Gene modification method of YTHDF2 of m6A 'reader' and application thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of genetic engineering, in particular to a YTHDF2 genetic modification method of an m6A 'reader' and application thereof.
Background
The RNA has more than 150 modifications, mainly comprising N6-methylated adenosine (N6-methylaldenosine, m6A), 5-methylcytidine (m5C), inosine (I), pseudouridine (psi), N1-methylated adenosine (m1A), 5-hydroxymethylcytidine (hm5C) and the like, and the modifications are found in eukaryotic mRNA and can influence the metabolism and function of the mRNA. N6-methyaddenesine (m6A) is the most common posttranscriptional base modification on eukaryotic mRNA, occurring at about 3-5 residues per mRNA, and more than 80% of the RNA base methylation in eukaryotic cells is the m6A modification (Zhao BS, Roundtree IA, He C. post-transcriptional gene regulation by mRNA modifications, Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol,2017,18(1): 31-42). The m6A modification has been found in eukaryotic mRNA and lncRNA in the early 70 s. Methylation modification of the mRNA 5' UTR region in most eukaryotes is known to play an important role in mRNA splicing, editing, stability, degradation, polyadenylation, etc.; while methylation modification in the 3 'UTR region contributes to the out-of-core transport, translation initiation of mRNA and maintenance of mRNA structural stability with polyA binding protein (Fu Y, dominisini D, Rechavi G, He C. Gene expression programmed through conversion M (6) A RNAmethylation. Nat Rev Genet,2014,15(5): 293. 306; Nandan S. Gokhale, et al. RNA modifications in the genome, Plos Pathologens, 2017,1006188; Schwartz S, Mumbach MR, Jovanovic M, et al. Perturbation of M6A precursors in the expression of mRNA molecules and translation of internal 5' sites. 296, 2014, 284 (1): 284). The recognition site of most RNA methylases is RRACH, also reported as [ G/A/U ] [ G > A ] m6AC [ U > A > C ]. The m6A methylation modification is proved to be reversible, and is participated by methylation transferase (Writers), demethylase (Erasers) and methylation reading protein (Readers). It has been found that many m6A modification sites (Lichinchi G, et al. dynamics of the human and viral m (6) A RNA genes along HIV-1infection of T cells. Nature microbiology.2016; 1(4):16011) exist on viral RNA, but it is not clear how the modification of m6A affects viral replication.
Recent studies have shown that YTHDF is a reading protein of m6A, and binding of YTHDF alters the translation efficiency and stability of m6A RNA (Wang X, et al, N6-methylenedenosine-dependent regulation of messenger RNA stability. Nature,2014,505,117-120. Du H, et al, YTHDF2 stabilizers m (6) A-dependent RNA direct regulation of the CCR4-NOT dependent enzyme complex. Nat. Commun.2016,7,12626.). However, it is not known how the YTHDF protein affects the proliferation of the virus through m6A during the infection of cells by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (Nandan S. Gokhale, et al. N6-Methyldenosine in Flaviviridae Viral RNA genes infection. cell Host Microbe.2016,20 (654) (5): -. Studies have shown that the YTHDF protein can recognize HCV RNA and negatively regulate HCV progeny virus production. Since HCV viruses are replicated mainly in intracellular liposomes, the YTHDF proteins in HCV-infected cells are localized by immunofluorescence technology, and HCV infection is found to induce localization of YTHDF proteins to liposomes, recognize and combine with HCV RNA, playing an important role in the life cycle of the viruses.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for modifying YTHDF2 gene of an m6A 'reader' and application thereof, wherein the characteristic that YTHDF gene can recognize virus RNA and negatively regulate virus proliferation is utilized, and the methylation level of mRNA in host cells can be changed by modifying Vero cell line YTHDF2 gene, so that the virus replication capacity is changed.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides a method for modifying YTHDF2 gene of m6A 'reader', wherein YTHDF2 gene is modified by using gene editing technology to obtain a cell line with YTHDF2 gene knocked out, which comprises the following steps: sgRNA sequence design, YTHDF2 gene knockout, plasmid construction and screening of modified gene recombinant cell lines.
For the technical solutions mentioned above, further, the gene editing technology is CRISPR/Cas9 technology.
The invention uses CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology and Vero81 cell line as an example for transformation, and carries out mutation transformation on YTHDF2 gene in the genome. YTHDF2 is a recently identified protein that can act as a "reader" that specifically recognizes the m6A modification site on transcripts. After recognizing the m6A modification site, YTHDF2 can participate in the regulation and control of a series of physiological or pathological processes through the regulation of the stability of target RNA. However, it should be noted that the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology is used for the above transformation, but the CRISPR/Cas9 technology is not used for the gene editing technology, and the existing gene editing technologies such as TALEN technology and ZFN technology are all applicable.
