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Module 4: Understanding KO designs. Mark Thomas Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Aims. Understand design criteria and selection of critical exons View designs using genome browsers Assess the effect of a particular design on gene transcripts
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Module 4: Understanding KO designs Mark Thomas Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Aims • Understand design criteria and selection of critical exons • View designs using genome browsers • Assess the effect of a particular design on gene transcripts • Search for design/allele information using BioMart
Design criteria KO-first tagged allele Wild-typeconditional allele Null-allele One design, three alleles
Design criteria Tagged allele – requires insertion of reporter cassette, ideally located 5’ Wild-type conditional allele – requires native splicing to be maintained Null-allele – requires a critical exon that induces a frameshift Other considerations; - alternative splicing (ie. nAGxxnAG, exon skipping) - repeat elements - conserved elements - targeting efficiency (ie. Insertion size) - domain structure - translation reinitiation
Viewing designs Export for csv files Links to genome browsers
Viewing designs Design 213835 1.5x
Viewing designs Conservation Repeats Design 213835 Gene Models mRNA transcripts
Viewing designs Conservation Repeats Design 213835 U-oligos D-oligos Gene Models mRNA transcripts
Viewing designs Conservation Repeats Design 213835 Gene Models mRNA transcripts
Assessing CE selection Transcript and Protein identifier links
Assessing CE selection Exons link
Assessing CE selection U-oligos (intron 2) Intron/Exon phases Exon sizes (bp) D-oligos
Assessing CE selection Coding Exons Protein Summary
KO: transcripts in VEGA Fahd2a Critical Exon KO:Fahd2a
KO: transcripts in VEGA Fahd2a Exon 3 - frameshifted KO:Fahd2a
KO: transcripts in VEGA Fahd2a Exon 3 Exon 1 KO:Fahd2a Exon 3 – Alt. frame
Custom design tool http://www.sanger.ac.uk/htgt/design/designedit/show_create
Artificial intron designs AG|G or AG|A Knockout-first wt conditional Null allele
Artificial intron designs Exon 1 Targeted allele Exon 1b 1a
Using BioMart to search Simple searches using knockoutmouse.org More complex searches using biomart.org
Simple searches Simple searches using knockoutmouse.org Possible to browse by products, phenotype, location and name
Simple searches Simple searches using knockoutmouse.org
Simple searches Results page displays data from multiple resources
Simple searches Results page displays data from multiple resources
BioMart searches BioMart allows users to query databases using a standard interface.
BioMart searches GWAS Central - searching for interesting gene targets Step 1. Use filters to restrict search parameters gwascentral.org
BioMart searches Select attributes for results output
BioMart searches Apply additional filters to further restrict results
BioMart searches Results from GWAScentral knockoutmouse.org
BioMart searches Vectors, ES cells and mice available knockoutmouse.org
BioMart searches • BioMart builds queries using a series of dropdown menus, identifying; • Database selection • Filters – defines search terms • Attributes - selects results to be returned
BioMart searches Search results are returned in a table, containing links to data sources
BioMart searches Different databases/datasets can be linked in BioMart, allowing results to be combined. IKMC dataset Europhenome dataset
Resources Ensembl – www.ensembl.org VEGA – vega.sanger.ac.uk UCSC – genome.ucsc.edu MGI – www.informatics.jax.org IKMC portal – www.knockoutmouse.org Europhenome – www.europhenome.org GWAScentral – www.gwascentral.org BioMart – www.biomart.org
Genbank Genbank files can be downloaded for every vector in IKMC
Design criteria Max 3.5kb
Translation Re-initiation - critical exons should be as 5’ as possible Unless, the resulting KO translation is less than 35aa, as under these conditions translation may be reinitiated, producing an N-terminally truncated protein. Bcam
Translation Re-initiation ATGGAACCCCCTGACGCCCGCGCAGGGCTGCTGTGGCTCACCT TCCTGCTGTCGGGCTACTCAG GTTGATGGTACTGGGGCTCGACACCGTCTGGCTTCTGTGGAACCACAGGGCTCAGAGTTC CTGGGCACAGTCCACTCTCTGGGCCGCGTACCCCCATACGAGGTAGACTCTCGTGGGCGC CTGGTGATAGCAAAGGTCCAGGTGGGCGATGGACGGGACTACGTGTGCGTAGTGAAGGCT GGGGCAGCGGGTACCTCAGAGGCCACCTCAAGTGTCCGTGTGTTTG Translation 1 MEPPDARAGL LWLTFLLSGY SG*WYWGSTP SGFCGTTGLR VPGHSPLSGP 51 RTPIRGRLSW APGDSKGPGG RWTGLRVRSE GWGSGYLRGH LKCPCV