Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (10): 4475-4488.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2024.10.020

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Highly Efficient BLG Knockout in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells by Using CRISPR/Cas9

Xiuhu DING1,2(), Zhiping LIN3, Fang ZHAO1, Kunlin CHEN1, Jifeng ZHONG1, Yan ZHANG4, Yundong GAO4, Huixia LI2, Huili WANG1, Jianli ZHANG1,*(), Qiang DING1,*()   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Crop and Animal Integrated Farming of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center for Precision Animal Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
    2. College of Animal Science & Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
    3. Jiangsu Youyuan Dairy Research Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing 211100, China
    4. Shandong OX Livestock Breeding Co., Ltd., Jinan 250100, China
  • Received:2024-04-01 Online:2024-10-23 Published:2024-11-04
  • Contact: Jianli ZHANG, Qiang DING E-mail:dxh1825047521@163@.com;zhangjianli79@163.com;dingqiang198907@163.com

Abstract:

This study aimed to establish CRISPR/Cas9 mediated BLG-knockout (BLG-KO) system in bovine mammary epithelial cells (bMECs), and to explore the function effect of BLG-KO on bMECs. Three sgRNAs were designed from the first exon of the bovine BLG gene sequence and screened by using in vitro cleavage test. The Cas9 expression vector and sgRNAs vectors were cotransfected into bMECs by electroporation. Monoclonal cell lines were screened with 1.8 μg·mL-1 puromycin and 6 μg·mL-1 blasticidin. BLG-KO gene editing type were verified by using PCR amplification and sequencing analysis. The potential off-target sites were selected according to the sgRNA sequence and detected by PCR sequencing. The BLG expressing level of knockout cell was detected by Western blot (WB). Cell viability was tested by cell counting kit-8 (CCK-8) assay, further the growth curve was drawn to analyze the proliferation effect of bMECs cells after BLG-KO. Two sgRNAs were screened and used for further gene edit. 10 monoclonal cell lines were obtained after screening and 9 BLG-edit lines verified by PCR sequencing, 4 clones with large fragment deleted at BLG sequence. Sequence analysis showed that the editing sites contained multiple gene-editing types, including insertion, deletion and base substitution. WB result showed that BLG-KO cell lines with low BLG protein expressing level compare to none edit cell. Furthermore, the BLG-KO promote cell growth and proliferation according to the results of cell growth curve and CCK-8 assay. In this study, we constructed an efficient BLG-KO method in bMECs by using CRISPR/Cas9 system, and the results demonstrated that BLG-KO significantly affected the cell proliferation in bMECs, the results provided a cellular model for exploring the functional mechanism for BLG-KO cattle.

Key words: BLG gene, bMECs, CRISPR/Cas9, gene editing

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