In the above technical solution, further, the sgRNA sequence is designed by selecting the front 1/3 regions of the third coding region and the fourth coding region of the m6A "reader" YTHDF2 gene, and the sequences are shown as SEQ ID No.3 and SEQ ID No.4, SEQ ID No.5 and SEQ ID No.6, and SEQ ID No.7 and SEQ ID No. 8. The m6A 'reader' YTHDF2 gene sequence is originated from Vero cell YTHDF2 gene, and YTHDF2 nucleotide sequence and protein sequence are shown in SEQ ID NO.1 and SEQ ID NO. 2.
In the above technical solution, further, the YTHDF2 gene knockout technical method further comprises an annealing system: sgRNA-F (100. mu.M) 1. mu. L, sgRNA-R (100. mu.M) 1. mu.L, 10 XT 4 Ligation Buffer 1. mu. L, ddH2O 6.5μL、T4 PNK 0.5μL。
In the above technical scheme, further, the plasmid construction comprises recombinant plasmid construction and verification plasmid construction, wherein the recombinant plasmid is pCas9-YTHDF2-1, pCas9-YTHDF2-2, pCas9-YTHDF2-3, and the verification plasmid is pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF 2.
In the above-described embodiments, further, the recombinant cell line is a eukaryotic cell.
For the above technical solution, further, the eukaryotic cell is any one of a mammalian cell, a yeast cell, and an insect cell.
In the above technical solution, further, the mammalian cell is selected from Vero 81.
In the technical scheme, the screened recombinant cell line is Vero81-YTHDF 2-KD.
According to the invention, a Cas9 recombinant plasmid is constructed through sgRNA, and a knockout recombinant cell line with high-efficiency cutting performance on YTHDF2 gene is screened out after cells are transfected. The modification is verified on HEK 293T cells and modified on Vero81 cells, but the invention does not show that the modification can only be applied to Vero81 cell lines and is applicable to other cell lines.
The second purpose of the invention is to provide an application of the gene modification method, in particular to an application of the gene modification method in changing the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus proliferation.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the invention carries out gene modification on cells with specific genes, and then eliminates the cells after the gene modification by utilizing targeted methods such as targeted drugs, immunotherapy and the like. The invention provides the first time that the YTHDF2 gene is knocked out, inserted and subjected to base mutation by using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology in the Vero81 cell, provides a brand-new concept for cytological or genetic research, and has a very wide application prospect.
The Vero cell line YTHDF2 gene modification method provided by the invention can change the mRNA methylation level in host cells, thereby changing the virus multiplication capacity and providing possibility for researching the relation between viruses and host methylation.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of PCR identification of a bacterial liquid of the recombinant plasmid pCas9-YTHDF2 of the present invention; 1-15: PCR products of bacterial liquid; 16: negative control; m: DNA Marker DL 2000;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the double digestion results of the PCR products of pCDNA3.1-mcherry and YTHDF2 of the present invention; 1: the double digestion result of pCDNA3.1-mcherry plasmid; 2: double enzyme digestion result of YTHDF2 PCR product; m: DNA Marker DL 15000;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of PCR identification of the bacterial liquid of the recombinant plasmid pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2 of the present invention; 1-5: PCR products of bacterial liquid; m: DNAmarker DL 2000;
FIG. 4 is a pX459 plasmid map according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a map of the pCDNA3.1-mcherry plasmid of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the cutting microscopic fluorescence intensity of the recombinant plasmid pCas9-YTHDF2 sgRNA of the present invention;
A:pCas9-control+pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2;
B:pCas9-YTHDF2-1+pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2;
C:pCas9-YTHDF2-2+pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2;
D:pCas9-YTHDF2-3+pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2;
FIG. 7 is a graph showing the effect of wild-type and mutant cells of the present invention on the proliferation of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
The invention is illustrated by the following examples, which are intended to be illustrative only and not to be limiting in any way. The specific experimental procedures not mentioned in the examples are usually carried out according to conventional or obvious experimental procedures.
The invention is further explained with reference to the drawings and the embodiments.
Detailed Description
The scheme of the invention will be explained with reference to the examples. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the following examples are illustrative of the invention only and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the invention. The examples are given without reference to specific techniques or conditions, as described in the literature or in the literature of the art (for example, see J. SammBruk et al, molecular cloning, A Laboratory Manual (fourth edition), Huang Petang et al, science publishers; Jennifer Doudna, prashan Manual, CRISRP-Cas: Alabor manual, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) or according to product specifications. The reagents or instruments used are not indicated to the manufacturer, and are all conventional products purchased through provincial bidding purchasing departments.
