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ArticlePlant biotechnology journal2024

Guide RNA scaffold variants enabled easy cloning of large gRNA cluster for multiplexed gene editing.

Yaqi Wang, Xiaofei Li, Minglei Liu, Yingjia Zhou, Feng Li

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Article in Plant biotechnology journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yaqi WangNational Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Xiaofei LiNational Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Minglei LiuNational Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Yingjia ZhouNational Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Feng LiNational Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4853-2255
Huazhong Agricultural University · CN

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2018YFD1000800National Natural Science Foundation of China 32272491National Natural Science Foundation of China 91940301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cas9 protein-mediated gene editing has revolutionized genetic manipulation in most organisms. There are many cases where multiplexed gene editing is needed. Cas9 is capable of multiplex gene editing when expressed with multiple guide RNAs. Conventional cloning methods for multiplexed gene editing vector is not efficient due to repeated use of a single-guide RNA scaffold and inefficient ligation. In this study, we conducted structure-guided mutagenesis and random mutagenesis on the original sgRNA scaffold and identified a large number of functional sgRNA scaffold variants. With these scaffold variants and different tRNAs, fusion polymerase chain reaction protocol was developed to rapidly synthesize spacer-scaffold-tRNA-spacer units with up to 9 targets. In conjunction with golden gate cloning, gene editing vectors with up to 24 target sites were efficiently cloned in one-step cloning. One such gene editing vector targeting 12 genes in tomato were tested in stable transformation and 10 out of the 12 genes were found mutated in a single transgenic line. To facilitate the application of multiplexed gene editing using these scaffold variants and tRNAs from different species, a webserver was created to generate primer sets and provide template sequences for the synthesis of large sgRNA expression units based on the user-supplied target sequences and species.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingCloning, MolecularCRISPR-Associated Protein 9RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsCRISPR-Associated Protein 9RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsCas9fusion PCRmultiplex editingscaffold variantsgRNA

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PMID37816147
PMCPMC10826992
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