SGRNA AND CONSTRUCTING DUAL PIG MODEL OF SEVERE IMMUNODEFICIENCY AND LIVER INJURY AND USE THEREOF
20240276958 ยท 2024-08-22
Inventors
- Hong-jiang Wei (Kunming, CN)
- Qing-feng Chen (Kunming, CN)
- Heng Zhao (Kunming, CN)
- De-ling Jiao (Kunming, CN)
- Hong-ye Zhao (Kunming, CN)
Cpc classification
C12N9/22
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
A01K2217/15
HUMAN NECESSITIES
C12N5/06
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
C12N15/11
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
C12N5/10
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
C12Q2600/124
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
A01K2267/0387
HUMAN NECESSITIES
C12Q1/6883
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
International classification
C12N15/11
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
C12N9/22
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
C12N15/90
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a sgRNA and constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury and use thereof. The method comprises the steps of knocking out RAG2, IL2R? and FAH genes in a porcine fetal fibroblast by using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology, constructing a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited cloned pig by using a somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, and obtaining a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury through phenotypic analysis and identification. The method overcomes the problems of long production period, low efficiency, irreversible damage, unsatisfactory use in a humanization degree and the like in the existing model construction technology, can realize a batch construction of the dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury by a continuous cloning technology, and has great advantages and potential market application prospects in the related fields of tumor biology, cell transplantation, humanized animal models and the like.
Claims
1. A RAG2/IL2R? FAH triple-gene targeting vector, wherein the targeting vector is an sgRNA expression vector based on a CRISPR/Cas9 system, and an sgRNA comprises a RAG2-sgRNA, an IL2R?-sgRNA, and an FAH-sgRNA; and the sgRNA acts on a site located in a coding region of a pig RAG2 gene, a 5th exon of an IL2R? gene, and a 2nd exon of an FAH gene; the nucleotide sequence of the RAG2-sgRNA is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; the nucleotide sequence of the IL2R?-sgRNA is shown in SEQ ID NO: 2; and the nucleotide sequence of the FAH-sgRNA is shown in SEQ ID NO: 3.
2. The RAG2/IL2R?/FAH triple-gene targeting vector according to claim 1, wherein a framework vector is a pGL3-U6-sgRNA, the number of the framework vector is Addgene no: 51133.
3. A RAG2/IL2R?/FAH triple-gene knockout porcine fibroblast cell line, wherein the targeting vector according to claim 1 is transfected into the porcine fetal fibroblast cell line to obtain a targeted positive cell clone, that is the RAG2/IL2R?/FAH triple-gene knockout porcine fibroblast cell line or a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited porcine fibroblast cell line.
4. A method for constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury by using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology, comprising the following specific steps: (1) construction of RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene mutation expression vector on the basis of CRISPR/Cas9 system; aiming at a coding region of a pig RAG2 gene, a 5th exon of an IL2R? gene, and a 2nd exon of an FAH gene, designing a targeting sgRNA and connecting same to a framework vector to obtain a pGL3-U6-sgRNA recombinant plasmid; the sgRNA comprises a RAG2-sgRNA, an IL2R?-sgRNA, and an FAH-sgRNA; the nucleotide sequence of the RAG2-sgRNA is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, the nucleotide sequence of the IL2R?-sgRNA is shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, and the nucleotide sequence of the FAH-sgRNA is shown in SEQ ID NO: 3; (2) screening of RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited porcine fibroblast cell line co-transfecting the pGL3-U6-sgRNA recombinant plasmid and a pST1374-NLS-flag-linker-Cas9 into a porcine fetal fibroblast cell, and obtaining a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited porcine fibroblast cell line through single cell clone genotype identification and screening; (3) somatic cell nuclear transfer and embryo transfer performing a somatic cell nuclear transfer by using the RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited porcine fetal fibroblast cell line as a donor cell to construct a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited pig cloned embryo, further transplanting the cloned embryo into an oviduct of a surrogate sow, and delivering a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited cloned pig after 114 days of pregnancy; and (4) genotype identification and phenotypic analysis of cloned piglet extracting genomic DNA from a cloned piglet, identifying a RAG2/IL2R?/FAH genotype of the cloned piglet by using a molecular biology method, further performing histological and immunohistochemical analysis on organs of thymus, spleen, liver and the like of the cloned pig, and performing immunological and cytological analysis and identification on a mature T cell, a B cell, an NK cell, a hepatocyte and the like to obtain a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury.
5. The method for constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury by using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology according to claim 4, wherein in step 1), the vector is a framework vector pGL3-U6-sgRNA, the number of the framework vector is Addgene no: 51133).
6. The method for constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury by using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology according to claim 4, wherein in step 2), the transfection method comprises lipofection transfection and/or nuclear transfection; and in step 3), the donor cell can be a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited single cell clone or a cloned fetal fibroblast and a cloned porcine fibroblast cell.
