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Title: Genome engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using CRISPR-Cas systems

Journal Article · · Nucleic Acids Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt135· OSTI ID:1904692
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  1. Boston University, MA (United States); Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (United States)
  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (United States)

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems in bacteria and archaea use RNA-guided nuclease activity to provide adaptive immunity against invading foreign nucleic acids. Here, we report the use of type II bacterial CRISPR-Cas system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for genome engineering. The CRISPR-Cas components, Cas9 gene and a designer genome targeting CRISPR guide RNA (gRNA), show robust and specific RNA-guided endonuclease activity at targeted endogenous genomic loci in yeast. Using constitutive Cas9 expression and a transient gRNA cassette, we show that targeted double-strand breaks can increase homologous recombination rates of single- and double-stranded oligonucleotide donors by 5-fold and 130-fold, respectively. In addition, co-transformation of a gRNA plasmid and a donor DNA in cells constitutively expressing Cas9 resulted in near 100% donor DNA recombination frequency. Our approach provides foundations for a simple and powerful genome engineering tool for site-specific mutagenesis and allelic replacement in yeast.

Research Organization:
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-02ER63445; SA5283-11210; P50 HG005550
OSTI ID:
1904692
Journal Information:
Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 41, Issue 7; ISSN 0305-1048
Publisher:
Oxford University PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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