US20140294773A1 - Modified cascade ribonucleoproteins and uses thereof - Google Patents

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US20140294773A1 US14/240,735 US201214240735A US2014294773A1 US 20140294773 A1 US20140294773 A1 US 20140294773A1 US 201214240735 A US201214240735 A US 201214240735A US 2014294773 A1 US2014294773 A1 US 2014294773A1
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  • the invention relates to the field of genetic engineering and more particularly to the area of gene and/or genome modification of organisms, including prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
  • the invention also concerns methods of making site specific tools for use in methods of genome analysis and genetic modification, whether in vivo or in vitro.
  • the invention more particularly relates to the field of ribonucleoproteins which recognise and associate with nucleic acid sequences in a sequence specific way.
  • CRISPR/Cas defense systems provide adaptive immunity by integrating plasmid and viral DNA fragments in loci of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) on the host chromosome.
  • CRISPR clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
  • the viral or plasmid-derived sequences known as spacers, are separated from each other by repeating host-derived sequences. These repetitive elements are the genetic memory of this immune system and each CRISPR locus contains a diverse repertoire of unique ‘spacer’ sequences acquired during previous encounters with foreign genetic elements.
  • CRISPR-derived RNAs crRNAs
  • CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins is required for the steps of acquiring immunity, for crRNA biogenesis and for targeted interference. Also, a subset of Cas proteins from phylogenetically distinct CRISPR systems have been shown to assemble into large complexes that include a crRNA.
  • RNA transcripts of CRISPR loci are cleaved specifically in the repeat sequences by CRISPR associated (Cas) endoribonucleases in type I and type III systems or by RNase III in type II systems; the generated crRNAs are utilized by a Cas protein complex as a guide RNA to detect complementary sequences of either invading DNA or RNA.
  • the model organism Escherichia coli strain K12 possesses a CRISPR/Cas type I-E (previously known as CRISPR subtype E (Cse)). It contains eight cas genes (cas1, cas2, cas3 and cse1, cse2, cas7, cas2, cas6e) and a downstream CRISPR (type-2 repeats). In Escherichia coli K12 the eight cas genes are encoded upstream of the CRISPR locus. Cas1 and Cas2 do not appear to be needed for target interference, but are likely to participate in new target sequence acquisition.
  • Cas proteins Cse1, Cse2, Cas3, Cas7, Cas5 and Cas6e (previously also known as CasA, CasB, Cas3, CasC/Cse4, CasD and CasE/Cse3 respectively) are essential for protection against lambda phage challenge.
  • Five of these proteins: Cse1, Cse2, Cas7, Cas5 and Cas6e (previously known as CasA, CasB, CasC/Cse4, CasD and CasE/Cse3 respectively) assemble with a crRNA to form a multi-subunit ribonucleoprotein (RNP) referred to as Cascade.
  • RNP multi-subunit ribonucleoprotein
  • Cascade is a 405 kDa ribonucleoprotein complex composed of an unequal stoichiometry of five functionally essential Cas proteins: Cse1 1 Cse2 2 Cas7 6 Cas5 1 Cas6e 1 (i.e. under previous nomenclature CasA 1 B 2 C 6 D 1 E 1 ) and a 61-nt CRISPR-derived RNA.
  • Cascade is an obligate RNP that relies on the crRNA for complex assembly and stability, and for the identification of invading nucleic acid sequences.
  • Cascade is a surveillance complex that finds and binds foreign nucleic acids that are complementary to the spacer sequence of the crRNA.
  • US2011236530 A1 entitled “Genetic cluster of strains of Streptococcus thermophilus having unique rheological properties for dairy fermentation” discloses certain S. thermophilus strains which ferment milk so that it is highly viscous and weakly ropy. A specific CRISPR locus of defined sequence is disclosed.
  • US2011217739 A1 entitled “Cas6 polypeptides and methods of use” discloses polypeptides which have Cas6 endoribonuclease activity.
  • the polypeptides cleave a target RNA polynucleotide having a Cas6 recognition domain and cleavage site. Cleavage may be carried out in vitro or in vivo.
  • Microbes such as E. coli or Haloferax volcanii are genetically modified so as to express Cas6 endoribonuclease activity.
  • WO2010054154 entitled “Bifidobacteria CRISPR sequences” discloses various CRISPR sequences found in Bifidobacteria and their use in making genetically altered strains of the bacteria which are altered in their phage resistance characteristics.
  • US2011189776 A1 entitled “Prokaryotic RNAi-like system and methods of use” describes methods of inactivating target polynucleotides in vitro or in prokaryotic microbes in vivo.
  • the methods use a psiRNA having a 5′ region of 5-10 nucleotides chosen from a repeat from a CRISPR locus immediately upstream of a spacer. The 3′ region is substantially complementary to a portion of the target polynucleotide.
  • polypeptides having endonuclease activity in the presence of psiRNA and target polynucleotide are also described.
  • EP2341149 A1 entitled “Use of CRISPR associated genes (CAS) describes how one or more Cas genes can be used for modulating resistance of bacterial cells against bacteriophage; particularly bacteria which provide a starter culture or probiotic culture in dairy products.
  • WO2010075424 (The Regents of the University of California) entitled “Compositions and methods for downregulating prokaryotic genes” discloses an isolated polynucleotide comprising a CRISPR array. At least one spacer of the CRISPR is complementary to a gene of a prokaryote so that is can down-regulate expression of the gene; particularly where the gene is associated with biofuel production.
  • WO2008108989 entitled “Cultures with improved phage resistance” discloses selecting bacteriophage resistant strains of bacteria and also selecting the strains which have an additional spacer having 100% identity with a region of phage RNA. Improved strain combinations and starter culture rotations are described for use in the dairy industry. Certain phages are described for use as biocontrol agents.
  • WO2009115861 discloses methods for detecting and identifying bacterial of the Salmonella genus by using their variable nucleotide sequences contained in CRISPR loci.
  • WO2006073445 entitled “Detection and typing of bacterial strains” describes detecting and typing of bacterial strains in food products, dietary supplements and environmental samples. Strains of Lactobacillus are identified through specific CRISPR nucleotide sequences.
  • Zinc finger nucleases have been developed so that precisely targeting genome cleavage is possible followed by gene modification in the subsequent repair process. However, zinc finger nucleases are generated by fusing a number of zinc finger DNA-binding domains to a DNA cleavage domain.
  • DNA sequence specificity is achieved by coupling several zinc fingers in series, each recognising a three nucleotide motif
  • a significant drawback with the technology is that new zinc fingers need to be developed for each new DNA locus which requires to be cleaved. This requires protein engineering and extensive screening to ensure specificity of DNA binding.
  • the inventors have made a surprising discovery in that certain bacteria expressing Cas3, which has helicase-nuclease activity, express Cas3 as a fusion with Cse1.
  • the inventors have also unexpectedly been able to produce artificial fusions of Cse1 with other nuclease enzymes.
  • the inventors have also discovered that Cas3-independent target DNA recognition by Cascade marks DNA for cleavage by Cas3, and that Cascade DNA binding is governed by topological requirements of the target DNA.
  • Cascade is unable to bind relaxed target plasmids, but surprisingly Cascade displays high affinity for targets which have a negatively supercoiled (nSC) topology.
  • the present invention provides a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated complex for antiviral defence (Cascade), the Cascade protein complex, or portion thereof, comprising at least CRISPR-associated protein subunits:
  • CRISPR clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat
  • a subunit which includes an additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity is an example of what may be termed “a subunit linked to at least one functional moiety”; a functional moiety being the polypeptide or protein made up of the additional amino acid sequence.
  • the transcription activating activity may be that leading to activation or upregulation of a desired genes; the transcription repressing activity leading to repressing or downregulation of a desired genes.
  • the selection of the gene being due to the targeting of the cascade complex of the invention with an RNA molecule, as described further below.
  • the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity is preferably formed of contiguous amino acid residues.
  • These additional amino acids may be viewed as a polypeptide or protein which is contiguous and forms part of the Cas or Cse subunit(s) concerned.
  • Such a polypeptide or protein sequence is preferably not normally part of any Cas or Cse subunit amino acid sequence.
  • the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity may be other than a Cas or Cse subunit amino acid sequence, or portion thereof, i.e. may be other than a Cas3 submit amino acid sequence or portion thereof.
  • the additional amino acid sequence with nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity may, as desired, be obtained or derived from the same organism, e.g. E. coli , as the Cas or Cse subunit(s).
  • the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity may be “heterologous” to the amino acid sequence of the Cas or Cse subunit(s). Therefore, the additional amino acid sequence may be obtained or derived from an organism different from the organism from which the Cas and/or Cse subunit(s) are derived or originate.
