Detailed Description
While the following is a description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
In the examples of the present invention, reagents and consumables are commercially available products unless otherwise specified.
The technical scheme of the invention is realized by the following embodiments by combining the experimental design flow chart shown in figure 1:
(1) sgRNA design:
sgRNA sequences were designed for the second, fourth and fifth exons (Exon2, Exon4, Exon5) of ALDH2 gene, respectively.
The specific grouping and naming of sgRNA sequences designed and synthesized for the second, fourth and fifth exons of ALDH2 gene are shown in table 1:
TABLE 1 ALDH2sgRNA oligo sequences
(Tab.1 The sequences of ALDH2sgRNA oligo)
Enzyme cutting sites are respectively added at two ends of the sgRNA, CACC is added at the 5 'end of a sense strand of each sgRNA sequence, and AAAC is added at the 5' end of an antisense strand, so that a viscous end which is complementary to the PX461 plasmid after being cut by Fast Digest Bbs I is formed. If the first base at the 5 ' end of the sense strand is not a G, then a G is added after the 5 ' CACC and a C is added at the 3 ' end of the corresponding antisense strand. The designed sgRNA is sent to Shanghai Jirui company for primer synthesis.
The sequences shown in SEQ ID NO 1, SEQ ID NO 2 and SEQ ID NO 3 of the invention respectively correspond to the tableIn 1, SEQ ID NO. 4, SEQ ID NO. 6 and SEQ ID NO. 8 draw horizontal line portions, specifically, the sequences shown in SEQ ID NO. 1, SEQ ID NO. 2 and SEQ ID NO. 3 are respectivelyCCAGTGGACGGATTGACGGT、CATAGGGCTTGCCATTGTCC、CTGAAGAAGTCTCCGTCAAT。
(2) The construction and identification of the recombinant plasmid, the construction flow pattern is shown in FIG. 2
Both PX458 and lenticip V2 are sgRNA backbone expression vectors containing a U6 promoter, expressing Cas9n with Cas9D10A nickase mutation, the PX458 plasmid carries GFP green fluorescent protein gene and ampicillin resistance, and the lenticip V2 plasmid carries ampicillin resistance. PX458 and LenticrisprV2 were digested with Fast Digest Bbs I, and the linearized vector was recovered after DNA gel electrophoresis.
Respectively phosphorylating and annealing three groups of sgRNA oligo sequences in the table 1 by using T4 PNK; linear PX458 and leticisrispr V2 plasmid vectors were ligated with T4ligase to the annealed three sgRNA double-stranded sequences for 1h at room temperature, respectively. The ligation product was transformed into competent bacteria, Trans 109, in ice bath for 30min at 42 ℃ for 45s for 2min on ice. Clones were selected on ampicillin resistant LB plates. And (4) picking positive clone, shaking and sequencing. The sequencing primer was the forward primer sequence of the U6 promoter, 5'-GAGGGCCTATTTCCCATGATTCC-3' (SEQ ID NO: 15). The correct clones were sequenced to extract recombinant plasmids.
The obtained recombinant plasmids have six groups, are named as PX458-Exon2, PX458-Exon4 and PX458-Exon5 aiming at the PX458 plasmid, and are named as Lenticrispr V2-Exon2, Lenticrispr V2-Exon4 and Lenticrispr V2-Exon5 aiming at the Lenticrispr V2 plasmid.
(3) Construction of HepG2 Stable cell Strain from Lentiviral System Virus fluid
(ii) Generation of viruses
293FT cell culture conditions: DMEM medium (containing 10% fetal bovine serum), 5% CO2And culturing at 37 ℃.
The 293FT cells were inoculated in 10cm cell culture dishes respectively, and the cell inoculation number was 2 × 106According to the core plasmid: packaging plasmid: the envelope plasmid is transfected in the ratio of 4:3:2, and the core plasmid of sgRNA groupLenticrispr V2-Exon2, Lenticrispr V2-Exon4 and Lenticrispr V2-Exon5, respectively, with Lenticrispr V2 as a control. Virus fluid was harvested 24h, 48h and 72h after transfection and the percentage of fluorescent cells was observed using an inverted fluorescence microscope to determine transfection efficiency. The collected three virus solutions were mixed well and concentrated using a Milipore 100KD concentration column. Viral dropletimetry was performed using 293FT cells.
② cell infection and HepG2 stable strain cell screening.
The HepG2 cell culture conditions were DMEM medium (containing 10% fetal calf serum), 5% CO2, and constant temperature culture at 37 ℃.
The target cell strains to be infected are planted in the 6-well plate one day in advance, and the cell infection is preferably that the cell collection rate reaches 40-50%. The medium was aspirated before infection, 120. mu.l of the virus concentrate was diluted with 2ml of fresh medium, 3.5g of polybrene was added, and the infection efficiency was observed under an inverted fluorescence microscope 48-96 h after infection. Selection was carried out 96h after infection with puromycin at a final concentration of 2. mu.g/ml for 7 days. HepG2 stable cell lines were maintained with puromycin at a final concentration of 0.5. mu.g/ml after puromycin selection.
