基于 CRISPR-del 的人二倍体细胞中完整基因敲除的流水线。
A CRISPR-del-based pipeline for complete gene knockout in human diploid cells.
机构信息
Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan.
Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Honcho Kawaguchi, 102-8666 Saitama, Japan.
出版信息
J Cell Sci. 2023 Mar 15;136(6). doi: 10.1242/jcs.260000. Epub 2023 Mar 7.
The advance of CRISPR/Cas9 technology has enabled us easily to generate gene knockout cell lines by introducing insertion-deletion mutations (indels) at the target site via the error-prone non-homologous end joining repair system. Frameshift-promoting indels can disrupt gene functions by generation of a premature stop codon. However, there is growing evidence that targeted genes are not always knocked out by the indel-based gene disruption. Here, we established a pipeline of CRISPR-del, which induces a large chromosomal deletion by cutting two different target sites, to perform 'complete' gene knockout efficiently in human diploid cells. Quantitative analyses show that the frequency of gene deletion with this approach is much higher than that of conventional CRISPR-del methods. The lengths of the deleted genomic regions demonstrated in this study are longer than those of 95% of the human protein-coding genes. Furthermore, the pipeline enabled the generation of a model cell line having a bi-allelic cancer-associated chromosomal deletion. Overall, these data lead us to propose that the CRISPR-del pipeline is an efficient and practical approach for producing 'complete' gene knockout cell lines in human diploid cells.
CRISPR/Cas9 技术的进步使我们能够通过易错的非同源末端连接修复系统在靶位点引入插入-缺失突变(indels),从而轻松地生成基因敲除细胞系。移码诱导的 indels 可以通过产生过早的终止密码子来破坏基因功能。然而,越来越多的证据表明,靶向基因并不总是通过 indel 基 因敲除而被敲除。在这里,我们建立了一个 CRISPR-del 流水线,通过切割两个不同的靶位点诱导大片段染色体缺失,从而在人二倍体细胞中有效地进行“完全”基因敲除。定量分析表明,这种方法的基因缺失频率远高于传统的 CRISPR-del 方法。本研究中显示的缺失基因组区域的长度长于 95%的人类蛋白编码基因。此外,该流水线还能够生成具有双等位基因癌症相关染色体缺失的模型细胞系。总的来说,这些数据表明,CRISPR-del 流水线是在人二倍体细胞中产生“完全”基因敲除细胞系的有效且实用的方法。