A high-efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 system for targeted mutagenesis in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Author
Zhang, Baohong; Li, Chao; Unver, Turgay
Abstract
The complex allotetraploid genome is one of major challenges in cotton for repressing gene expression.
Developing site-specific DNA mutation is the long-term dream for cotton breeding scientists. The
clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system is emerging as a robust biotechnology for targeted-DNA mutation. In this study, two sgRNAs, GhMYB25-like-sgRNA1 and GhMYB25-like-sgRNA2, were designed in the identical genomic regions of GhMYB25-like A and GhMYB25-like D, which were encoded by cotton A subgenome and the D subgenome, respectively, was assembled to direct Cas9-mediated allotetraploid cotton genome
editing. High proportion (14.2–21.4%) CRISPR/Cas9-induced specific truncation events, either from GhMYB25-like A DNA site or from GhMYB25-like D DNA site, were detected in 50% examined transgenic cotton through PCR amplification assay and sequencing analyses. Sequencing results also demonstrated that 100% and 98.8% mutation frequency were occurred on GhMYB25-like-sgRNA1
and GhMYB25-like-sgRNA2 target site respectively. The off-target effect was evaluated by sequencing
two putative off-target sites, which have 3 and 1 mismatched nucleotides with GhMYB25-like-sgRNA1
and GhMYB25-like-sgRNA2, respectively; all the examined samples were not detected any off-targetcaused mutation events. Thus, these results demonstrated that CRISPR/Cas9 is qualified for generating DNA level mutations on allotetraploid cotton genome with high-efficiency and high-specificity.
Date
2017-03-03
Citation:
APA:
Zhang, Baohong, & Li, Chao, & Unver, Turgay. (March 2017).
A high-efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 system for targeted mutagenesis in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).
Scientific Reports,
(7:43902), p.. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6405
MLA:
Zhang, Baohong, and Li, Chao, and Unver, Turgay.
"A high-efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 system for targeted mutagenesis in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)". Scientific Reports.
7:43902. (.),
March 2017.
March 03, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6405.
Chicago:
Zhang, Baohong and Li, Chao and Unver, Turgay,
"A high-efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 system for targeted mutagenesis in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)," Scientific Reports 7, no.
43902 (March 2017),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6405 (accessed
March 03, 2021).
AMA:
Zhang, Baohong, Li, Chao, Unver, Turgay.
A high-efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 system for targeted mutagenesis in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Scientific Reports.
March 2017;
7(43902)
. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6405. Accessed
March 03, 2021.