Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (4): 1041-1050.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2022.04.005

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The Study of Base Editing of Porcine CD163 Gene

ZHAO Weimin1,2, WANG Huili1,2, CAO Shaoxian1,2, GUO Rihong1,2, WANG Zeping1,3, CHEN Zhe1,2, XU Kui4, FU Yanfeng1,2, LI Bixia1,2, REN Shouwen1,2, CHENG Jinhua1,2*   

  1. 1. Jiangsu Germplasm Resources Protection and Utilization Platform, Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China;
    2. Key Laboratory for Crop and Animal Integrated Farming of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China;
    3. Suqian Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Suqian 223800, China;
    4. Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518124, China
  • Received:2021-08-05 Online:2022-04-23 Published:2022-04-25

Abstract: The aim of this study was to use the YE1-BE3-FNLS vector to carry out a single-base mutation of C>T in the porcine CD163 gene to form the stop codon TAA, which would lead to the premature termination of the translation of the CD163 gene. The website was used to design high-efficiency sgRNA sequence at the 7th exon of porcine CD163 gene and make it conform to C5 feature, and the following two bases of C5 were AA, and the number of bases between CAA and the start codon ATG was the integer multiple of 3. The CD163-sgRNA and APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI fragment in the YE1-BE3-FNLS vector was amplified by PCR, and CD163-sgRNA and APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI mRNA were produced by in vitro transcription. Porcine oocytes were cultured in vitro and undergone parthenogenetic activation. The CD163-sgRNA and APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI mRNA were injected into parthenogenetic embryos by micromanipulator. After the embryo developed to the stage of morula and blastocyst, the genomic DNA of the embryo was extracted and its single-base editing region was subjected to PCR amplification and sequencing. The results showed that a CD163-sgRNA was successfully screened among 49 candidate sgRNAs. The CD163-sgRNA and APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI fragments were successfully amplified by PCR, and the porcine parthenogenetic embryos developed to the 2-4 cell stage after injection of CD163-sgRNA and APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI mRNA. After PCR amplification and product sequencing of selected injected 20 embryos at 2-4 cell stage, there were 12 embryos with the expected site C(num1479)>T of the 7th exon of the CD163 gene, and the single-base editing efficiency was about 60%. It was found that the CD163-sgRNA had 5 off-target regions in the case of a mismatch of 3 bases based on the off-target analysis. After analyzing these 5 regions, it was found that there was no C>T mutation using PCR amplification and sanger sequencing. The pig CD163 gene was suffered with base editing by YE1-BE3-FNLS tool at the embryo level in this study, and the 7th exon expected site (num1479) C was successfully changed to T, which can terminate the translation of CD163 gene in advance by making the codon CAA to TAA.

Key words: CRISPR/Cas9, base editing, CD163 gene, pig

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