Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Optimized CRISPR Perturbation Illuminates the Functions of RNA Modification Proteins
doi: 10.1101/2025.07.24.666689
Figure Lengend Snippet: iMAP-91 characterization (A) Atrophic testes. (B) Frequency distribution of the fold-changes for the 79 targeting (pink) and eight NC (cyan) guides across 46 tissues. Black lines mark 2-fold changes, whereas the green lines indicate the 5 th and 95 th percentiles of gNC values. (C) Guide enrichment. Tissue code 01, 02, 03 refers to eyeball, cerebellar central part and cerebellar flocculus, respectively, as specified in (D). Values are mean ± SD. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p< 0.001, Student’s t-test. (D) Cluster analysis of guide depletion. Displayed are 87 guides comprising all the guides targeting the 71 RNA modification factors together with all the gNC except the inadvertently duplicated one. Essentiality of the 71 genes per literature is indicated at the top of the heatmap, where shRNA-brain and CRISPR-brain refer to, respectively, the shRNA- and sgRNA-based genomewide in situ screens for neuronal essential genes in the mouse striatum , CRISPR-liver is a genomewide in situ screen for liver essential genes , and CEG2 the core essential gene set identified in human tumor cell lines . CEG2 guides are colored pink. The data points are averaged from 2 to 6 (mostly 5-6) biological replicates.Source data in Table S3. (E) Editing rates of representative gRNAs selected from iMAP-91. gRNAs and Cas9 were co-expressed in N2a cells in duplicates before indel quantification. (F) Cascade reaction leading to tRNA-U34 modifications (Rapino et al., 2017b). (G) Guide clustering coincides with the phenotypes of global single-gene KO mice. Analyzed are the genes whose KO phenotypes are available from MGI. The number of genes in each category is indicated. Source data in Table S3 (sheet 2).
Article Snippet: RNP was assembled by incubating 40 pm each of recombinant Cas9 (Sino Biological) and sgRNA or non-targeting control (Table S1 sheet 3) at 37°C for 15 min. RNP was mixed with 3×106 NK cells resuspended in 20 μl P3 Primary Cell Solution (Lonza) before electroporation using a 4D-NucleofectorTM (program CM-137).
Techniques: RNA modification, shRNA, CRISPR, In Situ