attach to a single bv to form the bv - mnp hybrid , presumably due to electrostatic interactions ( fig3 a ). mnps can disperse in aqueous buffers with negligible magnetic interactions , but upon exposure to a magnetic field , they migrate against the field gradient as nanomagnets . in this study , the magnetic field was generated by using ndfeb magnets with a residual induction of 1 . 48 tesla ( see fig9 ). when a mixture of bv and mnp were infused through a silicone tubing at physiologically relevant flow rates , more than 50 % of bv could be captured by a block magnet placed next to the tubing , as determined by a viral titration assay . this suggests that hybrids of bv and mnp were formed and that the block magnet was effective in attracting the bv - mnp complex to a specific location . we next investigated the effect of nanomagnets on the interactions of bv with cultured hepa 1 - 6 cells , which are known to have high bv infectibility 32 . bv alone exhibited negligible attachment to the cell surface as examined by immunostaining with the anti - vp39 antibody , which detects a bv capsid protein ( fig3 b ) 33 , 32 . in contrast , with the applied magnetic field , a large amount of mnp - bv complexes became attached to the cell surface and entered the cytoplasm after 10 min incubation ( fig3 b ). tem images of cell cross - sections show co - existence of mnp and bv in the lysosomes , indicating cellular internalization of the mnp - bv hybrids . to examine the effect of nanomagnets on bv - induced transgene expression in vitro , bv - luc and bv - egfp , containing luciferase and egfp plasmids respectively , were constructed ( fig4 a ). bv - egfp was mixed with mnps , and the mixture was incubated with hepa 1 - 6 cells under a magnetic field for 30 minutes . we found that under the applied magnetic field , the bv - mnp complex induced higher egfp expression compared with bv alone ( fig4 b ). when bv - egfp was mixed with mnps labeled with a fluorophore , dii ( a fluorescent lipophilic cationic indocarbocyanine dye , ex / em = 549 / 565 nm ), mnps could be observed in perinuclear vesicles in the cells that had a strong egfp expression , indicating that mnps enhanced bv uptake , and without interfering its endosomal escape ( fig4 c ). the bv transduction efficiency was determined by quantifying luciferase activity in the cells incubated with bv - luc ( fig2 d ). we found that mnps or the magnetic field alone did not affect the transgene expression . having mnps mixed with bvs and applying magnetic field could increase the bv transduction by 2 . 4 fold compared with that by bv alone . no significant cell death was found following bv treatment , even at an moi of 500 , nor for the cells incubated with mnp - bv at different concentrations . the results shown in fig4 were obtained with an mnp to bv ratio of ˜ 10 4 : 1 in the mnp - bv mixture , so the vast majority of mnps were not attached to bv . using mnps without the tat peptide conjugation , we also found that nanomagnets alone could enhance the cellular uptake of bv as well as bv - luc induced transgene expression ( data not shown ). the transduction efficiency of bv increases with the ratio between mnp and bv , the strength of the magnetic field and the incubation time ( see fig8 ). it has been shown that cellular uptake of bv is mediated by actin filaments in the cells 25 . we consistently found that hepa 1 - 6 cells treated with cytochalasin d , an actin depolymerization agent , showed disrupted actin filament structure and reduced bv uptake compared to control cells ( not shown ). however , subsequent use of mnps together with the applied magnetic field could partially restore actin filament formation and bv uptake . these results suggest that the increase in the cellular uptake of mnp - bv complexes may be due to magnetic force - induced mechano - transduction that involves actin filaments 19 , 34 . this result is quite surprising , as one might have predicted that the magnetic field effect was the result of local increases in the concentration of bv . however , if that were true , then increasing the concentration of bv should improve efficacy and it did not ( data not shown ). to determine if mnps can protect bvs from serum inactivation similar to that of polymer coating or ligand displaying 22 , 24 , 25 , we performed bv transduction in a culture medium containing 50 % of adult mouse serum ( ams ), which contains the complement system to inactivate bv . when the cells were incubated with bv alone , bv transduction was abolished by ams as indicated by the negligible luciferase expression in the cells ( fig5 a ). neither mnps nor the applied magnetic field alone could rescue bv - luc transgene expression . in contrast , in the presence of the applied magnetic field , bv - luc associated with mnps gave a high level of luciferase expression in hepa 1 - 6 cells . we found that ams had essentially no effect when mnp - bv - luc was used together with an applied magnetic field , however , the transgene expression was greatly suppressed by ams without mnp or magnetic field alone ( fig4 d and 5 a ). these results indicate that mnps coupled with the magnetic field induce a rapid cellular uptake of bv , suggesting a drastically increased kinetic process for bv transduction that outpaced ams - induced bv inactivation . we also investigated if the serum inactivation and magnetic activation could be combined to provide spatial control of bv transduction . cells in a chamber slide were incubated with mnp - bv - egfp in the presence of ams ; only half of the chamber was placed on a block magnet . we found that after 12 hours post transduction , most egfp - positive cells were in the area above the magnet ( fig5 