Nicking Endonuclease-Mediated Vector Construction Strategies for Plant Gene Functional Research
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Development of Nicking Endonuclease-Mediated DNA Assembly Strategy for Constructing ihpRNA Vectors
2.2. The NEMDA-Mediated Rapid Splicing of Plant ihpRNA Constructs With pRNAi-NE
2.3. Silencing Marker Genes in Tobacco Leaves and Endogenous OsPDS in Rice by Assembling ihpRNA Constructs
2.4. Fast Assembly of Multiple sgRNA Expression Cassettes in CRISPR/Cas9-Vector for Multiplex Genome Editing
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Plant and Plasmid Materials
3.2. Plant RNAi Basic Plasmid pRNAi-NE Construction
3.3. Nicking Endonuclease-Mediated Plant ihpRNA Vector Constructions Using pRNAi-NE
3.4. Nicking Endonuclease-Mediated Multiple sgRNA Expression Cassettles Assembly for CRISPR/Cas9 Multiplex Genome Editing
3.5. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transient Expression and Stable Transformation
3.6. RNA Isolation and qRT-PCR Analysis
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Gong, Q.; Wang, B.; Lu, X.; Tan, J.; Hou, Y.; Liu, T.; Liu, Y.-G.; Zhu, Q. Nicking Endonuclease-Mediated Vector Construction Strategies for Plant Gene Functional Research. Plants 2020, 9, 1090. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9091090
Gong Q, Wang B, Lu X, Tan J, Hou Y, Liu T, Liu Y-G, Zhu Q. Nicking Endonuclease-Mediated Vector Construction Strategies for Plant Gene Functional Research. Plants. 2020; 9(9):1090. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9091090
Chicago/Turabian StyleGong, Qi, Bin Wang, Xubiao Lu, Jiantao Tan, Yuke Hou, Taoli Liu, Yao-Guang Liu, and Qinlong Zhu. 2020. "Nicking Endonuclease-Mediated Vector Construction Strategies for Plant Gene Functional Research" Plants 9, no. 9: 1090. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9091090