Day 1:
Part 1: Guide Design
Step 1: Go to NCBI gene and search for gene of interest
Step 2: Find NM sequence for mRNA
Step 3: Copy the “NM---“ into http://portals.broadinstitute.org/gpp/public/analysis-tools/sgrna-design. Select Mouse, 5 output, and don’t show unpicked.
Step 4: Click on sgRNA Picking Results to download file. Open text file, Crtl-A, Ctrl-C and paste into new Excel document.
Step 5: Pick top 2 guides with best combined score (incorporates on and off-target effects).
Step 6: Copy the sgRNA into “top” and add “G” in front of the sequence
Step 7: Go to https://www.idtdna.com/calc/analyzer => Copy top strand => Analyze to generate reverse complementary (5’ – 3’ direction)
Step 8: Add “CACC” to top strand (5' to 3' orientation) and “AAAC” to bottom complementary strand (5' to 3' orientation) (these will form overhands complementary to BsmBI enzyme cut site downstream of the U6 promoter).
Step 9: Order these oligos through IDT as lab ready.
Part 2: Guide annealing
Step 1: Guides come resuspended at concentration of 100 uM.
Step 2: Prepare component for annealing reaction.
See figure in Figures section.Step 3: Perform the reaction in thermocycler. Sequence: 37°C for 30 minutes, 95°C for 5 minutes, then goes down to 25°C at –5°C/min.
Part 3: Digestion of pXPR_053 with BsmBI
Step 1: Set up the following digest.
See figure in Figures section.Step 2: Place the digest in an Eppendorf tube on a 55°C heat block for 1 hour.
Step 3: Prepare a 1% Agarose gel with SYBR safe DNA gel stain.
Step 4: Add DNA loading dye to some uncut pXPR_053 and some pXPR_053 from the digestion. Run these 2 samples and a 1 kB DNA marker on the gel.
Step 5: Using a UV Transilluminator determine the location of your cut gel, cut out with scalpel, and place in an Eppendorf tube.
Step 6: Perform Qiagen gel extraction kit and quantity DNA yield by Qubit.
Part 4: Ligation of annealed sgRNAs into digested pXPR_053
Step 1: Set up a ligation reaction, always set up a blank with water instead of sgRNAs.
See figure in Figures section.Step 2: Fill up 1L beaker with water.
Step 3: Put ligation reaction tubes on floating rack and into the water beaker.
Step 4: Put beaker in 4°C cold room and incubate overnight.
Day 2: Bacteria transformation
Step 1: Thaw Stbl3 bacteria on ice for 10 minutes.
Step 2: Place 15 microliter of ligation reaction in the bacteria tube. Finger flick gently to mix.
Step 3: Incubate on ice for 30 minutes.
Step 4: Heat shock for 45 seconds at 42°C.
Step 5: Place back on ice for 5 minutes.
Step 6: Add room temp SOC media on top (1000 microliters).
Step 7: Place on shaking heat block (350 rpm 37 Celsius) for 1 hour.
Step 8: Take LB-Amp plates out of fridge to warm to room temp. Label with date and vector + insert name.
Step 9: After one hour incubation of bacteria, pellet by placing in table top centrifuge and holding short to spin for 30 seconds. Remove 900 microliters without disturbing pellet and discard.
Step 10: Resuspend the pellet in remaining 150 microliters and plate on LB-Amp plate.
Step 11: Add 6-8 mixing beads and shake around for 30 seconds.
Step 12: Discard beads and let plate sit for 5 minutes to absorb liquid.
Step 13: Invert plate and place in 37°C incubator overnight.
Day 3: Miniculture
Step 1: Prepare LB Broth and 1X Amp.
Step 2: Aliquot 3 mL of LB-Amp into mini culture tubes.
Step 3: Pick 4 colonies/ligation plate (except blank plate) using pipette tip, put tips in miniculture tubes.
Step 4: Incubate for 8 hours in 37°C shaker incubator.
Step 5: Prepare glycerol stocks: 2 drops of 95% glycerol stock and 180 uL of bacteria culture => Freeze at -80°C.
Step 6: Perform miniprep using Qiagen Miniprep kit. Quantify DNA using Qubit.
