A Promising Therapy in Cancer Treatment: CRISPR‑Cas9 Gene
Editing, Its Improvements, Combination Therapies, and Future
Developments
Yuman Sui
Qingdao Academy, Qingdao, China
Keywords: CRISPR‑Cas9, Cancer Immunotherapy, CAR‑T Cells.
Abstract: Cancer, which was caused by uncontrollable cell growth, brings pain and despair to patients and their families.
Individuals in the field of cancer biology never stop finding new therapies effective enough to save sufferers
from huge torments. Crispr-Cas9 is characterized by its ability to cut off designated DNA segments.
Consequently, scientists take advantage of it to silence the expression of certain genes suspectable in
triggering the growth of tumor cells. This review is primarily going to focus on explaining what the CRISPR-
Cas9 is, including the origin of CRISPR-Cas9 system and composition of it, and elaborate on its working
mecha-nisms. Then the article will talk about clinical applications, such as CRISPR-Cas9’s role in co-lon
cancer and Gallbladder cancer, and existing challenges from medical, ethical perspectives. Finally, it will
introduce a combined therapy: CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology and CAR-T cell immunotherapy in the
treatment of cancer and future development of gene therapy.
1 INTRODUCTION
On February 2, 2024, the World Health
Organization's International Agency for Research
on Cancer (IARC) recently released the news
“Global cancer burden growing, amidst mounting
need for services”, which once again emphasizes
the increasing global cancer burden that deserves
worldwide attention. It points out that in 2022, there
were 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million
deaths worldwide. Successful treatment and the
elimination of cancer have been one of the greatest
dreams for doctors and researchers in the medical
field. Scientists conduct tons of investigations on
the invention of new cancer treatments and several
cancer treatments have been discovered. But there
are still issues and deficiencies present in the
traditional therapies, including nonspecific killing
in chemotherapy/radiotherapy which causes normal
cell damage, bottlenecks for the drug resistance in
targeted therapies, such as EGFR-TKI acquired
resistance and side effects observed in ICI therapy.
All of these limitations drive the exploration of
precise in the field of cancer immunotherapy,
further stimulating the research of gene editing
technology. Gene editing, also called genetic
modification, is a set of technologies utilized to
modify the genetic makeup of cells (Hu et al. 2023).
For CRISPR-CAS9(clustered regularly interspaced
short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated
protein 9), it is originally found in eubacteria and
arachnoid membranes for resisting the invasion of
bacteriophage, consisted of Cas9 nuclease and
gRNA.
CRISPR loci are transcribed into pre-CRISPR
RNAs(pre-crRNAs) (Meng et al. 2023). These pre-
crRNAs are processed into mature crRNAs through
the action of trans-activating crRNA(tracrRNA),
endonuclease Cas9, and RNase Ⅲ. The mature
crRNA contains a spacer sequence that can
recognize a specific target DNA sequence.
CRISPR-Cas9 system can be referred as a
molecular scissor when mature crRNA pairs with
tracrRNA to form a double-stranded RNA structure
(Feng et al. 2024, Rabaan et al. 2023). There are
clinical applications of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
technology. In colorectal cancer therapy, WHSC1
knockout in colon cancer cells inhibits proliferation
and increases drug sensitivity. CYSLTR1 knockout
weakens 5 - FU resistance (Meng et al. 2023, Hu et
al. 2023). Over time, expansions of CRISPR-Cas9
system’s capabilities and combinations of gene
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A Promising Therapy in Cancer Treatment: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing, Its Improvements, Combination Therapies, and Future Developments.
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editing technologies with other cancer
immunotherapies such as drugs or virus vaccines
allows for enlargement in the range of applications
(Akhoundi et al. 2021, Razeghian et al. 2021).
However, CRSPR-Cas9 also has deficiencies, such
as specificity and off-target effects, delivery system
limitations and immune response, but more
solutions and improvements will be made by
scientists in the future (Rabaan et al. 2023). This
article describes the basic principles of CRISPR-
Cas9 gene editing technology, how it works as a
treatment of cancers and the applications at clinical
level (Feng et al. 2024). It will also elaborate on
current issues and obstacles of it and some thoughts
on solving the problems. Lastly, the article is going
to show combined therapy for CRISSPR-Cas9 and
future direction in which gene editing technology is
progressing, as outlined below (Liu et al. 2023,
Alaa 2024).
