PUBLICATION
Improving the efficiency for generation of genome-edited zebrafish by labeling primordial germ cells
- Authors
- Dong, Z., Dong, X., Jia, W., Cao, S., Zhao, Q.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-140910-11
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 55: 329-34 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Zhao, Qingshun
- Keywords
- CRISPR/Cas9, Gene targeting, Germline transmission, Homologous recombination, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/embryology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Genome/genetics*
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Luminescent Proteins/genetics
- Luminescent Proteins/metabolism
- Gene Targeting/methods*
- CRISPR-Associated Proteins/genetics
- CRISPR-Associated Proteins/metabolism
- Founder Effect
- Base Sequence
- Mutation Rate
- Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/genetics
- INDEL Mutation
- Germ Cells/cytology
- Germ Cells/metabolism*
- Animals
- PubMed
- 25194339 Full text @ Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol.
Citation
Dong, Z., Dong, X., Jia, W., Cao, S., Zhao, Q. (2014) Improving the efficiency for generation of genome-edited zebrafish by labeling primordial germ cells. The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology. 55:329-34.
Abstract
Although CRISPR/Cas, a new versatile genome-editing tool, has been widely used in a variety of species including zebrafish, an important vertebrate model animal for biomedical research, the low efficiency of germline transmission of induced mutations and particularly knockin alleles made subsequently screening heritable offspring tedious, time-consuming, expensive and at times impossible. In this study, we reported a method for improving the efficiency of germline transmission screening for generation of genome-edited zebrafish mutants. Co-microinjecting yfp-nanos3 mRNA with Cas9 mRNA, sgRNA and single strand DNA donor to label the distribution of microinjected nucleotides in PGCs (primordial germ cells), we demonstrated that founders carrying labeled PGCs produced much higher numbers of knockin and knockout progeny. In comparison with the common practice of selecting founders by genotyping fin clips, our new strategy of selecting founders with tentatively fluorescent-labeled PGCs significantly increase the ease and speed of generating heritable knocking and knockout animals with CRISPR/Cas9.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping