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ArticleGenetics2015

Streamlined Genome Engineering with a Self-Excising Drug Selection Cassette.

Daniel J Dickinson, Ariel M Pani, Jennifer K Heppert, Christopher D Higgins, Bob Goldstein

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Article in Genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 440 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Daniel J DickinsonDepartment of Biology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280 ddickins@live.unc.edu.
Ariel M PaniDepartment of Biology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280.
Jennifer K HeppertDepartment of Biology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280.
Christopher D HigginsDepartment of Biology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280.
Bob GoldsteinDepartment of Biology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280.

Funding

Integrated Training in Cancer Model SystemsT32CA009156 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DER, CHANNING J. · 1985 to 2020
$19.7M
Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
Mechanisms of C. elegans GastrulationR01GM083071 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GOLDSTEIN, ROBERT P · 2008 to 2019
$3.7M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS T32 CA009156NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083071NIH HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A central goal in the development of genome engineering technology is to reduce the time and labor required to produce custom genome modifications. Here we describe a new selection strategy for producing fluorescent protein (FP) knock-ins using CRISPR/Cas9-triggered homologous recombination. We have tested our approach in Caenorhabditis elegans. This approach has been designed to minimize hands-on labor at each step of the procedure. Central to our strategy is a newly developed self-excising cassette (SEC) for drug selection. SEC consists of three parts: a drug-resistance gene, a visible phenotypic marker, and an inducible Cre recombinase. SEC is flanked by LoxP sites and placed within a synthetic intron of a fluorescent protein tag, resulting in an FP-SEC module that can be inserted into any C. elegans gene. Upon heat shock, SEC excises itself from the genome, leaving no exogenous sequences outside the fluorescent protein tag. With our approach, one can generate knock-in alleles in any genetic background, with no PCR screening required and without the need for a second injection step to remove the selectable marker. Moreover, this strategy makes it possible to produce a fluorescent protein fusion, a transcriptional reporter and a strong loss-of-function allele for any gene of interest in a single injection step.

Indexed as

GenomicsAllelesAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansGene FusionGene Knock-In TechniquesGenetic LociInterspersed Repetitive SequencesLuminescent ProteinsMutagenesis, InsertionalPromoter Regions, GeneticSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidLuminescent ProteinsCaenorhabditis elegansCRISPR/Cas9gene tagginghomologous recombinationself-excising cassette

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PMID26044593
PMCPMC4574250

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