論文

査読有り 筆頭著者
2016年10月

Functional visualization and disruption of targeted genes using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated eGFP reporter integration in zebrafish

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • Satoshi Ota
  • ,
  • Kiyohito Taimatsu
  • ,
  • Kanoko Yanagi
  • ,
  • Tomohiro Namiki
  • ,
  • Rie Ohga
  • ,
  • Shin-ichi Higashijima
  • ,
  • Atsuo Kawahara

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開始ページ
34991
終了ページ
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/srep34991
出版者・発行元
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

The CRISPR/Cas9 complex, which is composed of a guide RNA (gRNA) and the Cas9 nuclease, is useful for carrying out genome modifications in various organisms. Recently, the CRISPR/Cas9-mediated locus-specific integration of a reporter, which contains the Mbait sequence targeted using Mbait-gRNA, the hsp70 promoter and the eGFP gene, has allowed the visualization of the target gene expression. However, it has not been ascertained whether the reporter integrations at both targeted alleles cause loss-of-function phenotypes in zebrafish. In this study, we have inserted the Mbait-hs-eGFP reporter into the pax2a gene because the disruption of pax2a causes the loss of the midbrain-hindbrain boundary (MHB) in zebrafish. In the heterozygous Tg[pax2a-hs:eGFP] embryos, MHB formed normally and the eGFP expression recapitulated the endogenous pax2a expression, including the MHB. We observed the loss of the MHB in homozygous Tg[pax2a-hs:eGFP] embryos. Furthermore, we succeeded in integrating the Mbait-hs-eGFP reporter into an uncharacterized gene epdr1. The eGFP expression in heterozygous Tg[epdr1-hs:eGFP] embryos overlapped the epdr1 expression, whereas the distribution of eGFP-positive cells was disorganized in the MHB of homozygous Tg[epdr1-hs:eGFP] embryos. We propose that the locus-specific integration of the Mbait-hs-eGFP reporter is a powerful method to investigate both gene expression profiles and loss-of-function phenotypes.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34991
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27725766
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000385241000002&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/srep34991
  • ISSN : 2045-2322
  • PubMed ID : 27725766
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000385241000002

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