China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (11): 3427-3435.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2020.11.002

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Efficient Site-directed Mutation of Porcine IGF2 Gene via Base Editors

WANG Yu1, SONG Ruigao2, ZHAO Jianguo2, WANG Yanfang1   

  1. 1. Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China;
    2. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • Received:2020-05-27 Online:2020-11-20 Published:2020-11-20

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Abstract: This study was aimed to efficiently and accurately edit the growth trait-related gene insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) in porcine fetal fibroblasts cells (PFFs) of Bama pigs using base editors.The IGF2 gene sequences of Bama pigs and Large White pigs were identified by PCR amplification and sequencing,and the expression vector of sgRNA-IGF2 targeting Bama pigs was constructed.Then the editing efficiency and product types at IGF2 gene via different base editors were studied by cell transfection,detection of mixed cell editing efficiency,screening of single cell colonies and genotyping.The results showed that there was a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) site at 3 072 bp in intron 3 of IGF2 gene between Bama pigs and Large White pigs,and a single-stranded oligonucleotide sequence targeting the IGF2 gene was designed.The single-stranded oligonucleotide was annealed and ligated with the BsaⅠ-linearized pGL3-U6-sgRNA plasmid to construct the sgRNA-IGF2 expression plasmid.The sequencing results of the recombinant plasmid showed that the sgRNA sequence was accurately inserted between the U6 promoter and the sgRNA scaffold.Four different cytosine base editors (rA1-BE3,hA3A-BE3,hA3A-BE3-Y130F and hA3A-eBE-Y130F) were co-transfected with sgRNA-IGF2-expressing plasmid into PFFs,respectively.The editing efficiency in mixed cells showed hA3A-BE3-based CBEs could introduce higher efficiency of C-to-T mutation than rA1-BE3 (P<0.05).The results of flow cytometry,single cell culture and genotyping showed that 71.43% of single cell colonies were mutant in hA3A-BE3 group,but 42.86% of them had insertions/deletions (indels).The editing efficiency of hA3A-BE3-Y130F (56.86%) and hA3A-eBE-Y130F (40.38%) were lower than hA3A-BE3(71.43%),but the indels of them were also lower (31.37% and 21.15%).In addition,single cell colonies with homozygous mutation at IGF2 gene site were achieved by base editors in this study.Base editors,as new gene editing tools,could efficiently and accurately modify SNP associated with economic traits in pig genome and accelerate genetic improvement.

Key words: base editor; IGF2 gene; targeted mutation; porcine fetal fibroblast cells (PFFs)

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