Heritable genome editing in C. elegans via a CRISPR-Cas9 system
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A Rapid and Facile Pipeline for Generating Genomic Point Mutants in C. elegans Using CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoproteins
Published on: April 30, 2018
Ari E Friedland1, Yonatan B Tzur, Kevin M Esvelt
1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
We report the use of clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated endonuclease Cas9 to target genomic sequences in the Caenorhabditis elegans germ line using single-guide RNAs that are expressed from a U6 small nuclear RNA promoter. Our results demonstrate that targeted, heritable genetic alterations can be achieved in C. elegans, providing a convenient and effective approach for generating loss-of-function mutants.
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