Nature Biotechnology, volume 36, issue 7, pages 632-637

Efficient generation of targeted large insertions by microinjection into two-cell-stage mouse embryos

Gu Bin 1
Posfai Eszter 1
Nybo Kristie 1, 2
1
 
Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2018-06-11
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Quartile WOS
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Impact factor46.9
ISSN10870156, 15461696
Molecular Medicine
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering
Abstract
Knock-in mice with precise insertions are efficiently generated through delivery of CRISPR–Cas9 to two-cell embryos. Rapid, efficient generation of knock-in mice with targeted large insertions remains a major hurdle in mouse genetics. Here, we describe two-cell homologous recombination (2C-HR)-CRISPR, a highly efficient gene-editing method based on introducing CRISPR reagents into embryos at the two-cell stage, which takes advantage of the open chromatin structure and the likely increase in homologous-recombination efficiency during the long G2 phase. Combining 2C-HR-CRISPR with a modified biotin–streptavidin approach to localize repair templates to target sites, we achieved a more-than-tenfold increase (up to 95%) in knock-in efficiency over standard methods. We targeted 20 endogenous genes expressed in blastocysts with fluorescent reporters and generated reporter mouse lines. We also generated triple-color blastocysts with all three lineages differentially labeled, as well as embryos carrying the two-component auxin-inducible degradation system for probing protein function. We suggest that 2C-HR-CRISPR is superior to random transgenesis or standard genome-editing protocols, because it ensures highly efficient insertions at endogenous loci and defined 'safe harbor' sites.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1038/nbt.4166
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TI - Efficient generation of targeted large insertions by microinjection into two-cell-stage mouse embryos
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AU - Gu, Bin
AU - Posfai, Eszter
AU - Nybo, Kristie
PY - 2018
DA - 2018/06/11 00:00:00
PB - Springer Nature
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@article{2018_Gu,
author = {Bin Gu and Eszter Posfai and Kristie Nybo},
title = {Efficient generation of targeted large insertions by microinjection into two-cell-stage mouse embryos},
journal = {Nature Biotechnology},
year = {2018},
volume = {36},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {jun},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnbt.4166},
number = {7},
pages = {632--637},
doi = {10.1038/nbt.4166}
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Gu, Bin, et al. “Efficient generation of targeted large insertions by microinjection into two-cell-stage mouse embryos.” Nature Biotechnology, vol. 36, no. 7, Jun. 2018, pp. 632-637. https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnbt.4166.
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