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KMID : 1377020200170010045
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Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
2020 Volume.17 No. 1 p.45 ~ p.53
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Electroporation of AsCpf1/RNP at the Zygote Stage is an Efficient Genome Editing Method to Generate Knock-Out Mice Deficient in Leukemia Inhibitory Factor
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Kim Yeon-Sun
Kim Gyeong-Ryeong
Park Mi-Ra
Yang Seung-Chel
Park So-Hee
Won Ji-Eun
Lee Ju-Hee
Shin Ha-Eun
Song Haeng-Seok
Kim Hye-Ryun
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Abstract
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BACKROUND: CRISPR/Cpf1 is a class II, type V RNA-guided endonuclease that is distinct from the type II CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease, widely used for genome editing. Cpf1 is a smaller and simpler endonuclease than Cas9, overcoming some limitations of the CRISPR/Cas9 system. The applications of CRISPR to rodent embryos for the production of knock-out (KO) mice have been achieved mainly by microinjection, which requires heavily-equipped instruments with skillful hands. Here, we evaluated the genome editing efficiency between Cpf1/mRNA and Cpf1/ribonuclear protein (RNP) in mouse embryos, and established an easy, fast, and technically less demanding method to produce KO mice using electroporation of the Cfp1/RNP system.
METHODS: The efficiency of electroporation-based delivery of AsCpf1/mRNA and AsCpf1/RNP to target exon 3 of leukemia inhibitory factor (Lif) into mouse zygotes was evaluated. Embryos that developed to the two-cell stage after zygote electroporation were transferred into the oviducts of surrogate mothers to produce AsCpf1-mediated LIF KO mice. The genome editing efficiency of blastocysts and pups was tested using the T7E1 assay and/or DNA sequencing. Congenital abnormalities and reproductive phenotypes in LIF KO mice produced by electroporation with AsCpf1/RNP were examined.
RESULTS: Survival and two-cell development of electroporated zygotes were comparable between the AsCpf1/mRNA and AsCpf1/RNP groups, whereas genome editing efficiency was relatively higher in the AsCpf1/RNP group (13.3% vs 18.1% at blastocyst and 33.3% vs 45.5% at offspring), respectively. Two mouse lines with a frameshift mutation in exon 3 of the Lif gene were established from the AsCpf1/RNP group. All congenital abnormalities of LIF KO mice produced by AsCpf1/RNP electroporation were observed. AsCpf1-mediated LIF KO mice showed postnatal growth retardation and implantation failure, both of which are major phenotypes of LIF KO mice generated by conventional gene targeting.
CONCLUSION: Electroporation of AsCpf1/RNP at the zygote stage is an efficient genome editing method to produce KO mice.
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KEYWORD
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CRISPR/AsCpf1, Electroporation, AsCpf1/RNP, Gene targeting, Embryo, LIF
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