RNA‐guided transcriptional regulation in planta via synthetic dCas9‐based transcription factors

Wiley - Tập 13 Số 4 - Trang 578-589 - 2015
Agnieszka Piatek1, Zahir Ali1, Hatoon Baazim1, Lixin Li1, Aala A. Abulfaraj1, Sahar A. Alshareef1, Mustapha Aouida1, Magdy M. Mahfouz1
1Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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SummaryTargeted genomic regulation is a powerful approach to accelerate trait discovery and development in agricultural biotechnology. Bacteria and archaea use clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) and CRISPR‐associated (Cas) regulatory systems for adaptive molecular immunity against foreign nucleic acids introduced by invading phages and conjugative plasmids. The type II CRISPR/Cas system has been adapted for genome editing in many cell types and organisms. A recent study used the catalytically inactive Cas9 (dCas9) protein combined with guide‐RNAs (gRNAs) as a DNA‐targeting platform to modulate gene expression in bacterial, yeast, and human cells. Here, we modified this DNA‐targeting platform for targeted transcriptional regulation in planta by developing chimeric dCas9‐based transcriptional activators and repressors. To generate transcriptional activators, we fused the dCas9 C‐terminus with the activation domains of EDLL and TAL effectors. To generate a transcriptional repressor, we fused the dCas9 C‐terminus with the SRDX repression domain. Our data demonstrate that dCas9 fusion with the EDLL activation domain (dCas9:EDLL) and the TAL activation domain (dCas9:TAD), guided by gRNAs complementary to selected promoter elements, induce strong transcriptional activation on Bs3::uidA targets in plant cells. Further, the dCas9:SRDX‐mediated transcriptional repression of an endogenous gene. Thus, our results suggest that the synthetic transcriptional repressor (dCas9:SRDX) and activators (dCas9:EDLL and dCas9:TAD) can be used as endogenous transcription factors to repress or activate transcription of an endogenous genomic target. Our data indicate that the CRISPR/dCas9 DNA‐targeting platform can be used in plants as a functional genomics tool and for biotechnological applications.

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