Construction of PRV gE-deleted Strain Based on CRISPR/Cas9 Technology
In order to rapidly and effectively construct the gE-deleted strain of pseudorabies virus(PRV),the fluorescent plasmid of pSpCas9(BB)-2A-GFP was firstly transfected into VERO cells and PK-15 cells to select the cell lines with high efficiency. Meanwhile,three small guide RNAs(sgRNAs)with high scores were designed and synthesized on http://crispr.mit.edu/ to select high-efficiency sgRNAs through plaque formation experiments. Then the selected sgRNA was transfected into PK-15 cells which subsequently were inoculated with PRV-1,and finally PRV-1-ΔgE was obtained after five rounds of plaque clone purification. The results showed that VERO cells could be well transfected compared to PK-15 cells;gE-sgRNA1 and gE-sgRNA2 could be used as the high-efficiency sgRNAs for gE gene;a strain of gE-deleted virus with a deletion of 291 bp was obtained and named as PRV-1-ΔgE. It was found that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology could be used for effectively editing PRV-1 gene-deleted strain,which also provided new ideas to rapidly response to PRV variants in the future.