Step 7: Submit miniculture for Sanger sequencing with sequencing primer.
Step 8: Thaw out some 293x and keep in culture with DMEM 10% FBS media.
Day 4:
Step 1: Determine which colonies were correct and contain your insert based on sequencing.
Step 2: Inoculate a maxi culture with your glycerol stock for 18 hours in 37°C bacterial shaker.
Day 5:
Step 1: Perform a maxi prep using Qiagen Hispeed Maxi kit.
Step 2: Quantify the maxi by Qubit and confirm with Sanger sequencing again.
Step 3: Plate 18 million 293x in DMEM 10% FBS into T175s (for each set of virus you want to make).
Day 6:
Step 1: Change media on 293x cells, 1 hour before you want to transfect.
Step 2: Prepare transfection mix:
See figure in Figures section.Step 3: After 1 hour post-media change, drip drop the transfection mixture onto flask. Keep flask level so media can cover all cells. Swirl flask around to mix. Place back in 37°C incubator overnight.
Day 7:
Step 1: Change media 24h after transfection and let incubate for another 48h before harvesting.
Day 9:
Step 1: Transfer all media from flask (take from top corner and do not touch cells) into 50 mL conical. Dispose of the empty flask.
Step 2: Spin tubes at 800g for 5 min at 4°C (to get rid of cells).
Step 3: Transfer supernatant to another 50mL conical (leave behind pellet + 1mL)
Step 4: Transfer to 30 mL syringe and filter through 0.45 um filter into ultra-high spin tubes. Then place on ice.
Step 5: Clean ultracentrifuge rotors with 70% ethanol and dry out.
Step 6: Load ultra-high spin tubes into the rotor. Note the rotor holds 6 tubes so if you have less than 6 samples fill the other tubes with PBS for balance.
Step 7: Weigh each tube to ensure difference between each tube is no more than 0.1g.
Step 8: Use ultra-centrifuge to spin down supernatant containing lentivirus. We use SW-28 rotor, speed 20,000 rpm, time 2 hours, and temperature 4°C.
Step 9: Thaw out SFEM media at room temp meanwhile.
Step 10: After centrifugation step, take out tubes and put on ice.
Step 11: Invert tubes and dispose of supernatant.
Step 12: Dry ultra-spin tube on top of Kim wipe (keep inverted) for 5 min.
Step 13: Add 1 mL of SFEM (without cytokines) along the side of the tube (do not disturb bottom).
Step 14: Parafilm to cover the top tightly, place tube on rack inside a Styrofoam box. Fill box with ice, make sure virus tube embedded in the ice.
Step 15: Put on horizontal shaker in the cold room on super low shaking speed and let shake overnight.
Day 10:
Step 1: Pre label cryovial to freeze lentivirus.
Step 2: Gently resuspend virus in 1mL SFEM (set pipette at 500 uL), be careful not to create bubbles. Transfer all of volume into labeled cryovial, aliquot out 5 microliter into an Eppendorf, and freeze the rest down in -80°C freezer.
Step 3: Plate 293x cells in 96 well flat bottom in DMEM 10% FBS at 25,000 cell per well in 100 microliter.
Step 4: Add on top polybrene in 100 microliter DMEM 10% FBS such that polybrene final concentration in the well is 10 ug/mL.
Step 5: For each lentivirus plate 2, 0.2, and 0.02 microliter of virus. Make sure to leave a few blank control well.
Step 6: Mix wells up and down and place in 37°C tissue culture incubator overnight.
Day 11:
Step 1: Change media on the 293x-viirus titer plate.
Day 13:
Step 1: Trypsinize cells to detach, neutralize with media, and plate in a 96 well V bottom plate.
Step 2: Read out the Vex+ % (AmCyan channel), gating on a blank sample, for the different titrations.
Step 3: Calculate your lentivirus titer. Calculation is typically done on the dilution of virus that leads to a Vex+% between 1-20%. For example, assume 0.2 microliter leads to 16% Vex. Equation is: 16% *25000/Volume of virus = Viral titer. So calculating this one: 3200/.2 microliter = 16,000,000 particles/mL.