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Precision CRISPR annotation of the functional enhancer landscape in primary human T cells

ABSTRACT: Precise modulation of T cell function through engineering the non-coding genome holds great promise for advancing next-generation immunotherapies. However, robust high-throughput approaches to annotate functional cis-regulatory elements (CRE) in human T cells remain limited. Here, we developed a simple and highly efficient CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) perturbation platform to systematically annotate CREs in human primary T cells. Using this platform, we identified novel CREs controlling PDCD1, HAVCR2, and TBX21 expression. Combinatorial CRE perturbations revealed synergistic CRE pairs that fine-tune PDCD1 and HAVCR2 expression, while Cas9-indel-based mutagenesis pinpointed the critical nucleotides within each enhancer that are essential for their activity. Functional experiments demonstrated that CRE-edited HAVCR2 outperformed conventional total gene knockout in enhancing CAR T cells anti-tumor efficacy. Moreover, CRE editing of PDCD1 and HAVCR2 repressed PD-1 and TIM-3 expression in human tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte CD8 T cells, highlighting their regulatory role in disease relevant exhausted T cells. Together, this approach offers a compact CRISPRi platform that enables high-throughput dissection of functionally relevant genomic regions in T cells, providing insights for mechanistic studies and precision genome engineering for advanced cellular therapies.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE310188 | GEO | 2026/01/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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