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GENOME RESEARCH
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 121-130Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.265439.120
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- University of Georgia
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The Cre/loxP system is a powerful tool for in vivo gene function studies, but its complexity and time-consuming nature limit its wider applications. The new i-GONAD technology, combining a unique design of CRISPR donor, can more efficiently generate mouse loxP alleles and provide a new pathway for gene function studies.
The Cre/loxP system is a powerful tool for gene function study in vivo. Regulated expression of Cre recombinase mediates precise deletion of genetic elements in a spatially- and temporally-controlled manner. Despite the robustness of this system, it requires a great amount of effort to create a conditional knockout model for each individual gene of interest where two loxP sites must be simultaneously inserted in cis. The current undertaking involves labor-intensive embryonic stem (ES) cell-based gene targeting and tedious micromanipulations of mouse embryos. The complexity of this workflow poses formidable technical challenges, thus limiting wider applications of conditional genetics. Here, we report an alternative approach to generate mouse loxPalleles by integrating a unique design of CRISPR donor with the new oviduct electroporation technique i-GONAD. Showing the potential and simplicity of this method, we created floxed alleles for five genes in one attempt with relatively low costs and a minimal equipment setup. In addition to the conditional alleles, constitutive knockout alleles were also obtained as byproducts of these experiments. Therefore, the wider applications of i-GONAD may promote gene function studies using novel murine models.
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