An alternative strategy for targeted gene replacement in plants using a dual-sgRNA/Cas9 design
Precision DNA/gene replacement is a promising genome-editing tool that is highly desirable for molecular engineering and breeding by design. Although the CRISPR/Cas9 system works well as a tool for gene knockout in plants, gene replacement has rarely been reported. Towards this end, we first designed a combinatory dual-sgRNA/Cas9 vector (construct #1) that successfully deleted miRNA gene regions (MIR169a and MIR827a). The deletions were confirmed by PCR and subsequent sequencing, yielding deletion efficiencies of 20% and 24% on MIR169a and MIR827a loci, respectively. We designed a second structure (construct #2) that contains sites homologous to Arabidopsis TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1) for homology-directed repair (HDR) with regions corresponding to the two sgRNAs on the modified construct #1. The two constructs were co-transformed into Arabidopsis plants to provide both targeted deletion and donor repair for targeted gene replacement by HDR. Four of 500 stably transformed T0 transgenic plants (0.8%) contained replaced fragments. The presence of the expected recombination sites was further confirmed by sequencing. Therefore, we successfully established a gene deletion/replacement system in stably transformed plants that can potentially be utilized to introduce genes of interest for targeted crop improvement.
Main Authors: | Yongping Zhao, Congsheng Zhang, Wenwen Liu, Wei Gao, Changlin Liu, Gaoyuan, Song, Wen-Xue Li, Long Mao, Cheng, Beijiu, Yunbi Xu, Xinhai Li, Chuanxiao Xie |
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Format: | Article biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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Subjects: | AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENES, PLANTS, DNA SEQUENCE, CHROMOSOME MANIPULATION, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10883/18311 |
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