AGBE: a dual deaminase-mediated base editor by fusing CGBE with ABE for creating a saturated mutant population with multiple editing patterns

Y Liang, J Xie, Q Zhang, X Wang, S Gou… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Establishing saturated mutagenesis in a specific gene through gene editing is an efficient
approach for identifying the relationships between mutations and the corresponding …

Programmable deaminase-free base editors for G-to-Y conversion by engineered glycosylase

H Tong, N Liu, Y Wei, Y Zhou, Y Li, D Wu… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Current DNA base editors contain nuclease and DNA deaminase that enables deamination
of cytosine (C) or adenine (A), but no method for guanine (G) or thymine (T) editing is …

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 …

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 …

Glycosylase-based base editors for efficient T-to-G and C-to-G editing in mammalian cells

L Ye, D Zhao, J Li, Y Wang, B Li, Y Yang, X Hou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Base editors show promise for treating human genetic diseases, but most current systems
use deaminases, which cause off-target effects and are limited in editing type. In this study …

Imperfect guide-RNA (igRNA) enables CRISPR single-base editing with ABE and CBE

D Zhao, G Jiang, J Li, X Chen, S Li, J Wang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR base editing techniques tend to edit multiple bases in the targeted region, which is
a limitation for precisely reverting disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms …

Engineering of near-PAMless adenine base editor with enhanced editing activity and reduced off-target

X Cao, J Guo, S Huang, W Yu, G Li, L An, X Li… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2022 - cell.com
About 47% of pathogenic point mutations could be corrected by ABE-induced A· T-to-G· C
conversions. However, the applications of ABEs are still hindered by undesired editing …

Precise A• T to G• C base editing in the zebrafish genome

W Qin, X Lu, Y Liu, H Bai, S Li, S Lin - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Base editors are a class of genome editing tools with the ability to efficiently
induce point mutations in genomic DNA, without inducing double-strand breaks or relying on …

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 …

Efficient generation of mouse models of human diseases via ABE-and BE-mediated base editing

Z Liu, Z Lu, G Yang, S Huang, G Li, S Feng… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A recently developed adenine base editor (ABE) efficiently converts A to G and is potentially
useful for clinical applications. However, its precision and efficiency in vivo remains to be …