Tet-Regulated Expression and Optical Clearing for In Vivo Visualization of Genetically Encoded Chimeric dCas9/Fluorescent Protein Probes.

Autor: Maloshenok L; Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 33, Bldg. 2 Leninsky Ave., 119071 Moscow, Russia.; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117971 Moscow, Russia., Abushinova G; Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 33, Bldg. 2 Leninsky Ave., 119071 Moscow, Russia.; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117971 Moscow, Russia., Kazachkina N; Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 33, Bldg. 2 Leninsky Ave., 119071 Moscow, Russia., Bogdanov A Jr; Department of Radiology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01665, USA., Zherdeva V; Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 33, Bldg. 2 Leninsky Ave., 119071 Moscow, Russia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Materials (Basel, Switzerland) [Materials (Basel)] 2023 Jan 19; Vol. 16 (3). Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 19.
DOI: 10.3390/ma16030940
Abstrakt: The catalytically inactive mutant of Cas9 (dCas9) endonuclease has multiple biomedical applications, with the most useful being the activation/repression of transcription. dCas9 family members are also emerging as potential experimental tools for gene mapping at the level of individual live cells and intact tissue. We performed initial testing on a set of tools for Cas9-mediated visualization of nuclear compartments. We investigated doxycycline (Dox)-inducible (Tet-On) intracellular distribution of constructs encoding dCas9 orthologs from St. thermophilus (St) and N. meningitides (Nm) fused with EGFP and mCherry fluorescent proteins (FP) in human A549 cells. We also studied time-dependent expression of these chimeric fluorescent constructs (dCas9-FP) after Tet-On induction in live cells and compared it with the time course of dCas9-FP expression in experimental dCas9-FP-expressing tumor xenografts using a combination of fluorescence imaging and in vivo contrast-assisted magnetic resonance imaging for assessing the extent of tumor perfusion. In vivo Dox-induction of mCherry-chimera expression occurred in tumor xenografts as early as 24 h post-induction and was visualized by using optical clearing (OC) of the skin. OC via topical application of gadobutrol enabled high-contrast imaging of FP expression in tumor xenografts due to a 1.1-1.2-fold increase in FI in both the red and green channels.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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