  • sequence identity may be determined by way of BLAST and subsequent Cobalt multiple sequence alignment at the National Center for Biotechnology Information webserver, where the sequence in question is compared to a reference sequence (e.g. SEQ ID NO: 3, 4 or 5).
  • the amino acid sequences may be defined in terms of percentage sequence similarity based on a BLOSUM62 matrix or percentage identity with a given reference sequence (e.g. SEQ ID NO:3, 4 or 5).
  • the similarity or identity of a sequence involves an initial step of making the best alignment before calculating the percentage conservation with the reference and reflects a measure of evolutionary relationship of sequences.
  • Cas7 may have a sequence similarity of at least 31% with SEQ ID NO:3; Cas5 may have a sequence similarity of at least 26% with SEQ ID NO:4. Cas6 may have a sequence similarity of at least 27% with SEQ ID NO:5.
  • Cse1/CasA (502 AA): >gi
  • the range of variants therefore may therefore include: at least 16%, or at least 17%, or at least 18%, or at least 19%, or at least 20%, or at least 21%, or at least 22%, or at least 23%, or at least 24%, or at least 25%, or at least 26%, or at least 27%, or at least 28%, or at least 29%, or at least 30%, or at least 31%, or at least 32%, or at least 33%, or at least 34%, or at least 35%, or at least 36%, or at least 37%, or at least 38%, or at least 39%, or at least 40%, or at least 41%, or at least 42%, or at least 43%, at least 44%, or at least 45%, or at least 46%, or at least 47%, or at least 48%, or at least 49%, or at least 50%, or at least 51%, or at least 52%, or at least 53%, or at least 54%, or at least 55%, or at least 56%, or at least 57%
  • the reference sequences of the Cas and Cse subunits of the invention may be defined as a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence.
  • the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:3 for Cas7 also includes all nucleic acid sequences which encode that amino acid sequence.
  • the variants of Cas7 included within the scope of the invention therefore include nucleotide sequences of at least the defined amino acid percentage identities or similarities with the reference nucleic acid sequence; as well as all possible percentage identities or similarities between that lower limit and 100%.
  • the Cascade complexes of the invention may be made up of subunits derived or modified from more than one different bacterial or archaeal prokaryote. Also, the subunits from different Cas subtypes may be mixed.
  • the Cas6 subunit is a Cas6e subunit of SEQ ID NO: 17 below, or a sequence of at least 16% identity therewith.
  • the sequence of a preferred Cas6e subunit is >gi
  • the Cascade complexes, or portions thereof, of the invention which comprise at least one subunit which includes an additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity—may further comprise a Cse2 (or YgcK-like) subunit having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 or a sequence of at least 20% identity therewith, or a portion thereof.
  • the Cse subunit is defined as having at least 38% similarity with SEQ ID NO:2.
  • the Cse2 subunit which includes the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying activity.
  • the Cascade complexes of the invention may further comprise a Cse1 (or YgcL-like) subunit having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a sequence of at least 9% identity therewith, or a portion thereof.
  • a Cse1 subunit which includes the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity.
  • a Cascade complex of the invention is a Type I CRISPR-Cas system protein complex; more preferably a subtype I-E CRISPR-Cas protein complex or it can be based on a Type I-A or Type I-B complex.
  • a Type I-C, D or F complex is possible.
  • the subunits may have the following stoichiometries: Cse1 1 Cse2 2 Cas7 6 Cas5 1 Cas6 e or Cse1 1 Cse2 2 Cas7 6 Cas5 1 Cas6e 1 .
  • the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity may be translationally fused through expression in natural or artificial protein expression systems, or covalently linked by a chemical synthesis step to the at least one subunit; preferably the at least one functional moiety is fused or linked to at least the region of the N terminus and/or the region of the C terminus of at least one of a Cse1, Cse2, Cas7, Cas5, Cas6 or Cas6e subunit.
  • the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying activity is fused or linked to the N terminus or the C terminus of a Cse1, a Cse2 or a Cas5 subunit; more preferably the linkage is in the region of the N terminus of a Cse1 subunit, the N terminus of a Cse2 subunit, or the N terminus of a Cas7 subunit.
  • the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, activating, repressing or visualising activity may be a protein; optionally selected from a helicase, a nuclease, a nuclease-helicase, a DNA methyltransferase (e.g.
  • DNA demethylase a histone methyltransferase, a histone demethylase, an acetylase, a deacetylase, a phosphatase, a kinase, a transcription (co-)activator, an RNA polymerase submit, a transcription repressor, a DNA binding protein, a DNA structuring protein, a marker protein, a reporter protein, a fluorescent protein, a ligand binding protein (e.g. mCherry or a heavy metal binding protein), a signal peptide (e.g. Tat-signal sequence), a subcellular localisation sequence (e.g. nuclear localisation sequence) or an antibody epitope.
  • a transcription repressor a DNA binding protein, a DNA structuring protein, a marker protein, a reporter protein, a fluorescent protein, a ligand binding protein (e.g. mCherry or a heavy metal binding protein), a signal peptide (e.g. Tat-
  • the protein concerned may be a heterologous protein from a species other than the bacterial species from which the Cascade protein subunits have their sequence origin.
  • the protein when it is a nuclease, it may be one selected from a type II restriction endonuclease such as FokI, or a mutant or an active portion thereof.
  • type II restriction endonucleases which may be used include EcoR1, EcoRV, BgII, BamHI, BsgI and BspMI.
  • one protein complex of the invention may be fused to the N terminal domain of Fold and another protein complex of the invention may be fused to the C terminal domain of FokI.
  • RNA component defined and described below
  • PAM protospacer adjacent motif
  • a protein complex of the invention has an additional amino acid sequence which is a modified restriction endonuclease, e.g. FokI.
  • the modification is preferably in the catalytic domain.
  • the modified FokI is KKR Sharkey or ELD Sharkey which is fused to the Cse1 protein of the protein complex.
  • two of these complexes may be together in combination.
  • a heterodimer pair of protein complexes employing differently modified FokI is has particular advantage in targeted double stranded cutting of nucleic acid. If homodimers are used then it is possible that there is more cleavage at non-target sites due to non-specific activity.
  • a heterodimer approach advantageously increases the fidelity of the cleavage in a sample of material.
  • the Cascade complex with additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity defined and described above is a component part of an overall system of the invention which advantageously permits the user to select in a predetermined matter a precise genetic locus which is desired to be cleaved, tagged or otherwise altered in some way, e.g methylation, using any of the nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing entities defined herein.
  • the other component part of the system is an RNA molecule which acts as a guide for directing the Cascade complex of the invention to the correct locus on DNA or RNA intending to be modified, cut or tagged.
  • the Cascade complex of the invention preferably also comprises an RNA molecule which comprises a ribonucleotide sequence of at least 50% identity to a desired target nucleic acid sequence, and wherein the protein complex and the RNA molecule form a ribonucleoprotein complex.
  • the ribonucleoprotein complex forms when the RNA molecule is hybridized to its intended target nucleic acid sequence.
  • the ribonucleoprotein complex forms when the necessary components of Cascade-functional moiety combination and RNA molecule and nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) are present together in suitable physiological conditions, whether in vivo or in vitro.
  • the inventors believe that in the context of dsDNA, particularly negatively supercoiled DNA, the Cascade complex associating with the dsDNA causes a partial unwinding of the duplex strands which then allows the RNA to associate with one strand; the whole ribonucleoprotein complex then migrates along the DNA strand until a target sequence substantially complementary to at least a portion of the RNA sequence is reached, at which point a stable interaction between RNA and DNA strand occurs, and the function of the functional moiety takes effect, whether by modifying, nuclease cutting or tagging of the DNA at that locus.
  • a portion of the RNA molecule has at least 50% identity to the target nucleic acid sequence; more preferably at least 95% identity to the target sequence.
  • the portion of the RNA molecule is substantially complementary along its length to the target DNA sequence; i.e. there is only one, two, three, four or five mismatches which may be contiguous or non-contiguous.
  • the RNA molecule (or portion thereof) may have at least 51%, or at least 52%, or at least 53%, or at least 54%, or at least 55%, or at least 56%, or at least 57%, or at least 58%, or at least 59%, or at least 60%, or at least 61%, or at least 62%, or at least 63%, or at least 64%, or least 65%, or at least 66%, or at least 67%, or at least 68%, or at least 69%, or at least 70%, or at least 71%, or at least 72%, or at least 73%, or at least 74%, or at least 75%, or at least 76%, or at least 77%, or at least 78%, or at least 79%, or at least 80%, or at least 81%, or at least 82%, or at least 83%, or at least 84%, or least 85%, or at least 86%, or at least 87%, or at least 88%, or at least 89%, or at least 90%, or at least 91%, or at
  • the target nucleic acid may be DNA (ss or ds) or RNA.
