Base editing: advances and therapeutic opportunities

EM Porto, AC Komor, IM Slaymaker… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
… alterations in a precise and efficient manner is base editing. Base editing is unique in that
it … in the process of genome and transcriptome editing (Figs 1 and 2). Both DNA and RNA …

Highly efficient RNA-guided base editing in mouse embryos

K Kim, SM Ryu, ST Kim, G Baek, D Kim, K Lim… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
… First, we carried out base editing in mouse embryos by microinjection of BE3-encoding …
: Dystrophin-deficient mutant mice generated by cytidine-deaminase-mediated base editing. …

Current status and challenges of DNA base editing tools

YK Jeong, B Song, S Bae - Molecular Therapy, 2020 - cell.com
… Their high editing efficiency, coupled with their ability to … DNA template, suggests that DNA
base editors will be useful for … DNA base editor shortcomings, including off-target DNA editing, …

Base editing of organellar DNA with programmable deaminases

JS Kim, J Chen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
… Thus, a deaminase that can catalyse nucleobase deamination in dsDNA is required for
efficient base editing in organellar DNA. DddA is an interbacterial toxin identified in Burkholderia …

Highly efficient base editing in human tripronuclear zygotes

C Zhou, M Zhang, Y Wei, Y Sun, Y Sun, H Pan… - Protein & …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… Yet, the efficiency and specificity of base editors has not been demonstrated in human embryos.
Here, we report that both base editor 3 (… efficiently in human tripronuclear (3PN) zygotes. …

Efficient base editing for multiple genes and loci in pigs using base editors

J Xie, W Ge, N Li, Q Liu, F Chen, X Yang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… In this study, we test the multiplexed base editing efficiency of BE3 (rAPOBEC1-XTEN-… base
editing efficiently in embryonic and cellular levels. We also realize multiple copy base editing

Efficient base editing in methylated regions with a human APOBEC3A-Cas9 fusion

X Wang, J Li, Y Wang, B Yang, J Wei, J Wu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… -to-T base editing by current BEs and develop BEs for efficient C-to-T base editing in highly
methylated regions. Figure 1: hA3A-BE3 induces efficient base editing in a methylated region …

Highly efficient RNA-guided base editing in rabbit

Z Liu, M Chen, S Chen, J Deng, Y Song, L Lai… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… Overall, we firstly demonstrate that base editors (both CBEs and ABEs) provide a simple
and highly efficient method for inducing single-nucleotide substitution in rabbit. …

Efficient C-to-T base editing in plants using a fusion of nCas9 and human APOBEC3A

Y Zong, Q Song, C Li, S Jin, D Zhang, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… sequence editing window and is inefficient in GC contexts. Here, we show that a base
editor … PBE) converts cytidine to thymidine efficiently in wheat, rice and potato with a 17-nucleotide …

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

HA Rees, DR Liu - Nature reviews genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Base editors directly convert one base or base pair into another, enabling the … BE2 mediates
efficient base editing in bacterial cells 54 and moderately efficient editing in mammalian cells…