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. 2017 May 20;7(10):e2320.
doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2320.

Creating a RAW264.7 CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Wide Library

Brooke A Napier  1 , Denise M Monack  1
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Creating a RAW264.7 CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Wide Library

Brooke A Napier et al. Bio Protoc. .

Abstract

The bacterial clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 genome editing tools are used in mammalian cells to knock-out specific genes of interest to elucidate gene function. The CRISPR-Cas9 system requires that the mammalian cell expresses Cas9 endonuclease, guide RNA (gRNA) to lead the endonuclease to the gene of interest, and the PAM sequence that links the Cas9 to the gRNA. CRISPR-Cas9 genome wide libraries are used to screen the effect of each gene in the genome on the cellular phenotype of interest, in an unbiased high-throughput manner. In this protocol, we describe our method of creating a CRISPR-Cas9 genome wide library in a transformed murine macrophage cell-line (RAW264.7). We have employed this library to identify novel mediators in the caspase-11 cell death pathway (Napier et al., 2016); however, this library can then be used to screen the importance of specific genes in multiple murine macrophage cellular pathways.

Keywords: CRISPR; Library; Macrophages; RAW264.7; Screen.

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Figure 1.. Graphical abstract of Koike-Yusa et al. (2014) amplification protocol of the gRNA library
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