Prime editing for precise and highly versatile genome manipulation

PJ Chen, DR Liu - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Programmable gene-editing tools have transformed the life sciences and have shown
potential for the treatment of genetic disease. Among the CRISPR–Cas technologies that …

Current applications and future perspective of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in cancer

SW Wang, C Gao, YM Zheng, L Yi, JC Lu, XY Huang… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) system provides
adaptive immunity against plasmids and phages in prokaryotes. This system inspires the …

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 …

Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors

KA Molla, S Sretenovic, KC Bansal, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The development of CRISPR–Cas systems has sparked a genome editing revolution in
plant genetics and breeding. These sequence-specific RNA-guided nucleases can induce …

Efficient in vivo base editing via single adeno-associated viruses with size-optimized genomes encoding compact adenine base editors

JR Davis, X Wang, IP Witte, TP Huang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The viral delivery of base editors has been complicated by their size and by the limited
packaging capacity of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs). Typically, dual-AAV approaches …

Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and prime editors

AV Anzalone, LW Koblan, DR Liu - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new CRISPR–Cas genome editing tools continues to drive major
advances in the life sciences. Four classes of CRISPR–Cas-derived genome editing agents …

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 …

Engineering a precise adenine base editor with minimal bystander editing

L Chen, S Zhang, N Xue, M Hong, X Zhang… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) catalyze A-to-G transitions showing broad applications, but
their bystander mutations and off-target editing effects raise safety concerns. Through …

CRISPR C-to-G base editors for inducing targeted DNA transversions in human cells

IC Kurt, R Zhou, S Iyer, SP Garcia, BR Miller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR-guided DNA cytosine and adenine base editors are widely used for many
applications,,–but primarily create DNA base transitions (that is, pyrimidine-to-pyrimidine or …

Base editing: advances and therapeutic opportunities

EM Porto, AC Komor, IM Slaymaker… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Base editing—the introduction of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) into DNA or RNA in
living cells—is one of the most recent advances in the field of genome editing. As around …