The above-mentioned technical features of the present invention and those described in detail below (e.g., in the embodiments) can be combined with each other to form a new or preferred embodiment.
BLAST alignment analysis was performed based on the YTHDF2 gene sequence of African green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), and the gene number of YTHDF2 in Vero81 was determined to be 103225249. The nucleotide sequence of the code YTHDF2 is shown as SEQ ID NO.1, and the protein sequence of YTHDF2 is shown as SEQ ID NO. 2.
Example 1: CRISPR/Cas9 modified Vero81 cell line YTHDF2 protein
The cell gene modification method of the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps:
1. according to coding regions and non-coding regions of YTHDF2 gene sequences of African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus), after comprehensive alignment, selecting a front end 1/3 region of a third coding region and a fourth coding region for sgRNA sequence design, and selecting three sgRNAs according to a sgRNA design principle for efficiency verification. The sgRNA in this example was selected on the basis of moderate GC content (40% -60%), with the selected region located at the front end of the gene.
In this example, the sgRNA sequence of YTHDF2 is as follows:
sgRNA1-F (SEQ ID NO. 3): 5'-CACCGTCTTATGGACAACTGAGCAA-3' and sgRNA1-R (SEQ ID NO. 4): 5'-CTTGCTCAGTTGTCCATAAGACAAA-3', respectively;
sgRNA2-F (SEQ ID NO. 5): 5'-CACCGAGACGAAGAATGGCATTGCA-3' and sgRNA2-R (SEQ ID NO. 6): 5'-CTGCAATGCCATTCTTCGTCTCAAA-3', respectively;
sgRNA3-F (SEQ ID No.): 5'-CACCGGTCCATTACTAGTAACATCG-3' and sgRNA3-R (SEQ ID NO. 8): 5'-CCGATGTTACTAGTAATGGACCAAA-3' are provided.
2. The plasmid construction and transformation method is as follows: annealing was performed using the oligosaccharide nucleotide chains sgRNA-F and sgRNA-R.
The annealing system is: sgRNA-F (100. mu.M) 1. mu. L, sgRNA-R (100. mu.M) 1. mu.L, 10 XT 4 Ligation Buffer 1. mu. L, ddH2O 6.5μL、T4 PNK 0.5μL。
Annealing was performed according to the following annealing program: 30min at 37 ℃ and 30min at 95 ℃, and then uniformly reducing the temperature to 25 ℃ at 5 ℃/min.
The plasmid pX459 (FIG. 4) was used as a template for digestion. Taking 50 mu g of enzyme digestion product, 1 mu L of annealing product (diluted by 1: 200), 5 mu L of 2 XQuickligation Buffer and 1 mu L of Quick Ligase, and supplementing ddH2O to 10. mu.L. After mixing uniformly, connecting for 10min at room temperature, adding 5 μ L of the connecting product into 50 μ L of Top10 competent cells, incubating on ice for 30min, placing on ice again for incubation for 2-3min after heat stress at 42 ℃ for 90s, adding 950 μ L of LB liquid culture medium, placing in a shaking incubator at 37 ℃ and 200rpm for culturing for 90min, centrifuging at 8000rpm for 5min, discarding 800 μ L of supernatant, uniformly blowing, coating in an Amp-resistant LB solid culture medium, and placing in a constant temperature incubator at 37 ℃ for culturing for 14-18 h. Respectively picking 15 monoclonals to shake in LB liquid culture medium with Amp, identifying bacterial liquid PCR as positive and sequencing to determine correct, extracting plasmid with endotoxin-free kit, subpackaging and storing, and selecting three recombinant plasmids named pCas9-YTHDF2-1, pCas9-YTHDF2-2 and pCas9-YTHDF2-3, wherein the PCR identification result of bacterial liquid of recombinant plasmid pCas9-YTHDF2 is shown in figure 1.
3. And verifying the construction and amplification of the DNA plasmid.
To facilitate verification of the cleavage efficiency of sgrnas, the present embodiment inserts the donor DNA into pcdna3.1-mcherry plasmid (fig. 5) to obtain a verification recombinant plasmid.
