Programmable Base Editing of the Sheep Genome Revealed No Genome-Wide Off-Target Mutations

Zhou, Shiwei and Cai, Bei and He, Chong and Wang, Ying and Ding, Qiang and Liu, Jiao and Liu, Yao and Ding, Yige and Zhao, Xiaoe and Li, Guanwei and Li, Chao and Yu, Honghao and Kou, Qifang and Niu, Wenzhi and Petersen, Bjoern and Sonstegard, Tad and Ma, Baohua and Chen, Yulin and Wang, Xiaolong (2019) Programmable Base Editing of the Sheep Genome Revealed No Genome-Wide Off-Target Mutations. Frontiers in Genetics, 10. ISSN 1664-8021

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Abstract

Since its emergence, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated base editors (BEs) with cytosine deaminase activity have been used to precisely and efficiently introduce single-base mutations in genomes, including those of human cells, mice, and crop species. Most production traits in livestock are induced by point mutations, and genome editing using BEs without homology-directed repair of double-strand breaks can directly alter single nucleotides. The p.96R > C variant of Suppressor cytokine signaling 2 (SOCS2) has profound effects on body weight, body size, and milk production in sheep. In the present study, we successfully obtained lambs with defined point mutations resulting in a p.96R > C substitution in SOCS2 by the co-injection of BE3 mRNA and a single guide RNA (sgRNA) into sheep zygotes. The observed efficiency of the single nucleotide exchange in newborn animals was as high as 25%. Observations of body size and body weight in the edited group showed that gene modification contributes to enhanced growth traits in sheep. Moreover, targeted deep sequencing and unbiased family trio-based whole genome sequencing revealed undetectable off-target mutations in the edited animals. This study demonstrates the potential for the application of BE-mediated point mutations in large animals for the improvement of production traits in livestock species.

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Subjects: Lib Research Guardians > Medical Science
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Date Deposited: 14 Feb 2023 11:16
Last Modified: 06 Aug 2024 06:16
URI: http://eprints.classicrepository.com/id/eprint/147

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