When a
cancer patient is administered an anti-
cancer therapy targeting a
lineage specific cell-surface
antigen (e.g., CD33 (
Siglec-3), CLL-1, CD123, CD327 (
Siglec-6), and / or CD312 (EMR2)), e.g., in the form of an
immunotherapeutic agent, the therapy can 15 deplete not only
cancer cells expressing the lineage-specific
cell-surface
antigen, but also noncancerous cells expressing the lineage-specific
cell-surface
antigen in an "on-target, off tumor" effect. This disclosure provides, e.g., novel cells having a modification (e.g.,
insertion or deletion) in an endogenous lineage-specific cell-surface antigen (e.g., CD33 (
Siglec-3), CLL-1, CD123, CD327 (Siglec-6), and / or CD312 (EMR2))
gene. The disclosure also provides compositions, e.g., gRNAs, that can be used to make such a modification.