The invention relates to a construction method of a congenital cataract
disease animal model, which comprises the steps of firstly, designing a gRNA
target site sequence for a second
exon region of a mouse GJA8
gene, amplifying a homologous arm and a cKO region, and respectively connecting the homologous arm and the cKO region to a vector; injecting positive clones into
blastula by
electroporation ES cells of the constructed plasmids, transferring the
blastula into a mouse body, and obtaining a first builder mouse after a birth mouse is mature;
mating with a
wild type mouse to obtain a heterozygote mouse F1 generation with
gene mutation; finally,
mating the F1 generation of heterozygote mice with the same
genotype to obtain F2 generation of
gene mutation homozygote mice. According to the construction method of the congenital cataract
disease animal model provided by the invention, typical characteristics of congenital cataract, such as crystalline lens degeneration
opacity and crystalline lens epithelial
apoptosis, can be obtained, the
animal model can be used for researching congenital cataract diseases and screening medicines for treating the congenital cataract diseases, and application prospect is promising.