7. The method for constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury by using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology according to claim 6, the transfection method is nuclear transfection.
8. The method for constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury by using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology according to claim 4, wherein in step 3), batch production of the RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited cloned pig is required, the pig can be obtained by a continuous cloning technology.
9. Use of the targeting vector according to claim 1 in constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury.
10. Use of the porcine fibroblast cell line according to claim 3 in constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury.
11. Use of method according to claim 4 in constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
[0048] In order to make the purposes, technical solutions and beneficial effects of the present disclosure more apparent, preferred examples of the present disclosure will be described in detail below to facilitate understanding of those skilled in the art.
Example 1: Construction of Pig RAG2.SUP.?/?./IL2R?.SUP.?/Y.FAH.SUP.?/? Triple-Gene Targeting Vector
[0049] The nucleotide sequences of a pig RAG2 gene (Gene ID: 100151744), an IL2R? gene (Gene ID: 397156), and an FAH gene (Gene ID: 100623036) were searched in the NCBI database. Aiming at a coding region of the pig RAG2 gene, a 5th exon sequence of the IL2R? gene, and a 2nd exon sequence of the FAH gene, targeting gRNA sites were designed and screened by using an online software (http://crispor.tefor.net/), the sgRNAs were ligated to a framework vector to obtain a RAG2-gRNA (SEQ ID NO: 1) targeting vector (
[0050] The targeting vectors were co-transfected into a porcine fetal fibroblast, and a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene mutant porcine fetal fibroblast cell line was obtained by screening and was used as a donor cell for somatic cell nuclear transfer to construct a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited cloned pig (
Example 2: Construction of RAG2.SUP.?/?./IL2R?.SUP.?/Y./FAH.SUP.?/? Triple-Gene Edited Cloned Pig
[0051] 1. Aiming at the coding region of the pig RAG2 gene (Gene ID: 100151744), the 5th exon sequence of the IL2R? gene (Gene ID: 397156), and the 2nd exon sequence of the FAH gene (Gene ID: 100623036), targeting gRNA sites, the RAG2-gRNA (SEQ ID NO: 1), the IL2R?-gRNA (SEQ ID NO: 2), and the FAH-gRNA (SEQ ID NO: 3), respectively, were designed and screened.
[0052] 2. The gRNA sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 of the RAG2 gene was ligated to a GL3-U6-sgRNA framework vector, a recombinant plasmid RAG2-GL3-U6-sgRNA with a correct sequence after sequence verification and a pST1374-NLS-flag-linker-Cas9 plasmid (pST1374-NLS-flag-linker-Cas 9:RAG2-GL3-U6-sgRNA=2:1) were co-transfected into a porcine fetal fibroblast by a nuclear transfection instrument, and 9 single cell clones were obtained by screening, wherein No. 9 single cell clone was RAG2 double allele knockout, named RAG2KO-09, further the RAG2KO-09 single cell clone was used as a donor cell for somatic cell nuclear transfer, a cloned embryo was transferred into a surrogate sow, 6 RAG2KO fetuses were obtained after 35 days, and RAG2KO porcine fetal fibroblast cell lines were isolated (
[0053] 3. Further, the gRNA sequences SEQ ID NO:2 and SEQ ID NO:3 corresponding to IL2R? and FAH genes were respectively ligated to the GL3-U6-sgRNA framework vector, the recombinant plasmids IL2R?-GL3-U6-sgRNA and FAH-GL3-U6-sgRNA were obtained by correct sequencing sequences and these two recombinant plasmids and the pST1374-NLS-flag-linker-Cas9 plasmid were co-transfected to the RAG2KO porcine fetal fibroblast through the nuclear transfection instrument to obtain 39 single cell clones in total, and it was screened and identified that No. 25 single clone genotype was a RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene mutant clone (
[0054] 4. The No. 25 RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited single cell clone screened in step (3) was used as a donor cell for somatic cell nuclear transfer, a cloned embryo was transferred into the uterus of an oestrous surrogate sow, and 2 alive cloned piglets were obtained after 114 days of pregnancy (
Example 3: Genotype Identification and Phenotypic Analysis of RAG2.SUP.?/?./IL2R?.SUP.?/Y./FAH.SUP.?/? Triple-Gene Edited Cloned Pig
