Application of protoplast technology to CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis: from single-cell mutation detection to mutant plant regeneration

Choun Sea Lin, Chen Tran Hsu, Ling Hung Yang, Lan Ying Lee, Jin Yuan Fu, Qiao Wei Cheng, Fu Hui Wu, Han C.W. Hsiao, Yesheng Zhang, Ru Zhang, Wan Jung Chang, Chen Ting Yu, Wen Wang, Li Jen Liao, Stanton B. Gelvin, Ming Che Shih

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Abstract

Plant protoplasts are useful for assessing the efficiency of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) mutagenesis. We improved the process of protoplast isolation and transfection of several plant species. We also developed a method to isolate and regenerate single mutagenized Nicotianna tabacum protoplasts into mature plants. Following transfection of protoplasts with constructs encoding Cas9 and sgRNAs, target gene DNA could be amplified for further analysis to determine mutagenesis efficiency. We investigated N. tabacum protoplasts and derived regenerated plants for targeted mutagenesis of the phytoene desaturase (NtPDS) gene. Genotyping of albino regenerants indicated that all four NtPDS alleles were mutated in amphidiploid tobacco, and no Cas9 DNA could be detected in most regenerated plants.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1295-1310
Number of pages16
JournalPlant Biotechnology Journal
Volume16
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • CRISPR/Cas9
  • protoplast isolation
  • protoplast regeneration
  • single-cell analysis

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