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CRISPR-assisted targeted enrichment-sequencing (CATE-seq)

Xu, X.; Xia, Q.; Zhang, S.; Gao, J.; Dai, W.; Wu, J.; Wang, J.

2019-06-17 cancer biology
10.1101/672816 bioRxiv
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The current targeted sequencing of genome is mainly dependent on various hybridization-based methods. However, the hybridization-based methods are still limited by the intrinsic shortcomings of nucleic acid hybridization. This study developed a new CRISPR-based targeted sequencing technique, CRISPR-assisted targeted enrichment-sequencing (CATE-seq). In this technique, the input genomic DNA (gDNA) was firstly bound by a complex of dCas9 and capture sgRNA (csgRNA). The DNA-dCas9-csgRNA complex was then captured on magnetic beads through an easy room-temperature annealing between a short universal capture sequence (24 bp) at the 3' end of csgRNA and capture oligonucleotide coupled on magnetic beads. The enriched DNAs were finally analyzed by next generation sequencing. Using this technique, three different scales of targeted enrichments were successfully performed, including enriching 35 target exons of 6 genes from 6 gDNA samples with 54 csgRNAs, 339 target exons of 186 genes from 9 gDNA samples with 367 csgRNAs, and 2031 target exons of 451 genes from 2 gDNA samples with 2302 csgRNAs. This technique has several significant advantages over the current hybridization-based methods, including high simplicity, specificity, sensitivity, throughput, and scalability.

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