  • the RNA molecule or portion thereof has at least 70% identity with the target nucleic acid.
  • the target nucleic acid is preferably dsDNA.
  • the RNA molecule will preferably require a high specificity and affinity for the target nucleic acid sequence.
  • a dissociation constant (K d ) in the range 1 pM to 1 ⁇ M, preferably 1-100 nM is desirable as determined by preferably native gel electrophoresis, or alternatively isothermal titration calorimetry, surface plasmon resonance, or fluorescence based titration methods. Affinity may be determined using an electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA), also called gel retardation assay (see Semenova E et al. (2011) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108: 10098-10103).
  • ESA electrophoretic mobility shift assay
  • RNA molecule is preferably modelled on what are known from nature in prokaryotes as CRISPR RNA (crRNA) molecules.
  • CRISPR RNA CRISPR RNA
  • the structure of crRNA molecules is already established and explained in more detail in Jore et al. (2011) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 18: 529-537.
  • a mature crRNA of type I-E is often 61 nucleotides long and consists of a 5′ “handle” region of 8 nucleotides, the “spacer” sequence of 32 nucleotides, and a 3′ sequence of 21 nucleotides which form a hairpin with a tetranucleotide loop.
  • RNA molecules for use in the invention may be designed based on gene sequence information in the public databases or newly discovered, and then made artificially, e.g. by chemical synthesis in whole or in part.
  • the RNA molecules of the invention may also be designed and produced by way of expression in genetically modified cells or cell free expression systems and this option may include synthesis of some or all of the RNA sequence.
  • crRNA The structure and requirements of crRNA has also been described in Semenova E et al. (2011) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108: 10098-10103. There is a so-called “SEED” portion forming the 5′ end of the spacer sequence and which is flanked 5′ thereto by the 5′ handle of 8 nucleotides. Semenova et al. (2011) have found that all residues of the SEED sequence should be complementary to the target sequence, although for the residue at position 6, a mismatch may be tolerated. Similarly, when designing and making an RNA component of a ribonucleoprotein complex of the invention directed at a target locus (i.e. sequence), the necessary match and mismatch rules for the SEED sequence can be applied.
  • the invention therefore includes a method of detecting and/or locating a single base change in a target nucleic acid molecule comprising contacting a nucleic acid sample with a ribonucleoprotein complex of the invention as hereinbefore described, or with a Cascade complex and separate RNA component of the invention as hereinbefore described, and wherein the sequence of the RNA component (including when in the ribonucleoprotein complex) is such that it discriminates between a normal allele and a mutant allele by virtue of a single base change at position 6 of a contiguous sequence of 8 nucleotide residues.
  • the RNA molecule may have a length in the range of 35-75 residues.
  • the portion of the RNA which is complementary to and used for targeting a desired nucleic acid sequence is 32 or 33 residues long. (In the context of a naturally occurring crRNA, this would correspond to the spacer portion; as shown in FIG. 1 of Semenova et al. (2011)).
  • a ribonucleoprotein complex of the invention may additionally have an RNA component comprising 8 residues 5′ to the RNA sequence which has at least substantial complementarity to the nucleic acid target sequence.
  • the RNA sequence having at least substantial complementarity to the nucleic acid target sequence would be understood to correspond in the context of a crRNA as being the spacer sequence.
  • the 5′ flanking sequence of the RNA would be considered to correspond to the 5′ handle of a crRNA. This is shown in FIG. 1 of Semenova et al. (2011)).
  • a ribonucleoprotein complex of the invention may have a hairpin and tetranucleotide loop forming sequence 3′ to the RNA sequence which has at least substantial complementarity to the DNA target sequence. (In the context of crRNA, this would correspond to a 3′ handle flanking the spacer sequence as shown in FIG. 1 of Semenova et al. (2011)).
  • the RNA may be a CRISPR RNA (crRNA).
  • crRNA CRISPR RNA
  • the Cascade proteins and complexes of the invention may be characterised in vitro in terms of its activity of association with the RNA guiding component to form a ribonucleoprotein complex in the presence of the target nucleic acid (which may be DNA or RNA).
  • An electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) may be used as a functional assay for interaction of complexes of the invention with their nucleic acid targets.
  • EMSA electrophoretic mobility shift assay
  • Cascade-functional moiety complex of the invention is mixed with nucleic acid targets and the stable interaction of the Cascade-functional moiety complex is monitored by EMSA or by specific readout out the functional moiety, for example endonucleolytic cleavage of target DNA at the desired site. This can be determined by further restriction fragment length analysis using commercially available enzymes with known specificities and cleavage sites in a target DNA molecule.
  • Visualisation of binding of Cascade proteins or complexes of the invention to DNA or RNA in the presence of guiding RNA may be achieved using scanning/atomic force microscopy (SFM/AFM) imaging and this may provide an assay for the presence of functional complexes of the invention.
  • SFM/AFM scanning/atomic force microscopy
  • the invention also provides a nucleic acid molecule encoding at least one clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated protein subunit selected from:
  • the additional amino acid sequence having nucleic acid or chromatin modifying, visualising, transcription activating or transcription repressing activity is preferably fused to the CRISPR-associated protein subunit.
  • the nucleotide sequence may be that which encodes the respective SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:4 or SEQ ID NO:5, or in defining the range of variant sequences thereto, it may be a sequence hybridisable to that nucleotide sequence, preferably under stringent conditions, more preferably very high stringency conditions.
  • stringent hybridisation conditions will be familiar to the skilled reader in the field.
  • Hybridization of a nucleic acid molecule occurs when two complementary nucleic acid molecules undergo an amount of hydrogen bonding to each other known as Watson-Crick base pairing.
  • the stringency of hybridization can vary according to the environmental (i.e.
  • the T m is the temperature at which 50% of a given strand of a nucleic acid molecule is hybridized to its complementary strand.
  • Hybridization 5x SSC at 65° C. for 16 hours Wash twice: 2x SSC at room temperature (RT) for 15 minutes each Wash twice: 0.5x SSC at 65° C. for 20 minutes each High Stringency (Allows Sequences that Share at Least 80% Identity to Hybridize) Hybridization: 5x-6x SSC at 65° C.-70° C. for 16-20 hours Wash twice: 2x SSC at RT for 5-20 minutes each Wash twice: 1x SSC at 55° C.-70° C.
  • Hybridization 6x SSC at RT to 55° C. for 16-20 hours Wash at least twice: 2x-3x SSC at RT to 55° C. for 20-30 minutes each.
  • the nucleic acid molecule may be an isolated nucleic acid molecule and may be an RNA or a DNA molecule.
  • the additional amino acid sequence may be selected from a helicase, a nuclease, a nuclease-helicase (e.g. Cas3), a DNA methyltransferase (e.g. Dam), a DNA demethylase, a histone methyltransferase, a histone demethylase, an acetylase, a deacetylase, a phosphatase, a kinase, a transcription (co-)activator, an RNA polymerase subunit, a transcription repressor, a DNA binding protein, a DNA structuring protein, a marker protein, a reporter protein, a fluorescent protein, a ligand binding protein (e.g.
  • mCherry or a heavy metal binding protein e.g. Tat-signal sequence
  • a subcellular localisation sequence e.g. nuclear localisation sequence
  • an antibody epitope e.g. The additional amino acid sequence may be, or from a different protein from the organism from which the relevant Cascade protein subunit(s) are derived.
  • the invention includes an expression vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule as hereinbefore defined.
  • One expression vector may contain the nucleotide sequence encoding a single Cascade protein subunit and also the nucleotide sequence encoding the additional amino acid sequence, whereby on expression the subunit and additional sequence are fused.
  • Other expression vectors may comprise nucleotide sequences encoding just one or more Cascade protein subunits which are not fused to any additional amino acid sequence.
  • the additional amino acid sequence with nucleic acid or chromatin modifying activity may be fused to any of the Cascade subunits via a linker polypeptide.
  • the linker may be of any length up to about 60 or up to about 100 amino acid residues.
  • the linker has a number of amino acids in the range 10 to 60, more preferably 10-20.
  • the amino acids are preferably polar and/or small and/or charged amino acids (e.g. Gln, Ser, Thr, Pro, Ala, Glu, Asp, Lys, Arg, His, Asn, Cys, Tyr).
  • the linker peptide is preferably designed to obtain the correct spacing and positioning of the fused functional moiety and the subunit of Cascade to which the moiety is fused to allow proper interaction with the target nucleotide.
  • An expression vector of the invention (with or without nucleotide sequence encoding amino acid residues which on expression will be fused to a Cascade protein subunit) may further comprise a sequence encoding an RNA molecule as hereinbefore defined. Consequently, such expression vectors can be used in an appropriate host to generate a ribonucleoprotein of the invention which can target a desired nucleotide sequence.
