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Genome-Wide CRISPR/Cas9 Screening for High-Throughput Functional Genomics in Human Cells

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Innate Antiviral Immunity

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1656))

Abstract

It is highly desirable to identify gene’s function in a high-throughput fashion, and the CRISPR/Cas9 system has been harnessed to meet such a need. Here, we describe a general method to generate genome-scale lentiviral single-guide RNA (sgRNA) library and conduct a pooled function-based screening in human cells. This protocol would be of interest to researchers to rapidly identify genes in a variety of biological processes.

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Acknowledgments

We thank J. Xi for providing the Cas9-encoding construct, and D. Trono for aid with the lentivirus packaging system. We thank Peking University High-throughput Sequencing Center operated by BIOPIC. This work was supported by funds from the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB911800), the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC31170126, NSFC31070115), and the Peking-Tsinghua Centre for Life Sciences. Shiyou Zhu and Yuexin Zhou contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Shiyou Zhu and Yuexin Zhou contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking-Tsinghua National Institute of Biological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Rd., Beijing, 100871, China

    Shiyou Zhu

  2. Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC), Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Rd., Beijing, 100871, China

    Yuexin Zhou & Wensheng Wei

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  1. Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Karen Mossman

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Zhu, S., Zhou, Y., Wei, W. (2017). Genome-Wide CRISPR/Cas9 Screening for High-Throughput Functional Genomics in Human Cells. In: Mossman, K. (eds) Innate Antiviral Immunity. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1656. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7237-1_11

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