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Mol Microbiol ; 121(6): 1079-1094, 2024 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38558208

ABSTRACT

Kinetoplastids are unicellular eukaryotic flagellated parasites found in a wide range of hosts within the animal and plant kingdoms. They are known to be responsible in humans for African sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei), Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi), and various forms of leishmaniasis (Leishmania spp.), as well as several animal diseases with important economic impact (African trypanosomes, including Trypanosoma congolense). Understanding the biology of these parasites necessarily implies the ability to manipulate their genomes. In this study, we demonstrate that transfection of a ribonucleoprotein complex, composed of recombinant Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) and an in vitro-synthesized guide RNA, results in rapid and efficient genetic modifications of trypanosomatids, in marker-free conditions. This approach was successfully developed to inactivate, delete, and mutate candidate genes in various stages of the life cycle of T. brucei and T. congolense, and Leishmania promastigotes. The functionality of SpCas9 in these parasites now provides, to the research community working on these parasites, a rapid and efficient method of genome editing, without requiring plasmid construction and selection by antibiotics but requires only cloning and PCR screening of the clones. Importantly, this approach is adaptable to any wild-type parasite.


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CRISPR-Cas Systems , Gene Editing , Ribonucleoproteins , Gene Editing/methods , Ribonucleoproteins/metabolism , Ribonucleoproteins/genetics , Streptococcus pyogenes/genetics , Streptococcus pyogenes/metabolism , Leishmania/genetics , Leishmania/metabolism , CRISPR-Associated Protein 9/genetics , CRISPR-Associated Protein 9/metabolism , RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems/genetics , RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems/metabolism , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genetics , Trypanosoma brucei brucei/metabolism , Trypanosoma/genetics , Trypanosoma/metabolism , Transfection
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