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Conditional gene knockout is a technique used to eliminate a specific gene in a certain tissue, such as the liver. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This technique is useful to study the role of individual genes in living organisms.
A conditional gene knockout allows gene deletion in a tissue in a tissue specific manner. This is required in place of a gene knockout if the null mutation would lead to embryonic death, [13] or a specific tissue or cell type is of specific interest. This is done by introducing short sequences called loxP sites around the gene.
Four novel alternative genetic codes were discovered in bacterial genomes by Shulgina and Eddy using their codon assignment software Codetta, and validated by analysis of tRNA anticodons and identity elements; [3] these codes are not currently adopted at NCBI, but are numbered here 34-37, and specified in the table below.
Allada et al. performed a knockout of the drosophila gene CLOCK, a gene earlier identified as a circadian gene via forward genetics. In this experiment, they altered the Clock gene to stop it from performing its normal function. [13] Clock knockout flies did not exhibit a twenty-four hour rhythm as was recorded for unchanged flies. [13]
Targeted gene knockout using CRISPR/Cas9 requires the use of a delivery system to introduce the sgRNA and Cas9 into the cell. Although a number of different delivery systems are potentially available for CRISPR, [ 37 ] [ 38 ] genome-wide loss-of-function screens are predominantly carried out using third generation lentiviral vectors.
Initiated in 2005, this project focused first on saturation mutagenesis to enable complete functional annotation of the mouse genome (coordinated by the International Knockout-Mouse Consortium, IKMC) with the ultimate goal to have all protein genes mutated via gene trapping and -targeting in murine ES cells. [14]
For example, deletion of a gene by gene targeting (gene knockout) can be done in some organisms, such as yeast, mice and moss. Unique among plants, in Physcomitrella patens , gene knockout via homologous recombination to create knockout moss (see figure) is nearly as efficient as in yeast. [ 4 ]
[2] [3] Many of the targeted alleles are designed so that they can generate both complete and conditional gene knockout mice. [3] [4] The IKMC was initiated on March 15, 2007, at a meeting in Brussels. By 2011, Nature reported that approximately 17,000 different genes have already been disabled by the consortium, "leaving only around 3,000 more ...