Cytosine base editing systems with minimized off-target effect and molecular size

A Li, H Mitsunobu, S Yoshioka, T Suzuki… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytosine base editing enables the installation of specific point mutations without double-
strand breaks in DNA and is advantageous for various applications such as gene therapy …

Examination of the cell cycle dependence of cytosine and adenine base editors

CA Burnett, AT Wong, CA Vasquez… - Frontiers in Genome …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Base editors (BEs) are genome editing agents that install point mutations with high efficiency
and specificity. Due to their reliance on uracil and inosine DNA damage intermediates …

Eliminating base-editor-induced genome-wide and transcriptome-wide off-target mutations

L Wang, W Xue, H Zhang, R Gao, H Qiu, J Wei… - Nature Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
The fusion of CRISPR–Cas9 with cytidine deaminases leads to base editors (BEs) capable
of programmable C-to-T editing, which has potential in clinical applications but suffers from …

A cytosine base editor toolkit with varying activity windows and target scopes for versatile gene manipulation in plants

X Xiong, Z Li, J Liang, K Liu, C Li… - Nucleic Acids Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR/Cas-derived base editing tools empower efficient alteration of genomic cytosines or
adenines associated with essential genetic traits in plants and animals. Diversified target …

ACBE, a new base editor for simultaneous C-to-T and A-to-G substitutions in mammalian systems

J Xie, X Huang, X Wang, S Gou, Y Liang, F Chen, N Li… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Many favorable traits of crops and livestock and human genetic diseases arise
from multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms or multiple point mutations with …

Base editors: development and applications in biomedicine

Y Liang, F Chen, K Wang, L Lai - Frontiers of Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Base editor (BE) is a gene-editing tool developed by combining the CRISPR/Cas system
with an individual deaminase, enabling precise single-base substitution in DNA or RNA …

Genome-wide profiling of adenine base editor specificity by EndoV-seq

P Liang, X Xie, S Zhi, H Sun, X Zhang, Y Chen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The adenine base editor (ABE), capable of catalyzing A• T to G• C conversions, is an
important gene editing toolbox. Here, we systematically evaluate genome-wide off-target …

Enhanced base editing by co-expression of free uracil DNA glycosylase inhibitor

L Wang, W Xue, L Yan, X Li, J Wei, M Chen, J Wu… - Cell Research, 2017 - nature.com
Base editors (BEs) have been recently developed by combining the APOBEC
(apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like)/AID (activation-induced …

PhieCBEs: plant high-efficiency cytidine base editors with expanded target range

D Zeng, T Liu, J Tan, Y Zhang, Z Zheng, B Wang… - Molecular Plant, 2020 - cell.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 (Cas9)-mediated genome editing can efficiently produce gene-knockout mutants …

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 …