  • the invention also provides a method of modifying, visualising, or activating or repressing transcription of a target nucleic acid comprising contacting the nucleic acid with a ribonucleoprotein complex as hereinbefore defined.
  • the modifying may be by cleaving the nucleic acid or binding to it.
  • the modification, visualising, or activating or repressing transcription of a target nucleic acid may therefore be carried out in vitro and in a cell free environment; i.e. the method is carried out as a biochemical reaction whether free in solution or whether involving a solid phase.
  • Target nucleic acid may be bound to a solid phase, for example.
  • the order of adding each of the target nucleic acid, the Cascade protein complex and the RNA molecule is at the option of the average skilled person.
  • the three components may be added simultaneously, sequentially in any desired order, or separately at different times and in a desired order.
  • the target nucleic acid and RNA may be added simultaneously to a reaction mix and then the Cascade protein complex of the invention to be added separately and later in a sequence of specific method steps.
  • the modification, visualising, or activating or repressing transcription of a target nucleic acid may be made in situ in a cell, whether an isolated cell or as part of a multicellular tissue, organ or organism. Therefore in the context of whole tissue and organs, and in the context of an organism, the method can be carried out in vivo or it can be carried out by isolating a cell from the whole tissue, organ or organism and then returning the cell treated with ribonucleoprotein complex to its former location, or a different location, whether within the same or a different organism.
  • the method would include allografts, autografts, isografts and xenografts.
  • the ribonucleoprotein complex or the Cascade protein complex of the invention requires an appropriate form of delivery into the cell, which will be well known to persons of skill in the art, including microinjection, whether into the cell cytoplasm or into the nucleus.
  • RNA molecule when present separately, requires an appropriate form of delivery into a cell, whether simultaneously, separately or sequentially with the Cascade protein complex.
  • forms of introducing RNA into cells are well known to a person of skill in the art and may include in vitro or ex vivo delivery via conventional transfection methods. Physical methods, such as microinjection and electroporation, as well as calcium co-precipitation, and commercially available cationic polymers and lipids, and cell-penetrating peptides, cell-penetrating particles (gene-gun) may each be used.
  • viruses may be used as delivery vehicles, whether to the cytoplasm and/or nucleus—e.g.
  • Viral delivery e.g. adenovirus delivery
  • Agrobacterium -mediated delivery may be used.
  • the invention also includes a method of modifying visualising, or activating or repressing transcription of a target nucleic acid in a cell, comprising transfecting, transforming or transducing the cell with any of the expression vectors as hereinbefore described.
  • the methods of transfection, transformation or transduction are of the types well known to a person of skill in the art. Where there is one expression vector used to generate expression of a Cascade complex of the invention and when the RNA is added directly to the cell then the same or a different method of transfection, transformation or transduction may be used.
  • mRNA encoding the Cascade complex of the invention is introduced into a cell so that the Cascade complex is expressed in the cell.
  • the RNA which guides the Cascade complex to the desired target sequence is also introduced into the cell, whether simultaneously, separately or sequentially from the mRNA, such that the necessary ribonucleoprotein complex is formed in the cell.
  • the additional amino acid sequence may be a marker and the marker associates with the target nucleic acid; preferably wherein the marker is a protein; optionally a fluorescent protein, e.g. green fluorescent protein (GFP) or yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) or mCherry.
  • GFP green fluorescent protein
  • YFP yellow fluorescent protein
  • methods of the invention can be used to directly visualise a target locus in a nucleic acid molecule, preferably in the form of a higher order structure such as a supercoiled plasmid or chromosome, or a single stranded target nucleic acid such as mRNA.
  • Direct visualisation of a target locus may use electron micrography, or fluorescence microscopy.
  • label may be used to mark the target nucleic acid including organic dye molecules, radiolabels and spin labels which may be small molecules.
  • the target nucleic acid is DNA; preferably dsDNA although the target can be RNA; preferably mRNA.
  • the additional amino acid sequence with nucleic acid or chromatin modifying activity may be a nuclease or a helicase-nuclease, and the modification is preferably a single stranded or a double stranded break at a desired locus.
  • unique sequence specific cutting of DNA can be engineered by using the Cascade-functional moiety complexes.
  • the chosen sequence of the RNA component of the final ribonucleoprotein complex provides the desired sequence specificity for the action of the additional amino acid sequence.
  • the invention also provides a method of non-homologous end joining of a dsDNA molecule in a cell at a desired locus to remove at least a part of a nucleotide sequence from the dsDNA molecule; optionally to knockout the function of a gene or genes, wherein the method comprises making double stranded breaks using any of the methods of modifying a target nucleic acid as hereinbefore described.
  • the invention further provides a method of homologous recombination of a nucleic acid into a dsDNA molecule in a cell at a desired locus in order to modify an existing nucleotide sequence or insert a desired nucleotide sequence, wherein the method comprises making a double or single stranded break at the desired locus using any of the methods of modifying a target nucleic acid as hereinbefore described.
  • the invention therefore also provides a method of modifying, activating or repressing gene expression in an organism comprising modifying, activating transcription or repressing transcription of a target nucleic acid sequence according to any of the methods hereinbefore described, wherein the nucleic acid is dsDNA and the functional moiety is selected from a DNA modifying enzyme (e.g. a demethylase or deacetylase), a transcription activator or a transcription repressor.
  • a DNA modifying enzyme e.g. a demethylase or deacetylase
  • the invention additionally provides a method of modifying, activating or repressing gene expression in an organism comprising modifying, activating transcription or repressing transcription of a target nucleic acid sequence according to any of the methods hereinbefore described, wherein the nucleic acid is an mRNA and the functional moiety is a ribonuclease; optionally selected from an endonuclease, a 3′ exonuclease or a 5′ exonuclease.
  • the cell which is subjected to the method may be a prokaryote.
  • the cell may be a eukaryotic cell, e.g. a plant cell, an insect cell, a yeast cell, a fungal cell, a mammalian cell or a human cell.
  • a stem cell but may not be any human embryonic stem cell.
  • Such stem cells for use in the invention are preferably isolated stem cells.
  • a cell is transfected in vitro.
  • the target nucleic acid has a specific tertiary structure, optionally supercoiled, more preferably wherein the target nucleic acid is negatively supercoiled.
  • the ribonucleoprotein complexes of the invention can be used to target a locus which would otherwise be difficult to get access to in order to apply the functional activity of a desired component, whether labelling or tagging of a specific sequence, modification of nucleic acid structure, switching on or off of gene expression, or of modification of the target sequence itself involving single or double stranded cutting followed by insertion of one or more nucleotide residues or a cassette.
  • the invention also includes a pharmaceutical composition comprising a Cascade protein complex or a ribonucleoprotein complex of the invention as hereinbefore described.
  • the invention further includes a pharmaceutical composition comprising an isolated nucleic acid or an expression vector of the invention as hereinbefore described.
  • kits comprising a Casacade protein complex of the invention as hereinbefore described plus an RNA molecule of the invention as hereinbefore described.
  • the invention includes a Cascade protein complex or a ribonucleoprotein complex or a nucleic acid or a vector, as hereinbefore described for use as a medicament.
  • the invention allows a variety of possibilities to physically alter DNA of prokaryotic or eukaryotic hosts at a specified genomic locus, or change expression patterns of a gene at a given locus.
  • Host genomic DNA can be cleaved or modified by methylation, visualized by fluorescence, transcriptionally activated or repressed by functional domains such as nucleases, methylases, fluorescent proteins, transcription activators or repressors respectively, fused to suitable Cascade-subunits.
  • the RNA-guided RNA-binding ability of Cascade permits the monitoring of RNA trafficking in live cells using fluorescent Cascade fusion proteins, and provides ways to sequester or destroy host mRNAs causing interference with gene expression levels of a host cell.
  • the target nucleic acid may be defined, preferably so if dsDNA, by the presence of at least one of the following nucleotide triplets: 5′-CTT-3′,5′-CAT-3′,5′-CCT-3′, or 5′-CTC-3′ (or 5′-CUU-3′,5′-CAU-3′,5′-CCU-3′, or 5′-CTC-3′ if the target is an RNA).
  • the location of the triplet is in the target strand adjacent to the sequence to which the RNA molecule component of a ribonucleoprotein of the invention hybridizes.
  • the triplet marks the point in the target strand sequence at which base pairing with the RNA molecule component of the ribonucleoprotein does not take place in a 5′ to 3′ (downstream) direction of the target (whilst it takes place upstream of the target sequence from that point subject to the preferred length of the RNA sequence of the RNA molecule component of the ribonucleoprotein of the invention).