(4) Screening HepG2 knockout cell strain by monoclonal cell limiting dilution method
Cell transfection: 24h before transfection, HepG2 cells were inoculated into 6-well plates at 5X 105/well and cultured, and the degree of cell fusion reached 60% -70% at the time of transfection. PX458-Exon2, PX458-Exon4 and PX458-Exon5 were transfected simultaneously with a well of HepG2 cells using Viafect transfection reagent, respectively, with an equal amount of PX458 plasmid as a negative control, a 6-well plate transfection volume of plasmid was typically 2 ug/well and the ratio of plasmid pre-transfection reagent was 1: 2-2.5. Transfection efficiency was observed after 24 h. The percentage of fluorescent cells was observed using an inverted fluorescence microscope to determine transfection efficiency.
② screening monoclonal cells by monoclonal cell limiting dilution method: cells were trypsinized and counted, diluted to 100ul of 0.5 cells in medium by limiting dilution, and added to 96-well plates at 100ul cell dilution per well. And observing the growth condition of the cells by using a microscope on5 to 7 days after inoculation, primarily screening the monoclonal cells, digesting the cells by using trypsin when the cells grow to the bottom of a 96-well plate, and transferring the cells to a 24-well plate. When the cells grow to the bottom of the 24-well plate, one part of the cells are used for subculturing, the other part of the cells are used for extracting genome DNA of the cells, sequencing is carried out after PCR amplification, the sequencing result is compared with the original genome, and whether targeted knockout of the ALDH2 gene is successful is detected.
Sequencing results show that compared with the wild type, the HepG2 knockout cell strain has a 4bp base deletion, as shown in FIG. 3.
(5) Extraction of cellular genomic DNA
The constructed cell line was digested with GeneJETTMGenomic DNA Purification Kit extracted Genomic DNA.
① cells were collected in centrifuge tubes, 5X10 per tube6And (3) slowly blowing and beating the cells by using a pipette, centrifuging the cells for 5min at 250g, removing supernatant, adding PBS (phosphate buffer solution) to resuspend the cells, and repeatedly centrifuging the cells again to remove residual culture medium in the cells.
② resuspend the cells by 200ul PBS, add 200ul lysis buffer and 20ul proteinase K into each tube, fully shake and mix evenly.
③ incubating for 10min at 56 ℃ by a shaking table, and shaking and mixing uniformly every 3-4 min to ensure the full cell lysis.
And fourthly, adding 20ul of RNAase A, shaking and uniformly mixing, and incubating for 10min at room temperature.
Fifthly, adding 400ul of 50% ethanol, and shaking and mixing uniformly by a gun or shaking and mixing uniformly.
Sixthly, the MiX is added into a Column provided by the kit, 6000g of the Column is centrifuged for 1min, and the DNA collecting Column is transferred into a new 2ml collecting tube.
Seventhly, 500ul of wash buffer I is added, 8000g of the mixture is centrifuged for 1min, and waste liquid is discarded. Then 500ul wash buffer II (12000 g) was added and centrifuged for 3 min.
Adding 200ul of Elution Buffer to the center of a filter membrane of the collection column, incubating at room temperature for 2min, centrifuging at 8000g, and centrifuging for 1min to obtain the required DNA sample.
(6) PCR reaction conditions and SURVEYOR assay
Designing a QRT-PCR primer according to the mRNA sequence number of the ALDH2 gene provided by NCBI; SURVEYOR primers and PCR primers for ALDH2 gene were designed by Primer 3.0, and the primers were synthesized by Shanghai Czeri Bio Inc.
TABLE 2 SURVEYOR PCR reaction primer sequences
Tab.2 PCR primer
② Phusion super fidelity DNA polymerase is used to carry out PCR amplification, referring to the 50ul system of the instruction, the genome DNA100ng, the 50ul reaction system is shown in the following table.
Components
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Quantity (uL)
|
H2O
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to 50
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Phusion HF buffer,5X
|
10
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dNTPs,2.5mM
|
4
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Phusion polymerase
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0.5
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Forward primer
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2.5
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Reverse primer
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2.5
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template DNA
| 100ng
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Total |
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50 |
The procedure was as follows:
5ul of PCR product after reaction is taken to carry out agarose gel electrophoresis to detect the specificity.
The SURVEYOR analysis procedure is as follows:
1) PCR product purification was performed using QIAquick PCR purification Kit, and the recovered product was diluted to 40ng/ul and detected according to the procedure of the SURVEYOR analysis Kit.
