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Plant Genome Editing with ZFN

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Plant Genome Editing via ZFN

Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) are the earliest artificially synthesized restriction endonucleases used for genome editing, which can realize the insertion, deletion or replacement of gene sequences. Compared with traditional plant breeding technology, ZFNs gene editing technology has higher accuracy. For example, using ZFN-assisted gene targeting can introduce two herbicide resistance genes (tobacco acetolactate synthase SuRA and SuRB) into crops to increase the crop's resistance to herbicides. Zinc finger nuclease contains two parts: DNA binding domain composed of zinc finger protein and FokI with restriction endonuclease activity. When a pair of ZFNs bind to the nucleotide sites of double-stranded DNA, FokI cuts the double-stranded DNA, causing the DNA to produce a double-strand break at that site. The broken DNA is repaired by the cell's own non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or homologous recombination repair (HDR), resulting in the editing of nucleotide insertions, deletions, substitutions or point mutations.

Schematic diagram showing structure and design of a typical ZFNSchematic diagram showing structure and design of a typical ZFN (Raikwar S P, et al., 2016)

Services

Plant genome editing with ZFN has a wide range of applications in agricultural molecular breeding, such as functional genomics research and genetic trait improvement. Lifeasible provides plant gene editing service with ZFN. With a professional team and extensive experience we will work closely with you to ensure that your project is completed efficiently and provide high-quality data.

Service content

  • Target sequence selection
  • ZFNs design
  • ZFNs vector construction
  • Plasmid transformation
  • Obtaining genetically modified plants

Service Content of Plant Genome Editing with ZFN - Lifeasible

Customer provided

  • Species
  • Gene name or gene ID

Delivery standard

  • Genetically modified plants
  • Images
  • Complete project report (materials, reagents, instruments, methods, data analysis, experimental results)

Project cycle

  • Takes about 2~3 months

Advantages

  • Rapid design, assembly and verification of ZFN pairs for target genes
  • Diversification of zinc finger protein design technology
  • A variety of zinc finger protein construction technologies have been successfully developed, such as oligomerized pool engineering system (OPEN), phage display technology, bacterial one-hybrid, modular assembly, etc.

  • Mature plant transgenic technology system
  • It can provide transgenic services for many species such as Arabidopsis, rice, wheat, tomato, alfalfa, corn, cotton, sorghum, soybean, sugar beet, cabbage, tobacco, eggplant, cucumber, potato, petunia and rape.

  • The service quality is high and the cycle is short
  • With modern equipment, experienced team, cutting-edge technology

Reference

  1. Raikwar S P, Raikwar A S, Chaurasia S S, et al. Gene editing for corneal disease management[J]. World Journal of Translational Medicine, 2016, 5(1):1.

※ It should be noted that our service is only used for research.

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