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Treatment strategies for dominantly inherited disorders typically involve silencing or ablating the pathogenic allele. CRISPR-Cas nucleases have shown promise in allele-specific knockout approaches when the dominant allele creates unique protospacer adjacent motifs that can lead to allele-restricted targeting. Here, we present a spacer-mediated allele-specific knockout approach that utilizes both SpCas9 variants and truncated single-guide RNAs to achieve efficient discrimination of a single-nucleotide mutation in rhodopsin ( Rho )-P23H mice, a model of dominant retinitis pigmentosa. We found that approximately 45% of the mutant P23H allele was edited at the DNA level and that the relative RNA expression of wild-type Rho was about 2.8 times more than that of mutant Rho in treated retinas. Furthermore, the progression of photoreceptor cell degeneration in outer nuclear layer was significantly delayed in treated regions of the Rho -P23H retinas at 5 weeks of age. Our proof-of-concept study therefore outlines a general strategy that could potentially be expanded to examine the therapeutic benefit of allele-specific gene editing approach to treat human P23H patients. Our study also extends allele-specific editing strategies beyond discrimination within the protospacer adjacent motif sites, with potentially broad applicability to other dominant diseases.

Allele-Specific CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of the Single-Base P23H Mutation for Rhodopsin-Associated Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa