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 …

CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing

L Villiger, J Joung, L Koblan, J Weissman… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Our ability to edit genomes lags behind our capacity to sequence them, but the growing
understanding of CRISPR biology and its application to genome, epigenome and …

Genome-wide target specificity of CRISPR RNA-guided adenine base editors

D Kim, D Kim, G Lee, SI Cho, JS Kim - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Adenine base editors enable efficient targeted adenine-to-guanine single nucleotide
conversions to induce or correct point mutations in human cells, animals, and plants,,–. Here …

Cytosine base editors with minimized unguided DNA and RNA off-target events and high on-target activity

Y Yu, TC Leete, DA Born, L Young, LA Barrera… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) enable efficient, programmable reversion of T• A to C• G point
mutations in the human genome. Recently, cytosine base editors with rAPOBEC1 were …

Web-based design and analysis tools for CRISPR base editing

GH Hwang, J Park, K Lim, S Kim, J Yu, E Yu, ST Kim… - BMC …, 2018 - Springer
Background As a result of its simplicity and high efficiency, the CRISPR-Cas system has
been widely used as a genome editing tool. Recently, CRISPR base editors, which consist …

DNA base editing in nuclear and organellar genomes

J Tan, J Forner, D Karcher, R Bock - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Genome editing continues to revolutionize biological research. Due to its simplicity and
flexibility, CRISPR/Cas-based editing has become the preferred technology in most systems …

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 …

Base editing landscape extends to perform transversion mutation

KA Molla, Y Qi, S Karmakar, MJ Baig - Trends in Genetics, 2020 - cell.com
Base editors have drawn considerable academic and industrial attention in recent years
because of their ability to alter single DNA bases with precision. However, the existing …

Cytosine base editor 4 but not adenine base editor generates off-target mutations in mouse embryos

HK Lee, HE Smith, C Liu, M Willi… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Deaminase base editing has emerged as a tool to install or correct point mutations in the
genomes of living cells in a wide range of organisms. However, the genome-wide off-target …

Programmable C: G to G: C genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9-directed base excision repair proteins

L Chen, JE Park, P Paa, PD Rajakumar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many genetic diseases are caused by single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Base editors can
correct these mutations at single-nucleotide resolution, but until recently, only allowed for …