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 …

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 …

Phage-assisted evolution of highly active cytosine base editors with enhanced selectivity and minimal sequence context preference

E Zhang, ME Neugebauer, NA Krasnow… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
TadA-derived cytosine base editors (TadCBEs) enable programmable C• G-to-T• A editing
while retaining the small size, high on-target activity, and low off-target activity of TadA …

Adenine transversion editors enable precise, efficient A• T-to-C• G base editing in mammalian cells and embryos

L Chen, M Hong, C Luan, H Gao, G Ru, X Guo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Base editors have substantial promise in basic research and as therapeutic agents for the
correction of pathogenic mutations. The development of adenine transversion editors has …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Engineering a precise adenine base editor with minimal bystander editing

L Chen, S Zhang, N Xue, M Hong, X Zhang… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) catalyze A-to-G transitions showing broad applications, but
their bystander mutations and off-target editing effects raise safety concerns. Through …

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 …