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TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of CRISPR/Cas9 in Understanding Avian Viruses and Developing Poultry Vaccines
AU - Vilela, Julianne
AU - Rohaim, Mohammed A
AU - Munir, Muhammad
N1 - Copyright © 2020 Vilela, Rohaim and Munir.
PY - 2020/11/24
Y1 - 2020/11/24
N2 - Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats associated protein nuclease 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) technology offers novel approaches to precisely, cost-effectively, and user-friendly edit genomes for a wide array of applications and across multiple disciplines. This methodology can be leveraged to underpin host-virus interactions, elucidate viral gene functions, and to develop recombinant vaccines. The successful utilization of CRISPR/Cas9 in editing viral genomes has paved the way of developing novel and multiplex viral vectored poultry vaccines. Furthermore, CRISPR/Cas9 can be exploited to rectify major limitations of conventional approaches including reversion to virulent form, recombination with field viruses and transgene, and genome instability. This review provides comprehensive analysis of the potential of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technique in understanding avian virus-host interactions and developing novel poultry vaccines. Finally, we discuss the simplest and practical aspects of genome editing approaches in generating multivalent recombinant poultry vaccines that conform simultaneous protection against major avian diseases.
AB - Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats associated protein nuclease 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) technology offers novel approaches to precisely, cost-effectively, and user-friendly edit genomes for a wide array of applications and across multiple disciplines. This methodology can be leveraged to underpin host-virus interactions, elucidate viral gene functions, and to develop recombinant vaccines. The successful utilization of CRISPR/Cas9 in editing viral genomes has paved the way of developing novel and multiplex viral vectored poultry vaccines. Furthermore, CRISPR/Cas9 can be exploited to rectify major limitations of conventional approaches including reversion to virulent form, recombination with field viruses and transgene, and genome instability. This review provides comprehensive analysis of the potential of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technique in understanding avian virus-host interactions and developing novel poultry vaccines. Finally, we discuss the simplest and practical aspects of genome editing approaches in generating multivalent recombinant poultry vaccines that conform simultaneous protection against major avian diseases.
KW - CRISPR/Cas9
KW - avian viruses
KW - recombinant vaccines
KW - genome editing
KW - poultry diseases
U2 - 10.3389/fcimb.2020.581504
DO - 10.3389/fcimb.2020.581504
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33330126
VL - 10
JO - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
JF - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
SN - 2235-2988
M1 - 581504
ER -