Generation of mutant mice by pronuclear injection of circular plasmid expressing Cas9 and single guided RNA - Ikawa lab papers, November 2013.

The first of these 2 papers is the first report of mouse mutagenesis by pronuclear injection of circular plasmids expressing CRISPR gRNA and Cas9 mRNA.    In a follow-up paper, the authors demonstrate this approach on many more genes; their approach is to validate the CRISPR plasmids in cell transfections first, then use the effective ones for zygote injections.

The plasmid used in both papers was PX330, which was made by the Zhang lab - links for this are at the bottom.   

1.  Generation of mutant mice by pronuclear injection of circular plasmid expressing Cas9 and single guided RNA.

Daisuke Mashiko, Yoshitaka Fujihara, Yuhkoh Satouh, Haruhiko Miyata, Ayako Isotani & Masahito Ikawa

Scientific Reports

 

3,

 

Article number:

 

3355

 

doi:10.1038/srep03355

Received

 

16 October 201

3 Accepted 12 November 2013 Published

27 November 2013

2. 

Feasibility for a large scale mouse mutagenesis by injecting CRISPR/Cas plasmid into zygotes.

Mashiko D, Young SA, Muto M, Kato H, Nozawa K, Ogawa M, Noda T, Kim YJ, Satouh Y, Fujihara Y, Ikawa M.

Dev Growth Differ. 2014 Jan;56(1):122-9. doi: 10.1111/dgd.12113. Epub 2013 Dec 26.

Links for PX330 and PX335:  

Addgene page for PX330

Zhang lab MIT CRISPR page for PX330 and PX335

PX335 is similar to PX330 except PX335 has a nickase form of Cas9.