Characterizing off-target effects of genome editors

X Rao, H Zhao, C Shao, C Yi - Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Programmable base editors and prime editors offer the potential for highly efficient and
precise genome manipulation. However, in order to safely apply these editors in clinical …

Gene therapy for monogenic disorders: challenges, strategies, and perspectives

Y Zhang, ZY Wu - Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2023 - Elsevier
Monogenic disorders refer to a group of human diseases caused by mutations in single
genes. While disease-modifying therapies have offered some relief to symptoms and …

[HTML][HTML] Amphioxus adenosine-to-inosine tRNA-editing enzyme that can perform C-to-U and A-to-I deamination of DNA

Z Gao, W Jiang, Y Zhang, L Zhang, M Yi… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Adenosine-to-inosine tRNA-editing enzyme has been identified for more than two decades,
but the study on its DNA editing activity is rather scarce. We show that amphioxus …

Engineering APOBEC3A deaminase for highly accurate and efficient base editing

L Yang, Y Huo, M Wang, D Zhang, T Zhang… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are effective tools for introducing C-to-T base conversions, but
their clinical applications are limited by off-target and bystander effects. Through structure …

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 …

CRISPR Tools in Bacterial Whole-Cell Biocatalysis

AP Mulet, M Ripoll, L Betancor - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis has emerged as a promising alternative to conventional chemical processes for
the production of a wide range of chemicals, providing a sustainable solution to the problem …

Chemical and biological approaches to interrogate off-target effects of genome editing tools

Z Lei, H Meng, Y Zhuang, Q Zhu, C Yi - ACS Chemical Biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Various genome editing tools have been developed for programmable genome
manipulation at specified genomic loci. However, it is crucial to comprehensively interrogate …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient gene editing in induced pluripotent stem cells enabled by an inducible adenine base editor with tunable expression

K Nandy, D Babu, S Rani, G Joshi, S Ijee, A George… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The preferred method for disease modeling using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is
to generate isogenic cell lines by correcting or introducing pathogenic mutations. Base …

[HTML][HTML] Development of deaminase-free T-to-S base editor and C-to-G base editor by engineered human uracil DNA glycosylase

H Tong, H Wang, X Wang, N Liu, G Li, D Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
DNA base editors enable direct editing of adenine (A), cytosine (C), or guanine (G), but there
is no base editor for direct thymine (T) editing currently. Here we develop two deaminase …

Development of TALE‐adenine base editors in plants

D Zhang, J Boch - Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Base editors enable precise nucleotide changes at targeted genomic loci without requiring
double‐stranded DNA breaks or repair templates. TALE‐adenine base editors (TALE‐ABEs) …