CRISPR/Cas9介导的基因组编辑技术

规律成簇间隔短回文重复序列(CRISPR)协同其相关蛋白Cas组成了细菌和古细菌的获得性免疫系统。利用该系统可以对外来某一特定单链或双链DNA实施高度特异性沉默或降解的特性,近年来对基因组进行精确定点编辑的CRISPR/Cas系统迅速发展。着重介绍了CRISPR/Cas系统的研究历史、结构、分类及作用机制,并分析讨论了现阶段以Cas9为核心的Ⅱ型系统在应用方面存在的问题及前景。     

CRISPR/Cas基因编辑系统中gRNA表达策略

近日,宾夕法尼亚州立大学杨亦农(Yinong Yang)教授团队在a BIOTECH期刊在线发表题为"Efficient expression of multiple guide RNAs for CRISPR/Cas genome editing"的综述。总结了CRISPR/Cas基因编辑技术中引导RNA (gRNA)的表达策略,介绍了多重基因编辑中同时表达多个引导RNA的方法和技巧,为CRISPR/Cas技术的开发和应用提供了参考。     

CRISPR/Cas9基因编辑技术在丝状真菌中的应用

随着对丝状真菌基因水平研究的不断深入,CRISPR/Cas9技术作为先进的基因编辑技术,已被广泛应用于丝状真菌的基因编辑。探究了CRISPR/Cas9系统在不同丝状真菌中的应用情况,主要从sgRNA的构建与表达、Cas9蛋白的改造与表达、不同的DNA双链断裂修复（DNA double-strand break,DSB）方式等方面进行概述,并对编辑效率、脱靶效应进行总结,旨在为今后丝状真菌中CRISPR/Cas9系统的构建及改良提供思路。     

CRISPR/Cas9:基因编辑的新时代

基因编辑技术是通过核酸内切酶对基因组DNA进行定向改造的技术,可以实现对特定DNA碱基的缺失、替换等,常用的四种基因编辑工具分别是:巨型核酸酶、锌指核酸酶、转录激活因子样效应物核酸酶以及CRISPR/Cas9系统.其中CRISPR/Cas9系统作为一种新型的基因组编辑技术具有组成简单、特异性好、切割效率高的优点.该文对...     

CRISPR/Cas9基因组编辑技术的研究进展及其应用

随着测序技术的不断进步,获得了越来越多物种的全基因组序列。面对这些海量的基因组数据,基因定点编辑技术是高效捕获目标基因、迅速获得基因功能和应用信息的重要研究手段。CRISPR/Cas9是目前最有效的一种基因定点编辑技术。CRISPR/Cas9系统(clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated)是广泛存在于细菌及古生菌中的,由细菌体长期进化而形成,能够降解入侵病毒或噬菌体DNA的适应性免疫系统。因此,对CRISPR/Cas9系统的发展、应用,以其在相关研究中的应用前景进行阐述显得尤为必要。     

基于CRISPR/Cas系统的DNA碱基编辑研究进展

基于CRISPR/Cas的基因编辑是近年发展起来的一项变革性生物技术。其过程包括在目标DNA位点引入双链断裂(double strand break,DSB)以及其后续的细胞修复。细胞修复DSB主要有两种方式：非同源末端连接(non-homologous end joining,NHEJ)以及同源重组介导的修复(homology-directed repair,HDR)。前者是大多数细胞修复DSB的主要方式,其特点在于修复简单、效率高但极易出错,往往会引发难以预测的核苷酸插入或删除。点突变是自然界中最常见的遗传突变类型,引起了超过半数的人类遗传疾病以及许多重要农艺性状变异。碱基编辑能够实现单个碱基的替换,既不需要引入DSB,又无需修复模板参与,具有高效、编辑结果可控等优点,在基因治疗、作物育种及生物技术研究等方面具有重大的应用潜能。自首个碱基编辑工具开发以来,碱基编辑相关技术得到快速发展及广泛应用。本文综述了目前DNA碱基编辑研究进展,重点阐述了碱基编辑器及其在编辑效率、精度以及特异性提高和编辑范围扩展等方面的最新进展以及仍存在的瓶颈,并展望其研究和应用前景。     

