Du Yubin, Xie Wen, Zhang Fan, Choi Uimook, Liu Chengyu, Sweeney Colin L
Transgenic Core Facility, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1874:139-168. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8831-0_8.
NOD.Cg-Prkdc Il2rgSzJ (NSG) mice are an immunodeficient strain that enables human cell xenografts. However, NSG mice possess a complex genetic background that would complicate cross-breeding with other inbred transgenic or knockout mouse strains to establish a congenic strain with a desired genetic modification in the NSG background. Newly developed clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 technology enables modification of the mouse genome at the zygote stage without the need for extensive cross-breeding or the use of embryonic stem cells. In this chapter, we use the knockout of the X-linked Cybb gene as an example to describe our procedures for genetically modifying NSG mice using the CRISPR/Cas9 method. Briefly, two sgRNAs were designed and made to target exon 1 and exon 3 of the Cybb gene, and either sgRNA was then microinjected together with Cas9 mRNA into fertilized eggs collected from NSG mice. The injected embryos are subsequently transferred into the oviducts of pseudopregnant surrogate mothers. Offspring born to the foster mothers were genotyped by PCR and DNA sequencing. In this chapter, we describe our experiment procedures in detail and report our genotyping results for demonstrating that NSG mice can be genetically modified using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology in a highly efficient manner.
NOD.Cg-Prkdc Il2rgSzJ(NSG)小鼠是一种免疫缺陷品系,可实现人类细胞异种移植。然而,NSG小鼠具有复杂的遗传背景,这会使与其他近交转基因或基因敲除小鼠品系进行杂交变得复杂,难以建立在NSG背景下具有所需基因修饰的同源品系。新开发的成簇规律间隔短回文重复序列(CRISPR)/Cas9技术能够在合子期对小鼠基因组进行修饰,而无需进行广泛的杂交或使用胚胎干细胞。在本章中,我们以X连锁的Cybb基因敲除为例,描述使用CRISPR/Cas9方法对NSG小鼠进行基因改造的步骤。简要地说,设计并制备了两个sgRNA,靶向Cybb基因的外显子1和外显子3,然后将其中任何一个sgRNA与Cas9 mRNA一起显微注射到从NSG小鼠收集的受精卵中。随后将注射后的胚胎转移到假孕代孕母亲的输卵管中。通过PCR和DNA测序对代孕母亲所生的后代进行基因分型。在本章中,我们详细描述了我们的实验步骤,并报告了我们的基因分型结果,以证明可以使用CRISPR/Cas9技术高效地对NSG小鼠进行基因改造。