  • the triplets correspond to what is known as a “PAM” (protospacer adjacent motif). For ssDNA or ssRNA targets, presence of one of the triplets is not so necessary.
  • FIG. 1 shows the results of gel-shift assays where Cascade binds negatively supercoiled (nSC) plasmid DNA but not relaxed DNA.
  • A) Gel-shift of nSC plasmid DNA with J3-Cascade, containing a targeting (J3) crRNA. pUC- ⁇ was mixed with 2-fold increasing amounts of J3-Cascade, from a pUC- ⁇ :Cascade molar ratio of 1:0.5 up to a 1:256 molar ratio. The first and last lanes contain only pUC- ⁇ .
  • Lane 1 and 5 contain only pUC- ⁇ .
  • Lane 2 and 6 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade.
  • Lane 3 and 7 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade and subsequent BsmI addition.
  • Lane 4 and 8 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with BsmI.
  • H) Gel-shift of pUC- ⁇ bound to Cascade with subsequent Nt.BspQI cleavage of one strand of the plasmid.
  • Lane 1 and 6 contain only pUC- ⁇ .
  • Lane 2 and 7 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade.
  • Lane 3 and 8 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade and subsequent Nt.BspQI nicking
  • Lane 4 and 9 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade, followed by addition of a ssDNA probe complementary to the displaced strand in the R-loop and subsequent nicking with Nt.BspQI.
  • Lane 5 and 10 contain pUC- ⁇ nicked with Nt.BspQI.
  • Lane 1 and 6 contain only pUC- ⁇ .
  • Lane 2 and 7 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade.
  • Lane 3 and 8 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade and subsequent Nt.BspQI cleavage.
  • Lane 4 and 9 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade, followed by addition of a ssDNA probe complementary to the displaced strand in the R-loop and subsequent cleavage with Nt.BspQI.
  • Lane 5 and 10 contain pUC- ⁇ cleaved with Nt.BspQI.
  • Lane 1 and 6 contain only pUC- ⁇ .
  • Lane 2 and 7 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade.
  • Lane 3 and 8 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade and subsequent EcoRI cleavage.
  • Lane 4 and 9 contain pUC- ⁇ mixed with Cascade, followed by addition of a ssDNA probe complementary to the displaced strand in the R-loop and subsequent cleavage with EcoRI.
  • Lane 5 and 10 contain pUC- ⁇ cleaved with EcoRI.
  • FIG. 2 shows scanning force micrographs demonstrating how Cascade induces bending of target DNA upon protospacer binding.
  • A-P Scanning force microscopy images of nSC plasmid DNA with J3-Cascade containing a targeting (J3) crRNA.
  • J3-Cascade containing a targeting (J3) crRNA was mixed with J3-Cascade at a pUC- ⁇ :Cascade ratio of 1:7. Each image shows a 500 ⁇ 500 nm surface area.
  • White dots correspond to Cascade.
  • FIG. 3 shows how BiFC analysis reveals that Cascade and Cas3 interact upon target recognition.
  • G Venus fluorescence of phage ⁇ infected cells expressing Cascade ⁇ Cse1 and non-targeting CRISPR R44, and N155Venus and C85Venus proteins.
  • H Brightfield image of the cells in (J).
  • I Overlay of (J) and (K).
  • J Average of the fluorescence intensity of 4-7 individual cells of each strain, as determined using the profile tool of LSM viewer (Carl Zeiss).
  • FIG. 4 shows Cas3 nuclease and helicase activities during CRISPR-interference.
  • B) BL21-AI cells carrying Cascade, Cas3 mutant, and CRISPR encoding plasmids as well as pUC- ⁇ are grown under conditions that suppress expression of the cas genes and CRISPR. At t 0 expression is induced. The percentage of cells that lost pUC- ⁇ over time is shown, as determined by the ratio of ampicillin sensitive and ampicillin resistant cells.
  • FIG. 5 shows how a Cascade-Cas3 fusion complex provides in vivo resistance and has in vitro nuclease activity.
  • A) Coomassie Blue stained SDS-PAGE of purified Cascade and Cascade-Cas3 fusion complex.
  • pUC- ⁇ was mixed with 2-fold increasing amounts of J3-Cascade-Cas3, from a pUC- ⁇ :J3-Cascade-Cas3 molar ratio of 1:0.5 up to a 1:128 molar ratio.
  • the first and last lane contain only pUC- ⁇ .
  • pUC-p7 was mixed with 2-fold increasing amounts of J3-Cascade-Cas3, from a pUC-p7:J3-Cascade-Cas3 molar ratio of 1:0.5 up to a 1:128 molar ratio.
  • the first and last lane contain only pUC-p7.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a model of the CRISPR-interference type I pathway in E. coli.
  • FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing how a Cascade-FokI fusion embodiment of the invention is used to create Fold dimers which cuts dsDNA to produce blunt ends as part of a process of non-homologous end joining or homologous recombination.
  • FIG. 8 shows how BiFC analysis reveals that Cascade and Cas3 interact upon target recognition.
  • Cells expressing CRISPR 7Tm are fluorescent only when infected with phage Lambda, while cells expressing CRISPR R44 are non-fluorescent.
  • the highly intense fluorescent dots (outside cells) are due to light-reflecting salt crystals.
  • White bars correspond to 10 micron.
  • FIG. 9 shows pUC- ⁇ sequences of 4 clones [SEQ ID NOs: 39-42] encoding CRISPR J3, Cascade and Cas3 (wt or S483AT485A) indicate that these are escape mutants carrying (partial) deletions of the protospacer or carrying a single point mutation in the seed region, which explains the inability to cure these plasmids.
  • FIG. 10 shows sequence alignments of cas3 genes from organisms containing the Type I-E CRISPR/Cas system. Alignment of cas3-cse1 genes from Streptomyces sp. SPB78 (1 st sequence, Accession Number: ZP — 07272643.1) [SEQ ID NO: 43], in Streptomyces griseus (2 nd sequence, Accession Number YP — 001825054) [SEQ ID NO: 44], and in Catenulispora acidiphila DSM 44928 (3 rd sequence, Accession Number YP — 003114638) [SEQ ID NO: 45] and an artificial E. coli Cas3-Cse1 fusion protein [SEQ ID NO: 46] which includes the polypeptide linker sequence from S. griseus.
  • FIG. 11 shows the design of a Cascade KKR/ELD nuclease pair in which Fold nuclease domains are mutated such that only heterodimers consisting of KKR and ELD nuclease domains are and the distance between the opposing binding sites may be varied to determine the optimal distance between a Cascade nuclease pair.
  • FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing genome targeting by a Cascade-Fold nuclease pair.
  • FIG. 13 shows an SDS PAGE gel of Cascade-nuclease complexes.
  • FIG. 14 shows electrophoresis gels of in vitro cleavage assays of Cascade KKR/ELD on plasmid DNA.
  • FIG. 15 shows Cascade KKR/ELD cleavage patterns and frequency [SEQ ID NO: 47].
  • E. coli BL21-AI and E. coli BL21 (DE3) strains were used throughout. Table 1 lists all plasmids used in this study.
  • the previously described pWUR408, pWUR480, pWUR404 and pWUR547 were used for production of Strep-tag II R44-Cascade, and pWUR408, pWUR514 and pWUR630 were used for production of Strep-tag II J3-Cascade (Jore et al., (2011) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 18, 529-536; Semenova et al., (2011) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, 10098-10103.)
  • pUC- ⁇ (pWUR610) and pUC-p7 (pWUR613) have been described elsewhere (Jore et al., 2011; Semenova et al., 2011).
  • the C85Venus protein is encoded by pWUR647, which corresponds to pET52b (Novagen) containing the synthetic GA1070943 construct (Table 2) (Geneart) cloned between the BamHI and NotI sites.
  • the N155Venus protein is encoded by pWUR648, which corresponds to pRSF1b (Novagen) containing the synthetic GA1070941 construct (Table 2) (Geneart) cloned between the NotI and XhoI sites.
  • the Cas3-C85Venus fusion protein is encoded by pWUR649, which corresponds to pWUR647 containing the Cas3 amplification product using primers BG3186 and BG3213 (Table 3) between the NcoI and BamHI sites.
  • the CasA-N155Venus fusion protein is encoded by pWUR650, which corresponds to pWUR648 containing the CasA amplification product using primers BG3303 and BG3212 (Table 3) between the NcoI and BamHI sites.
  • CRISPR 7Tm is encoded by pWUR651, which corresponds to pACYCDuet-1 (Novagen) containing the synthetic GA1068859 construct (Table 2) (Geneart) cloned between the NcoI and KpnI sites.
  • the Cascade encoding pWUR400, the Cascade ⁇ Cse1 encoding WUR401 and the Cas3 encoding pWUR397 were described previously (Jore et al., 2011).