利用CRISPR/Cas9技术构建基因编辑大鼠模型

RNA介导的CRISPR/Cas9基因编辑系统由单链引导RNA(sgRNA)与核酸酶Cas9构成。在细胞内,sgRNA能够按照碱基互补配对的原则引导Cas9与靶点结合,由Cas9切割目标DNA,造成双链DNA断裂(double stranded break, DSB)。在随后的DNA修复过程中,细胞主要进行非同源末端连接(non-homologous end joining,NHEJ)或在有修复模板存在的情况下进行重组修复(homology directed repair, HDR)。如果将CRISPR/Cas9系统以及修复模板通过显微注射的方式导入大鼠的胚胎内,就能借助细胞的修复机制实现大鼠胚胎的基因编辑,由此构建各种基因修饰大鼠模型。本文详细介绍了利用CRISPR/Cas9基因编辑技术构建大鼠模型的具体操作步骤,以期为相关领域的科研人员提供一种大鼠基因修饰模型的构建方法。     

CRISPR/Cas基因编辑技术研究进展及其在斑马鱼中的应用

规律成簇间隔的短回文序列(Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,CRISPR)是细菌和古菌中的获得性免疫系统,利用该系统能定点进行基因编辑。最近,科学家发现了新的CRISPR-associated (Cas)蛋白,其中由Cas12a介导的基因编辑能显著降低脱靶率。文中对CRISPR/Cas系统的发现历史、组成和分类、工作原理进行概述,并总结了该系统的最新研究进展及在斑马鱼Danio rerio中的应用。     

CRISPR/Cas基因编辑技术及其在微藻研究中的应用

微藻由于在医药、食品、可再生燃料和化学原料等方面的潜力,受到了研究者越来越多的关注和青睐。然而,合适基因编辑方法和转化工具的缺乏,使得微藻基因工程的进展还相对比较缓慢。随着分子生物和基因编辑技术的发展,CRISPR 技术凭借简便、特异和高效的优势,逐渐成为探讨基因功能、提高植物育种和增加代谢物产物等研究的有力手段。基于此,本文综述了CRISPR/Cas 的2 种主要类型,重点论述了其在微藻领域中的应用进展,并总结了CRISPR 技术在微藻应用中所存在的问题,期望为以后的研究提供启发和参考。     

The CRISPR/Cas9 system produces specific and homozygous targeted gene editing in rice in one generation

The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been demonstrated to efficiently induce targeted gene editing in a variety of organisms including plants. Recent work showed that CRISPR/Cas9‐induced gene mutations in Arabidopsis were mostly somatic mutations in the early generation, although some mutations could be stably inherited in later generations. However, it remains unclear whether this system will work similarly in crops such as rice. In this study, we tested in two rice subspecies 11 target genes for their amenability to CRISPR/Cas9‐induced editing and determined the patterns, specificity and heritability of the gene modifications. Analysis of the genotypes and frequency of edited genes in the first generation of transformed plants (T0) showed that the CRISPR/Cas9 system was highly efficient in rice, with target genes edited in nearly half of the transformed embryogenic cells before their first cell division. Homozygotes of edited target genes were readily found in T0 plants. The gene mutations were passed to the next generation (T1) following classic Mendelian law, without any detectable new mutation or reversion. Even with extensive searches including whole genome resequencing, we could not find any evidence of large‐scale off‐targeting in rice for any of the many targets tested in this study. By specifically sequencing the putative off‐target sites of a large number of T0 plants, low‐frequency mutations were found in only one off‐target site where the sequence had 1‐bp difference from the intended target. Overall, the data in this study point to the CRISPR/Cas9 system being a powerful tool in crop genome engineering.     

CRISPR/Cas9介导的基因组定点编辑技术在丝状真菌中的研究进展

CRISPR/Cas9技术是在特定的RNA引导下,利用特异的核酸酶实现对基因组进行编辑的新技术。自2013年该技术体系建立起来已成功应用于动物、植物及真菌中。本文简述了3种基于核酸酶的基因编辑技术及其应用,概述了CRISPR/Cas9系统的组成及其作用机理,总结了CRISPR/Cas9在模式真菌酿酒酵母及丝状真菌中的应用,并就在丝状真菌中应用该技术时sg RNA表达盒的设计、Cas9表达盒的优化、抗性标记的筛选、受体的选择等方面提出具体的研究方法。另外,针对该技术应用过程中出现的脱靶效应、Cas9核定位信号的添加、启动子的选择及多个靶基因的编辑等问题提出了建议与展望,希望能够为初次涉足该领域的科研人员提供理论参考和技术支持。     

CRISPR/Cas9基因组编辑技术在癌症研究中的应用

CRISPR/cas9基因组编辑技术因其设计简单以及操作容易,使其在基因编辑的研究中越来越受到欢迎。利用该技术,科研人员可以实现在碱基的水平对基因组进行定点修饰。CRISPR系统现已经被广泛地应用到多个物种的基因组编辑以及癌症的相关研究中。本文在最新研究进展的基础上,结合对癌症研究及基因组编辑技术的理解,对CRISPR/Cas9技术在癌症研究中的应用进行了综述。     

