[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

The Wild‐Type tRNA Adenosine Deaminase Enzyme TadA Is Capable of Sequence‐Specific DNA Base Editing

BL Ranzau, KL Rallapalli, M Evanoff, F Paesani… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Base editors are genome editing tools that enable site‐specific base conversions through
the chemical modification of nucleobases in DNA. Adenine base editors (ABEs) convert A⋅ …

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] Structure-guided engineering of adenine base editor with minimized RNA off-targeting activity

J Li, W Yu, S Huang, S Wu, L Li, J Zhou, Y Cao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Both adenine base editors (ABEs) and cytosine base editors (CBEs) have been recently
revealed to induce transcriptome-wide RNA off-target editing in a guide RNA-independent …

[HTML][HTML] High performance TadA-8e derived cytosine and dual base editors with undetectable off-target effects in plants

T Fan, Y Cheng, Y Wu, S Liu, X Tang, Y He… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base editors (ABEs) enable precise C-to-T and A-
to-G edits. Recently, ABE8e, derived from TadA-8e, enhances A-to-G edits in mammalian …

[HTML][HTML] Highly efficient A· T to G· C base editing by Cas9n-guided tRNA adenosine deaminase in rice

F Yan, Y Kuang, B Ren, J Wang, D Zhang, H Lin… - Molecular plant, 2018 - cell.com
The newly developed CRISPR/Cas9-mediated base editing technology with cytosine
deaminase is capable of precisely and efficiently introducing point mutations at the target …

[HTML][HTML] Elimination of Cas9-dependent off-targeting of adenine base editor by using TALE to separately guide deaminase to target sites

Y Liu, J Zhou, T Lan, X Zhou, Y Yang, C Li, Q Zhang… - Cell Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Dear Editor, Adenine base editor (ABE) enables single-nucleotide conversions from A to G
efficiently without doublestranded DNA breaks. ABE is a powerful tool for targeted base …

Engineering of cytosine base editors with DNA damage minimization and editing scope diversification

B Yuan, S Zhang, L Song, J Chen, J Cao… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs), which enable precise C-to-T substitutions, have been
restricted by potential safety risks, including DNA off-target edits, RNA off-target edits and …

[HTML][HTML] Off-target challenge for base editor-mediated genome editing

P Liang, J Huang - Cell biology and toxicology, 2019 - Springer
Genome editing is a revolutionary technology that holds immense promise for creating
livestock or crops with improved traits and curing incurable inherited diseases by correcting …