  • the Cas3H74A encoding pWUR652 was constructed using site directed mutagenesis of pWUR397 with primers BG3093, BG3094 (Table 3).
  • Cascade was expressed and purified as described (Jore et al., 2011). Throughout purification a buffer containing 20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 75 mM NaCl, 1 mM DTT, 2 mM EDTA was used for resuspension and washing. Protein elution was performed in the same buffer containing 4 mM desthiobiotin.
  • the Cascade-Cas3 fusion complex was expressed and purified in the same manner, with washing steps being performed with 20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 200 mM NaCl and 1 mM DTT, and elution in 20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 75 mM NaCl, 1 mM DTT containing 4 mM desthiobiotin.
  • Purified Cascade was mixed with pUC- ⁇ (at a ratio of 7:1, 250 nM Cascade, 35 nM DNA) in a buffer containing 20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 75 mM NaCl, 0.2 mM DTT, 0.3 mM EDTA and incubated at 37° C. for 15 minutes. Subsequently, for AFM sample preparation, the incubation mixture was diluted 10 ⁇ in double distilled water and MgCl 2 was added at a final concentration of 1.2 mM. Deposition of the protein-DNA complexes and imaging was carried out as described before (Dame et al., (2000) Nucleic Acids Res. 28: 3504-3510).
  • BL21-AI cells carrying CRISPR en cas gene encoding plasmids were grown overnight at 37° C. in Luria-Bertani broth (LB) containing ampicillin (100 ⁇ g/ml), kanamycin (50 ⁇ g/ml), streptomycin (50 ⁇ g/ml) and chloramphenicol (34 ⁇ g/ml). Overnight culture was diluted 1:100 in fresh antibiotic-containing LB, and grown for 1 hour at 37° C. Expression of cas genes and CRISPR was induced for 1 hour by adding L-arabinose to a final concentration of 0.2% and IPTG to a final concentration of 1 mM.
  • phage Lambda For infection, cells were mixed with phage Lambda at a Multiplicity of Infection (MOI) of 4. Cells were applied to poly-L-lysine covered microscope slides, and analyzed using a Zeiss LSM510 confocal laser scanning microscope based on an Axiovert inverted microscope, with a 40 ⁇ oil immersion objective (N.A. of 1.3) and an argon laser as the excitation source (514 nm) and detection at 530-600 nm. The pinhole was set at 203 ⁇ m for all measurements.
  • MOI Multiplicity of Infection
  • LB containing kanamycin (50 ⁇ g/ml), streptomycin (50 ⁇ g/ml) and chloramphenicol (34 ⁇ g/ml) was inoculated from an overnight pre-inoculum and grown to an OD 600 of 0.3.
  • Expression of cas genes and CRISPR was induced for 45 minutes with 0.2% L-arabinose and 1 mM IPTG.
  • Cells were collected by centrifugation at 4° C. and made competent by resuspension in ice cold buffer containing 100 mM RbCl 2 , 50 mM MnCl 2 , 30 mM potassium acetate, 10 mM CaCl 2 and 15% glycerol, pH 5.8.
  • Plasmid curing was analyzed by transforming BL21-AI cells containing cas gene and CRISPR encoding plasmids with pUC- ⁇ , while growing the cells in the presence of 0.2% glucose to suppress expression of the T7-polymerase gene.
  • Expression of cas genes and CRISPR was induced by collecting the cells and re-suspension in LB containing 0.2% arabinose and 1 mM IPTG. Cells were plated on LB-agar containing either streptomycin, kanamycin and chloramphenicol (non-selective for pUC- ⁇ ) or ampicillin, streptomycin, kanamycin and chloramphenicol (selective for pUC- ⁇ ). After overnight growth the percentage of plasmid loss can be calculated from the ratio of colony forming units on the selective and non-selective plates.
  • ⁇ vir virulent phage Lambda
  • the sensitivity of the host to infection was calculated as the efficiency of plaquing (the plaque count ratio of a strain containing an anti- ⁇ CRISPR to that of the strain containing a non-targeting R44CRISPR) as described in Brouns et al (2008).
  • the 3 kb pUC19-derived plasmid denoted pUC- ⁇ , contains a 350 bp DNA fragment corresponding to part of the J gene of phage ⁇ , which is targeted by J3-Cascade (Cascade associated with crRNA containing spacer J3 (Westra et al (2010) Molecular Microbiology 77, 1380-1393).
  • J3-Cascade Cascade associated with crRNA containing spacer J3 (Westra et al (2010) Molecular Microbiology 77, 1380-1393).
  • the electrophoretic mobility shift assays show that Cascade has high affinity only for negatively supercoiled (nSC) target plasmid.
  • nSC negatively supercoiled
  • nSC pUC- ⁇ was determined to be 13 ⁇ 1.4 nM for J3-Cascade (see FIG. 1E ) and 429 ⁇ 152 nM for R44-Cascade (see FIG. 1F ). J3-Cascade was unable to bind relaxed target DNA with measurable affinity, such as nicked (see FIG. 1C ) or linear pUC- ⁇ (see FIG. 1D ), showing that Cascade has high affinity for larger DNA substrates with a nSC topology.
  • the BsmI restriction site located within the protospacer was used. While adding BsmI enzyme to pUC- ⁇ gives a linear product in the presence of R44-Cascade (see FIG. 1G , lane 4), pUC- ⁇ is protected from BsmI cleavage in the presence of J3-Cascade (see FIG. 1G , lane 7), indicating specific binding to the protospacer. This shows that Cas3 is not required for in vitro sequence specific binding of Cascade to a protospacer sequence in a nSC plasmid.
  • Cascade binding to nSC pUC- ⁇ was followed by nicking with Nt.BspQI, giving rise to an OC topology.
  • Cascade is released from the plasmid after strand nicking, as can be seen from the absence of a mobility shift (see FIG. 1H , compare lane 8 to lane 10).
  • Cascade remains bound to its DNA target when a ssDNA probe complementary to the displaced strand is added to the reaction before DNA cleavage by Nt.BspQI (see FIG. 1H , lane 9).
  • the probe artificially stabilizes the Cascade R-loop on relaxed target DNA. Similar observations are made when both DNA strands of pUC- ⁇ are cleaved after Cascade binding (see FIG. 1I , lane 8 and lane 9).
  • Figure S3 shows sequence analysis of cas3 genes from organisms containing the Type I-E CRISPR/Cas system reveals that Cas3 and Cse1 occur as fusion proteins in Streptomyces sp. SPB78 (Accession Number: ZP — 07272643.1), in Streptomyces griseus (Accession Number YP — 001825054), and in Catenulispora acidiphila DSM 44928 (Accession Number YP — 003114638).
  • Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Shows how a Cse1 Fusion Protein Forming Part of Cascade Continues to Interact with Cas3
  • BiFC experiments were used to monitor interactions between Cas3 and Cascade in vivo before and after phage ⁇ infection.
  • BiFC experiments rely on the capacity of the non-fluorescent halves of a fluorescent protein, e.g., Yellow Fluorescent Protein (YFP) to refold and to form a fluorescent molecule when the two halves occur in close proximity.
  • YFP Yellow Fluorescent Protein
  • Cse1 was fused at the C-terminus with the N-terminal 155 amino acids of Venus (Cse1-N155Venus), an improved version of YFP (Nagai et al (2002) Nature Biotechnology 20, 87-90).
  • Cas3 was C-terminally fused to the C-terminal 85 amino acids of Venus (Cas3-C85Venus).
  • Cas3 was therefore produced as a Cas3-Cse1 fusion protein, containing a linker identical to that of the Cas3-Cse1 fusion protein in S. griseus (see FIG. 10 ).
  • the fusion-complex was soluble and was obtained in high purity with the same apparent stoichiometry as Cascade ( FIG. 5A ).
  • J3-Cascade-Cas3 fusion-complex was functional in vivo, in vitro DNA cleavage assays were carried out using this complex.
  • J3-Cascade-Cas3 was incubated with pUC- ⁇ in the absence of divalent metals, plasmid binding was observed at molar ratios similar to those observed for Cascade ( FIG. 5C ), while a-specific binding to a non-target plasmid (pUC-p7, a pUC19 derived plasmid of the same size as pUC- ⁇ , but lacking a protospacer) occurred only at high molar ratios ( FIG. 5D ), indicating that a-specific DNA binding of the complex is also similar to that of Cascade alone.
  • the J3-Cascade-Cas3 fusion complex displays magnesium dependent endonuclease activity on nSC target plasmids.
  • 10 mM Mg 2+ J3-Cascade-Cas3 nicks nSC pUC- ⁇ FIG. 5E , lane 3-7)
  • no cleavage is observed for substrates that do not contain the target sequence ( FIG. 5E , lane 9-13), or that have a relaxed topology.
