Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 7, 2015, 3:36 p.m.
...added flanking loxP sites and a heat-shock inducible Cre to generate a self-excising cassette (SEC).
To make...have used PCR-based screening to detect mutants, but this method limits screening to a few hundred worms... less than eight hours worth of hands-on time.
Creating a modular, selection-based gene tagging approach...rare events difficult.
Dickinson et al. sought to create a new and efficient selection-based CRISPR/Cas9...construct will serve as the repair template plasmid to create fluorescent and 3xFLAG-tag fusion proteins.
The...knock-ins. These candidate animals can then be further screened based on their Roller phenotype. If SEC is inserted...separates the targeted gene from its promoter, creating a loss-of-function allele as well as a promoter-FP...