Generation of a SMO homozygous knockout human embryonic stem cell line WAe001-A-16 by CRISPR/Cas9 editing

  • Feima Wu
  • , Ge Gao
  • , Tingcai Pan
  • , Zhen Yang
  • , Guosheng Xu
  • , Nasir Abbas
  • , Yanli Liu
  • , Yan Chen
  • , Shenglin Tan
  • , Kai You
  • , Xinrong Ke
  • , Yuanqi Zhuang
  • , Xianhua Lin
  • , Fan Yang
  • , Yin xiong Li*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The human SMO protein encoded by the smoothened (SMO) gene acts as a positive mediator for Hedgehog signaling. This pathway regulates many cellular activities, developmental morphogenesis, and tumorigenesis. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to edit human embryonic stem cell line WA01 (H1), we established a SMO mutant cell line (WAe001-A-16). This cell line has a 40 bp homozygous deletion in exon 2 of SMO leading to a shift in the open reading frame and early termination at amino acid position 287. WAe001-A-16 maintains a normal karyotype, parental cell morphology, pluripotency markers, and the capacity to differentiate into all three germline layers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-9
Number of pages5
JournalStem Cell Research
Volume27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2018
Externally publishedYes

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