[0055] Genotype identification: genomic DNA of the 2 alive cloned piglets (RGFP19 and RGFP20) was extracted, the mutation of the RAG2/IL2R?/FAH genes of the cloned pig was identified by PCR, T7ENI, Sanger sequencing and the like. The results showed that the pigs were both RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene knockout type (
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE1 Off-targetdetectionresultsofRAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/?triple-geneedited clonedpig Forward Reverse Name Gene Chromosome Position Strand Primer(5-3) Primer(5-3) offtarget OTS- RAG2 Chr13 55792653 ? GTTAGCTTGT GTGATACAGC ? R1 CM000824.5 AGTTCCCACT CAGGCAGAA TG(SEQID G(SEQID NO:7) NO:8) OTS- Chr13 161374794 ? GTGATACAGC GTGATACAGC ? R2 CM000824.5 CAGGCAGAA CAGGCAGAA G(SEQID G(SEQID NO:9) NO:10) OTS- Chr13 161601500 ? CTGTAGTATG TCACTTTGCC ? R3 CM000824.5 AAATCATCCC TTCATCCT(SEQ TG(SEQID IDNO:12) NO:11) OTS- Chr13 161881417 ? TGGTAGAGTT CCTGTAATTG ? R4 CM000824.5 GCCAGGAC TGGCTTCC (SEQID (SEQID NO:13) NO:14) OTS- IL2R? CM000815.5 2450609 + GGATGTGCTC GCATCTGTAA ? G1 Chr4 TTGTGGGTC CCGACACCAC (SEQID (SEQID NO:15) NO:16) OTS- CM000821.5 10005709 ? GCATTCACCC CGGCTGTGGC ? G2 Chr10 GCTCAGTA AACTTACT (SEQID (SEQID NO:17) NO:18) OTS- FAH CM000812.5 195936006 + TGTAGGTTCT AGCAATGCC ? F1 Chr1 TTCCTGGGTA ACTAACAGG (SEQID SEQID NO:19) (NO:20) OTS- CM000819.5 1777887 ? TCCGAAGCCT GCAGCAGGG ? F2 Chr8 GAGAAGACC AGACAGTTCA (SEQID (SEQID NO:21) NO:22) OTS- CM000821.5 41563383 + CCTGACCAGC CATAATAGG ? F3 Chr10 CTGTTTGA AGTTCCCAGT (SEQID C(SEQID NO:23) NO:24) OTS- CM000821.5 44919247 ? AAGCCTGGG CTTGCGTGGG ? F4 Chr10 ACTCCTTAG TTTAATGT (SEQID (SEQID NO:25) NO:26) OTS- CM000825.5 101886087 + ATCTGCTGAG TCAATAGCAG ? F5 Chr14 CCACAATG CCCAACCT (SEQID (SEQID NO:27) NO:28) OTS- CM000825.5 131339903 + ATTGGCTTTG TGCTGTGAGC ? F6 Chr14 AAACACTCC CGAGGTAT (SEQID (SEQID NO:29) NO:30) OTS- CM000828.5 30987574 + CTGGCATTGT GGAAGGCAG ? F7 Chr17 AGCCTGACC TTACTCAAAG (SEQID A(SEQID NO:31) NO:32) OTS- CM000830.5 124454124 + GGGCAGGAG TGCAGCGAG ? F8 ChrX GACAAGGAG GACCTGAATG TT(SEQID G(SEQID NO:33) NO:34) OTS- AEMK02000 183875 + ACCATCACTC CATGTGGGAC ? F9 639.1 CGGGCGACTC CTCGGATTGA (SEQID (SEQID NO:35) NO:36)
[0056] Phenotypic analysis: the 2 RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene knockout pigs survived 14 days and 29 days respectively (A of
Reversibility Analysis:
[0057] the pigs are large mammals. In the process of preparing a liver injury model, it is a whole-new exploration process to maintain tyrosine metabolism on the pigs by using an NTBC drug. The present disclosure firstly obtains the dual pig model of immunodeficiency and liver injury by a CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Besides, after the FAH gene is knocked out, reversibility can be realized by feeding the NTBC drug. If the batch production of the dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury is required, the model can be further obtained by a continuous cloning technology, so as to successfully solve the problem of irreversible use of the existing model construction technology.
[0058] The present disclosure determined a dosage regimen of the optimum concentration of the NTBC drug (A of
[0059] In conclusion, the present disclosure provides a method for constructing a dual pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury, and overcomes the problems of long production period, low efficiency, irreversible injury, unsatisfactory humanization degree and the like in the existing model construction technology. The obtained RAG2.sup.?/?/IL2R?.sup.?/Y/FAH.sup.?/? triple-gene edited cloned pig shows severe immunodeficiency and liver injury, thymus and spleen dysplasia, reduction of mature T cells, deficiency of B cells and NK cells, increased hepatocyte apoptosis, and high immunodeficiency degree. If the batch production of the pig model of severe immunodeficiency and liver injury can be realized through a continuous cloning technology, the model plays an important effect in the related fields of tumor biology, cell transplantation, humanized animal models and the like, and has a potential market application prospect.
[0060] Finally, it is noted that the above-mentioned preferred examples are only used to illustrate rather than limit the technical solutions of the present disclosure. Although the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the above-mentioned preferred examples, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the claims.