4. Construction of the verification plasmid pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF 2.
Using Vero81 cell genome DNA as a template, and using a primer YTHDF2-F (SEQ ID NO. 9): 5'-CGGGATCCAATAATGCGTATACTGCCATGTC-3' and YTHDF2-R (SEQ ID NO. 10): 5'-GGAATTCCACT TTCTTCTTCCTCTTGGCG-3' PCR amplification is carried out, and the amplified product is recovered by gel. Carrying out BamHI and EcoRI double enzyme digestion on the PCR gel recovery product and the pCDNA3.1-mcherry plasmid respectively, taking 20 mu L of the gel recovery product and the plasmid respectively, adding BamHI2.5 mu L, EcoRI 2.5 mu L and 10 XK buffer 5 mu L respectively, adding water to complement to 50 mu L, mixing uniformly, carrying out water bath at 37 ℃ for 4h, obtaining the enzyme digestion result as shown in figure 2, and obtaining the enzyme digestion product after gel recovery. The two enzyme digestion products are respectively added with 2 mu L, T4 ligase and 1 mu L, T4 ligase buffer solution in 1 mu L, water is added to make up to 10 mu L, and the mixture is uniformly mixed and then placed in a refrigerator at 4 ℃ for overnight connection. The ligation product is transformed, spotted, sequenced and identified, and then the plasmid is extracted and stored for later use, named as pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2, and the PCR identification result is shown in figure 3.
Example 2: modified Vero81 cell YTHDF2 protein expression detection
1. The cutting efficiency of the pCas9-YTHDF2 plasmid is verified.
Taking out Vero81 cells from a liquid nitrogen tank, rapidly placing the Vero81 cells in a flowing water bath kettle at 37 ℃, wiping the outside of a cryopreservation tube with alcohol cotton on a cell room super clean bench after thawing completely for about 2-3min, transferring the frozen cryopreservation tube to a 25mL cell culture bottle, replacing a corresponding fresh complete culture medium after the cells adhere to the wall for 4h, and carrying out 1:3 passage on the cells after the cells are overgrown. The Vero81 cells are inoculated into a 6-hole cell culture plate for culture 24 hours before the experiment until the cell density reaches 70-80% of the confluence rate. The plasmids pCas9-YTHDF2-1, pCas9-YTHDF2-2, pCas9-YTHDF2-3 and pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2 were removed and the nucleic acid concentration was determined using NanoDrop 2000. Mixing a transfection reagent Lipofectamine 2000, pCas9-YTHDF2 and pCDNA3.1-mcherry-YTHDF2 according to a certain proportion, adding a serum-free culture medium with a proper volume, standing the mixed solution at room temperature for 10-15min, adding a six-well plate, changing the mixed solution into a 10% FBS DMEM high-sugar medium for 4-6h, and photographing by using a fluorescence microscope to calculate the fluorescence intensity after culturing for 24-48 h. The results are shown in FIG. 6, which shows that pCas9-YTHDF2-1 has the highest cleavage efficiency and was selected as the material for the next stage.
2. Transfection and selection of Vero81 cells.
Plating Vero81 cells one day before experiment to prepare transfection; on the day of the experiment, the cells in the previous day are taken out from the cell culture box and observed under a microscope to achieve 70-80% of confluence rate, and then transfection can be carried out. The pCas9-YTHDF2-1 plasmid and Lipofectamine 2000 were used for transfection, puromycin with a final concentration of 2ng/mL was added 24h after transfection for selection, and the monoclonal cell lines were selected by the infinite multiple dilution method after 9-10 d.
3. The knockout result of YTHDF2 gene of Vero81 cells is verified.
Extracting genome DNA of the monoclonal cell strain, taking Vero81 cell genome DNA as a template, and carrying out extraction by using a primer YTHDF2-F (SEQ ID NO. 9): 5'-CGGGATCCAATAATGCGTATACTG CCATGTC-3' and YTHDF2-R (SEQ ID NO. 10): 5'-GGAATTCCACTTTCTTCTTC CTCTTGGCG-3' PCR amplification is carried out, and the amplified product is subjected to gel recovery sequencing. The cell line with the sequencing result of the encoded protein being shifted and in good growth state was selected as the result for verification and named Vero81-YTHDF2-KD cell line.
Example 3: effect of modified Vero cell YTHDF2 protein on Virus proliferation
The YTHDF2 gene knockout can specifically influence the proliferation of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV). And comparing the expression quantity of YTHDF2 genes in the expression quantity of the N genes of the porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses in the wild Vero81 cells and the modified Vero81 cells by real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR amplification. As can be seen from FIG. 7, compared with the wild Vero81 cell, the modified Vero81-YTHDF2-KD cell of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has a higher proliferation effect than that of the wild Vero81-YTHDF2-KD cell. Thus, knockout of YTHDF2 significantly promoted viral replication.
Finally, it should be emphasized that the above-described preferred embodiments of the present invention are merely examples of implementations, rather than limitations, and that many variations and modifications of the invention are possible to those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.