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 …

Improved cytosine base editors generated from TadA variants

DK Lam, PR Feliciano, A Arif, T Bohnuud… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) enable programmable genomic C· G-to-T· A transition
mutations and typically comprise a modified CRISPR–Cas enzyme, a naturally occurring …

Re-engineering the adenine deaminase TadA-8e for efficient and specific CRISPR-based cytosine base editing

L Chen, B Zhu, G Ru, H Meng, Y Yan, M Hong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) efficiently generate precise C· G-to-T· A base conversions, but
the activation-induced cytidine deaminase/apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Increasing targeting scope of adenosine base editors in mouse and rat embryos through fusion of TadA deaminase with Cas9 variants

L Yang, X Zhang, L Wang, S Yin, B Zhu, L Xie… - Protein & …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system has been
widely adapted to genome editing to either introduce or correct genetic mutations (Wang et …

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 …

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 …

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 …