2 THE CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM
AND ITS UNDERLYING
PRINCIPLES
Crispr-Cas 9, the Clustered Regularly Interspaced
Short Palindromic Repeat/ CRISPR associated
protein 9, is observed in the genome of Escherichia
coli by Japanese scientists in 1987 at the first time.
The origin of CRISPR-Cas9 can be traced back to the
eubacteria and arachnoid membranes that use this
natural mechanism to disrupt the DNA/RNA of
invading bacteriophage (Meng et al. 2023). There are
three steps involved in the CRISPR-Cas-mediated
adaptive immunity. When the bacterium is infected,
it would “cut” small pieces of DNA form the virus
and insert them into their own DNA. This piece of
genetic material of bacteriophage, named CRISPR
array, enables the bacterium to memorize the virus
(Hu et al. 2023). Second, a bacterium will
immediately recognize the same virus which invades
at the next time by generating RNA segments that can
identify viruses and attach to the DNA region of
viruses. Then the bacterium will disable the virus
using Cas9 or an enzyme to scissor the associated
DNA in the virus (Meng et al. 2023, Hu et al. 2023).
The CRISPR-Cas9 system is categorized into Class I
and Class II. Class I is characterized by the presence
Cas-protein complexes to identify complementary
DNA, whereas the CRISPR-Cas9 system of Class II
does not have to produce the complicated protein
complex (Meng et al. 2023). Considering the
simplicity and convenience, the CRISPR-Cas9
system has been developed and applicated widely in
gene knockout research of different species. The
CRISPR-Cas9 system is composed of CRISPR-
associated proteins (cas-9) and guide RNA (gRNA).
Cas 9 protein, the genetic scissor, is an endonuclease
responsible for double stranded DNA breaking (Feng
et al. 2024). It has the ability to recognize and bind to
the Protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) in the genome,
causing the DNA unwinding. For the gRNA, it
consists CRISPR RNA/crRNA and trans-activating
CRISPR RNA/tracrRNA. crRNA, with the length of
18-20 base pair, is specific to target DNA through
pairing with targeted DNA sequence. TracrRNA is
featured by a long stretch of loops that facilitate the
building for Cas-9 nuclease (Hu et al. 2023).
The mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas 9 gene editing
system are three phases: recognition, cleavage, and
repair. First, the CRISPR-Cas9 system recognizes
PAMs in the DNA of invading virus or
bacteriophage (Meng et al. 2023). The foreign DNA
is cleaved into short spacer sequences, which are
then integrated into the host’s CRISPR array via
Cas1/Cas2 protein complex. These spacers are
inserted between repeat sequences in the array,
forming a genetic memory of the infection, so a
recognition is gained. Second, Cas 9 protein scans
the DNA for the PAM sequence downstream of the
target site. Upon PAM recognition, Cas 9 induces
local DNA unwinding, separating the double helix.
The crRNA region of the sgRNA forms an RNA-
DNA hybrid with the complementary DNA strand
(Meng et al. 2023, Hu et al. 2023). Positioned near
the RNA-DNA hybrid, the HNH domain cleaves the
DNA strand complementary the crRNA. This cut
occurs 3 bp upstream of the PAM. The non-
complementary DNA strand is cleaved by RuvC-
like domain. HNH and RuvC (protein structure
domains of Cas 9) create a blunt-ended double-
strand break (DSB). DSB triggers cellular repair
pathways. There are two pathways: non-
homologous end joining (NHEJ) and homology-
directed repair (HDR). NHEJ gives rise to
deletion/insertion of DNA and keeps active
throughout the cell cycle, while HDR having a
higher genome editing accuracy adds homologous
donor DNA template at the DSB site (Meng et al.
2023).
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3 CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF
CRISPR-CAS9
Since the scientists have uncovered the basic working
mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas 9 system, they begin
using it as a gene editing technology in the field of
medicine, agriculture and gene modification. This
review will mainly discuss the application of
CRISPR-Cas 9 system in different cancer types.
There are progressions being observed in the use of
gene editing technology to treat colon cancer at
clinical level (Meng et al. 2023, Hu et al. 2023). Gene
knockout, a technique of introducing a mutation in
order to inactivate an organism’s gene that is
suspicious to control a certain trait. Knocking out
PUM1 in cells via CRISPR-Cas 9, scientists find that
the cell activity is reduced by 25-30%. Tumor cell
growth is inhibited when WHSC1 is knocked out and
the metastasis ability is further decreased. The effect
of CRISPR-Cas 9 for gene knockout makes genes
encouraging tumor cells’ growth and providing
proper condition for the development of colon cancer
unable to regulate the expressions anymore (Meng et
al. 2023). Also, the scientists utilize CRISPR-Cas 9
system to construct 3D animal model to stimulate the
tumor environment. Designed sgRNA can induce
particular mutations, enabling the model with specific
genetic mutation to be investigated (Hu et al. 2023).
