Electroporation-based Easi-CRISPR yields biallelic insertions of EGFP-HiBiT cassette in immortalized chicken oviduct epithelial cells

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第一作者： Liu, Lingkang

作者： Liu, Lingkang;Wei, Jinyu;Chen, Chen;Liang, Qianxue;Wang, Boyong;Wu, Wende;Li, Gonghe;Zheng, Xibang;Liu, Lingkang;Wu, Wende;Li, Gonghe;Zheng, Xibang;Liu, Lingkang;Wu, Wende;Li, Gonghe;Zheng, Xibang;Wei, Jinyu;Wei, Jinyu

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关键词： chicken oviduct epithelial cells; immortalization; electroporation; ovalbumin; Easi-CRISPR

期刊名称：POULTRY SCIENCE （ 影响因子：4.4； 五年影响因子：4.4 ）

ISSN： 0032-5791

年卷期： 2023 年 102 卷 12 期

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摘要： Laying hens are an excellent experimental oviduct model for studying reproduction biology. Because chicken oviduct epithelial cells (cOECs) have a crucial role in synthesizing and secreting ovalbumin, laying hens have been regarded an ideal bioreactor for producing pharmaceuticals in egg white through transgene or gene editing of the ovalbumin (OVA) gene. However, related studies in cOECs are largely limited because of the lack of immortalized model cells. In addition, the editing efficiency of conventional CRISPR-HDR knock-in in chicken cells is suboptimal (ranging from 1 to 10%) and remains elevated. Here, primary cOECs were isolated from young laying hens, then infected with a retrovirus vector of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), and immortalized cOECs were established. Subsequently, an electroporation-based Easi-CRISPR (Efficient additions with ssDNA inserts-CRISPR) method was adopted to integrate an EGFP-HiBiT cassette into the chicken OVA locus (immediately upstream of the stop codon). The immortalized cOECs reflected the self-renewal capability and phenotype of oviduct epithelial cells. This is because these cells not only maintained stable proliferation and normal karyotype and had no potential for malignant transformation, but also expressed oviduct markers and an epithelial marker and had a morphology similar to that of primary cOECs. EGFP expression was detected in the edited cells through microscopy, flow cytometry, and HiBiT/Western blotting. The EGFP-HiBiT knock-in efficiency reached 27.9% after a single round of electroporation, which was determined through genotyping and DNA sequencing. Two single cell clones contained biallelic insertions of EGFP-HiBiT donor cassettes. In conclusion, our established immortalized cOECs could act as an in vitro cell model for gene editing in chicken, and this electroporationbased Easi-CRISPR strategy will contribute to the generation of avian bioreactors and other gene-edited (GE) birds.

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