2) DNA hybrid double strand formation (annealing reaction) system:
components
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Quantity (ul)
|
Taq PCR buffer,10×
|
2
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Normalized PCR product,20ngμl-1 |
18
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Total volume
|
20 |
Reaction conditions are as follows:
number of cycles
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Condition
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1
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95℃,10min
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2
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95-85℃,-2℃s-1 |
3
|
85℃,1min
|
4
|
85-75℃,-0.3℃s-1 |
5
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75℃,1min
|
6
|
75-65℃,-0.3℃s-1 |
7
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65℃,1min
|
8
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65-55℃,-0.3℃s-1 |
9
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55℃,1min
|
10
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55-45℃,-0.3℃s-1 |
11
|
45℃,1min
|
12
|
45-35℃,-0.3℃s-1 |
13
|
35℃,1min
|
14
|
35-25℃,-0.3℃s-1 |
15
|
25℃,1min
|
16
|
25-4℃,-0.3℃s-1 |
17
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4℃,hold |
3) SURVEYOR nuclease digestion (on ice operations):
reaction system:
components
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Dosage (mu l)
|
Final concentration
|
Annealed heteroduplex
|
20
|
|
MgCl2stock solution supplied with kit,0.15M
|
2.5
|
15mM
|
ddH2O
|
0.5
|
|
SURVEYOR nuclease S
|
1
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1×
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SURVEYOR enhancer S
|
1
|
1×
|
Total
|
25
|
|
Reaction conditions are as follows: shaking thoroughly, mixing the above mixture uniformly, and keeping the temperature at 42 ℃ for 30min.
4) 10ul of sample was taken and analyzed on 2% agarose gel. The cutting efficiency is calculated by gel quantitative software, and the formula is
f
cut(b + c)/(a + b + c) where Indel is the deletion ratio, f
cutFor the cut ratio, a is the gray value of the uncut band, and b and c represent the gray value of the new band resulting from the cut.
The group of transfected 293FT cells with the highest Indel (%) was selected for further inoculation and selection.
The results of the nuclease digestion part are shown in FIG. 4, and the experimental results show that
1) Limited dilution method HepG2 knockout strain
The SgRNA designed for Exon2, Exon4 and Exon5 constructed PX458-Exon2, PX458-Exon4 and PX458-Exon5 plasmid groups are all effective, and the SURVEYOR result is positive.
2) Lentiviral transfection method HepG2 knockout strain
The PX458-Exon2 and PX458-Exon5 plasmid groups constructed by sgRNAs designed for Exon2 and Exon5 are effective, and the SURVEYOR result is positive.
(7) DNA sequencing analysis of ALDH2 gene knockout HepG2 cell line
Extracting cell genome DNA, carrying out PCR by using Phusion high-fidelity enzyme, purifying PCR products, adding A tail to the PCR products by using Taq DNA polymerase, wherein the total reaction system is 50 mu l, and the specific required component usage amount and reaction conditions of the reaction are as follows:
connecting a T carrier: and connecting the PCR product with the tail A with a T carrier, and setting a negative control by using a control carried by the T carrier kit, wherein the required component amounts for the reaction are as follows:
the control group was as follows:
in the above reaction system, 5. mu.l of Solution I (containing the enzyme required for the ligation reaction) was added to each tube, ligation was performed at 16 ℃ for 30min, and the whole reaction was carried out on a PCR apparatus.
③ the ligation products were transformed into competent bacteria, Trans 109, in ice bath for 30min, at 42 ℃ for 45s, on ice for 2 min. Clones were selected on ampicillin resistant LB plates. The positive clone was selected and shaken, and sent to Beijing Liuhe Huada Gene company for sequencing.
As shown in FIG. 5, the stable HepG2 strain has deletion mutation at the target site, and ALDH2 gene knockout is realized.
(8) Detection of mRNA and protein expression level of ALDH2 gene knockout HepG2 cell line
The total RNA of cells was extracted by Trizol method, reverse transcription was performed using a reverse transcription kit of TOYOBO to generate cDNA, and qRT-PCR was performed according to the system given in the SYBR mix reagent instruction of TOYOBO.
As shown in FIG. 6, the mRNA expression level of the HepG2 cell line successfully constructed by the ALDH2 gene knockout is obviously lower than that of the control group.
Secondly, extracting total protein of the HepG2ALDH2 gene knockout cell strain by using M-PER cell lysate, quantifying by using a BCA protein quantification kit, and carrying out Western Blot.
As shown in FIG. 7, the protein expression level of the HepG2 cell line successfully constructed by the ALDH2 gene knockout is obviously lower than that of the control group.
Compared with the traditional gene knockout method, the method has the advantages of complex flow, high technical requirement, high cost and relatively low success rate. The CRISPR-Cas9 technology adopted by the invention is a fourth-generation gene editing method, and is easy to operate, higher in efficiency and low in cost. The ALDH2 gene knockout cell model constructed by the CRISPR-Cas9 technology provides an effective platform for ALDH2 metabolism-related research. The method has the following specific beneficial effects:
(1) the ALDH2 gene is knocked out by using a CRISPR/Cas9 technology, so that the silencing effect on the gene at the genome level is realized, and the defect that the siRNA cannot silence the gene expression completely or cannot be silenced at the mRNA or protein level is effectively overcome.
(2) The ALDH2 participates in important metabolic functions of the body, and the establishment of the ALDH2 gene knockout cell strain provides an effective platform for the metabolism research of exogenous chemicals or exogenous toxicants in the body.
(3) The ALDH2 gene knockout cell strain provides a powerful tool for researching chronic diseases (such as alcoholic liver diseases and diabetes) and tumor-related diseases.
(4) The ALDH2 gene knockout cell strain can be used for researching the toxicity and carcinogenicity of exogenous chemicals related to ALDH2 metabolism and interaction among medicines.
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.
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