Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (9): 1849-1855.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2022.09.04

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Construction of PK15 cells with porcine miR-22 upstream sequence mutation

DING Zhaoxue(), WANG Jiajie, SHEN Zhonghao, ZHOU Xiaolong, YANG Songbai, JIN Hangfeng, ZHAO Ayong, WANG Han()   

  1. Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, College of Animal Science and Technology · College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
  • Received:2021-03-23 Online:2022-09-25 Published:2022-09-30
  • Contact: WANG Han

Abstract:

The previous study found that the mutation on the fragment of upstream sequence of porcine miR-22 precursor might play an important role in regulating the expression of miR-22. In order to further explore its function, this study designed two target RNAs (short guide RNAs) for porcine miR-22 upstream sequence fragments, constructed a recombinant expression vector pX459-sgRNA1 and pX459-sgRNA2. Subsequently, the recombinant plasmid was transfected into porcine kidney epithelial cell line (PK15). After preliminary screening with puromycin, genomic DNA was extracted, and the editing effect was identified by PCR and sequencing. Finally, quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) was used to detect the relative expression of miR-22 before and after editing. The results showed that out of 81 positive clones, 6 mutation types were produced, with a mutation rate of 60.49%. The qRT-PCR test showed that the expression of miR-22 was significantly down-regulated by about 50% after editing. These results indicated that this study had successfully obtained a porcine PK15 cell model with mutations in the upstream sequence of the miR-22 precursor, which provided a new applicable research object for future functional studies on porcine miR-22.

Key words: pig, microRNA, mutation, CRISPR/Cas9 technology, PK15 cell lines

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