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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 116, 期 13, 页码 6250-6259出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1816928116
关键词
gene drive; Cas9; population replacement; selfish genetic element
资金
- NIH Grant [P40OD018537]
- US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Specialty Crop Initiative [2012-51181-20086]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [OB428/1-1]
- NIH Training Grant [5T32GM007616-39]
There is great interest in being able to spread beneficial traits throughout wild populations in ways that are self-sustaining. Here, we describe a chromosomal selfish genetic element, CleaveR [Cleave and Rescue (ClvR)], able to achieve this goal. ClvR comprises two linked chromosomal components. One, germline-expressed Cas9 and guide RNAs (gRNAs)-the Cleaver-cleaves and thereby disrupts endogenous copies of a gene whose product is essential. The other, a recoded version of the essential gene resistant to cleavage and gene conversion with cleaved copies-the Rescue-provides essential gene function. ClvR enhances its transmission, and that of linked genes, by creating conditions in which progeny lacking ClvR die because they have no functional copies of the essential gene. In contrast, thosewho inherit ClvR survive, resulting in an increase in ClvR frequency. ClvR is predicted to spread to fixation under diverse conditions. To test these predictions, we generated a ClvR element in Drosophilamelanogaster. ClvRtko is located on chromosome 3 and uses Cas9 and four gRNAs to disrupt melanogaster technical knockout (tko), an X-linked essential gene. Rescue activity is provided by tko from Drosophila virilis. ClvRtko results in germline and maternal carryover-dependent inactivation of melanogaster tko (> 99% per generation); lethality caused by this loss is rescued by the virilis transgene; ClvRtko activities are robust to genetic diversity in strains from five continents; and uncleavable but functional melanogaster tko alleles were not observed. Finally, ClvRtko spreads to transgene fixation. The simplicity of ClvR suggests it may be useful for altering populations in diverse species.
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