Efficient Mitochondrial Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9

Figure 2

Alterations in mitochondria-associated proteins following CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mtDNA editing. (a) Mitochondrial proteins in HEK-293T cells after CRISPR/Cas9-mediated cleavage of mtDNA at Cox1 and Cox3 loci as determined by Western blots using indicated antibodies. β-actin was used as a loading control. (b) Quantification of mitochondria proteins in HEK-293T cells transfected with lentiCRISPR-sgRNA-Cox1 + Cox3 or lentiCRISPR-sgRNA-eGFP#2 control as shown in panel (a) normalized to β-actin. (c) Illustration of human mtDNA. Specific loci targeted by lentiCRISPR-sgRNAs (Cox1, Cox2, Cox3, and ATP8/6) are indicated with filled triangles. (d) Representative Western blots showing differential alteration of mitochondrial proteins following cleavage of specific mtDNA loci mediated by indicated sgRNAs in HEK-293T cells. Quantified data (b) are expressed as mean ± s.e.m., , , and , unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test.

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