Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23042006
Keywords
aminoglycoside; CRISPR; Cas9; multi-antibiotic resistance; recessive positive selection; tobacco
Funding
- National Agricultural Technology Program phase-2 project of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council
- JSPS KAKENHI [19K21150, 21K06233, 19K06055]
- Ehime University Research Unit Program
- United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21K06233, 19K06055] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This study explores the potential use of NtMAR1hs as a recessive selective marker for DNA-free genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9-sgRNA ribonucleoprotein complex. The knockout of NtMAR1hs in tobacco plants demonstrated their role in sensitivity to aminoglycoside antibiotics, similar to Arabidopsis MAR1. The study also suggests the presence of additional functional homologs in tobacco.
To explore a possible recessive selective marker for future DNA-free genome editing by direct delivery of a CRISPR/Cas9-single guide RNA (sgRNA) ribonucleoprotein complex, we knocked out homologs of the Arabidopsis Multi-Antibiotic Resistance 1 (MAR1)/RTS3 gene, mutations of which confer aminoglycoside resistance, in tobacco plants by an efficient Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer. A Cas9 gene was introduced into Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana sylvestris together with an sgRNA gene for one of three different target sequences designed to perfectly match sequences in both S- and T-genome copies of N. tabacum MAR1 homologs (NtMAR1hs). All three sgRNAs directed the introduction of InDels into NtMAR1hs, as demonstrated by CAPS and amplicon sequencing analyses, albeit with varying efficiency. Leaves of regenerated transformant shoots were evaluated for aminoglycoside resistance on shoot-induction media containing different aminoglycoside antibiotics. All transformants tested were as sensitive to those antibiotics as non-transformed control plants, regardless of the mutation rates in NtMAR1hs. The NtMAR1hs-knockout seedlings of the T-1 generation showed limited aminoglycoside resistance but failed to form shoots when cultured on shoot-induction media containing kanamycin. The results suggest that, like Arabidopsis MAR1, NtMAR1hs have a role in plants' sensitivity to aminoglycoside antibiotics, and that tobacco has some additional functional homologs.
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