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Pooled shRNA Library Screening to Identify Factors that Modulate a Drug Resistance Phenotype
Published on: June 17, 2022
Enzymatic construction of shRNA library from oligonucleotide library
Seong Kyun Park1, Yun Kee2, Taehoon Ryu3
1Department of Molecular Bioscience, College of Biomedical Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Kangwon-do, 24341, South Korea.
Background:
Short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) expressed from vectors have been used as an effective means of exploiting the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway in mammalian cells. Genome-scale screening with shRNA libraries has been used to investigate the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes on a large scale. Although several methods have been developed to construct shRNA libraries, their broad application has been limited by the high cost of constructing these libraries.
Objective:
We develop a new method that efficiently constructs a shRNA library at low cost, using treatments with several enzymes and an oligonucleotide library.
Methods:
The library of shRNA expression cassettes, which were cloned into a lentiviral plasmid, was produced through several enzymatic reactions, starting from a library of 20,000 different short oligonucleotides produced by microarray-based oligonucleotide synthesis.
Results:
The NGS sequence analysis of the library shows that 99.8% of them (19,956 from 20,000 sequences) were contained in the library: 63.2% of them represent the correct sequences and the rest showed one or two base pair differences from the expected sequences.
Conclusion:
Considering the ease of our method, shRNA libraries of new genomes and of specific populations of genes can be prepared in a short period of time for genome-scale RNAi library screening.
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