Docking sites inside Cas9 for adenine base editing diversification and RNA off-target elimination

S Li, B Yuan, J Cao, J Chen, J Chen, J Qiu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Base editing tools with diversified editing scopes and minimized RNA off-target activities are
required for broad applications. Nevertheless, current Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 …

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 …

Engineering domain-inlaid SaCas9 adenine base editors with reduced RNA off-targets and increased on-target DNA editing

MT Nguyen Tran, MKN Mohd Khalid, Q Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Precision genome engineering has dramatically advanced with the development of
CRISPR/Cas base editing systems that include cytosine base editors and adenine base …

nCas9 Engineering for Improved Target Interaction Presents an Effective Strategy to Enhance Base Editing

G Zhang, Z Song, S Huang, Y Wang, J Sun… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Base editors (BEs) are a recent generation of genome editing tools that couple a cytidine or
adenosine deaminase activity to a catalytically impaired Cas9 moiety (nCas9) to enable …

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 …

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 …

Cooperativity between Cas9 and hyperactive AID establishes broad and diversifying mutational footprints in base editors

KN Berríos, A Barka, J Gill, JC Serrano… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The partnership of DNA deaminase enzymes with CRISPR-Cas nucleases is now a well-
established method to enable targeted genomic base editing. However, an understanding of …

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 …

BEAR reveals that increased fidelity variants can successfully reduce the mismatch tolerance of adenine but not cytosine base editors

A Tálas, DA Simon, PI Kulcsár, É Varga… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Adenine and cytosine base editors (ABE, CBE) allow for precision genome engineering.
Here, Base Editor Activity Reporter (BEAR), a plasmid-based fluorescent tool is introduced …

A new compact adenine base editor generated through deletion of HNH and REC2 domain of SpCas9

Y Qian, D Wang, W Niu, D Zhao, J Li, Z Liu, X Gao… - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Adenine base editors (ABEs) are promising therapeutic gene editing
tools that can efficiently convert targeted A• T to G• C base pairs in the genome. However …