  • No shift of the resulting OC band is observed, in line with previous observations that Cascade dissociates spontaneously after cleavage, without requiring ATP-dependent Cas3 helicase activity. Instead, the helicase activity of Cas3 appears to be involved in exonucleolytic plasmid degradation. When both magnesium and ATP are added to the reaction, full plasmid degradation occurred ( FIG. 5H ).
  • the inventors have found that Cascade alone is unable to bind protospacers on relaxed DNA. In contrast, the inventors have found that Cascade efficiently locates targets in negatively supercoiled DNA, and subsequently recruits Cas3 via the Cse1 subunit. Endonucleolytic cleavage by the Cas3 HD-nuclease domain causes spontaneous release of Cascade from the DNA through the loss of supercoiling, remobilizing Cascade to locate new targets. The target is then progressively unwound and cleaved by the joint ATP-dependent helicase activity and HD-nuclease activity of Cas3, leading to complete target DNA degradation and neutralization of the invader.
  • a mechanism of operation for the CRISPR-interference type I pathway in E. coli may involve (1) First, Cascade carrying a crRNA scans the nSC plasmid DNA for a protospacer, with adjacent PAM. Whether during this stage strand separation occurs is unknown. (2) Sequence specific protospacer binding is achieved through basepairing between the crRNA and the complementary strand of the DNA, forming an R-loop. Upon binding, Cascade induces bending of the DNA. (3) The Cse1 subunit of Cascade recruits Cas3 upon DNA binding. This may be achieved by Cascade conformational changes that take place upon nucleic acid binding.
  • the HD-domain (darker part) of Cas3 catalyzes Mg 2+ -dependent nicking of the displaced strand of the R-loop, thereby altering the topology of the target plasmid from nSC to relaxed OC.
  • the plasmid relaxation causes spontaneous dissociation of Cascade.
  • Cas3 displays ATP-dependent exonuclease activity on the target plasmid, requiring the helicase domain for target dsDNA unwinding and the HD-nuclease domain for successive cleavage activity.
  • Cas3 degrades the entire plasmid in an ATP-dependent manner as it processively moves along, unwinds and cleaves the target dsDNA.
  • Cascade complexes are produced and purified as described in Brouns et al (2008) Science 321: 960-4 (2008), using the expression plasmids listed in Supplementary Table 3 of Jore et al (2011) Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 18: 529-537.
  • Cascade is routinely purified with an N-terminal Strep-tag II fused to CasB (or CasC in CasCDE). Size exclusion chromatography (Superdex 200 HR 10/30 (GE)) is performed using 20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 0.1 M NaCl, 1 mM dithiotreitol.
  • Cascade preparations ( ⁇ 0.3 mg) are incubated with DNase I (Invitrogen) in the presence of 2.5 mM MgCl 2 for 15 min at 37° C. prior to size exclusion analysis.
  • Co-purified nucleic acids are isolated by extraction using an equal volume of phenol:chloroform:isoamylalcohol (25:24:1) pH 8.0 (Fluka), and incubated with either DNase I (Invitrogen) supplemented with 2.5 mM MgCl 2 or RNase A (Fermentas) for 10 min at 37° C. Cas subunit proteins fused to the amino acid sequence of Strep-Tag are produced.
  • Plaque assays showing the biological activity of the Strep-Tag Cascade subunits are performed using bacteriophage Lambda and the efficiency of plaquing (EOP) was calculated as described in Brouns et al (2008).
  • crRNA is obtained by injecting purified intact Cascade at 75° C.
  • RNA separations are performed using a monolithic (PS-DVB) capillary column (200 ⁇ m ⁇ 50 mm I.D., Dionex, UK).
  • RNA analysis is performed at 50° C. with 20% buffer D, extending to 40% D in 5 min followed by a linear extension to 60% D over 8 min at a flow rate of 2 ⁇ l/min.
  • Cascade protein is analyzed by native mass spectrometry in 0.15 M ammonium acetate (pH 8.0) at a protein concentration of 5 ⁇ M.
  • the protein preparation is obtained by five sequential concentration and dilution steps at 4° C. using a centrifugal filter with a cut-off of 10 kDa (Millipore).
  • Proteins are sprayed from borosilicate glass capillaries and analyzed on a LCT electrospray time-of-flight or modified quadrupole time-of-flight instruments (both Waters, UK) adjusted for optimal performance in high mass detection (see Tahallah N et al (2001) Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 15: 596-601 (2001) and van den Heuvel, R. H.
  • Electrophoretic mobility shift assays are used to demonstrate the functional activity of Cascade complexes for target nucleic acids. EMSA is performed by incubating Cascade, CasBCDE or CasCDE with 1 nM labelled nucleic acid in 50 mM Tris-Cl pH 7.5, 100 mM NaCl. Salmon sperm DNA (Invitrogen) is used as competitor. EMSA reactions are incubated at 37° C. for 20-30 min prior to electrophoresis on 5% polyacrylamide gels. The gels are dried and analyzed using phosphor storage screens and a PMI phosphor imager (Bio-Rad). Target DNA binding and cleavage activity of Cascade is tested in the presence of 1-10 mM Ca, Mg or Mn-ions.
  • DNA targets are gel-purified long oligonucleotides (Isogen Life Sciences or Biolegio), listed in Supplementary Table 3 of Jore et al (2011).
  • the oligonucleotides are end-labeled using ⁇ 32 P-ATP (PerkinElmer) and T4 kinase (Fermentas).
  • Double-stranded DNA targets are prepared by annealing complementary oligonucleotides and digesting remaining ssDNA with Exonuclease I (Fermentas).
  • Labelled RNA targets are in vitro transcribed using T7 Maxiscript or T7 Mega Shortscript kits (Ambion) with ⁇ 32 P-CTP (PerkinElmer) and removing template by DNase I (Fermentas) digestion.
  • Double stranded RNA targets are prepared by annealing complementary RNAs and digesting surplus ssRNA with RNase T1 (Fermentas), followed by phenol extraction.
  • Plasmid mobility shift assays are performed using plasmid pWUR613 containing the R44 protospacer.
  • the fragment containing the protospacer is PCR-amplified from bacteriophage P7 genomic DNA using primers BG3297 and BG 3298 (see Supplementary Table 3 of Jore et al (2011).
  • Plasmid (0.4 ⁇ g) and Cascade were mixed in a 1:10 molar ratio in a buffer containing 5 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) and 20 mM NaCl and incubated at 37° C. for 30 minutes.
  • Cascade proteins were then removed by proteinase K treatment (Fluka) (0.15 U, 15 min, 37° C.) followed by phenol/chloroform extraction.
  • RNA-DNA complexes were then treated with RNaseH (Promega) (2 U, 1 h, 37° C.).
  • Strep-Tag-Cas protein subunit fusions which form Cascade protein complexes or active sub-complexes with the RNA component (equivalent to a crRNA), have the expected biological and functional activity of scanning and specific attachment and cleavage of nucleic acid targets. Fusions of the Cas subunits with the amino acid chains of fluorescent dyes also form Cascade complexes and sub-complexes with the RNA component (equivalent to crRNA) which retains biological and functional activity and allows visualisation of the location of a target nucleic acid sequence in ds DNA for example.
  • an additional purification step can be carried out using an N-terminally HIS-tagged FokI, to ensure purifying full length and intact Cascade-nuclease fusion complexes.
  • nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the fusion proteins used in this example were as follows:
  • the specificity and activity of the complexes was tested using an artificially constructed target plasmid as a substrate.
  • This plasmid contains M13 and P7 binding sites on opposing strands such that both FokI domains face each other (see FIG. 11 ).
  • the distance between the Cascade binding sites varies between 25 and 50 basepairs with 5 bp increments.
  • the sequences of the target plasmids used are as follows. The number indicated the distance between the M13 and P7 target sites. Protospacers are shown in bold, PAMs underlined:
  • cleavage of the target plasmids was analysed on agarose gels, where negatively supercoiled (nSC) plasmid can be distinguished from linearized- or nicked plasmid.
  • the cleavage site of the Cascade KKR/ELD pair in a target vector was determined by isolating linear cleavage products from an agarose gel and filling in the recessed 3′ ends left by FokI cleavage with the Klenow fragment of E. coli DNA polymerase to create blunt ends.
  • the linear vector was self-ligated, transformed, amplified, isolated and sequenced.
  • the human CCR5 gene encodes the C—C chemokine receptor type 5 protein, which serves as the receptor for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the surface of white blood cells.
  • the CCR5 gene is targeted using a pair of Cascade KKR/ELD nucleases in addition to an artificial GFP locus.
  • a suitable binding site pair is selected on the coding region of CCR5.
