Specific Gene Silencing in Leptospira biflexa by RNA-Guided Catalytically Inactive Cas9 (dCas9).

Methods Mol Biol

Laboratorio de Desenvolvimento de Vacinas-Centro de Biotecnologia, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Published: March 2021

Easy, practical, and affordable gene silencing techniques are constantly progressing, and genetic tools such as TALEs, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 have emerged as new techniques for understanding the basic biology and virulence mechanisms of pathogenic organisms, including bacteria. Here, we describe one-step targeted gene silencing in Leptospira biflexa by using plasmids expressing catalytically inactive Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (dCas9) and a single-guide RNA (sgRNA) capable of pairing to the coding strand of a desired gene.

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