Highly efficient gene knockout in mice and zebrafish with RNA-guided endonucleases
- Young Hoon Sung1,5,
- Jong Min Kim2,5,
- Hyun-Taek Kim3,5,
- Jaehoon Lee1,
- Jisun Jeon1,
- Young Jin1,
- Jung-Hwa Choi3,
- Young Ho Ban1,
- Sang-Jun Ha1,
- Cheol-Hee Kim3,
- Han-Woong Lee1,4,6 and
- Jin-Soo Kim2,6
- 1Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea;
- 2National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Genome Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Republic of Korea;
- 3Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea;
- 4Yonsei Laboratory Animal Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea
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↵5 These authors contributed equally to this work.
Abstract
RNA-guided endonucleases (RGENs), derived from the prokaryotic Type II CRISPR-Cas system, enable targeted genome modification in cells and organisms. Here we describe the establishment of gene-knockout mice and zebrafish by the injection of RGENs as Cas9 protein:guide RNA complexes or Cas9 mRNA plus guide RNA into one-cell-stage embryos of both species. RGENs efficiently generated germline transmittable mutations in up to 93% of newborn mice with minimal toxicity. RGEN-induced mutations in the mouse Prkdc gene that encodes an enzyme critical for DNA double-strand break repair resulted in immunodeficiency both in F0 and F1 mice. We propose that RGEN-mediated mutagenesis in animals will greatly expedite the creation of genetically engineered model organisms, accelerating functional genomic research.
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↵6 Corresponding authors
E-mail jskim01{at}snu.ac.kr
E-mail hwl{at}yonsei.ac.kr
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[Supplemental material is available for this article.]
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Article published online before print. Article, supplemental material, and publication date are at http://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.163394.113.
- Received July 11, 2013.
- Accepted October 7, 2013.
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