In the experiment of human intestinal stem cells,
scientists use CRISPR-Cas9 to introduce four
frequently mutated genes (TP53, SMAD4, APC and
KRAS) in activated colorectal tumor cells, observing
the growth of carcinoma.
The strength of CIRSPR-Cas 9 is revealed in
curing gallbladder cancer as well: first, the research
team in Germany utilize Cas9 and other tools to
silence the expression of TP53 and activate latent
KRAS mutant (two most frequently mutated genes
of the Gallbladder cancer) (Erlangga et al. 2019). A
negative control was carried out by an sgRNA
which targets a non-genic area on chromosome 8.
Based on TP53 loss along with the mutated gene
ERBB2 (another commonly mutated gene in
Gallbladder cancer), the mice appear to have
papillary Gallbladder cancer (Erlangga et al.2019).
The team proves that the activation of specific
genes combined with the loss of one or multiple
tumor suppressor gene can purposely control the
appearance of Gallbladder cancer in experimental
mice (Erlangga et al. 2019). Meanwhile, CRISPR-
Cas 9 has been applied in brain cancer. Similarly,
the researchers constructing four animal models
knock out Trp53, Nf1, Ptch1 and Pten that are
related to medulloblastomas with the assistance of
CRISPR-Cas9 technology. CRISPR-Cas9 featuring
higher accuracy and higher chance to succeed is
able to construct a GEMM model faster than
traditional one and therefore, it is applied in gene
knockout models of a variety of animals (Feng et al.
2024).
4 CURRENT CHALLENGES
BASED ON MEDICAL AND
ETHICAL LEVELS
Despite the superiority of CRISPR-Cas 9 technology,
there are remaining issues that need to be solved. The
off-target effect should be investigated when
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique is put into
practice. In fact, off-target effect is a potential
problem in applications of many cancer treatments
and it is more frequent in human cells. The cause is
partially due to incomplete homologies between
gRNA and other regions of the genome and CRISPR-
Cas9 system binds to a sequence similar to the one
that should be cut (Rabaan et al. 2023). A mutation in
allele of off-target effect in a population will be
passed to the next generation based on genetic drift,
raising the number of offspring with this kind of
mutation. Unfortunately, off-target effect appears
more commonly in human cells. The form in which
CRISPR-Cas9 constituents are injected in cells is as
protein, DNA or RNA. In the simulation model of
mice, it is hard for the mice with genetic modification
to pass their changed genetic material to their
offsprings (Liu et al. 2023).
Another major consideration might be the
ethical aspects. To be more specific, gene editing
technology is seriously prohibited in the edition of
human reproductive cells. For example, “He Jiankui
affair”, a controversy over scientific progression of
gene editing technique and human ethical issues, is
a typical case. He Jiankui, a former professor and a
researcher in Southern University of Science and
Technology (SUS tech), China, created the first
genetically modified babies in human history. In the
year of 2018, He recruited 8 pairs of couples (eight
males positive for HIV antibodies) for the
experiment. Then, He manually edited the embryo’s
genes using CRISPR-Cas9 technology and had a
volunteer give birth to twins after artificial
insemination. He aimed to make the infants born to
be immune to AIDS by modifying their genetic
composition. It is studied that HIV would attach to
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the surface of white blood cell produced by CCR5
gene and the virus is unable to reach white blood
cells’ surface if proteins are generated by the
mutated type of CCR5 with the deletion of 32 base
pairs, thus people possessing mutated CCR5 gene
are immune to AIDS. Similarly, He and his
researching team used the CIRSPR-Cas 9 gene
scissor to cause 32 bp deletion to occur the CCR5
gene, intending to gain homologous mutation of it:
CCR5Δ32. On the contrary, this presents both huge
ethical problems and medicine ones. From the
medical perspective, it is true that CCR5 is an
essential part of the virus invasion, but there are
other ways of invasions, which have yet been
interrupted by any gene technologies, let along the
final outcome of this experiment was that the
newborns did not successfully gained CCR5Δ32.
