Tools for editing the mammalian mitochondrial genome

CT Moraes - Human molecular genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The manipulation of animal mitochondrial genomes has long been a challenge due to the
lack of an effective transformation method. With the discovery of specific gene editing …

[HTML][HTML] Zero-shot prediction of mutation effects with multimodal deep representation learning guides protein engineering

P Cheng, C Mao, J Tang, S Yang, Y Cheng, W Wang… - Cell Research, 2024 - nature.com
Mutations in amino acid sequences can provoke changes in protein function. Accurate and
unsupervised prediction of mutation effects is critical in biotechnology and biomedicine, but …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a universal antibiotic resistance screening system for efficient enrichment of C-to-G and A-to-G base editing

Y Xin, H Feng, C He, H Lu, E Zuo, N Yan - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
To expand the scope of genomic editing, a C-to-G transversion-based editor called CGBE
has been developed for precise single-nucleotide genomic editing. However, limited editing …

A New‐Generation Base Editor with an Expanded Editing Window for Microbial Cell Evolution In Vivo Based on CRISPR‒Cas12b Engineering

W Hao, W Cui, Z Liu, F Suo, Y Wu, L Han… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Base editors (BEs) are widely used as revolutionary genome manipulation tools for cell
evolution. To screen the targeted individuals, it is often necessary to expand the editing …

Design and Engineering of Light‐Induced Base Editors Facilitating Genome Editing with Enhanced Fidelity

Y Sun, Q Chen, Y Cheng, X Wang, Z Deng… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Base editors, which enable targeted locus nucleotide conversion in genomic DNA without
double‐stranded breaks, have been engineered as powerful tools for biotechnological and …

[PDF][PDF] Deconstructing cancer with precision genome editing

GA Johnson, SI Gould… - Biochemical Society …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Recent advances in genome editing technologies are allowing investigators to engineer and
study cancer-associated mutations in their endogenous genetic contexts with high precision …

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⋅ …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking the secrets of ABEs: the molecular mechanism behind their specificity

X Chen, MJ McAndrew… - Biochemical Society …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
CRISPR–Cas, the bacterial immune systems, have transformed the field of genome editing
by providing efficient, easily programmable, and accessible tools for targeted genome …

Allele-Specific Suppression of Variant MHC With High-Precision RNA Nuclease CRISPR-Cas13d Prevents Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

P Yang, Y Lou, Z Geng, Z Guo, S Wu, Y Li, K Song… - Circulation, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has severe clinical complications of
heart failure, arrhythmia, and sudden cardiac death. Heterozygous single nucleotide …

Library‐Assisted Evolution in Eukaryotic Cells Yield Adenine Base Editors with Enhanced Editing Specificity

S Hsiao, S Chen, Y Jiang, Q Wang, Y Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The current‐generation adenine base editor (ABE) ABE8e, which has evolved from the
prokaryotic evolution system, exhibits high efficiency in mediating A‐to‐G conversion and is …