TY - JOUR T1 - Generation of a FMR1 homozygous knockout human embryonic stem cell line (WAe009-A-16) by CRISPR/Cas9 editing. JF - Stem Cell Res Y1 - 2019 A1 - Giri, Subhajit A1 - Purushottam, Meera A1 - Viswanath, Biju A1 - Muddashetty, Ravi S AB -

Mutations in FMR1 gene is the cause of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) leading inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders. FMR1 gene encodes Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP) which is a RNA binding protein and play important role in synaptic plasticity and translational regulation in neurons. We have generated a homozygous FMR1 knockout (FMR1-KO) hESC line using CRISPR/Cas9 based genome editing. It created a homozygous 280 nucleotide deletion at exon1, removing the start codon. This FMR1-KO cell line maintains stem cell like morphology, pluripotency, normal karyotype and ability to in-vitro differentiation.

VL - 39 ER -