The invention relates to a universal donor construct, and a
gene knockout method,
system and kit. According to the
gene knockout method in the invention, a
marker gene included in the universal donorconstruct is inserted to a double-strand break position in a
cell genome by non-homologous end joining, and cells in which genes are knocked out are enriched by an expressed marker, so the efficiencyof
gene knockout via sequence-specific nucleases is improved. The universal donor construct of the invention comprises a universal linear donor
DNA which contains a universal target sequence cleavableby the sequence-specific nucleases; the universal target sequence does not exist in the
genome of a
cell to undergo
gene knockout; therefore, when performing
gene knockout, it is not necessary to specifically construct a matching linear donor
DNA, and a general linear donor
DNA and a gRNA targeting to the universal linear donor DNA can be directly used.