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. 2017 Oct 6;7:12739. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-10418-7

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Schematic outline of gene-targeting and telomere truncation of human chromosome 21 in CHO-K1 cells using CRISPR/Cas9. (a) Human chromosome 21 was truncated in the region of AP000167 with CRISPR/Cas9, and the circular I-EGFP-I-Bsd Fcy; Fur vector inserted, which contained two homologous recombination arms, the EGFP gene and the blasticidin-resistance gene. Primer pair #1 and 2 were designed to detect the occurrence of homologous recombination. (b) Human chromosome 21 was truncated in the region of AP001657 with CRISPR/Cas9, and a linearised pBS-TEL/Dq HisDv2 Fcy; Fur vector inserted, which contained a single homologous recombination arm, 1 kb of artificial telomere sequence and a histidinol dihydrochloride-resistant gene (hisD). Primer pair #3 was designed to detect correct homologous recombination and primer pairs #4, 5 and 6 were designed to detect deletion of chromosome regions. Ideally, primer pair #3 should produce a PCR amplicon and primer pairs #4, 5, and 6 should not produce any PCR amplicons.