[HTML][HTML] A split and inducible adenine base editor for precise in vivo base editing

H Zeng, Q Yuan, F Peng, D Ma, A Lingineni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
DNA base editors use deaminases fused to a programmable DNA-binding protein for
targeted nucleotide conversion. However, the most widely used TadA deaminases lack post …

An adenine base editor variant expands context compatibility

YL Xiao, Y Wu, W Tang - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) are precise gene-editing agents that convert A: T pairs into G:
C through a deoxyinosine intermediate. Existing ABEs function most effectively when the …

[HTML][HTML] Improving adenine and dual base editors through introduction of TadA-8e and Rad51DBD

N Xue, X Liu, D Zhang, Y Wu, Y Zhong, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Base editors, including dual base editors, are innovative techniques for efficient base
conversions in genomic DNA. However, the low efficiency of A-to-G base conversion at …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity

ME Neugebauer, A Hsu, M Arbab, NA Krasnow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are larger and can suffer from higher off-target activity or lower
on-target editing efficiency than current adenine base editors (ABEs). To develop a CBE that …

Adenine base editor engineering reduces editing of bystander cytosines

YK Jeong, SH Lee, GH Hwang, SA Hong, S Park… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) catalyze specific A-to-G conversions at genomic sites of
interest. However, ABEs also induce cytosine deamination at the target site. To reduce the …

[HTML][HTML] TadA orthologs enable both cytosine and adenine editing of base editors

S Zhang, B Yuan, J Cao, L Song, J Chen, J Qiu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytidine and adenosine deaminases are required for cytosine and adenine editing of base
editors respectively, and no single deaminase could enable concurrent and comparable …

Improving cytidine and adenine base editors by expression optimization and ancestral reconstruction

LW Koblan, JL Doman, C Wilson, JM Levy, T Tay… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Base editors enable targeted single-nucleotide conversions in genomic DNA. Here we show
that expression levels are a bottleneck in base-editing efficiency. We optimize cytidine (BE4) …

Analysis and minimization of cellular RNA editing by DNA adenine base editors

HA Rees, C Wilson, JL Doman, DR Liu - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Adenine base editors (ABEs) enable precise and efficient conversion of target A• T base
pairs to G• C base pairs in genomic DNA with a minimum of by-products. While ABEs have …

[HTML][HTML] Human cell based directed evolution of adenine base editors with improved efficiency

J Fu, Q Li, X Liu, T Tu, X Lv, X Yin, J Lv, Z Song… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABE) are genome-editing tools that have been harnessed to
introduce precise A• T to G• C conversion. However, the low activity of ABE at certain sites …

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 …