  • Two separate CRISPR arrays containing uniform spacers targeting each of the binding sites are constructed using DNA synthesis (Geneart).
  • the human CCR5 target gene selection and CRISPR designs used are as follows:
  • Red1/2 chosen target sites (distance: 34 bp, PAM 5′-CTT-3′). “Red 1 is first appearing underlined sequence in the above. Red2 is the second underlined sequence.
  • Cascade is very stable as a multi-subunit protein-RNA complex and is easily produced in mg quantities in E. coli .
  • Transfection or micro-injection of the complex in its intact form as purified from E. coli is used as methods of delivery (see FIG. 12 ).
  • Cascade-Fold nucleases are purified from E. coli and encapsulated in protein transfection vesicles. These are then fused with the cell membrane of human HepG2 cells releasing the nucleases in the cytoplasm (step 2). NLS sequences are then be recognized by importin proteins, which facilitate nucleopore passage (step 3).
  • Cascade KKR open rectangle
  • Cascade ELD filled rectangle
  • Cascade KKR/ELD nucleases need to act only once and require no permanent presence in the cell encoded on DNA.
  • protein transfection reagents are used from various sources including Pierce, NEB, Fermentas and Clontech. These reagents have recently been developed for the delivery of antibodies, and are useful to transfect a broad range of human cell lines with efficiencies up to 90%.
  • Human HepG2 cells are transfected.
  • other cell lines including CHO-K1, COS-7, HeLa, and non-embryonic stem cells, are transfected.
  • a tandem monopartite nuclear localisation signal from the large T-antigen of simian virus 40 (SV40) is fused to the N-terminus of FokI. This ensures import of only intact Cascade ELD/KKR into the nucleus.
  • the nuclear pore complex translocates RNA polymerases (550 kDa) and other large protein complexes).
  • nuclease activity of the Cascade KKR/ELD nuclease pair is checked in vitro using purified complexes and CCR5PCR amplicons to exclude transfecting non-productive Cascade KKR/ELD nuclease pairs.
  • Transfected cells are cultivated and passaged for several days. The efficiency of in vivo target DNA cleavage is then assessed by using the Surveyor assay of Guschin, D. Y., et al (2010) Methods Mol. Biol., 649: 247-256. Briefly, PCR amplicons of the target DNA locus will be mixed 1:1 with PCR amplicons from untreated cells. These are heated and allowed to anneal, giving rise to mismatches at target sites that have been erroneously repaired by NHEJ. A mismatch nuclease is then used to cleave only mismatched DNA molecules, giving a maximum of 50% of cleavage when target DNA cleavage by Cascade KKR/ELD is complete. This procedure was then followed up by sequencing of the target DNA amplicons of treated cells. The assay allows for rapid assessment and optimization of the delivery procedure.
  • the Cascade-nuclease complexes were constructed as explained above. Affinity purification from E. coli using the StrepII-tagged Cse2 subunit yields a complex with the expected stoichiometry when compared to native Cascade. Referring to FIG. 13 , this shows the stoichiometry of native Cascade (1), Cascade KKR with P7 CrRNA and Cascade ELD with M13 CrRNA 24 h after purification using only Streptactin. Bands in native Cascade (1) are from top to bottom: Cse1, Cas7, Cas5, Cas6e, Cse2. Cascade KKR/ELD show the FokI-Cse1 fusion band and an additional band representing Cse1 with a small part of FokI as a result of proteolytic degradation.
  • FokI-Cse1 fusion protein Apart from an intact FokI-Cse1 fusion protein, we observed that a fraction of the FokI-Cse1-fusion protein is proteolytically cleaved, resulting in a Cse1 protein with only the linker and a small part of FokI attached to it (as confirmed by Mass Spectrometry, data not shown). In most protein isolations the fraction of degraded fusion protein is approximately 40%. The isolated protein is stably stored in the elution buffer (20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 75 mM NaCl, 1 mM DTT, 4 mM desthiobiotin) with additional 0.1% Tween 20 and 50% glycerol at ⁇ 20° C. Under these storage conditions, integrity and activity of the complex have been found stable for at least three weeks (data not shown).
  • the Cascade nuclease fusion design was modified to incorporate a Nucleolar Localization Signal (NLS) to enable transport into the nucleus of eukaryotic cells.
  • NLS Nucleolar Localization Signal
  • PKKKRKVDPKKKRKV a tandem monopartite NLS from the large T-antigen of Simian Virus SV40
  • His 6 -tag at the N-terminus.
  • MHHHHHHHH allows for an additional Ni 2+ -resin affinity purification step after StrepII purification.
  • This additional step ensures the isolation of only full-length Cascade-nuclease fusion complex, and increases the efficiency of cleavage by eliminating the binding of non-intact Cascade complexes to the target site forming an unproductive nuclease pair.
  • FIG. 14A shows plasmids with distances between protospacers of 25-50 bp (5 bp increments, lanes 1-6) incubated with Cascade KKR/ELD for 30 minutes at 37° C.
  • Lane 10 contains the target plasmid in its three possible topologies: the lowest band represents the initial, negatively supercoiled (nSC) form of the plasmid, the middle band represents the linearized form (cleaved by XbaI), whilst the upper band represents the open circular (OC) form (after nicking with Nt.BbrCI).
  • Lane 7 shows incubation of a plasmid with both binding sites removed (negative control).
  • FIG. 14A shows a typical cleavage assay using various target plasmids in which the binding sites are separated by 25 to 50 base pairs in 5 bp increments (lanes 1 to 6). These plasmids with distances of 25-50 bp were incubated with Cascade KKR/ELD carrying anti P7 and M13 crRNA respectively. A plasmid containing no binding sites served as a control (lane 7). The original plasmid exists in negatively supercoiled form (nSC, control lane 8), and nicked or linearized products are clearly distinguishable. Upon incubation a linear cleavage product is formed when binding sites were separated by 30, 35 and 40 base pairs (lanes 2, 3, 4).
  • NEB4 New England Biolabs, 50 mM potassium acetate, 20 mM Tris-acetate, 10 mM magnesium acetate, 1 mM dithiothreitol, pH 7.9
  • Buffer 0 Fermentas, 50 mM Tris-HCl, 10 mM MgCl 2 , 100 mM NaCl, 0.1 mg/mL BSA, pH 7.5.
  • NEB4 is recommended for optimal activity of the commercial intact FokI enzyme. Buffer 0 was chosen from a quick screen to give good activity and specificity (data not shown).
  • FIG. 14B shows incubation with different buffers and different incubation times.
  • Lanes 1-4 have been incubated with Fermentas Buffer 0 (lane 1, 2 for 15 minutes, lane 3, 4 for 30 minutes), lanes 5, 6 have been incubated with NEB4 (30 minutes).
  • Lanes 1, 3, 5 used the target plasmid with 35 bp spacing, lanes 2, 4, 6 used the non-target plasmid (no binding sites).
  • Lanes 7, 8 have been incubated with only Cascade KKR or Cascade ELD respectively (buffer 0).
  • Lane 9 is the topology marker as in (A).
  • Lane 10 and 11 show the target and non-target plasmid incubated without addition of Cascade. Therefore in FIG.
  • FIG. 15 shows how sequencing reveals up- and downstream cleavage sites by Cascade KKR/ELD in the target plasmid with 35 base pair spacing.
  • FIG. 15A is shown the target region within pTarget35 with annotated potential cleavage sites. Parts of the protospacers are indicated in red and blue.
  • B) The bar chart shows four different cleavage patterns and their relative abundance within sequenced clones. The blue bars represent the generated overhang, while the left and right border of each bar represents the left and right cleavage site (see B for annotation).
  • FIG. 15A shows the original sequence of pTarget35, with numbered cleavage sites from ⁇ 7 to +7 where 0 lies in the middle between the two protospacers (indicated in red and blue). Seventeen clones were sequenced and these all show cleavage around position 0, creating varying overhangs between 3 and 5 bp (see FIG. 15B ). Overhangs of 4 are most abundant (cumulatively 88%), while overhangs of 3 and 5 occur only once (6% each). The cleavage occurred exactly as expected with no clones showing off target cleavage.
  • Cascade KKR/ELD nucleases were successfully modified to contain an N-terminal His 6 -tag followed by a dual mono-partite Nucleolar Localisation Signal. These modified Cascade nuclease fusion proteins were co-expressed with either one of two synthetically constructed CRISPR arrays, each targeting a binding site in the human CCR5 gene. First the activity of this new nuclease pair is validated in vitro by testing the activity on a plasmid containing this region of the CCR5 gene. The nuclease pair is transfected to a human cell line, e.g. HeLa cell line. Efficiency of target cleavage is assessed using the Surveyor assay as described above.

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