As for ethical consideration, gene editing of human
embryos might raise social issues: the criteria of the
access to this technique and differentiation of the
whole society once CRISPR-Cas9 serves as a tool
to enhance human intelligence and physical ability
(Rabaan et al. 2023, Liu et al. 2023).
5 COMBINATION THERAPY:
CRISPR-CAS9 GENE EDITING
AND CAR-T CELL
IMMUNOTHERAPY IN
CANCER TREATMENT
Scientists are combining gene technology with other
existing immunotherapies to enhance immune cell
function, overcome tumor resistance and improve
treatment effect. The use of CRISPR-Cas9 along with
CAR-T cells therapy has been applied in medicine
(Razeghian et al. 2021). CAR-T cell (chimeric
antigen receptor) is genetically modified T-cells that
are capable of locating and destroying cancer cells. T-
cells separated from the plasma go through genetic
engineering and after that, T-cells with chimeric
antigen receptors (specialized proteins) on their
surface are now able to bind to antigens of tumor cells
and kill them (Akhoundi et al. 2021). Due to cell
division and growth, the number of these revamped
immune cells increases significantly to hundreds of
millions, which are injected back to the patient’s
body. Within a human body, CAR-T cells keep
proliferating, attacking and eliminating cancer cells
having distinguishable antigens on surface. However,
there are limitations leading to its small range of
application to patients, from high costs to difficulties
in gathering qualified T-cells, which urges doctors to
come up with a universal revamped CAR-T cell
(Akhoundi et al. 2021). To successfully be used in
clinics, universal CAR-T cell needs to pass from two
major barriers: self-immune rejective response and
increased safety after injection. Through
investigation and study, researchers found that when
identifying foreign antigens, TCRs (T-cell receptors)
may cause GVHD--graft versus host disease
happening after an allogeneic transplant. What is
more, human leukocyte antigen that locates on
allogeneic CART-cells activates immune
mechanisms preventing CAR-T cells from acting on
human bodies. That is what the CRISPR-Cas9 gene
engineering plays a part: using CRISPR-Cas9 to
knock out T-cell receptorβ chain and fundamental
components of HLA molecule--β-2-microglobulin
will silence the expression of TCRs and HLA
molecules (Akhoundi et al. 2021, Razeghian et al.
2021).
Experiments show CAR-T cells do not trigger
GVHD and function properly. Additionally, gene
editing excludes the influence of inhibitory signals
produced by immune check points. Cancer cells
sometimes utilize immune checkpoints to protect
themselves from being attacked. Once immune
checkpoint inhibitory molecules, PD-1, bind to its
receptors, PD-L1/PD-L2, the complex would reduce
CD8+T cell toxicity. An electroporation method is
adopted to knock out PD-1 in T-cells from Cas9
plasmids and sgRNA, deleting PD-L1 indirectly. In
the clinical level, the Cas9/sgRNA system precisely
inserts the α-PD-1 box into the GAPDH site of B
lymphocytes (Razeghian et al. 2021). Astonishingly,
the genetically edited B lymphocytes differentiate
into characteristic long-lived plasma cells (LLPCs)
both in an in-vitro setting and in in-vivo mice models.
These resultant LLPCs have the capacity to
constantly secrete novel antibodies. In xenograft
tumor mouse models, these antibodies can inhibit the
growth of human melanoma through an antibody-
mediated checkpoint-blocking mechanism. The
reduction of PD-L1 expression is carried out by
having CRISPR-Cas9 knock out Cdk5 gene (allows
PD-L1 expression) (Akhoundi et al. 2021, Razeghian
et al. 2021). Therefore, CRISPR-Cas9’s capability to
block PD-1 and PD-L1 will facilitate antitumor
responses and strengthen the ability of CAR-T cell
immunotherapy in cancer treatment.
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6 ADVANCEMENTS AND
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN
CRISPR-CAS9 GENE EDITING
TECHNOLOGY
As the investigation and experiments continue
progressing, more advancements have been achieved.
CRISPR-Cas9 is currently countering the problem of
targeting effect (as mentioned in part 3: Current
Challenges based on medical and ethical level) that
brings about undesirable genetic change when Cas9
scissors unexpected DNA sites (Rabaan et al. 2023).
Sending Cas9 nuclease to target cells remains
challenging, so designing delivery systems is what
people are doing recently. Chinese scholars develop
“a lactose-derived CRISPR-Cas9 delivery system”
that shows potential strengths in clinical trials.
Compared with viral delivery route, non-viral vectors
possess lower toxicity to human bodies (Alaa 2024).