b ). as further proof , an artificial vein was created by growing a layer of endothelial cells in a silicone tubing . the mnp - bv - egfp vector in culture medium containing ams was infused into the tubing at a flow rate of 7 mm / s . a section of the tubing was placed along a block magnet during the infusion . after overnight incubation , we found that only the cells in the tubing next to the magnet showed egfp fluorescence ( data not shown ), further demonstrating the ability to provide accurate spatial control of bv transduction . it was been well established that bv administrated intravenously can circulate throughout the body , where the complementary factor c3 in the blood will bind to circulating bv and initiate molecular events that lead to bv inactivation ( fig2 , ( 1 )) 26 . in contrast , a magnetic field applied to target cells can drive mnp - bv toward cell surface and enhance its cellular uptake with faster kinetics , which overcomes bv inactivation by the complementary factor c3 ( fig2 , ( 2 )). once inside the cell , mnp - bv can escape from endosomes and releases its genomic content into the cytoplasm ( fig2 , ( 3 - 4 )). for in vivo genome editing , the released pdna will express encoded grna and cas9 in transduced cells ( fig2 , ( 5 - 6 )). therefore , magnetic activation of bv will enable selective in vivo genome editing in just those tissues exposed to the applied magnetic field . we tested this nanomagnet - based approach for localized gene editing in live mouse liver , which can be readily targeted with a block magnet applied externally . mnp - bv carrying the plasmid encoding luciferase ( fig6 a ) was administrated systemically through tail vein injection , and the mouse was positioned on top of a block magnet for 1 hour belly side down ( fig6 b ). the transgene expression was evaluated by examining the luciferase activity with live animal imaging . consistent with the results from our in vitro studies , the mice treated with mnp - bv - luc and subjected to an applied magnet field showed strong luminescence in the liver , whereas there was no luminescence in the mice treated with bv - luc alone , or with mnp - bv - luc but without applying a magnetic field ( fig6 c - d ). ex vivo examination confirmed that the high luciferase expression was only in the liver tissue exposed to the magnetic field ; other vital organs including heart , lung , spleen and kidney did not show luminescence signal ( fig6 e - f ). the level of luciferase expression in the liver also increased with the strength of the magnetic field ( not shown ). importantly , the luciferase expression in mouse liver lasted less than 48 hours , and the mnp - bv - luc did not induce significant acute liver damage ( not shown ). these results confirm that the nanomagnets induced transgene expression in vivo can be switched on remotely and locally , and the expression is transient , resulting in good spatiotemporal control . further , the components of the method do not appear to be toxic . to further demonstrate the spatiotemporal control of in vivo genome editing , we integrated the cassettes encoding egfp , the streptococcus pyogenes ( spy ) cas9 , and grna targeting mouse vegfr2 gene into one plasmid for bv packaging , thanks to its large dna loading capacity (& gt ; 38 kb ) ( fig7 a ). the fluorescence from egfp was used to determine the transduction efficiency and isolate transduced mouse cells . when delivered as plasmid and using the bv - crispr vector respectively into mouse hepa 1 - 6 cells , the crispr / cas9 system had cutting efficiencies of 9 - 30 % of the mouse vegfr2 gene ( not shown ). when hepa 1 - 6 cells were incubated with the mnp - bv vector carrying crispr / cas9 ( mnp - bv - crispr ) in the medium containing 50 % ams , both the egfp expression and the crispr / cas9 induced gene modification rate increased with the strength of the applied magnetic field ( fig7 b ). without applying a magnetic field to overcome bv inactivation by ams , there was no egfp expression or site - specific vegfr2 gene modification in hepa 1 - 6 cells ( fig7 b ). for in vivo genome editing , mice were injected with mnp - bv - crispr and subjected to a magnetic field targeting mouse liver similar to that shown in fig6 b . following the workflow illustrated in fig7 c , after 24 hours post mnp - bv - crispr delivery , the egfp positive cells were harvested from mouse liver and t7e1 assays performed to quantify the gene modification rate . we found that the nanomagnets induced site - specific gene modification in transduced mouse liver cells with a ˜ 50 % indel rate ( fig7 d ), which is higher than that in mouse liver cells treated in vitro with mnp - bv - crispr as a positive control . a representative pattern of the indels at the vegfr2 target locus is shown in fig7 e . our next - generation sequencing analysis suggested that ˜ 86 % of mutations ( 3n + 1 , 3n + 2 ) may lead to a frameshift . in a parallel experiment , mouse organs beyond the range of the magnetic field , including heart , lung , spleen , and kidney , were harvested 4 days post mnp - bv - crispr delivery and the genomic dna was extracted for sequence analysis . no site - specific gene modification was detected in these off - target organs . we also evaluated some of the factors affecting efficiency of the system . the transduction efficiency of mnp - bv increases with the magnetic field strength ( fig8 ). the transduction efficiency also increases as the length of magnetic treatment increases from 5 to 60 minutes , or when the ratio between mnp and bv increases from 500 : 1 to 10 , 000 : 1 . taken together , the results conclusively demonstrate that the mnp - 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