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. 2021 Mar 24;11:6769. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-85366-4

Figure 4.

Figure 4

TRBO-HcoCas9-delivered Cas9 expression and catalytic activity with the RNA silencing suppressor P19. (a) Schematic representation of the Cas9 delivery vector TRBO-HcoCas9. (b) TRBO-HcoCas9-delivered Cas9 protein expression co-infiltrated with and without a P19-expressing plasmid in N. benthamiana from 3–9 dpi. The top panels for each day are western blots used to detect Cas9 protein (164-kDa). The bottom panels are protein gels stained with Coomassie to detect Rubisco (55-kDa), the loading control. (c) BsgI restriction assay of 4-week-old 16c plants co-infiltrated with TRBO-HcoCas9/TRBO-G-3′gGFP sampled at 10 dpi, with and without P19, to analyze functionality of the delivered Cas9 protein. The increased Cas9 expression (b) reflects the enhanced indel induction (c; red arrow) in the presence of P19. The average and standard deviation of indel percentages were calculated based on three independent biological replicates.