Lactose, a type of disaccharide, is composed of one
glucose and galactose and its targeting feature
revealed from hepatic cancer cells can effectively be
used to treat liver diseases. Through one-pot ring-
opening reaction, LBP (lactose-derived branched
cationic biopolymer) with many disulfide linkages
and hydroxyl groups are synthesized. The physical
properties are studied to figure out the likelihood of
LBP as potential genetic vector and then, the toxicity
and targeting capability is tested in human hepatic
cancer cells (Alaa 2024). Scientists used BIRC5
(Baculoviral IAP Repeat Containing 5 that codes for
survivin that inhibits apoptosis of cells and regulates
mitosis) as targeting gene. Survivin expresses in
cancers but it cannot be found in normal cells. LBP’s
ability of targeting is seen when LBP delivers pCas9-
survivin (CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid for knocking out
survivin gene) to the mice HCC (hepatocellular
cancer cell) models (Liu et al. 2023, Alaa 2024).
7 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN
CRISPR-CAS9 GENE EDITING
TECHNOLOGY
Investigations and innovations of CRISPR-Cas9 gene
engineering technology made by scientists enable it
to progress in a rapid rate. Advancements in CRISPR-
Cas9 also provide hopes for patients who are in the
need of gene editing therapy for their cancer.
Researchers have been solving the problem of “off
targeting”: one of the biggest challenges faced by this
gene technique and therefore, it is necessary to select
proper delivery system (Alaa 2024). In 2024, a
delivery system with high efficiency, which is based
on nanoparticles is discovered. Consisting of cationic
lipids or lipid-like materials, nanoparticles are
protected from degrading and they can be transported
to tarted cells more efficiently and effectively.
Scholars are still working on enhancing its stability
and effects through experiments and research (Alaa
2024). CRISPR-Cas9 also demonstrates its wonderful
ability in gene modification of a variety of diseases.
In sickle cell anemia caused by the mutate gene HBB,
CRISPR-Cas9 is able to accurately modify HBB gene
and correct the disorder of gene compositions.
Furthermore, it succeeds in correcting several gene
mutations related to retinitis pigmentosa
(characterized by vision lost) (Liu et al.2023).
8 CONCLUSION
From the first discovery ofgenetic scissor in
Escherichia coli to the application in cancer treatment
and other diseases, it took human seven years. In
seven years of hard work and tons of trials, people in
this field figured out what the components in bacteria
are, uncovered the underlying mechanisms about how
CIRSPR-Cas9 works, began putting it into practice as
a method in clinical level, strived to solve the
problems present in it, combined gene therapy with
different immunotherapy to maximize its benefits and
strengths and finally, continue advancing CRISPR-
Cas9 system. Thanks to all of the researchers who
have ever stopped discovering things behind this
technique and persisted to improve it as much as they
can, people now have various information of different
aspects of CRISPR-Cas9 system on hands. It
originates from the acquired immune system of
bacteria and archaea as part of the resistant
mechanisms when foreign viruses invade the bacteria.
CRISPR- associated proteins (cas-9) and guide RNA
(gRNA) are the two major components of CRISPR-
Cas9 system. Cas9 is a nuclease, a protein capable of
cutting stranded DNA, causing DSB. gRNA, which is
a complementary to the target DNA sequence, will
guide the Cas9 protein to a specific location in the
genome.
As the gRNA binds to the Cas9 protein to form a
complex, it searches for the DNA sequence in the
genome that is complementary to the gRNA so that
Cas9 protein cuts the targeted DNA. Since DNA
breaks up, this system has two ways of repairments:
NHEJ and HDR, which have both advantages but
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drawbacks. The basic working principles enable
CRISPR-Cas9 to cut diverse segments of DNA under
changing circumstances. The efficiency, cheapness,
operational simplicity and high accuracy render gene
editing technology a rival therapy to treat cancers.
The majority of causes in cancer would be the
mutation of gene, which means that by studying
which gene may be responsible for stimulating the
growth and proliferation of cancer cells, scientists can
knock out the particular genes via gene tools.
However, the limitations and challenges in CRISPR-
Cas9 should not be ignored: off-target effect and
ethical issues. People are proposing solutions and
passing laws that strictly ban the use of gene editing
in human reproduction. CRISPR-Cas9 is a promising
treatment for cancer, offering patients and doctors
hopes. It is expected that scientists will have a
breakthrough in it one day and succeed in curing more
cancer patients.
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