发布: 2019年05月05日第9卷第9期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3229 浏览次数: 5951
评审: Arif Md. Rashedul KabirMario RuizAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
Precise genome editing is essential for scientific research and clinical application. At present, linear amplification-mediated high-throughput genome-wide translocation sequencing (LAM-HTGTS) is one of most effective methods to evaluate the off-target activity of CRISPR-Cas9, which is based on chromosomal translocation and employs a “bait” DNA double-stranded break (DSB) to capture genome-wide “prey” DNA DSBs. Here, we described an improved HTGTS (iHTGTS) method, in which size-selection beads were used to enhance reaction efficiency and a new primer system was designed to be compatible with Illumina Hiseq sequencing. Compared with LAM-HTGTS, iHTGTS is lower cost and has much higher sensitivity for off-target detection in HEK293T, K562, U2OS and HCT116 cell lines. So we believe that iHTGTS is a powerful method for comprehensively assessing Cas9 off-target effect.
Keywords: CRISPR-Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9)Background
The CRIPSR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated proteins) has been widely used as a powerful genome editing tool (Cong et al., 2013; Jinek et al., 2013; Mali et al., 2013). However its off-target activity causes DNA DSBs at imperfectly matched loci. During the past few years, several methods based on next-generation sequencing have been published to detect off-target sites. LAM-HTGTS (Frock et al., 2015; Hu et al., 2016), which is based on chromosomal translocation, makes use of a “bait” DSB to capture “prey” DSBs to sensitively identify off-target hotspots; GUIDE-seq inserts a specific DNA oligo into break site and applies PCR to enrich DSBs (Tsai et al., 2015). In vitro methods such as Digenome-seq (Kim et al., 2015) and CIRCLE-seq (Tsai et al., 2017) are more sensitive but often need to be verified in vivo. Though LAM-HTGTS is very sensitive, there is still room for improvement.
In the improved HTGTS (iHTGTS), we applied size-selection beads to deplete surplus biotinylated primer for the bridge adapter ligation efficiency enhancement. iHTGTS showed 4 times greater sensitivity than LAM-HTGTS. Also a new primer system was employed which can accommodate 150 bp x 2 Hiseq sequencing instead of 250 bp x 2 Miseq, so that the sequencing cost is much saved. Taken together, iHTGTS is a cost-effective and high efficient method. We believe iHTGTS can give researchers deeper insights into the off-target activity of CRIPSR/Cas9.
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Yin, J., Liu, M., Liu, Y. and Hu, J. (2019). Improved HTGTS for CRISPR/Cas9 Off-target Detection. Bio-protocol 9(9): e3229. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3229.
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分子生物学 > DNA > DNA 测序
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