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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 118-133Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.140
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [25890014, 25124708, 26290070]
- Sasakawa Foundation
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26290070] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Programmable nucleases enable engineering of the genome by utilizing endogenous DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathways. Although homologous recombination (HR)-mediated gene knock-in is well established, it cannot necessarily be applied in every cell type and organism because of variable HR frequencies. We recently reported an alternative method of gene knock-in, named the PITCh (Precise Integration into Target Chromosome) system, assisted by microhomology-mediated end-joining (MMEJ). MMEJ harnesses independent machinery from HR, and it requires an extremely short homologous sequence (5-25 bp) for DSB repair, resulting in precise gene knock-in with a more easily constructed donor vector. Here we describe a streamlined protocol for PITCh knock-in, including the design and construction of the PITCh vectors, and their delivery to either human cell lines by transfection or to frog embryos by microinjection. The construction of the PITCh vectors requires only a few days, and the entire process takes similar to 1.5 months to establish knocked-in cells or similar to 1 week from injection to early genotyping in frog embryos.
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