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Abstract
Management of infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains a global health problem. Persistence of stable covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) during HBV replication is responsible for modest curative efficacy of currently licensed drugs. Novel gene editing technologies, such as those based on CRISPR/Cas9, provide the means for permanently disabling cccDNA. However, efficient delivery of antiviral sequences to infected hepatocytes is challenging. A limiting factor is the large size of sequences encoding Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes, and resultant incompatibility with the popular single stranded adeno-associated viral vectors (ssAAVs). We thus explored the utility of ssAAVs for delivery of engineered CRISPR/Cas9 of Staphylococcus aureus (Sa), which is encoded by shorter DNA sequences. Short guide RNAs (sgRNAs) were designed with cognates in the S open reading frame of HBV and incorporated into AAVs that also encoded SaCas9. Intended targeted mutation of HBV DNA was observed after transduction of cells with the all-in-one vectors. Efficacy against HBV-infected hNTCP-HepG2 cells indicated that inactivation of cccDNA was successful. Analysis of likely off-target mutagenesis revealed no unintended sequence changes. Use of ssAAVs to deliver all components required to disable cccDNA by SaCas9 is novel and the technology has curative potential for HBV infection.
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1 Wits/SAMRC Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit, Health Sciences Faculty, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; HIV Pathogenesis Research Unit, Health Sciences Faculty, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2 Wits/SAMRC Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit, Health Sciences Faculty, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
3 National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Department of Virology II, Tokyo, Japan