PUBLICATION
Efficient generation of knock-in transgenic zebrafish carrying reporter/driver genes by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering
- Authors
- Kimura, Y., Hisano, Y., Kawahara, A., Higashijima, S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-141009-8
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Scientific Reports 4: 6545 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Higashijima, Shin-ichi, Kawahara, Atsuo
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- CRISPR-Cas Systems*
- Gene Knock-In Techniques*
- Gene Targeting
- Genetic Engineering*
- Genome
- Organisms, Genetically Modified/genetics*
- RNA, Guide, Kinetoplastida/genetics
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- PubMed
- 25293390 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Citation
Kimura, Y., Hisano, Y., Kawahara, A., Higashijima, S. (2014) Efficient generation of knock-in transgenic zebrafish carrying reporter/driver genes by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering. Scientific Reports. 4:6545.
Abstract
The type II bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system is rapidly becoming popular for genome-engineering due to its simplicity, flexibility, and high efficiency. Recently, targeted knock-in of a long DNA fragment via homology-independent DNA repair has been achieved in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9 system. This raised the possibility that knock-in transgenic zebrafish could be efficiently generated using CRISPR/Cas9. However, how widely this method can be applied for the targeting integration of foreign genes into endogenous genomic loci is unclear. Here, we report efficient generation of knock-in transgenic zebrafish that have cell-type specific Gal4 or reporter gene expression. A donor plasmid containing a heat-shock promoter was co-injected with a short guide RNA (sgRNA) targeted for genome digestion, a sgRNA targeted for donor plasmid digestion, and Cas9 mRNA. We have succeeded in establishing stable knock-in transgenic fish with several different constructs for 4 genetic loci at a frequency being exceeding 25%. Due to its simplicity, design flexibility, and high efficiency, we propose that CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-in will become a standard method for the generation transgenic zebrafish.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping