Increasing the genome-targeting scope and precision of base editing with engineered Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusions

YB Kim, AC Komor, JM Levy, MS Packer, KT Zhao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Base editing induces single-nucleotide changes in the DNA of living cells using a fusion
protein containing a catalytically defective Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9, a cytidine …

Circularly permuted and PAM-modified Cas9 variants broaden the targeting scope of base editors

TP Huang, KT Zhao, SM Miller, NM Gaudelli… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Base editing requires that the target sequence satisfy the protospacer adjacent motif
requirement of the Cas9 domain and that the target nucleotide be located within the editing …

Evaluation and minimization of Cas9-independent off-target DNA editing by cytosine base editors

JL Doman, A Raguram, GA Newby, DR Liu - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) enable targeted C• G-to-T• A conversions in genomic DNA.
Recent studies report that BE3, the original CBE, induces a low frequency of genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding the genome-targeting scope and the site selectivity of high-precision base editors

J Tan, F Zhang, D Karcher, R Bock - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Base editors (BEs) are RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas-derived genome editing tools that induce
single-nucleotide changes. The limitations of current BEs lie in their low precision …

Improved base excision repair inhibition and bacteriophage Mu Gam protein yields C: G-to-T: A base editors with higher efficiency and product purity

AC Komor, KT Zhao, MS Packer, NM Gaudelli… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
We recently developed base editing, the programmable conversion of target C: G base pairs
to T: A without inducing double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) or requiring homology …

Base editors for simultaneous introduction of C-to-T and A-to-G mutations

RC Sakata, S Ishiguro, H Mori, M Tanaka… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We describe base editors that combine both cytosine and adenine base-editing functions. A
codon-optimized fusion of the cytosine deaminase PmCDA1, the adenosine deaminase …

Phage-assisted evolution of an adenine base editor with improved Cas domain compatibility and activity

MF Richter, KT Zhao, E Eton, A Lapinaite… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Applications of adenine base editors (ABEs) have been constrained by the limited
compatibility of the deoxyadenosine deaminase component with Cas homologs other than …

[HTML][HTML] Highly efficient base editing in bacteria using a Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusion

K Zheng, Y Wang, N Li, FF Jiang, CX Wu, F Liu… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
The ability to precisely edit individual bases of bacterial genomes would accelerate the
investigation of the function of genes. Here we utilized a nickase Cas9-cytidine deaminase …

Dual base editor catalyzes both cytosine and adenine base conversions in human cells

X Zhang, B Zhu, L Chen, L Xie, W Yu, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although base editors are useful tools for precise genome editing, current base editors can
only convert either adenines or cytosines. We developed a dual adenine and cytosine base …

Off-target editing by CRISPR-guided DNA base editors

SH Park, PA Beal - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Base editing is a genome editing strategy that induces specific single-nucleotide changes
within genomic DNA. Two major DNA base editors, cytosine base editors and adenine base …