Assessment of Cas12a‐mediated gene editing efficiency in plants

The CRISPR/Cas12a editing system opens new possibilities for plant genome engineering. To obtain a comparative assessment of RNA‐guided endonuclease (RGEN) types in plants, we adapted the CRISPR/Cas12a system to the GoldenBraid (GB) modular cloning platform and compared the efficiency of Acidaminococcus (As) and Lachnospiraceae (Lb) Cas12a variants with the previously described GB‐assembled Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) constructs in eight Nicotiana benthamiana loci using transient expression. All three nucleases showed drastic target‐dependent differences in efficiency, with LbCas12 producing higher mutagenesis rates in five of the eight loci assayed, as estimated with the T7E1 endonuclease assay. Attempts to engineer crRNA direct repeat (DR) had little effect improving on‐target efficiency for AsCas12a and resulted deleterious in the case of LbCas12a. To complete the assessment of Cas12a activity, we carried out genome editing experiments in three different model plants, namely N. benthamiana, Solanum lycopersicum and Arabidopsis thaliana. For the latter, we also resequenced Cas12a‐free segregating T2 lines to assess possible off‐target effects. Our results showed that the mutagenesis footprint of Cas12a is enriched in deletions of ?10 to ?2 nucleotides and included in some instances complex rearrangements in the surroundings of the target sites. We found no evidence of off‐target mutations neither in related sequences nor somewhere else in the genome. Collectively, this study shows that LbCas12a is a viable alternative to SpCas9 for plant genome engineering.     

CRISPR/Cas9系统在基因组DNA片段编辑中的应用

源于细菌和古菌的Ⅱ型成簇规律间隔短回文重复系统[Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated nuclease 9 (Cas9),CRISPR/Cas9]近年被改造成为基因组定点编辑的新技术。由于它具有设计简单、操作方便、费用低廉等巨大优势,给遗传操作领域带来了一场革命性的改变。本文重点介绍了CRISPR/Cas9系统在基因组DNA片段靶向编辑方面的研究和应用,主要包括DNA片段的删除、反转、重复、插入和易位,这一有效的DNA片段编辑方法为研究基因功能、调控元件、组织发育和疾病发生发展提供了有力手段。本文最后展望了Ⅱ型CRISPR/Cas9系统的应用前景和其他类型CRISPR系统的应用潜力,为开展利用基因组DNA片段靶向编辑进行基因调控和功能研究提供参考。     

A CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing system for Rhodococcus ruber TH

Rhodococcus spp. are organic solvent-tolerant strains with strong adaptive abilities and diverse metabolic activities, and are therefore widely utilized in bioconversion, biosynthesis and bioremediation. However, due to the high GC-content of the genome (~70%), together with low transformation and recombination efficiency, the efficient genome editing of Rhodococcus remains challenging. In this study, we report for the first time the successful establishment of a CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing system for R. ruber. With a bypass of the restriction-modification system, the transformation efficiency of R. ruber was enhanced by 89-fold, making it feasible to obtain enough colonies for screening of mutants. By introducing a pair of bacteriophage recombinases, Che9c60 and Che9c61, the editing efficiency was improved from 1% to 75%. A CRISPR/Cas9-mediated triple-plasmid recombineering system was developed with high efficiency of gene deletion, insertion and mutation. Finally, this new genome editing method was successfully applied to engineer R. ruber for the bio-production of acrylamide. By deletion of a byproduct-related gene and in-situ subsititution of the natural nitrile hydratase gene with a stable mutant, an engineered strain R. ruber THY was obtained with reduced byproduct formation and enhanced catalytic stability. Compared with the use of wild-type R. ruber TH, utilization of R. ruber THY as biocatalyst increased the acrylamide concentration from 405 g/L to 500 g/L, reduced the byproduct concentration from 2.54 g/L to 0.5 g/L, and enhanced the number of times that cells could be recycled from 1 batch to 4 batches.     

Efficient gene editing in adult mouse livers via adenoviral delivery of CRISPR/Cas9

We developed an adenovirus-based CRISPR/Cas9 system for gene editing in vivo. In the liver, we demonstrated that the system could reach the level of tissue-specific gene knockout, resulting in phenotypic changes. Given the wide spectrum of cell types susceptible to adenoviral infection, and the fact that adenoviral genome rarely integrates into its host cell genome, we believe the adenovirus-based CRISPR/Cas9 system will find applications in a variety of experimental settings.