Small-molecule inhibitors of histone deacetylase improve CRISPR-based adenine base editing

HR Shin, JE See, J Kweon, HS Kim… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… -based base editors (BEs) are widely used to induce nucleotide substitutions in living cells
and … with the goal of improving adenine base editing efficiency. The reporter system revealed …

Mitochondrial DNA base editing: good editing things still come in small packages

SR Bacman, CT Moraes - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
… is unquestionably a major breakthrough for the field of mitochondrial genetics because it
allows for the first time purposeful changes to be made in the sequence of mtDNA in living cells. …

Cas12a base editors induce efficient and specific editing with low DNA damage response

X Wang, C Ding, W Yu, Y Wang, S He, B Yang… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
… The advent of base editors (BEs) holds great potential for … C-to-T editing is achieved by
BEACON in mammalian cells at … Importantly, BEACON induces in vivo base editing in mouse …

Treatment of a mouse model of ALS by in vivo base editing

CKW Lim, M Gapinske, AK Brooks, WS Woods… - Molecular Therapy, 2020 - cell.com
… Although ALS is currently incurable, CRISPR base editors hold … in vivo delivery of cytidine
base editors (CBEs) consisting of the … This work expands the capabilities of single-base editors

High-purity production and precise editing of DNA base editing ribonucleoproteins

HK Jang, DH Jo, SN Lee, CS Cho, YK Jeong… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Base editor purification in a human cell expression system at high purity To produce
recombinant base editor proteins in a human cell system, we cloned the sequences encoding …

Programmable base editing of A• T to G• C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage

NM Gaudelli, AC Komor, HA Rees, MS Packer… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
base editors (ABEs) that convert A•T to G•C base pairs in DNA in bacteria and human cells.
… by enabling the direct installation of all four transition mutations at target loci in living cells

Targeted A-to-G base editing in human mitochondrial DNA with programmable deaminases

SI Cho, S Lee, YG Mok, K Lim, J Lee, JM Lee, E Chung… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
… In an effort to create adenine base editors enabling A-to-G substitutions in organelle DNA,
we first investigated whether fusion proteins containing a TALE protein custom designed to …

Transient inhibition of p53 enhances prime editing and cytosine base-editing efficiencies in human pluripotent stem cells

M Li, A Zhong, Y Wu, M Sidharta, M Beaury… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… Precise gene editing in human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) holds great promise for …
Both prime editing and base editing avoid introducing double strand breaks, but low editing

A bacterial cytidine deaminase toxin enables CRISPR-free mitochondrial base editing

BY Mok, MH de Moraes, J Zeng, DE Bosch, AV Kotrys… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
… in base editing requires the unwinding of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA)—for example by
a CRISPR–Cas9 system. Base editing … We did not detect indels or base editing outside the …

[HTML][HTML] Base editors: expanding the types of DNA damage products harnessed for genome editing

S Gu, Z Bodai, QT Cowan, AC Komor - Gene and genome editing, 2021 - Elsevier
… Instead of using double-stranded DNA breaks, base editors use nucleobase modification …
) into the genome of living cells. Two classes of DNA base editors currently exist: deoxycytidine …