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From: Perspective on the combined use of an independent transgenic sexing and a multifactorial reproductive sterility system to avoid resistance development against transgenic Sterile Insect Technique approaches

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Multifactorial reproductive sterility based on the CRISPR/Cas9 system causing chromosome shredding. The bacterial derived Cas9 endonuclease will be expressed under the control of the β2 tubulin (β2t) promoter. Cas9 will be targeted to para-centromeric, sub-telomeric, and diverse macrosatellite sequences by guide RNAs, which are encoded by a CRISPR RNA (crRNA) array. This crRNA array as well as the trans-acting crRNA (tracrRNA) will be expressed under diverse RNA polymerase III promoters such as from the snRNA U6 (U6:1, U6:3). In the crRNA array, the diverse crRNAs are separated by direct repeat sequences (DR) derived from the Streptococcus pyogenes CRISPR. The expressed Cas9 is loaded with tracrRNA and subsequently binds the crRNA array based on complementarity between tracrRNA and the DR sequences, thereby randomly selecting one of the crRNAs as a guide to produce a functional CRISPR/Cas9 endonuclease targeting the respective genomic loci [75], which will lead to double strand breaks causing chromosome shredding.

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