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Optimized knock-in of point mutations in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9.

ABSTRACT: We have optimized point mutation knock-ins into zebrafish genomic sites using clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 reagents and single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotides. The efficiency of knock-ins was assessed by a novel application of allele-specific polymerase chain reaction and confirmed by high-throughput sequencing. Anti-sense asymmetric oligo design was found to be the most successful optimization strategy. However, cut site proximity to the mutation and phosphorothioate oligo modifications also greatly improved knock-in efficiency. A previously unrecognized risk of off-target trans knock-ins was identified that we obviated through the development of a workflow for correct knock-in detection. Together these strategies greatly facilitate the study of human genetic diseases in zebrafish, with additional applicability to enhance CRISPR-based approaches in other animal model systems.

SUBMITTER: Prykhozhij SV

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6158492 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Optimized knock-in of point mutations in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9.

Prykhozhij Sergey V SV Fuller Charlotte C Steele Shelby L SL Veinotte Chansey J CJ Razaghi Babak B Robitaille Johane M JM McMaster Christopher R CR Shlien Adam A Malkin David D Berman Jason N JN

Nucleic acids research 20180901 17

We have optimized point mutation knock-ins into zebrafish genomic sites using clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 reagents and single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotides. The efficiency of knock-ins was assessed by a novel application of allele-specific polymerase chain reaction and confirmed by high-throughput sequencing. Anti-sense asymmetric oligo design was found to be the most successful optimization strategy. However, cut site proximity to the mutation and phosphor ...[more]

PMID: 29905858

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Project description:Despite the unprecedented gene editing capability of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated targeted knock-in, the efficiency and precision of this technology still require further optimization, particularly for multicellular model organisms, such as the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Our study demonstrated that an ∼200 base-pair sequence encoding a composite tag can be efficiently "knocked-in" into the zebrafish genome using a combination of the CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex and a long single-stranded DNA (lssDNA) as a donor template. Here, we targeted the sox3, sox11a, and pax6a genes to evaluate the knock-in efficiency of lssDNA donors with different structures in somatic cells of injected embryos and for their germline transmission. The structures and sequence characteristics of the lssDNA donor templates were found to be crucial to achieve a high rate of precise and heritable knock-ins. The following were our key findings: (1) lssDNA donor strand selection is important; however, strand preference and its dependency appear to vary among the target loci or their sequences. (2) The length of the 3' homology arm of the lssDNA donor affects knock-in efficiency in a site-specific manner; particularly, a shorter 50-nt arm length leads to a higher knock-in efficiency than a longer 300-nt arm for the sox3 and pax6a knock-ins. (3) Some DNA sequence characteristics of the knock-in donors and the distance between the CRISPR-Cas9 cleavage site and the tag insertion site appear to adversely affect the repair process, resulting in imprecise editing. By implementing the proposed method, we successfully obtained precisely edited sox3, sox11a, and pax6a knock-in alleles that contained a composite tag composed of FLAGx3 (or PAx3), Bio tag, and HiBiT tag (or His tag) with moderate to high germline transmission rates as high as 21%. Furthermore, the knock-in allele-specific quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) for both the 5' and 3' junctions indicated that knock-in allele frequencies were higher at the 3' side of the lssDNAs, suggesting that the lssDNA-templated knock-in was mediated by unidirectional single-strand template repair (SSTR) in zebrafish embryos.

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Optimized knock-in of point mutations in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9.

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Optimized knock-in of point mutations in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9.

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