The effects of HSP60 chaperone deficiency on zebrafish larvae

To understand the effects of Hsp60 deficiency in developing vertebrates, we generated CRISPR/Cas9-mediated hspd1 knockout zebrafish lines by targeting exon 2 to induce a frameshift mutation. We selected an allele with a 56 base pair deletion inducing a frameshift mutation leading to loss of protein functions. We examined the transcriptome changes in zebrafish larvae at 5 dpf . Overall design: Wildtype control and hspd1-/- larvae at 5dpf, were analyzed by RNASeq. For this purpose, 3 biological replicates of groups of 5 genotyped larvae from each genotype were pooled and analyzed.