Base editing: precision chemistry on the genome and transcriptome of living cells

HA Rees, DR Liu - Nature reviews genetics, 2018 - nature.com
… RNA base editors achieve analogous changes using components that target RNA. Base editors
directly convert one base or base pair … editing by-products. In this Review, we summarize …

Transcriptome-wide off-target RNA editing induced by CRISPR-guided DNA base editors

J Grünewald, R Zhou, SP Garcia, S Iyer, CA Lareau… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
… in editing efficiency. Finally, we show that an adenine base editor 7 can also induce
transcriptome-wide RNA edits… These results have implications for the use of base editors in both …

Genome-and transcriptome-wide off-target analyses of an improved cytosine base editor

LB Randall, S Sretenovic, Y Wu, D Yin, T Zhang… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… system in tomato, we investigated the potential genome-wide off-target effects of this promising
base editor. We conducted WGS on four edited T0 lines (two independent lines each for …

A large-scale genome and transcriptome sequencing analysis reveals the mutation landscapes induced by high-activity adenine base editors in plants

S Li, L Liu, W Sun, X Zhou, H Zhou - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
… protein (Cas)-mediated base editing tools (eg, ABEs and cytosine base editors), which
efficiently produce desired point mutations in genomic DNA without causing double-stranded …

Single C-to-T substitution using engineered APOBEC3G-nCas9 base editors with minimum genome-and transcriptome-wide off-target effects

S Lee, N Ding, Y Sun, T Yuan, J Li, Q Yuan, L Liu… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
… ), which has been exploited for more precise base editing, and the resulting eA3A-BE3 base
editor exhibited high on-target precision with minimized bystander editing (18). However, in …

Genome, epigenome, and transcriptome editing via chemical modification of nucleobases in living cells

BL Ranzau, AC Komor - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
… In this Perspective, we discuss the various base editing tools available for direct chemical
modification of target nucleobases in the genome and transcriptome and their potential for …

Eliminating base-editor-induced genome-wide and transcriptome-wide off-target mutations

L Wang, W Xue, H Zhang, R Gao, H Qiu, J Wei… - Nature Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
… deaminases leads to base editors (BEs) capable of programmable C-to-T editing, which has
… induces efficient editing with only background levels of genome-wide and transcriptome-…

Base editing: advances and therapeutic opportunities

EM Porto, AC Komor, IM Slaymaker… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
… process of genome and transcriptome editing (Figs 1 and 2). Both DNA and RNA base
editors have been developed, and their rapid adoption by the genome and transcriptome editing

Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors

KA Molla, S Sretenovic, KC Bansal, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
… This Review focuses on base editing and prime editing … and a combination thereof in plant
genomes. We first present a … modification of genomes (DNA) or transcriptomes (RNA) of …

Genome-and transcriptome-wide off-target analyses of a high-efficiency adenine base editor in tomato

S Sretenovic, Y Green, Y Wu, Y Cheng… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Having identified ABE8e as an efficient and pure base editor in tomato, we focused on
investigating ABE8e's potential genome-wide off-target effects. WGS was carried out on 2 WT …