Baltes Nicholas J, Hummel Aaron W, Konecna Eva, Cegan Radim, Bruns Aaron N, Bisaro David M, Voytas Daniel F
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Nat Plants. 2015 Oct;1(10). doi: 10.1038/nplants.2015.145. Epub 2015 Sep 28.
To reduce crop losses due to geminivirus infection, we targeted the bean yellow dwarf virus (BeYDV) genome for destruction with the CRISPR-Cas (clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated proteins) system. Transient assays using BeYDV-based replicons revealed that CRISPR-Cas reagents introduced mutations within the viral genome and reduced virus copy number. Transgenic plants expressing CRISPR-Cas reagents and challenged with BeYDV had reduced virus load and symptoms, thereby demonstrating a novel strategy for engineering resistance to geminiviruses.
为减少因双生病毒感染造成的作物损失,我们利用CRISPR-Cas(成簇规律间隔短回文重复序列- CRISPR相关蛋白)系统靶向破坏菜豆黄矮病毒(BeYDV)基因组。使用基于BeYDV的复制子进行的瞬时分析表明,CRISPR-Cas试剂在病毒基因组内引入了突变并降低了病毒拷贝数。表达CRISPR-Cas试剂并受到BeYDV攻击的转基因植物病毒载量和症状减轻,从而证明了一种构建抗双生病毒能力的新策略。