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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01366-6
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
- National Bio-Resource Project (NBRP), AMED, Japan [TOMJPF00004]
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Genome editing in plants has advanced greatly by applying the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs)-Cas system, especially CRISPR-Cas9. However, CRISPR type I-the most abundant CRISPR system in bacteria-has not been exploited for plant genome modification. In type I CRISPR-Cas systems, e.g., type I-E, Cas3 nucleases degrade the target DNA in mammals. Here, we present a type I-D (TiD) CRISPR-Cas genome editing system in plants. TiD lacks the Cas3 nuclease domain; instead, Cas10d is the functional nuclease in vivo. TiD was active in targeted mutagenesis of tomato genomic DNA. The mutations generated by TiD differed from those of CRISPR/Cas9; both bi-directional long-range deletions and short indels mutations were detected in tomato cells. Furthermore, TiD can be used to efficiently generate bi-allelic mutant plants in the first generation. These findings indicate that TiD is a unique CRISPR system that can be used for genome engineering in plants. Osakabe et al. report the implementation of a CRISPR type I-D (TiD) system for editing in plants, which consists of eight Cas genes (Cas1d-Cas7d, Cas10d) followed by an array of repeat spacer units. The CRISPR TiD can effectively induce short indels, long-range deletions and bi-allelic mutations in plants, adding a valuable toolbox to manipulate plant genomes.
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